There are various applications that can be used on a personal computer, turning it into a surveillance system with ease. Each application has different features and are often used in different ways. Some are designed for more advanced users while others are more user friendly, so it’s important to decide which piece of software will work for the user in mind.

Camera Viewer Pro

Camera Viewer Pro is popular choice, when considering how easy it is to use and it’s system resource usage this comes as no surprise. It comes with several features that can be configured to suit the hardware available.

Genius Vision NVR Community Edition

This is an enterprise grade IP camera recording application. A free version is available called the Community Edition, this comes with all of the available features but is limited to 16-channels with 4-channel intelligent video. This is often all that’s needed for the average user so this version may be perfectly sufficient.