Presence has a few customizable settings to give you the level of security you want. Presence has a web portal as well, but it has limited capabilities: It can’t view live streams and can only see videos recorded after the app detects motion (if motion detect is enabled). To use Presence, you’ll need two iOS devices running iOS 5.0 or later: One device to be the camera, and one device to be the monitor. Presence isn’t just a video camera app, though-it has surveillance features, such as motion detection alerts (you can set Presence to alert you when the streaming device picks up motion) and two-way video and audio capabilities. Got an old iOS device lying around? Presence (free iOS) can turn it into a Wi-Fi or cellular network-powered live streaming video feed that you can view remotely. I tested several apps and found just two that are excellent at what they do and super easy to set up. But not all of these apps are worth paying for, and many require extra set up-such as disabling firewalls and downloading extra programs-on your part. You’ll find tons of surveillance apps, video monitors, baby- and pet-cams, and other spy-type apps in the app marketplace that you can use to keep tabs on your pad-slash-baby-slash-pet.
