Watch Tower Pro Downloads & RevenueWatch Tower Pro · App Store
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Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBlackfox Media LLC
CategoryUtilities
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.2 (5)
Version1.6
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)500+ worldwide
✏️Description updated📦Updated to version 1.6🆕Its developer released another app: Backtrail Pro✏️Description updated📦Updated to version 1.5.1📈Entered the top 10📈Entered the top 100🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 20 events
- ✏️Watch Tower Pro: description updated· CA
- 📦Watch Tower Pro updated to version 1.6Fresh camera data and a new Follow button.
• Updated worldwide database: 686,631 cameras, rebuilt from OpenStreetMap on November 3, 2026. More than 20,000 newly mapped cameras are in, including about 4,900 more license-plate readers, and cameras removed from OpenStreetMap are gone. The update loads once on first launch.
• Follow: a new map button keeps the map centered on you as you move. It's off until you tap it and turns off when you pan the map. While it's on, streets download for each new area, so the map host can see the areas along your route. Settings > Connectivity & network use and Read Me explain this.
• The search bar is now solid, so map labels no longer show through it.
• On a new install, the map now centers on you even when the first GPS fix is slow.… more - 🆕Watch Tower Pro: its developer released another app: Backtrail Pro
- ✏️Watch Tower Pro: description updated· CA, AU
- 📦Watch Tower Pro updated to version 1.5.1This update makes the app's description of its network use exact. No changes to features, camera data or permissions.
• New in Settings: a "Connectivity & network use" section that lists what works offline (the camera database, camera search and proximity alerts) and what needs a connection (the street map, place search and live agency camera images), and what each of those requests reveals.
• Read Me, onboarding and the location permission prompts now say precisely what stays on your device: your GPS position is never sent anywhere, while the background street map is downloaded from OpenFreeMap for the area on screen.… more - ✏️Watch Tower Pro: description updated· AU
- 📈Watch Tower Pro entered the top 10Top Paid · Utilities · AU
- 📈Watch Tower Pro entered the top 100Top Paid · Utilities · GB
- 📈Watch Tower Pro charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- ✏️Watch Tower Pro: app got smaller35 MB → 25 MB (-30%)
- ✏️Watch Tower Pro: description updated· IT, CA
- 📦Watch Tower Pro updated to version 1.5This release rebuilds the camera database and fixes a number of defects found in a full pre-release audit, including several affecting proximity alerts.
CAMERA DATABASE
- Refreshed worldwide database — 670,344 documented cameras, rebuilt from a complete OpenStreetMap pass across all seven continents plus published government transportation-agency feeds. Every entry is de-duplicated, so no two cameras share a location.
- Wider detection of mapped cameras, so more speed, red-light and automated plate-reader sites appear than before.
- An interrupted first load can no longer leave a partial database behind that never repairs itself.
PROXIMITY ALERTS
- Fixed: alerts now fire when the app is closed. Previously the app had to have been opened since its last launch for a camera alert to be delivered at all — which is the opposite of what the feature is for.
- Fixed: turning alerts off now genuinely stops them. Monitored zones used to stay registered with iOS after the switch was turned off, and survived a reboot.
- Fixed: changing the alert radius or enabling a new alert category now takes effect straight away instead of waiting for an unrelated event.
- Watch Tower Pro now asks for notification permission before arming anything, and tells you — with a link to Settings — when location or notification permission is blocking alerts, instead of leaving a switch that looks on and does nothing.
- Tapping an alert now opens that camera even when the app was closed.
- In dense areas, several cameras entered at once now produce one grouped alert instead of a dozen, and the same camera will not re-alert for ten minutes.
- Location requests that stall no longer freeze alerts, Nearby or the map's centre button until the next launch.
NEARBY AND MAP
- Fixed a freeze in dense cities caused by the Nearby list reading the whole database on the main thread.
- Nearby now updates as you move, and shows the true number of cameras in range rather than a flat "150".
- Distances now follow your region's units instead of always using metres.
- Map pins no longer blink out and back on every pan.
- Fixed a "Search failed" message that appeared after clearing the search box.
- Status messages on the map are now legible in dark mode.
CAMERA DETAILS
- Live traffic-camera images load faster, time out properly instead of hanging, and the refresh button now fetches a genuinely new frame.
- Images are no longer cropped to 16:9.
- A camera that is no longer in the database now says so instead of spinning forever.
- Fixed the "Report a Camera" screen, which did not dismiss correctly after you closed the mail composer.
OTHER
- Clearer and more accurate source, licensing and non-affiliation information.
- Accessibility: VoiceOver labels on the Nearby list and camera details, an operable appearance picker, and better contrast in Read Me.
