BlackVue

Seems like every time I check the app, time for live view on the free plan keeps going down and frankly, pricing on the basic plan is double what it should be for one camera. The app is not great and there should be better options for rotating the cameras in the settings. Your advertising dark mode support now but there doesn’t seem to be any way to turn it on and it’s obviously not defaulting to system wide dark mode since the app looks identical to the previous version. For what is obviously one of the most if not the most expensive camera’s in their respective classes, this app and the way you try to continue milking your customers after purchase means I won’t be putting these cameras in any more of my vehicles even though I like the camera itself.

The new version remove the obnoxious advertisements and seems to be working much better again now, and is much more useful without those ads in it. Glad the developer realized that those ads were too obnoxious and not a good thing to do to their customers. As long as they keep the advertisements out of it I recommend the camera, I have the 900S two camera system in my hotshot truck and love it. If they would lower their monthly cloud service fees to a more reasonable rate such as $.99 or $1.99 I would subscribe to it, but $9.99 is just too much to pay when I have cloud services on several other devices and none of them are more than $1.99 a month. I think if they would lower the price of their monthly cloud service to $1.99 a month they would actually find it they would get so many more subscribers that it would actually make up for the lowering in price. My dad wants told me always remember story of the two used car salesman who buy their used cars for the exact same price but one prices his used cars at $1000 each but only sells 3 a week because of his high prices, the other prices his cars at $500 each but sells 20 of them a week because his prices are more fair. At the end of the year which one actually had the most profit and will have much happier customers meaning they’re much more likely to return in the future. Less greed often equals higher profits and more return customers.

I’ve installed over 100 Blackvue’s since 2018 for all different types of vehicles. This includes Teslas, Wranglers, Maserati, Corvettes, and pretty much every common cars. I’ve also installed hundreds of other branded dash cams. When people ask me what’s the best dash cam for any situation, I say Blackvue. Out of the 100 Blackvue’s I’ve installed for clients, I have NEVER received a single complaint. This includes Blackvue Cloud(live remote view) with 4G hotspot device, power magics, and battery packs. I’ve done it all and it works amazing. The problem with those who cannot get their system to work is because you don’t know how to install it. If you install it correctly and accordingly to the fuse box, have the correct adapters, correct memory card, and configuration, the system will work flawlessly 1000%. Like I said, out of the 100 Blackvue’s I installed, I or none of my clients ever received a single problem. I will admit, when there is a problem, it’s always on my end. You need to make sure you know what you’re doing. All cars are different and will act different. If you can’t get parking mode or whatever to work, that is most likely YOUR FAULT. Contact a professional and have them install it.

So this app is not perfect. But I definitely think it deserves much more than 2.1 stars (at the time of writing). It’s good in general. I really don’t see any real issues with it. The WiFi issue mentioned in the other reviews is definitely the most inconvenient feature of the app I guess if I was to say. But this may be more of a side effect of the camera’s design itself as opposed to the app. I have resorted to turning WiFi off when I enter my car. But it doesn’t bug me as much anymore since it’s a quick swipe up on the iPhone and I don’t think about it. The app really never crashes on me, and at the time of writing they release plenty of updates regularly claiming to fix any bugs...App allows me to change any option I would care for on the camera. Recording length is dependent on your SD card and I currently have mine set to 3 min which I think is ideal. Also I like how the app has the library of videos downloaded from the camera in a separate section, allowing me to quickly access any vids I have saved on my phone. But yeah really like the camera (750s-2ch) it has recorded some interesting sights, and I think the app works well to manage it.

There are some hick-ups with the app but for the most part it does everything I need it to do. I can download the videos from my dash cam via WiFi, I can see my location on those videos of where I was driving along with speed. I think the app only needs a little walk through process or tutorial option. There were somethings I didn’t understand till I looked it up in the instructions. Other than that the app does what I need it for. Plus this is the only dash cam company that still updates the firmware constantly to improve their product and they keep their app up to date. Some release an app and that’s it. They’re still improving it. Last update was 2 weeks ago. I’m happy with the product, just READ the instructions or call customer service and they’ll be happy to help.