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Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

Best price: £99.00
  • Quick, easy setup. Plug in Nest Cam and download the Nest app t..
  • 24/7 live video. The 130 degree view shows your home in 1080p H..
  • Alerts on your phone. Receive Activity Alerts so that you can s..
  • Clear as day. Even at night. Night Vision evenly illuminates th..
  • Talk and listen. See whos there and respond to get someones att..

Product Attributes

  • Width: 2.9 inches,
  • Height: 4.5 inches,
  • Weight: 0.5 pounds,
  • Length: 2.9 inches,
  • Size: 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

63.1% 9.4% 27.5%

Senti Score  [72.5%]

Neos SmartCam | Wi-Fi SmartHome Security Camera, Works with Alexa, 1..

  • Works with Alexa ask Alexa to show your kitchen lounge nursery ..
  • 1080P Full HD with live stream and 8x digital zoom 2 8mm Focal..
  • Motion & noise detection with alerts when motion or noise is de..
  • Free cloud storage Videos are stored for 14 days for free and s..
  • Night vision with F2 0 aperture ir-cut filter and four 850Nm in..

Product Attributes

  • Width: 2.0 Inches,
  • Height: 2.2 Inches,
  • Weight: 0.2 Pounds,
  • Length: 2.0 Inches,
  • Size: 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Positives

Neutrals

Negatives

39.7% 11.6% 48.7%

Senti Score  [51.3%]

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Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

poor sleepers brilliant brilliant piece poor alerting best complete waste works perfect excellent useless expensive great quality is great poor love cheap disappointed

Neos SmartCam | Wi-Fi SmartHome Security Camera, Works with Alexa, 1..

smart amazing poor ratings excellent great brilliant poor useless annoying excellent love frustratingly useless great absolute waste cheap absolutely brilliant frustrating excellent

Compare Cons

total waste in both products

"it has turned out to be a total waste of money without the ability to record!"
99.8%

pretty poor in both products

"pretty poor "
94.6%

useless product in both products

"and without it is a useless product as a security camera"
74.9%

only gripe in both products

"my only gripe is for a camera it's quite expensive and i think personally the monthly charge is a bit high for the premium service"
74.9%

only issue in both products

"great piece of kit only issue is it does seem to switch it's self off now and again"
74.9%

more expensive in both products

"it’s also more expensive per month so please do not waste your money"
74.8%

very lacking in both products

"it really is a shame as the actual hardware is great and works really well but software is very lacking and the service is inexcusable consider the upfront and ongoing cost"
74.8%

even worse in both products

"update: after a few months of use the camera is even worse than i initially stated"
74.8%

does n't work in both products

"it works all the time not like the cheap ones that constantly needs a reset it's only expensive if it doesn't work"
74.8%

main issue in both products

"my main issue is that the home away assist function did not work correctly"
74.6%

pretty useless in both products

"i understand the features of the nest aware subscription but the camera is pretty useless without it so you're forced to take it if you want the camera to be usable"
74.5%

utterly useless in both products

"the image the camera displays can be 20 30 seconds delayed from real time making it utterly useless in situations where real time monitoring is important"
73.7%

false alerts in both products

"that means you don't get the fancy algorithm processing for your video so i constantly get false alerts!"
73.4%

false alarms in both products

"i constantly get false alarms and alerts"
73.4%

main problem in both products

"main problem is that if someone with a cell phone is in the room it often fails until they leave"
73.0%

free trial in both products

"there is a 30 day free trial of the cloud after which you need to pay either monthly or yearly for either 10 days or 30 days history to be accessible you pay one cost for the first subscription and each camera subscribed after this is half price the subscription can be cancelled at any time"
72.7%

same problem in both products

"we tried this at all streaming qualities and same problem"
72.4%

only negative in both products

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
72.3%

overly sensitive in both products

"the sensors were a little overly sensitive the movement of shadows caused by clouds and sun could trigger an alert"
69.8%

power cable in both products

"the power cable is long enough to connect the camera at ceiling heigh to a floor mounted power socket but only comes in white therefore it depends on the background wall colours whether it looks good or not "
69.6%

does not work in both products

"also alexa skill does not work i say alexa show living room it flickers but does not work"
69.1%

waste your money in both products

"don't waste your money"
68.1%

stopped working in both products

"unit started to get extremely hot before it stopped working"
67.8%

waste of money in both products

"waste of money"
66.7%

cheap camera in both products

"i bought a cheap camera and it was so bad i returned it to buy this"
57.6%

complete waste

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
99.9%

poor alerting

"lack of thought with some features including poor alerting and no secure sharing option"
99.8%

poor sleepers

"expensive but it allowed me to check on my two young children when they slept as both are poor sleepers"
99.8%

quite disappointed

"quite disappointed considering all the other nest products i have that work fine"
99.4%

extremely frustrating

"extremely frustrating that tech support couldn't understand this and all they kept saying was "it was working as intended" and saying "we'll have to agree to disagree" when i was saying any security product giving off so many false positives was not good"
99.2%

