Imou Global Reviews 

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I already have in protect plan and I did pay yesterday and I was using different plan free for 30 days you shouldn’t charge me for both plans you should automatically cancel the old plan please send... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Great camera unfortunately company is rubbish....if you ever dare to change your phone adding camera back is an impossible nightmare. The promised unblock email never arrives, chat room is never man... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’ve bought an IMOU doorbell, outdoor and indoor cameras over the past 6 months and I can’t fault them. Can’t complain for what I paid. Im using Micro SD cards rather than subscribing to their cloud s... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Always struggeling to connect. If something was detected by the camera, it takes ages to see the preview because camera says error connecting 9 of 10 times so you can't see anything on time. Maybe 5m... See more

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  1. Electronics store
  2. Camera shop
  3. Electronics Company

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Imou, a consumer IoT brand which provides smart security cameras and video doorbells with features ready for your home or business: 1080p HD, night vision, two-way audio, PIR detection, cloud or local storage and more.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Update your App!!

Update your App!!! If you try to look at your recordings the time line jumps all over the place!!! Fix your stuff it’s repulsing!!!

27 October 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor camera, fraudulently avoiding legal responsibilities

IMOU Cruiser Dual 5MP+3MP security camera has very poor WiFi capability and does not provide continuous viewing, also play back is patchy.
Also, playback on desktop does not function at all.
Other WiFi equipment in the house in similar or further location maintain good constant connection.
I have written several times to IMOU to provide the address for return and refund but did not receive a reply.
IMOU takes our money for poor products and avoids legal responsibility. This is fraudulent.
They also refuse to accept the feedback on their website.

27 September 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid at all costs i ve bought a dash…

Avoid at all costs i ve bought a dash cam after a few months stopped working and i can t return it as they avoid to answer even how much warranty i have on it. They are just the sellers they have a partner company who makes and deals with them

20 April 2024
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Can’t complain for what I paid

I’ve bought an IMOU doorbell, outdoor and indoor cameras over the past 6 months and I can’t fault them. Can’t complain for what I paid. Im using Micro SD cards rather than subscribing to their cloud storage. Everything works fine and wanted to leave a positive review here because I’d read some weird reviews, probably fake from a competitor.

27 March 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid buying these cameras

Avoid buying these cameras. Camera arrived and worked for a brief period of a few hours then put on to charge and it stopped working. Customer service not helpful and directing me to vendor who will not refund or swap so now i have a useless £150 camera waste of money. Has been reported to trading standards.

1 February 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Disgusting company

Disgusting company.
I have bought three of their cameras, their alarm system and 4 of their light bulbs.
Cameras are complete garbage - you get thumbnail notification 50% of the time, and about 70% of the notifications errors with "streaming error" or no record. This is because their servers are in China, and there's too much delay from there to UK.
They tried to tell me it was my internet quality, so I had new hub and engineer check my line. Problems still occur, and because I had a new hub - all four lightbulbs no longer connect, even after bulb reset.
Geo functioning in app works about 30% of the time.
Alarm system is a complete and utter joke - you arm it from your phone, you then get notifications coming through alerting you that your alarm is active. It completely ignores system do not disturb mode, and app do not disturb mode.
Customer service works about 2% of the time. But their service is as bad as their products. Refuse to admit any problems, even with abundance of evidence.
App harasses you 100% of the time to buy their subscription service.
You can't download your videos unless you have subscription.
There are a lot of very good Chinese companies out there, this is not one of them - I can assure you..
I'll be leaning this same review on as many review sites I can find - globally.
DO NOT PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM THEM..

28 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unprofessional customer service

Unprofessional customer service! They are not willing to escalate proven technial problems with their cameras to their IT/Dahua product team, to truly resolve it.
Instead they send answers which are emberesingly unproffesional, and demonstrate amateur support level.

23 January 2024
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Good but very basic camera

They're not that bad depending what you want. They are cheap with a good image. And really good night vision. However the motion detected is really basic. You'll either have it pick up every slight moment. Or not trigger unless someone walks right up to the camera. That's not a problem as I just wanted constant recording to SD card with time stamp. So not bothered about too many triggers. However if you want accurate motion triggers. Definitely go with something else. Good value Camera, nothing advanced.

4 January 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If you want million recordings with weather forecast - buy it!

Cameras work well but the recording of every raindrop, snowflake, flying beetle, light from driving past car in darkness and receiving MILLION notifications for that is just AWWWFULLLL and you can't do anything about it!!!! I don't understand why the hell I need to pay monthly to see how system sorts out what I can see in camera- movement, animal, sound etc. That's just stupid. I have millions of videos with weather precipitation and not so much with real movement, so the memory gets full really quickly. That's why 1star... I would never suggest anyone to buy these cameras at all if you really want to record movement not weather forecast!

9 December 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

SCAM THEY CHARGE YOU UP TO THREE TIMES…

SCAM THEY CHARGE YOU UP TO THREE TIMES IN A MONTH AND REFUSE TO REFUND YOU DONT GIVE YOUR BANK DETAILS TO THEM EVER!!!!
I joined in April and in May i recieved a message asking me to activate my account cause wasnt allow me to do use the app .
Then today i notice in my banking app they were charging me twice each month and even 3 times in july.
I chat with them over the app they refused to refund me. They refused to put me thru the supervisor/manager.
Then i call and some they refuse to refund and to tranfer me to the managers.
Also I have now still have not receive any email regarding the cancellation.
I dont trust them anymore they took payment 3 times they could took even more then that and do Nothing about it .

11 October 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

can not connect

imou indoor videocamera. it simply can not connect. these idiotic try again advises...it tell it can not check security of my network. plus enourmous amount of tracking attempts blocked...this staff should not be allowed in eu.

26 September 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Be warned... they're rubbish!!!?

Great camera unfortunately company is rubbish....if you ever dare to change your phone adding camera back is an impossible nightmare. The promised unblock email never arrives, chat room is never manned as your number is queue never changes, tech support can't answer phones apparently so you have to wait until someone in China decides to reply. In meantime you have no camera

Buy your camera anywhere but Imou.

26 September 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I love the cameras BUT

I love the cameras, wanting to buy more "BUT" "BUT" the App it's so dificul to use and their customer service the worse I have come across with. It almost looks like they want to destroy their business. There is no telephone number for the USA, their WhatsApp number is never your time zone, any message any time you get an automatic message that you are outside their working hours, I mean it's not a chat, and the chat which is so hard to find in their app, you get someone who makes a ticket number to be resolve later. From me, no more business with them. Screw that Imou company.

31 August 2023
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