Best Battery Powered Video Doorbells (2023 Update)
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Wired video doorbells have their advantages, but if the necessary doorbell wiring is not an option in your home, then a battery-operated model is an obvious choice. There are plenty to choose from, so it can be a bit of a minefield to sort through what’s on offer.
Over the last few years, I’ve found the number of battery powered video doorbell options has exploded, but the vast majority of those are cheap mass market commodity products sold under many brand names. With no reputable company behind them I’m very wary of going this way simply due to the privacy implications.
To help with this, I’ve spent many hours reviewing dozens of models to find the best battery powered options available. I’ve focused on build quality, features, security, and overall customer experience to assemble this list, with options to cover a variety of installation preferences. On these points I’ve still landed on the Ring Video Doorbell 4 as the class leader in battery powered doorbells.
That said, there are some great alternatives if you don’t want to fork out for that subscription or have other requirements. I’ve included models for better battery life, lower price points, and more smart home options.
My Top Picks
Best Overall
Ring Battery Doorbell Plus
Fast Reliable Notifications
Pre-roll video avoid missing events
Removable battery or wired power
Best Local Storage
Eufy Doorbell Dual
Excellent quality dual camera
Dual motion detection with radar
Local storage without subscriptions
Best Value
WUUK Smart Doorbell Pro
Great night vision
Fast recording and notifications
Loads of feature options
What To Look For
Battery life
Battery powered video doorbells have the distinct advantage of being wire free, but that comes with a longer-term convenience cost: recharging. I find having to recharge a doorbell once every few months is acceptable, but when you start getting below 2 months, it becomes a noticeable burden. Obviously, this will vary person to person, but that’s what I’d be looking for.
Battery life, then, is a key consideration when choosing this type of video doorbell. Unfortunately, we can’t rely very heavily on the manufacturer’s claims here. Battery life is affected by a whole bevy of factors, including weather (cold is bad for rechargeable batteries), how much motion they will see, the video quality settings you choose, and obviously the capacity of the battery itself.
I take care to not only list the claimed battery life, but any noteworthy discrepancies with real world usage of a particular model. You might also want to consider a video doorbell model that can also take wired power, that way you’re covering your bases if your circumstances change later or you find having to charge the battery gets on your nerves.
Video quality and viewing angle
Video quality is certainly a consideration, but it may not be a huge factor, depending on your situation. If you want to be able to identify faces out at the end of your driveway, then sure, you’ll need a higher resolution smart doorbell camera. But for must use cases of a video doorbell - closer to the door - a basic HD camera can be just fine.
Indeed, lower resolution cameras can provide better performance in terms of streaming live video and recording. Less video data means the stream can start faster and be stable with less available bandwidth. This is important when you’re out of the house on public Wi-Fi or cellular.
Similarly, the viewing angle of the camera will depend on how much area you want to cover. The wider the viewing angle, the less resolution you’ll have in any given area of the image. If you’re not watching a wide area, then a narrower angle can help to see what’s going on with more clarity. Keep in mind that the horizontal and vertical viewing angles are not the same.
Video storage location
Do you want local storage, or will you keep your recorded video in the cloud? Many of the top-rated video doorbells, like the Ring Video Doorbell, are cloud-based and require a subscription to use effectively. This may seem like a downside, but it often means less hardware in your house, and the guarantee that the videos will be safe if something happens to the doorbell, or your home.
Local storage options can use a memory card in the doorbell itself, or record data on a base station that you install indoors. Keeping the videos in a different location to the doorbell is a more secure option as it prevents them being lost if the doorbell is attacked or stolen. It’s usually the cheaper models that go for an internal memory card as they can avoid the cost of the memory itself by making you pay for it separately.
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Common Questions
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The manufacturer reported battery life will usually sit between 2 and 6 months on most doorbell models. However, the battery life on a video doorbell is subject to many variables. The most significant of these is weather, motion frequency, and camera settings.
Rechargeable batteries really don’t like the cold, so if you have freezing winters you’re going to have much shorter battery life. How busy the doorbell is, and how many video processing features you choose to enable will also impact how long it will last, but these are more in your control.
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Any video doorbell that can run on battery power can be installed without any wiring. These devices are known as wireless video doorbells and will use Wi-Fi to communicate with your home network in order to record video and send you alerts. Combining this with a rechargeable battery means no doorbell wiring is needed, although you will need to deal with recharging the battery periodically.