quite ugly

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
99.2%

very disappointed

"not what i expected at all very disappointed"
99.0%

really annoying

"doesn't tell you when you move really annoying"
98.8%

quite sluggish

"the video is delayed by about 2second and the app is quite sluggish generally"
98.4%

fairly redundant

"i don't believe it's possible to export clips when you aren't subscribed which makes the cameras fairly redundant"
94.6%

clear channel

"i sorted the problem by ringing virginia who altered the router remotely and allowed it to auto select a clear channel and since then for the last 2 months the system has been faultless"
90.9%

outrageously expensive

"and the nestaware is outrageously expensive $100 pa!"
89.9%

worst customer service

"so overall i think it's a terrible product and the worst customer service i have every had"
89.8%

waste of space

"i love google and by proxy nest but this device is a waste of space and does not do what it says on the tin reliably enough for us to keep it"
87.8%

falls short

"as a security camera it also falls short"
75.0%

slow internet

"i don't have slow wifi or slow internet and for comparison my previous camera would work at 720p resolution perfectly that was its maximum resolution and i can watch youtube and netflix in full 1080p hd with no issues on my connection"
74.9%

connectivity issues

"the only reason for a 4 star rating and not a 5 star is the connectivity issues we experience with it recording while we are in the house when it should not!"
74.9%

fault them

"the quality and subscription services is amazing i've got two of these one inside and one outside using 3rd party cover and i can't fault them at all"
74.9%

issues and flaws

"i had tried other cheaper cameras all of which had issues and flaws in set up"
74.9%

prohibitively expensive

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
74.9%

ridiculous amount

"i’m not going pay ridiculous amount monthly for it"
74.9%

picture freezing

"furthermore it will frequently suffer from connection problems with the picture freezing or cutting out entirely"
74.8%

ridiculous number

"so let's say you want to schedule all of you cameras coming on for some event you've going to have to tap a ridiculous number of times to setup something that seems like it really should be trivial"
74.8%

returning them

"we got fed up returning them for replacements and got them all refunded and bought some nest cameras having had a positive experience with the nest outdoor camera we bought not long ago"
74.8%

there lazy

"they so much as lift there lazy fury bums up and i get a notification"
74.8%

spent money

"thieves could rob your house and you will have no evidence and the added frustration of having spent money on a cam"
74.8%

rather disparaging

"i notice meany rather disparaging comments about the cost of monitoring"
74.8%

totally incorrect

"a super quick estimation which could be totally incorrect sees an uncompressed video at a peak rate of 24mbit s yielding 8mb s so 8 * 3600 means 28gb per hour 696gb per day 20tb per month and a whopping 240tb per annum"
74.8%

constant false

"i subscribed to the nest aware subscription after my free month trial ran out but i was completely worn down by the constant false alerts"
74.7%

ridiculously high

"the only downside is of course the ridiculously high cost of the archive service which i've not bothered with i'm afraid"
74.7%

dismiss this

"only issue we have that sometimes it goes off when we are at home for no reason even though are settings dismiss this when we are at home"
74.7%

connection problems

"furthermore it will frequently suffer from connection problems with the picture freezing or cutting out entirely"
74.7%

days storage

"i would have thought 7 days storage foc would have been a good value add"
74.6%

storage subscriptions

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
74.6%

being useless

"the camera freezes the android software is poor to the point of being useless"
74.6%

just rubbish

"this was just rubbish"
74.5%

freezes constantly

"edit camera feed lags and freezes constantly and is often down"
74.5%

very blurry

"image was very blurry returned"
74.5%

very limited

"great quality product but unfortunately very limited features"
74.4%

exactly as stated

"works exactly as stated"
74.3%

connection errors

"however i still gave it three stars because despite the connection errors the rest of the product is great"
74.3%

negative reviews

"i am now struggling to see how this device gets some of the negative reviews when it works brilliantly"
74.3%

cheap ones

"it works all the time not like the cheap ones that constantly needs a reset it's only expensive if it doesn't work"
74.3%

avoid these

"please save yourself from wasting your time and money and avoid these"
74.3%

sacrificing 1080p

"however it is being used as a granny cam and it is really useful and crucially reliable even in a low wifi signal area as long as you dont mind sacrificing 1080p and can make do with 720p which i can"
74.2%

inferior product

"i understand that they have to make money but there are plenty of other cameras on the market that do offer longer timeframe storage so this makes the nest camera an inferior product sorry to say that"
74.2%

useless addition

"cons: nest back end frequently go off line making this a useless addition"
74.2%

pointless piece

"keeps on losing connection making it a pointless piece of kit"
74.1%

torturous process

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
73.9%

utter lack

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
73.8%

noticeably lower

"my samsung was noticeably lower in sound than my partners iphone so we have purchased a cheap entry level audio monitor which we use together with this camera for added peace of mind"
73.4%

having problems

"i don't consider the nest camera price "disposable" and given that i am not alone in having problems i think nest needs to improve their qc"
73.3%

additional subscriptions

"£300pa £30pcm for 30 days recording on 1 camera additional camera subscriptions are discounted to half price for additional subscriptions a fast and reliable internet connection is required"
73.2%

