hey guys I'm Ben from authentech and these are some of the best cheapest
security cameras out right now now there's one that I'd say is a clear
winner above the rest and there's one or two that I'd say stay far away from I'll
show you why let's jump right in this is the wyze cam v2 at 25 bucks super cheap
this is the Yi cam 1080p about $25 as well this is the Reolink Argus 2 with
a solar panel deal at around $92 vs. ring both of these new models recently
released the indoor cam is around $60 and the ring stickup battery cam at 99
of course it'd be impossible to cover all the features on all the cameras so
I'll summarize it into three categories pricing a product design and the key
features like video quality field of view local versus cloud storage fees and
the apps and yes some of this is a little apples to oranges some of these
are indoor/outdoor battery-powered solar or plug-in only but these are some of
the most popular budget-friendly security cameras on the market so I hope
this video could help you decide which one might be the best fit for you I
personally use some of these for security and then others for the baby
room or in the kids playroom some people like to keep an eye on an elderly family
member or maybe their pets while they're gone at work these could be a perfect
fit for that now we've already covered pricing and obviously the wise cam wins
here at only 25 bucks with prime the Yee cams are cheap too but not as cheap as
the wise and possibly discontinued I'm not sure either way wise wins for
pricing now on to product design here's the pros and cons of each the wise is
very small boxy and cute comes with this magnetic swivel base plus an adhesive
metal plate and a flexible three axis design I think this one wins second
place for product design it's small and lightweight perfect for placing and
discrete locations Plus that three axis is needed for example when mounting on a
wall pan tilt and rotation are all important to have for the best angle now
my biggest complaint with the wise base is the rotation is a little too loose
just a little tug or tension on the cable can rotate your camera out of
position I saw him not alone in this and hopefully they fix this in manufacturing
the Argos wins first place it has this beautifully designed magnetic ball joint
that allows freedom and three axis plus it's super strong connection that it
won't fall off or pivot indoors or outdoors and of course it snaps on and
off the mount for recharging if needed their solar panel is an awesome and
convenient option to have lets you mount your camera just about anywhere without
the hassle of wiring up power plus they gave us a micro USB outlet on the back
for a universal charging option so it's easy to hardwire if you'd prefer the
ring cams are more limited in their tilt the ring stick up cam at least has the
secondary mounting option on the backside but I don't like that as much
and lastly the Yi cam only has tilt sure you could rotate it on a flat
surface but wall mount ena is basically impossible so minus five points there on
two key features like video and audio quality field of view apps and Wi-Fi
connectivity now all these cameras are capped at
1080p but just or more importantly is the field of view or how wide of an
angle each camera captures the scene now you usually want it as wide as possible
for surveillance the wise is a hundred and ten degrees wide the Yi is a hundred
and twelve Argus is a hundred and thirty ring indoor is a hundred and fifteen and
the ring stick up battery is a hundred and ten so the big winner and this test
goes to the real link Argus two just looking at its incredible wide-angle and
high quality video it looks really good too and keep this in mind if you're
thinking about buying many of these cameras to cover a whole home or
business a wider field of view might allow you to save some money and
purchase less units all cameras have night vision which is important to have
and here some footage comparisons of that
here's some video and audio comparison tests for you audio test one two three
four then from all and this is an audio test audio test one two three four I'm
Ben from authentic and one three four come Ben from awesome hi and that's one
two three four I'm Ben from high my audio tests are pretty funny the wise
didn't even have the audio saved with the video clip Yee sounded horrible with
some garbled ringing feedback glitch so - 10 points and Argus - will actually
sounded really good and clear and who knew both of the Rings really stinking
audio as well super glitchy missing frames I had no idea that it'd be such a
difficult task maybe you get what you paid for in this area Argus - clear
winner here another detail to keep in mind all five of these cameras are
limited to 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi only and this is sort of a bummer in my opinion
now even though 2.4 has farther range it's much slower than 5 gigahertz and I