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There are actually doorbells that can work without electricity, at least on the button side. These devices, like the TECKNET self-powered doorbell use kinetic energy harvesting to power themselves when the button is pressed.
These devices are basic doorbells, with no video or smart functions at all, and the inside chime still needs to be plugged in to receive the button signal and sound a chime for you.
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Most video doorbells, battery powered or otherwise, will use Wi-Fi to communicate with the companies’ servers, your phone, and your smart home. If the doorbell camera doesn’t store the videos internally, then a lack of Wi-Fi means no recording, and no notification of activity. Jammers can potentially do this, but it’s pretty unlikely in a domestic setting. given the typical illegality of such devices, and their effect on other properties in the area. Wired video doorbells are likely still affected as they only use the wires for power, not data.
Best Battery Doorbell Overall
Ring Video Doorbell 4
★★★★★
Key Features:
• 1920x1080 HDR camera
• 160-degree field of view
• Person detection and motion zones
• 4 second pre-roll and snapshots
• Two-way audio w/quick responses
• 6-month removable battery pack
• Wired power optional
• Supports Alexa
• Dual band Wi-Fi
What I Like
While it may not have the highest video resolution, and you need a Ring Protect plan to use it effectively, I’ve chosen the Ring Video Doorbell 4 as the best overall battery powered video doorbell for a few reasons. First and foremost among these is that Ring cameras have consistently outperformed other brands in terms of how fast they can get a notification to me, and how reliably they capture motion events.
This motion event recording is now bolstered considerably by the inclusion of a Pre-roll feature. Pre-roll is a feature common on hard wired cameras where a rolling buffer is kept by the camera. When a motion event is detected, that extra few seconds can be attached to the beginning of the video ensuring that you don’t miss what actually triggered the event.
Ring is, so far, the only battery powered doorbell that offers this feature, as it usually consumes too much battery power. Ring gets around this by using a separate, lower resolution/lower framerate camera to capture what are essentially a sequence of still images. It’s not up the standard of the actual video camera, but it’s enough to see what happened before the camera could start streaming. It’s a clever solution that actually works very well for its intended purpose.
Ring is also the only brand in this list to have an easily removable battery pack that doesn’t required taking down the doorbell. Every other battery powered video doorbell I’ve looked at needs to be removed from its mount to charge, even if they have a removable battery. That’s obviously not very practical. Ring not only makes it very easy to pop out the battery (with the appropriate security tool), but also has an optional dual-bay charging dock so you can keep spares ready to go, avoiding downtime on your camera.
Optionally you can also use doorbell wires for power and to run an existing chime in the one doorbell model, and it supports Dual-band Wi-Fi. This is still uncommon in this market, although I have selected a few other models below that now support this as well.
All this is backed up by what I consider to be the best app experience in the market, and a generous subscription plan offering the longest recorded video period on the market at 180 days. The Ring app is easy to navigate, provides a wealth of configuration to tailor smart alerts to your needs, has an unmatched video review and playback feature in their Timeline View, and offers more security and privacy controls than most others. You can see more details in my full review.
Potential Concerns
Being a cloud-based service there’s the obvious issue of paying a subscription. For me it’s worthwhile for the performance and app experience, and Ring’s subscriptions are pretty good value if you expand into other Ring products.
There will naturally be plenty of skepticism around privacy as well, especially given Ring’s past media attention regarding their internal policies and relationship with law enforcement. That’s fair, but it’s also fair to say that under Amazon’s ownership they have significantly upped their game in terms of the privacy controls we now have available.
For me, I would not be comfortable putting Ring cameras where the privacy of my family was important - like indoors - but I’m comfortable putting a Ring Video Doorbell outside the front door considering fast response time is a key requirement for a video doorbell to be useful. I’ve tried other options, and I keep ending up back here for my own home.
I’d also mention that the battery life, while good, is going to depend on what settings you enable. Ring states 6 months, but that’s with pretty basic settings and/or low traffic. Many of the features which put this model above the competition are going to increase battery consumption. Thankfully you can tailor these to find a balance that works for you. With most things turned on, I’m still getting around 3 months.
