Use your device as a motion detector to keep an eye on your pet, office or home.
Motion Detector Pro turns your Android device into a motion-activated security tool, capturing photos whenever movement is detected and sending them to email or another phone for remote monitoring. It provides a real-time on-screen indicator of where motion occurs and supports cloud or local storage for easy review of captured images. With 1,000,000+ total downloads and 10 in the last 30 days, it serves homes, pets, and small offices seeking a simple alert system.
Pros & Cons
Real-time motion visualization on the device screen
Flexible storage options (cloud or local)
Email alerts with captured images for quick verification
Remotely monitor homes, pets, or offices from another phone
No live video streaming feature (focus is on photo-based alerts)
Requires internet access for cloud storage/email alerts
Access to READ_CONTACTS and READ_PHONE_STATE may raise privacy considerations
About Motion Detector Pro
Motion Detector Pro is a tools app developed by MVA.
Download Statistics
Motion Detector Pro has been downloaded 2.5 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 10 times.
User Ratings
Motion Detector Pro is rated 3.78 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 12 thousand ratings.
App Information
Motion Detector Pro is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.07 MB. The latest version available is 2.3.4. The last update was on March 24, 2019.
Technical Requirements
Motion Detector Pro requires Android 4.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2011.
Description
Motion Detector Pro is a home security camera app, that uses the built-in camera to detect movements in the surrounding area using an advanced motion detection algorithm. If it detects movement it sends an email with a picture link to another cell phone, allowing you to remotely monitor an area using your Android phone. Use it to keep an eye on your pet, your business/office or home. Motion Detector Pro can:
✓ Take a picture when the camera sees a movement and send it to an email or another phone. Great for catching thieves, watching your business/home or keeping an eye on your pet
✓ Indicate realtime on the phones display where the movement is detected
✓ Store the images on the cloud or locally on the phones SD-card
*If the app fails at startup, please restart your phone and try again*
Recent changes: Removed usages of SMS due to changed Google policy Bugfixes
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The first non-spyware non-registration genuinely useful, functional, minimalist camera surveillance app I have found.
★★★★☆Don Johnson· Sep 10, 2022
Works well from the gate. Would prefer SMS in lieu of e-mail but Google has a habit of taking away great functionality. Also prefer saving pics in e-mail. None of their business saving to their cloud.
★★★★☆First Ryuelz· Jul 8, 2020
Like this app. Hard to use first but if you get how it works, it really does the job. Please if update make setting for sound alarm to make it longer or shorter. Thanks.
★★★★★Vinnie· Sep 3, 2020
Does the job. Very well-made. You can adjust sensitivity of motion detector which imo is amazing
★★★★★Kayla Gilbert· Mar 10, 2023
Hi. I was wondering what the phone name meant in settings? To identify the phone in the outgoing mail? Thank you!
★☆☆☆☆Dr Draith· Aug 9, 2021
Doesn't work. Detects movement yt doesn't save images ot send them to email. Useless
★☆☆☆☆Carl Mckimm· Nov 13, 2020
It won't make the alarm sound it just says please hold your phone perfectly still, and it keeps on crashing
★★☆☆☆Tiger Fox· Dec 25, 2022
Really wanted this app to work. It would not send an email via 4G connection. Thought it was my VPN. Allowed it to tunnel VPN free. That didn't work either; no email. I had images coming up on their cloud even. Can't delete images once they are on their cloud and that makes me really suspicious about privacy concerns. It'll capture pics to your phone, and you can change sensitivity settings, but no video. It takes 10-20seconds to set up again. What if the intruder saw the phone and delete image?
Google Play Rankings for Motion Detector Pro
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Technologies used by Motion Detector Pro
7 permissions·7 libraries
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Trust & Safety: Permissions include CAMERA, INTERNET, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and other system-level rights (DISABLE_KEYGUARD, READ_CONTACTS, READ_PHONE_STATE, WAKE_LOCK). The app notes removal of SMS usage due to Google policy changes. For safety, users should review how captured images are stored (cloud vs local) and how alerts are transmitted to protect privacy.
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