Cameras, locks and alarms, judged properly
What it records at night,
and what it does when the battery is flat
Security cameras, video doorbells, smart locks, alarm kits, safes and sensors — and the mounts, memory cards, drives and batteries that keep them running. Compared on what actually decides whether they work: the illuminator that makes the night image, the runtime a maker quotes and the event count it assumes, the resistance grade stated on a cylinder, and what a subscription is required for. Priced on your own country's Amazon.
- Categories covered
- 2
- Devices reviewed
- 9
- Accessories & consumables
- 0
Every category we cover
Pick the thing you are buying
25 families of devices, 20 of accessories and consumables. Each hub below compares one of them, with a plain answer to “what should I actually buy?” at the top — and the buying mistake that category invites.
How this site works
Three things we will not do
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Ranked on merit, not commission
Nothing here is ordered by what it pays. Where a €30 camera does the job of a €120 one, that is what the page says — and where the cheap option is a false economy because it records nothing without a paid plan, it says that instead.
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Reported, not paraphrased
Stated battery runtime against the number of daily events it assumes, resolution against the illuminator that actually makes the night image, radio range quoted in open air against a range through walls, aperture size against the internal volume of a parcel box — the specifications that decide whether a device does its job, not the headline. Every figure names where it comes from, and a figure we could not source is left out rather than guessed. Resistance grades — EN 1303, EN 1300, IP and IK ratings — are reported from the manufacturer and never derived here.
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Priced where you live
One button, fourteen Amazon stores. We send you to the same product on your own country’s Amazon, in your own currency — and where a model is not sold there, we say so instead of linking to a page that does not exist.
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.