The only way to initially view the cam plus videos is on a mobile device that has the Wyze app. From there you can download the video to your device and do what you want with it. I upload videos to youtube to save. The cloud retention is a rolling 14 day hold, where videos will stay for 14 days then be deleted from the cloud. One benefit to using camplus, like @Brlepage stated, is to save entire motion videos to the cloud whereas the free cloud storage is limited to 12 sec videos every 5 minutes.