found sometimes when I place one of these Wi-Fi cams at the outer skirts of
my home they have a poor time maintaining Wi-Fi connectivity and also
remember some newer routers or mesh Wi-Fi networks they only broadcast a
single ap Wi-Fi main by default and this can make this setup of Wi-Fi connection
a lot more difficult I personally had a lot of Wi-Fi issues especially with the
Yi cams and I've had them for years but recently even after I reset it place it
right next to my router it still had a ton of trouble connecting to my phone
and the Wi-Fi network now the Argus 2i place outside my home as a test with
that solar panel to charge and more on that cool feature in a moment but it was
placed about 40 feet from my routers penetrating through a brick wall and it
did ok now you can see here sometimes it had difficulty connecting other times it
loaded up pretty fast now sidebar here when it comes to
security cameras I'm a big believer in reliability and sometimes you just can't
be hardwired like POA cams they'll give you much higher reliability over Wi-Fi
that's just a fact of the technology but in many cases hardwired isn't even an
option or it's not needed like when used as a baby or pet monitoring camera so
thus Wi-Fi can often be good enough if you need top-notch security and
reliability well then consider staying away from Wi-Fi and going hardwired
another important feature of these cameras are the apps that they come with
I think wise wins first or second place for their app the feed loads up pretty
quick most of the time which is important it's easy to change the camera
settings with plenty of standard motion detection event recording or continuous
recording notifications plus some nice bonuses like Alexa integration or
creating rules for automation which I like to see timeline scrubbing or
playback is okay maybe like a B+ it's not over smooth scrubbing and playback
like the ring cameras will see in a moment but I don't know if I've ever
seen this on a locally safe storage camera let me know in the comments if
you know of any a sweet little feature I like on the wise cams are those little
green motion tagging squares you can easily toggle them on or off and I find
them really helpful to see the exact motion that the camera saw surprisingly
I don't think any of these other cameras even have this feature one last big deal
I really like on the wise app is simultaneous streaming or a multi cam
viewing at the same time this was a semi recent update and if you have multiple
of the wise cameras set up in your app it makes it super fast and easy to quick
check on all of your cameras and see them at once a negative on both the wise
and the Yi saving clips through the app can just be horrible you have to record
at the timeline playback in order to save a clip and this is tedious and an
efficient often these clips can be garbled or out of sync and it's just
sort of horrendous now of course if you needed a clip for security or safety
reasons I'd recommend ejecting the microSD card and pulling that footage
straight to your computer as that method might yield better results more
negatives on the Yi app sometimes when I load it up it's frozen half the time or
it's Auto logged me out which is kind of unacceptable in the
security camera app they've got banner ads trying to sell me on their cloud
service no multicam viewing here and when I tap the camera' feed it often can
take way too long to load the real link app has lots of power and customization
under the hood it's semi-fast to connect and live view plus multicam viewing is
easy here it's playback viewers probably my biggest complaint it's not easy to
find a specific clip or motion tag and I really hope they can redesign this in
the near future but downloading and saving Clips is pretty easy the ring app
well it doesn't have true multicam viewing you get this recent snapshot of
your cameras and then you tap to view a live device and it's semi fast semi slow
sometimes my favorite feature is the true smooth timeline scrubbing and
playback of your Clips now this allows you to see what I'm talking about I find
it so helpful to smoothly scrub through and find that certain moment or action
event to maybe save or share that clip or it's just as important to find that
critical moment for safety or security means now just remember these nights
ring features are only enabled by paying for their cloud subscription fee I'll
explain that in a moment as for desktop apps I think this is a
huge feature to have and wise loses a few points on this one as they don't
have a native desktop or web app for live streaming their cameras now they do
allow a firmware workaround to enable RTSP and sure that's nice to have but
it's not beginner friendly and the majority of people just don't even know
or care what RTSP actually is we just want a desktop app that works out of the
box I saw we can use tiny cam cloud service
for web browser viewing but there's a monthly fee per camera so again