- Removed two background capabilities the app no longer uses.… more - 📈Watch Tower Pro entered the top 100Top Paid · Utilities · CA
- 📈Watch Tower Pro charting in a new countryCanada
- 🆕Watch Tower Pro first spotted by AppInsider#96 in Top Paid · Utilities · United States
- 🆕Watch Tower Pro: its developer released another app: Stroke Ready
- 📦Watch Tower Pro version 1.4.1No release notes
- 🆕Watch Tower Pro: its developer released another app: GED Ready
- 🆕Watch Tower Pro: its developer released another app: Microbiology Arena
- 🆕Watch Tower Pro released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.2 ★
5 ratings
Measured
Watch Tower Pro on the App Store
App details
App ID
6787942323
Publisher
Blackfox Media LLC
On the store since
Jul 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
25 MB
Also listed in
Reference
Watch Tower Pro downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Watch Tower Pro's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.2 ★
5 ratings
Measured
Ratings
5
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
1.0★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
46/100
faster than 43% of Utilities apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Watch Tower Pro
Watch Tower Pro maps 686,000+ publicly documented surveillance cameras worldwide — government CCTV, police license-plate readers (ALPR), speed and red-light enforcement, traffic monitoring, and dome cameras — and alerts you before you walk or drive into range.
Most people pass a dozen cameras a day without noticing. Watch Tower Pro is a privacy-awareness tool: it shows you what's documented so you can make informed decisions about where you go and how you get there.
WHAT'S NEW IN 1.6
• Refreshed worldwide database: 686,631 cameras, rebuilt from OpenStreetMap on November 3, 2026, with more than 20,000 newly mapped cameras.
• Follow: an optional map button that keeps the map centered on you as you move.
• Settings spells out exactly what works offline and what needs a connection.
WHAT IT DOES
• The camera database works offline. All 686,000+ camera locations ship inside the app, so camera lookups and proximity alerts work with no signal and no server to query. The background street map, place search and live camera images need a connection.
• Color-codes every camera by type so you can tell an ALPR from a traffic cam at a glance.
• Optional proximity alerts: a local notification when you enter the range of an alert-eligible camera. Choose which types alert you and how close.
• Travel mode widens coverage automatically when you're driving so alerts fire at highway speed.
• Nearby list ranks every documented camera within 8 km by distance, with the operator where known.
• Directions to any camera, plus a link to its public source record.
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
• No accounts. No login. No analytics. No tracking. No ads.
• The app never sends your GPS position anywhere. Alerts use iOS region monitoring entirely on the phone.
• BlackFox Media runs no server for the app. The only things we ever receive are emails you choose to send us, such as camera reports.
• We do not include residential cameras (Ring, Blink, Nest, etc.). Their locations aren't public, and aggregating them would be wrong.
NETWORK USE, PLAINLY
The street map is downloaded from OpenFreeMap for the area on screen, so OpenFreeMap's servers can see that area and your IP address. Place search sends only the text you type to Apple. A live traffic-camera image is loaded directly from the government agency that publishes it. If you turn on Follow, streets keep downloading as you move, so OpenFreeMap can see the areas along your route. Without a connection, camera markers and alerts keep working; the streets behind them do not load.
LIMITATIONS
Public databases lag reality. A missing marker does not mean there's no camera there — treat all public space as observed. Reported cameras are reviewed by a person and added in the next data update, never posted automatically.
DATA SOURCES
Almost every location comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), including the plate-reader locations, which are ordinary OpenStreetMap nodes. A smaller set comes from camera feeds published ope
Most people pass a dozen cameras a day without noticing. Watch Tower Pro is a privacy-awareness tool: it shows you what's documented so you can make informed decisions about where you go and how you get there.
WHAT'S NEW IN 1.6
• Refreshed worldwide database: 686,631 cameras, rebuilt from OpenStreetMap on November 3, 2026, with more than 20,000 newly mapped cameras.
• Follow: an optional map button that keeps the map centered on you as you move.
• Settings spells out exactly what works offline and what needs a connection.
WHAT IT DOES
• The camera database works offline. All 686,000+ camera locations ship inside the app, so camera lookups and proximity alerts work with no signal and no server to query. The background street map, place search and live camera images need a connection.
• Color-codes every camera by type so you can tell an ALPR from a traffic cam at a glance.
• Optional proximity alerts: a local notification when you enter the range of an alert-eligible camera. Choose which types alert you and how close.
• Travel mode widens coverage automatically when you're driving so alerts fire at highway speed.
• Nearby list ranks every documented camera within 8 km by distance, with the operator where known.
• Directions to any camera, plus a link to its public source record.
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
• No accounts. No login. No analytics. No tracking. No ads.