✔ Pre-roll video avoid missing events
✔ Removable battery or wired power
✔ Dual band Wi-Fi
✘ Only 1080p video camera
✘ Only supports integration with Alexa
Best Battery Doorbell With Local Storage
Eufy Doorbell Dual
★★★★★
Key Features:
• ‘2K’ 2560x1920 HDR doorbell camera
• Secondary 1600x1200 package camera
• 6-month battery (no wired)
• Local encrypted storage on base station
• Dual motion detection with radar
• Two-way audio
• Supports Alexa and Google Assistant
• IP65 Weather resistance
What I Like
Eufy Security is a major brand in home security hardware with an extensive range of indoor and outdoor home security cameras to suit pretty much any requirement. As part of this they have several smart video doorbell products on offer, and the Eufy Doorbell Dual is the obvious king of the hill. Eufy Security pioneered the use of dual motion detection with this product, including a radar sensor as well as the typical infra-red one. Other video doorbells have picked up on this now, but it’s not widely used yet.
The other unique innovation with the Doorbell Dual is the second camera, hence the name. This points downwards at the floor below your door and allows for much better monitoring of package deliveries. This ties into Eufy’s Delivery Guard feature which is an enhancement of the more common package detection. Delivery guard will not only notify you of a delivery, but remind you periodically to collect it, and warn you if someone approaches the package.
Eufy has opted for a 2K camera, and even the second camera is higher resolution than standard HD, so the video quality is excellent. Eufy’s cameras in general deliver good results in both day and night with superb night vision clarity, although with some ghosting on moving objects. A range of motion and power optimization settings are available for setting things up the way you like, and the Eufy Security app is mostly clearly laid out and easy to use.
Video is captured on the included Homebase 2 which acts as a range extender for the doorbell and other compatible Eufy cameras as well. This will also act as a chime for you inside the house, but you can also use an Amazon echo device as one through the Alexa Announce feature. The Homebase has 16GB of onboard storage, which Eufy says is good for 90 days of typical motion activity.
You should see decent battery life, being a subsidiary of battery maker Anker, but the battery model has no provision for hard wiring, and your mileage will vary as with any battery claims.
Potential Concerns
Eufy Security has a good reputation for quality products and good support and has long been popular due to their claims of private local storage. However, Eufy has run into some controversy lately with the discovery of some fairly significant holes in their security design.
Now, security is hard, and all companies make mistakes. The important thing is that they are up front with their customers about it and fix them quickly when discovered. To be fair to Eufy they have indeed moved quickly to fix these issues, but the problem is that they openly lied about the existence of these flaws until the media dragged them to confess.
This is also not the first time Eufy has had security issues which have led some, myself included, to question their competence in this area. There is nothing to suggest any malice on Eufy’s part, and as far as we can see they have responded correctly on the technical front.
They’ve also pledged to engage third-party auditors and set up a bug-bounty program to encourage security researchers to find anything else that needs fixing over the longer term. Their muddled communication about this recent incident leaves some room for pause, and if this doesn’t sit well with you, then my Best Value pick below is an excellent alternative.
✔ Dual motion detection with radar
✔ Local storage without subscriptions
✘ Storage is not expandable
✘ Motion zones are limited to rectangles
✘ 2.4GHz Wi-Fi only
Best Value Battery Doorbell
WUUK Smart Doorbell Pro
★★★★★
Key Features
• ‘2K’ 2560x1920 HDR doorbell camera
• Both wired power and 6-month battery
• Local encrypted storage on base station
• Dual motion detection with radar
• Human detection
• Tamper alarm
• Two-way audio with Quick Responses
• Supports Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT
• IP65 Weather resistance
What I Like
WUUK is a relative newcomer to the smart home camera space but has been garnering great customer reviews so far. They’ve taken a similar design approach to Eufy with their Smart Doorbell Pro by pairing it with an internal base station for video storage and range extension. In this case, there’s 32GB of storage available, so you’ll get more breathing room if you like to keep your video clips.
The Smart Doorbell Pro also features an excellent 2K camera with good quality video, a 160-degree diagonal field of view, and stunning night vision - and this one is not plagued by ghosting of moving objects in my testing. You’ll also find a dual motion setup with a radar sensor, human detection, and slightly broader smart home integration options with the inclusion of IFTTT.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the build quality and performance of this model. It comes very close to the notification speed of Ring, and even without a Pre-roll feature I found it was able to capture entire events, even before someone entered the frame of the camera. I can only assume the motion sensors have the ability to detect someone at a wider angle and start the camera earlier.
