DS cam

Synology Inc.

About this app

You must own a Synology NAS to run this app, and be running the latest Surveillance Station 9.1.0 to get the complete set of features*

DS cam makes it possible to monitor and receive alert notifications from all your surveillance cameras set up on a Synology DiskStation. Smart features such as PTZ, patrols or lens control allow for perfect control of your cameras in real-time, while advanced filters make it easy to pinpoint any specific event from large lists of recordings. You can even perform all essential management tasks, from disabling a camera to unlocking and deleting a snapshot.

Find all detailed features about the app on our website:
www.synology.com > Solutions > Surveillance > Surveillance Mobile > Specifications
https://www.synology.com/dsm/7.1/software_spec/surveillance_station

Ratings and reviews

Update august 2026: it no longer takes a full minute to open a video stream! Only took several updates after they responded to the 2 star review with "just update, it's fixed," which is why only 3 stars now. Over time this app's retrevial of video has become so unresponsive as to be practically unusable. Video works fine when accessed by web client, takes multiple minutes to load anything in app.

It used to work great, but a late update in the past month made it unusable. It freezes all the time and is barely responsive. Nothing changed on the NAS and desktop, and web access works. The app is still using hardware decoding, but somehow it's lacking resources or something. I purchased 8 licenses to use this NAS, a lot of money, and a year later the app can't be used. Dear Synology, NO, THE ISSUE WITH THE LAG HAS NOT BEEN FIXED. 06-2026 also you can disable cameras but no enable them. NICE

Experience ranges from atrocious to unusable. Synology recently pushed an update that forces H265 rendering to the client side, and now my video streams - all of them, stutter and fail to zoom and run with sub-1FPS. no option to return the rendering to the station and no way to resolve the problem. I NEED to be able to smoothly view and be able to zoom into my streams for security purposes. I will be looking into another platform.

What’s new

1. Added support for toggling notifications for a wider range of specific event types.
2. Fixed an issue where Instant Search results might take longer than expected to load.
3. Fixed an issue where the app might not respond when loading recording thumbnails.
4. Fixed an issue where users might be unable to sign in under certain network environments.
5. Fixed an issue where the app might crash under certain conditions.