EZVIZ (appli & cloud)
Tested on our bench
- Vendor
- EZVIZ (Hikvision)
- License
- Gratuit avec le matériel EZVIZ ; stockage cloud CloudPlay sur abonnement
- Platforms
- app mobile iOS/Android, EZVIZ Studio (Windows), portail web
The camera maker's own app and cloud (EZVIZ app, EZVIZ Studio, CloudPlay). The easiest option out of the box, but cloud- and account-centric. EZVIZ is a Hikvision-affiliated brand. Not benchmarked as a VMS on our bench.
Strengths
- Unusually for a cloud camera brand, many EZVIZ cameras expose local RTSP/ONVIF and microSD/NVR recording with a user-set encryption password — a genuine opt-in path to self-host.
- Polished clients across mobile, Windows (EZVIZ Studio) and web.
Limitations
- Cloud- and account-mandatory: setup, remote access and AI all route through EZVIZ's cloud; only EZVIZ / Hik-Connect devices are supported.
- Hikvision-affiliated (partly Chinese-state-linked) with a documented CVE history — including a 2022 flaw that let attackers recover the very key protecting 'encrypted' footage (CVE-2022-2472).
- Facial recognition is limited to a few doorbell/lock products, not the ecosystem; cameras generally do person detection only.
Criteria
| Self-hosted (runs on your hardware) | ✗ |
|---|---|
| Works without a mandatory vendor account | ✗ |
| Works with any ONVIF/RTSP camera (no hardware lock-in) | ✗ |
| Built-in facial recognition | ✗ |
| Encrypts stored footage at rest | ✓ |
| Remote access without a vendor cloud | ✗ |
| Web + desktop + mobile apps | ✓ |