WUUK has provided a ton of customization features in the app, and while it’s not quite as polished as the Eufy app, you’ll have all the options you need to get it working the way you want including smart alerts, a light up doorbell button, an optional tamper alarm, and various motion and video quality options. You’ll also have the option of using existing doorbell wires later as both are included in the one model, the same as the Ring Video Doorbell.
Round this out with a solid mounting bracket, IP65 weather resistance certification, free wedge kit included in the box, and at half the price, and you can see why this is my best value pick. Read my full review for more details.
Potential Concerns
Support is competent and helpful but is only available by email at this stage. This means if you’re hoping to get help with something in a hurry you might be out of luck as it can take a few days. For most people this shouldn’t be a major issue, though, as the setup process is very easy, and the app walks you through any issues very well.
Another small issue is the limited selection of chime tones. There are only 5 on offer, compared to Ring’s much larger selection, and the notifications you get through the app just say ‘motion’, and not what type of motion. This can be a little frustrating if you have it set to notify you of everything but is a non-issue if you’re filtering it to just people anyway.
Finally, I found the audio pick-up a bit limited, and the sound quality fairly low. It’s certainly fine for talking to someone at the doorbell but picking up conversations further out isn’t great.
✔ Great night vision
✔ Fast recording and notifications
✔ Loads of feature options
✘ Must be removed to charge
✘ Audio quality could be better
✘ 2.4GHz Wi-Fi only
Largest Battery Capacity
Nooie 2K Video Doorbell
★★★★✩
Key Features
• ‘2K’ 2560x1920 4:3 doorbell camera
• Dual motion detection with radar
• 3-month removable battery
• Local Micro SD storage (on chime)
• Smart human detection
• Two-way audio with quick responses
• Supports Alexa and Google Home
• IP66 Weather resistance
What I Like
When it comes to battery operated video doorbells, I have to call out the Nooie 2K Video Doorbell. This latest iteration of Nooie’s doorbell line includes a massive 10,000mAh internal battery for a claimed 1 year of battery life. The battery is also removable, although this still necessitates taking the doorbell off the mounting bracket to access it.
Battery life is now claimed as 3 months to a charge. That seems lower than others in this list, but it’s refreshingly honest and is a revision on their originally stated 1 year. That claim proved, shall we say, optimistic. It’s good to see a more realistic estimate, and one that seems to be bearing out in the real world.
They’ve also now included the dual motion feature from with an integrated radar sensor, and a 2K camera with the more popular 4:3 aspect ratio, the same as Eufy uses. This ostensibly helps with covering the area in front of the door better than a wide angle 16:9 HD camera as it gives you more vertical resolution and viewing angle.
Video quality and night vision are certainly up to standard. Video is stored locally on a microSD card that resides in the plug-in doorbell chime base station. The doorbell itself connects via this chime, and the chime can use either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz Wi-Fi, or a direct ethernet connection. You could also opt for Nooie’s own cloud storage service, but I can’t vouch for that. Why pay a subscription if you don’t have to?
Potential Concerns
Nooie’s support service is reportedly helpful, but only available via email, as with WUUK. You can be waiting a day or so for a response. So again, this could be an issue if you need more urgent assistance.
The most likely area you’ll need that assistance is the initial setup. The Nooie doorbell can be a but temperamental with the initial Wi-Fi discovery phase. Oddly people have had more luck with this on Android than iOS, although I can’t imagine why. It’s not something I’ve seen with other smart devices. Once you get past this point, things are less troublesome.
Motion detection settings are pretty limited, with only the ability to adjust the motion range in steps. Human detection is provided to help filter out the noise, but without more control over where to monitor for motion, you’ll possibly still have a lot of unwanted notifications. Those notifications don’t include thumbnails either, so you’ll have to check in the app to see what’s up every time.
✔ Good battery life
✔ Dual band Wi-Fi
✘ Limited motion controls
✘ microSD card not included
Most Smart Home Integrations
Arlo Essential Doorbell
★★★★✩
Key Features:
• 1536x1536 HD camera
• 180-degree field of view
• 4-month removable battery
• Person and package detection
• Two-way audio and quick responses
• Wired power optional
• Supports Alexa, SmartThings, Google Assistant, IFTTT, HomeKit
• Weather resistance
What I Like
Long time camera maker Arlo has a foot in this game with the Arlo Essential Video Doorbell in both a battery powered and wired version. You have to choose one.