far from ideal all three of these other cameras have desktop apps and I'm using
a Mac on this one the Yee home app is okay maybe a C+ for me it makes me real
aughh in every time I open the app sort of ridiculous there's no remember me
option once logged in it's easy to toggle through your cameras and probably
the best feature it has is we can pick up to four cameras at once create a
group and there we can multi cam view which is very
and another weird quirk I think each camera will timeout automatically after
30 minutes or unless you click it's just kind of silly besides all that the app
is simple but fairly limited probably the best desktop app here belongs to the
real Lync client now I personally use this app every single day it's usually
running on my side minor or in the background 24/7 I can live view all of
my cameras at once even up to 16 simultaneously and yes even the wireless
Argus 2 connects in here though since is battery-powered it'll prompt me to turn
off the live video feed after five minutes to conserve battery life it's
fast and easy to double click and view a camera larger and more clearly plenty of
basic and advanced settings here and the playback tab with timeline scrubbing
works pretty ok I also have an NVR running here 24/7 and
I really wish there a smooth timeline scrubbing but there's none and onto the
ring desktop Apple it's clean and minimal design simple to pull up a live
view cam but pretty lame doesn't look like there's multicam viewing here plus
I had plenty of bugs with this app like my live view automatically disappearing
after a short time or not even able to show the feed with a black screen now
honestly I wish one of these cameras had the web viewer like the nest camps it's
super well designed fast loading and super smooth timeline scrubbing I kind
of wish I included nest in this comparison but then again they're quite
a bit more expensive than most of these so it's a whole different price bracket
let me know if you'd be interested in seeing an S camera comparison se versus
ring or another now the biggest and worst news for a ring specifically is
you've got to stay away from them unless you're willing to pay their monthly
subscription fees there is no local storage option
you can't view any of your recorded videos without paying the subscription
and that would be a deal-breaker for me personally I try stay away from getting
locked into those monthly or yearly subscriptions if possible and
unfortunately this looks like this is the route that ring has taken now if you
have a lot of spare cash lying around then paying monthly to unlock their key
features could be pretty nice and you might really like the results but if
you're looking for a budget affordable option well then you should probably
stay away from the whole ring suite at least until they give us a free 24
hours recording plan or something like that
another major con to the stick up cam is it's not even using micro USB for the
charging port it's this lame barrel connector
unlike usb on all of these other cameras and funny enough that removable battery
inside is micro USB but while it's inserted you can't charge it it's turned
around so if you want to use the stick up battery cam to be plugged in well you
must purchase their charger separately or buy the plug-in model so which is the
best well I think if you just need something simple mostly indoors or
possibly outdoors under an awning and you want that cheapest cheapest option
well then wise is the best it has great mounting options it's small and discreet
great app and overall the most bang for your buck my next favorite is the real
link Argus 2 it's great for indoors or outdoors it has a super wide angle field
of view with great resolution and quality
it's a powerful mobile and desktop app plus that optional solar panel and
magnetic base makes it my favorite for mounting anywhere it easily plus real
link is always having sales like today I saw you could get the solar panel
basically free for a discounted price and they gave me a discount code to use
so they'll be down in the description yi is an OK option and I know they have
other models as well I just don't like their app as much Wi-Fi connectivity can
be super finicky they do have a desktop app which is nice but they're a little
bit too similar to the Y's cam which is just better and cheaper and sadly I say
last place goes to the ring camps now I say it's sadly because they have great
potential but mainly due to the fact that all of its best and important
features are locked under a paywall and I don't like that they could have at
least given us a micro SD card slot to save local clips or unlock cloud storage
for maybe 24 hours free and then pay beyond that but that's not the case so
unless you don't care about paying those monthly fees you might want to stay away
let me know which one you guys think is the most bang for your buck and until I
see you next time let's live all that