• The app never sends your GPS position anywhere. Alerts use iOS region monitoring entirely on the phone.
• BlackFox Media runs no server for the app. The only things we ever receive are emails you choose to send us, such as camera reports.
• We do not include residential cameras (Ring, Blink, Nest, etc.). Their locations aren't public, and aggregating them would be wrong.
NETWORK USE, PLAINLY
The street map is downloaded from OpenFreeMap for the area on screen, so OpenFreeMap's servers can see that area and your IP address. Place search sends only the text you type to Apple. A live traffic-camera image is loaded directly from the government agency that publishes it. If you turn on Follow, streets keep downloading as you move, so OpenFreeMap can see the areas along your route. Without a connection, camera markers and alerts keep working; the streets behind them do not load.
LIMITATIONS
Public databases lag reality. A missing marker does not mean there's no camera there — treat all public space as observed. Reported cameras are reviewed by a person and added in the next data update, never posted automatically.
DATA SOURCES
Almost every location comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), including the plate-reader locations, which are ordinary OpenStreetMap nodes. A smaller set comes from camera feeds published ope
Latest updates
1.6
Fresh camera data and a new Follow button.
• Updated worldwide database: 686,631 cameras, rebuilt from OpenStreetMap on November 3, 2026. More than 20,000 newly mapped cameras are in, including about 4,900 more license-plate readers, and cameras removed from OpenStreetMap are gone. The update loads once on first launch.
• Follow: a new map button keeps the map centered on you as you move. It's off until you tap it and turns off when you pan the map. While it's on, streets download for each new area, so the map host can see the areas along your route. Settings > Connectivity & network use and Read Me explain this.
• The search bar is now solid, so map labels no longer show through it.
• On a new install, the map now centers on you even when the first GPS fix is slow.
1.5.1
This update makes the app's description of its network use exact. No changes to features, camera data or permissions.
• New in Settings: a "Connectivity & network use" section that lists what works offline (the camera database, camera search and proximity alerts) and what needs a connection (the street map, place search and live agency camera images), and what each of those requests reveals.
• Read Me, onboarding and the location permission prompts now say precisely what stays on your device: your GPS position is never sent anywhere, while the background street map is downloaded from OpenFreeMap for the area on screen.
1.5
This release rebuilds the camera database and fixes a number of defects found in a full pre-release audit, including several affecting proximity alerts.
CAMERA DATABASE
- Refreshed worldwide database — 670,344 documented cameras, rebuilt from a complete OpenStreetMap pass across all seven continents plus published government transportation-agency feeds. Every entry is de-duplicated, so no two cameras share a location.
- Wider detection of mapped cameras, so more speed, red-light and automated plate-reader sites appear than before.
- An interrupted first load can no longer leave a partial database behind that never repairs itself.
PROXIMITY ALERTS
- Fixed: alerts now fire when the app is closed. Previously the app had to have been opened since its last launch for a camera alert to be delivered at all — which is the opposite of what the feature is for.
- Fixed: turning alerts off now genuinely stops them. Monitored zones used to stay registered with iOS after the switch was turned off, and survived a reboot.
- Fixed: changing the alert radius or enabling a new alert category now takes effect straight away instead of waiting for an unrelated event.
- Watch Tower Pro now asks for notification permission before arming anything, and tells you — with a link to Settings — when location or notification permission is blocking alerts, instead of leaving a switch that looks on and does nothing.
- Tapping an alert now opens that camera even when the app was closed.
- In dense areas, several cameras entered at once now produce one grouped alert instead of a dozen, and the same camera will not re-alert for ten minutes.
- Location requests that stall no longer freeze alerts, Nearby or the map's centre button until the next launch.
NEARBY AND MAP
- Fixed a freeze in dense cities caused by the Nearby list reading the whole database on the main thread.
- Nearby now updates as you move, and shows the true number of cameras in range rather than a flat "150".
- Distances now follow your region's units instead of always using metres.
- Map pins no longer blink out and back on every pan.
- Fixed a "Search failed" message that appeared after clearing the search box.
- Status messages on the map are now legible in dark mode.
CAMERA DETAILS
- Live traffic-camera images load faster, time out properly instead of hanging, and the refresh button now fetches a genuinely new frame.
- Images are no longer cropped to 16:9.
- A camera that is no longer in the database now says so instead of spinning forever.
- Fixed the "Report a Camera" screen, which did not dismiss correctly after you closed the mail composer.
OTHER
- Clearer and more accurate source, licensing and non-affiliation information.
- Accessibility: VoiceOver labels on the Nearby list and camera details, an operable appearance picker, and better contrast in Read Me.
- Removed two background capabilities the app no longer uses.
Store changes
What Watch Tower Pro changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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