This one takes a slightly different approach to the camera set up by using a 1:1 aspect ratio to give equal priority to the vertical axis. Oddly they also paired it with a 180-degree fisheye lens. This makes it a weird compromise between focusing on the porch and watching the whole approach area. There are certainly some advantages in having both, but it’s not going to do either as well as a doorbell that focuses on doing one or the other.
Thankfully the video resolution is ‘2K’ by virtue of the larger vertical resolution, which gives it pretty good video quality. The night vision is also decent, but the resolution isn’t large enough to make zooming on those outer areas much better.
What makes the Arlo offering stand out, though, is their support for more smart home platforms than any other brand. This can be an important factor if you plan to use it as a smart home device beyond just a doorbell. You can use this video doorbell with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, Samsung SmartThings or IFTTT. Note that HomeKit support requires the doorbell to be connected to one of Arlo’s SmartHubs to act as a bridge. The doorbell doesn’t talk to HomeKit directly, and you’ll only get basic camera functionality, not recording in iCloud.
Arlo does have a removable battery in this model, but like the Nooie it still needs to be removed from the wall to get to it. Arlo even says you need to take the whole doorbell inside when charging. I can’t see why you couldn’t leave it in place without the battery pack, but it probably makes sense to take in away while it can’t be used anyway to avoid confusion.
Potential Concerns
While the Arlo Essential is itself a good quality smart doorbell camera, there are a couple of nuisance issues with Arlo’s platform. First is that their notification performance seems a bit slow. I find it takes somewhere around 5-7 seconds to get one through, which is not great for a doorbell situation.
Second is their app is a bit dated in its design, and settings can be hard to find in some cases. They also time out your login regularly, so you can go to check an event and have to log in again first. It would be more convenient if they took the more modern approach of having a device-specific authentication token that can remain valid for a longer period.
✔ Best smart home integration options
✔ Good Camera
✘ Must be removed to charge
✘ Slower notification performance
Best Budget Battery Doorbell
aosu Video Doorbel V8S
★★★★✩
Key Features
• ‘5MP’ 2582x1936 4:3 doorbell camera
• 166-degree field of view
• Battery or wired install
• Dual motion detection with radar
• Supports Alexa and Google Home
• Two-way audio with quick reply
• Dual band Wi-Fi
• IP66 Weather resistance
What I Like
This relatively new brand is making waves with their latest V8S video doorbell, but we don’t know much about them yet. It’s clearly a Chinese company, but most cheaper video doorbell brands are. Even so, they’re ahead of the pack on support, with reportedly good phone and live chat on offer.
The device itself is also feature packed. On paper at least it actually exceeds my best pick, including the dual motion detection system with radar and infra-red sensors, two-way talk with quick replies and an indoor chime/base station set up. The chime base unit plugs right into a wall socket and acts as a signal repeater to help increase battery life on the doorbell and holds 8GB of on-board storage for video clips which is enough for 60 days.
They also include a wedge kit in the pack, support dual-band Wi-Fi, a high weather resistance rating, and even throw in the voice changer feature, like WUUK, so you can disguise your identity when talking to a visitor via the app. A bit of a gimmick perhaps, but it’s a bonus, nonetheless. It also supports both wired and battery options in the one device so if you’re starting out on battery you have the option to upgrade to wired power later.
The install kit is very comprehensive and includes things like doorbell extension wires and a screwdriver. I expected the manual to be pretty sparse and poorly written, and I think earlier models may have been based on customer reviews, but the manual for this model is of a high standard, well worded with clear illustrations and directions for a variety of installation scenarios.
Potential Concerns
As with most of these subscription-free smart video doorbell models, you need to take it down to charge. This is done by pressing a small release catch through a hole in the bottom of the mount using a special pin tool that comes in the box. This seems a little less secure than security screws, but it’s not obvious to someone unfamiliar with the model. Once down, you simply charge using a standard USB-C cable, which is also provided.
I’ve been looking pretty hard for flaws, but aosu is garnering very good customer reviews for this model. The biggest issue that stands out is quality control. There are a number of reports of clearly faulty units, with various issues such as short battery life, poor Wi-Fi connections or simply not working. This is to be expected with a newer brand, and they seem to be willing to resolve them without much drama.
