Mashable Readers’ Choice: Most-trusted security cameras 2025

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Mashable recently introduced our first-ever Readers’ Choice Awards, where we polled our readers on the smart home tech they use and love. The final results are in, and your favorite smart home brands have been revealed. You can check out our full results, but we also asked readers about specific smart home products, like security cameras.

Continue reading for our breakdown of our readers’ preferred security cameras.

Your favorite security cameras

It was a tight race, but Blink won by a hair. Our survey respondents rated Blink 7.8 out of 10 for overall satisfaction, while Ring and Wyze scored 7.7. Blink didn’t take the lead in every category, so tab through the chart below to see where each brand excelled (or fell flat).

Editor’s note: Although our readers use and love Ring, we do not endorse Ring in our product recommendations because of a host of past privacy issues.

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Cost and setup

There’s a clear winner in the cost category: Wyze secured a 9.1 rating, blowing Blink (8.1) and Ring (7.5) out of the water. Wyze’s more favorable cost might be the reason it scored weaker in some other categories, though. Ring got the lowest cost score, which makes sense because it’s billed as a more premium brand than Blink or Wyze. (Blink and Ring are both Amazon-owned companies.)

Both Ring and Blink scored pretty middle-of-the-road on monitoring costs, aka the extra subscription costs associated with security cameras, such as cloud storage or access to additional smart features. One survey respondent did highlight Blink’s free cloud storage as a pro for the brand. Meanwhile, a Ring user said, “My experience with the Ring security camera has been mostly great. The only thing that I do not feel overwhelmingly positive about is the monthly subscription fee. I would be happy to keep data on a local server that I could delete after a certain time period that I chose. I don’t really find the monthly service necessary or a value for the money.”

In addition to cost, Wyze also scored the best for setup, followed by Ring, then Blink.

Audio and video quality

Owning a security camera becomes moot if you can’t actually see or hear anything it captures, which is why audio and video quality are such important factors to consider. Blink, Ring, and Wyze all scored highly in video quality, but the scores dropped in the audio department. Wyze took the biggest hit with a score of 6.7 out of 10 in audio (compared to its 7.8 for audio). If you want the best combo of audio and video, Blink is the way to go, according to our readers.

One Blink user said, “The audio quality of the recordings can be a bit muffled at times,” and, “While generally good, the image quality isn’t as sharp as I’d hoped for in certain situations, like during heavy rain.”

A Ring user commented that their security camera’s video quality is good compared to others.

Motion detection

A common gripe with security cameras and video doorbells is that they either don’t capture enough footage before a movement occurs, or they’re too sensitive and bombard your phone with motion detection alerts. Both of these were comments we received in our Readers’ Choice survey. Ring scored the best in this category, with an impressive 8.1 satisfaction rate.

In the words of one respondent: “The picture quality, motion detection feature, and two-way voice capabilities are absolutely sufficient for my needs.” On the other hand, another Ring user wrote, “I’ve set motion detection to the highest sensitivity, but there are still movements it doesn’t pick up sometimes.” And conversely, another user said, “Smart motion detection consistently identifies spiders, raccoons, and opossums as people.” So, it’s a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to people’s experiences with motion detection.

And the same goes for Blink. One respondent reported, “Motion detection works well, and I get alerts to my phone right away.” While another said, “Often the wind sets off the motion sensor, causing the alarm to go off over and over.”

Likelihood to recommend

All three of our readers’ favorite security camera brands scored decently well on likelihood to recommend. Ring was the highest at 8.0, with Wyze right behind it at 7.9, and Blink trailing closely at 7.8.