Recommended Battery Video Doorbells

The Ring Video Doorbell 4 finished in second place while having almost double the battery life, and half the monthly fee of the Google Nest Doorbell. The pre-roll feature worked well and is a welcome addition that anyone who has ever been frustrated with a battery doorbell can appreciate. Unfortunately, adjusting the price to include 2 years of subscription fees makes it the second most expensive option in this test.

The Blink doorbell does what Blink always does: They provide a just good enough experience for a rock bottom price. For just $50 you can add the Blink doorbell into your existing sync module 2 and record locally onto a USB drive with no subscription fees. The Blink doorbell had by far the best battery life, and did a great job recording entire events. The actual video recorded by the Blink isn’t high quality, but it’s passible, and the same can be said for the rest of the features in the Blink app, which aren’t fancy but get the job done.

The eufy Dual Cam does exactly what it was designed to do and shows you your entire doorway and porch, but unfortunately the app experience was buggy, the video quality was lacking, and the price is still pretty high. If you already have a eufy homebase and local recording with no subscriptions is important to you then the Dual Camera is worth looking at, but overall it’s not as good as good as the Nest or Ring doorbells.