The other common issue is late motion triggers. This is not uncommon with battery powered doorbells as they have to keep the camera off to save battery life, but this one is worse than my other picks. You can work around this by adjusting the settings to pick up activity sooner, but then you risk having too many unwanted notifications.
✔ Good Support
✔ Dual-band Wi-Fi
✘ Motion alerts can be slow
✘ Some quality control issues
The Competition
Wyze Video Doorbell Pro
While the original Wyze video doorbell was a wired doorbell only, the latest smart video doorbell product from Wyze is the battery powered Wyze Video Doorbell Pro providing similar functionality to the Arlo video doorbell in terms of camera features and performance, although with a slightly lower 1440x1440 resolution. The big strike against it at the moment is the lack of smart home integration. Wyze says Alexa and Google options are still in development, but without that it’s hard to include on the ‘best’ list.
Blink Video Doorbell
The very affordable Blink Video Doorbell provides a cheap and cheerful way to get a battery powered smart doorbell camera up and running on your home. It works well enough, and you can avoid subscriptions by including a Sync Module with your purchase, but this uses a fairly slow USB stick for video recording, and the app provides very basic features for smart notifications and motion settings. As these features fall well short of even my pick for budget model, it’s missed out on a place on this occasion.
Google Nest Doorbell
The Google Nest brand has both wired and battery powered video doorbells on the market, and both of these are solid products. Compatible with the Google Home app or Alexa they sport some impressive smart alerts and facial recognition, and you can use them without a subscription if you’re happy with only 3 hours of rolling history, but you’ll need a Nest Aware subscription to use the advanced features. Oddly the Nest Doorbell has opted for the lowest resolution cameras in the field, at only 720p it’s an increasingly stark contrast with other models in this list.
Other Considerations
Privacy and Security
Any time we are putting a camera into our homes we should be cognizant of the security and privacy implications of that. These devices all need to connect to the internet, after all, in order to send us notifications and video streams. You always have the option to block this, but you’d be losing a key benefit of having such a device, and many of them won’t work at all without that connection.
End-to-end encryption would go a long way to reduce the risks here, but it’s virtually unheard of outside of Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video system which generally doesn’t support battery powered cameras. Ring has introduced a version in their app, but it imposes severe and crippling limits on what you can do with the doorbell camera, so it’s not practical for most people.
Going with a larger brand is a good hedge, not necessarily because they will be more secure, but because they will attract more scrutiny from security researchers who can find and report any issues. Good companies will respond positively to these disclosures and fix the issues via timely firmware updates. Many smaller brands may not care enough to fix them at all, even when they are reported.
Expansion into a wider security system
Most video doorbell brands will also have a selection of home security cameras that all connect via the same app. If you have an interest in adding those at some point, then it’s worth considering the holistic solution so you don’t have to manage your cameras over multiple apps. Buying into a brand is an investment in that eco system, so you’ll want to be sure that the user experience is good, the support is there, and the range of products will meet any foreseeable needs over the longer term.
You don’t want to be throwing away potentially expensive devices every couple of years, so look for products that have a proven history in the real world so you know they’ll go the distance. Established brands will also be more likely to be around years from now so you won’t have to worry about your cameras being bricked if the company shuts up shop.
Do you want to avoid subscription fees?
Sometimes paying a subscription can be worthwhile in order to get the best experience, as in the case of my best video doorbell pick here, or the integration you really want. However, it’s not generally desirable and there are plenty of great options that don’t require one. I’ve noted a few in this guide, but if this criterion is more important to you then you might want to check out my selections for subscription free video doorbell models that specifically avoid these fees entirely.
My Recommendations
When looking at purely battery powered video doorbells there are several good options to choose from. I’ve chosen the Ring Video Doorbell 4 as my top pick for the best video doorbell camera in this space due to their build quality, performance, support, and unique features. Yes, they have had some bad press around their relationship with law enforcement, but nothing says you have to sign up for their Neighbors program where these issues largely reside, and the benefits are worth considering. They also have a great peephole camera offering, also battery powered, if you need something for an apartment situation.
If you’d rather not go down that path, or don’t want to deal with a subscription, then you can look at either the Eufy Doorbell Dual for its cool Delivery Guard feature, or the equally good WUUK Smart Doorbell Pro at half the price.