additional cams

"buying subscriptions for additional cams is a nightmare"
73.2%

longer stem

"i'd have liked more fixing options and more ways to bend and a longer stem"
73.2%

needing the cable

"power cable connection is utterly **** have used cables that are working with other devices 100% but our camera is consistent in shutting off needing the cable to be reseated"
73.2%

distorted images

"disappointing ir quality too much reflection leading to distorted images from reflective service at night"
72.8%

notifies randomly

"sunrise outside and notifies randomly a lot"
72.6%

never materialised

"they even promised a free subscription which never materialised"
72.4%

broad daylight

"even at its highest resolution in broad daylight you wont make out any faces or even license plates on cars so i would not recommend this if that is what you want it for"
72.4%

added frustration

"thieves could rob your house and you will have no evidence and the added frustration of having spent money on a cam"
72.1%

weak links

"my only gripes are even with a fast internet connection 120mbps down 10mbps up the stream can bog down a bit as it's my understanding the camera first uploads all footage to nest and then your devices computer are streaming the footage from nest's servers rather than the camera directly so any weak links in these connections can result in a jerky stream"
71.8%

notice meany

"i notice meany rather disparaging comments about the cost of monitoring"
71.6%

known issue

"i spent an hour on the phone with a google senior advisor and he told me 'this is a known issue and we are working on a fix please wait indefinitely until we may or may not be able to fix this""
71.6%

brick walls

"it does not like stone or brick walls"
71.5%

mildly irritating

"for my purposes and what i use my camera for these issues while mildly irritating are not deal breakers and i will tolerate them"
71.3%

disappointing part

"only disappointing part is that i cannot record anything!"
70.7%

gone forever

"1 person finally came back saying its gone forever and they can't do anything"
70.4%

design problem

"maybe there wasn't a defect but there was a huge design problem if this is how it is meant to work"
70.3%

marital issue

"first of all i had a major marital issue i needed recorded as proof for legal reasons"
70.0%

trial ends

"the nest is a nightmare after your free trial ends"
69.9%

just too high

"a regular ip camera with no cloud backup once the 30 day trial subscription ends and most regular ip cameras with 1080p displays and no cloud backup are 3 5x cheaper than the nest cam the subscription cost of 8 quid a month is just too high to justify when competitors like tplink kasa cam offer 3 days"
69.9%

problematic unit

"maybe i was unlucky to get a problematic unit but i think that there are deeper problems with nest's hardware and or servers so i will be getting a different brand"
69.8%

disables recording video

"it has a function that disables recording video alerts if you are at home ideal for what i need and this function can be switched off"
69.3%

poorly executed

"great idea poorly executed and there are more effective cheaper ip cameras out there"
69.1%

cheap wifi

"previously we had been using a couple of cheap wifi ip cameras chinese bought here on amazon that were a nightmare trying to get them to connect to the network and used really clunky software"
69.0%

trial subscription

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
68.8%

constant static noise

"very quiet and constant static noise in the background which is very annoying"
68.7%

major flaw

"this is a major flaw with the app"
68.5%

nowhere near

"the mic is nowhere near as sensitive as the old dropcam mic was though"
68.4%

instead nest

"you enter the name and press next expecting to be asked for a password or some additional settings but instead nest starts trying to connect"
68.3%

nothing worked

"i called nest support and followed their instructions when i eventually got through but nothing worked"
67.1%

does n't show anything

"sometimes i get a sporadic alert because of sound detected while she clean but then i go to the timeline and no event is recorded or the static picture sent to email doesn't show anything"
67.1%

crazy money

"at almost £100 a year this is crazy money and not a recurrent cost i'm prepared to pay for"
66.5%

unless you subsribe

"it will not record unless you subsribe"
66.5%

really broken

"their whole accounts order system is really broken"
66.4%

useless at night

"i also purchased one to go outside and have tried external casings for it but all are useless at night so don't bother"
66.2%

down by attention

"this has the potential for a great product let down by attention to detail"
65.8%

gets stuck

"love the app but it gets stuck sometimes when scrolling backwards"
65.7%

return it for replacement

"another point maybe it's only relate to my device the new uk plug adapted stopp working after 2 days and i had to return it for replacement"
65.6%

owing to its auto

"sadly the show lets it down rather owing to its auto cut off every 30 minutes and by not allowing the nest cam to transmit sound from the baby’s room"
65.5%

lacks consistency

"you can look at them and see what's going on but everything else is either prohibitively expensive for an already expensive device or lacks consistency"
65.4%

falls ' off my account

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
65.4%

buying subscriptions

"buying subscriptions for additional cams is a nightmare"
65.0%

limited number

"however despite everything i looked at i didn't realise that this camera and it's storage subscription service only works in a limited number of countries"
64.9%

gradually worse

"started off so well but got gradually worse"
64.7%

gave up the ghost

"purchased 11 12 15 and it gave up the ghost completely by the 25 01 16"
64.7%

disappointed in these

"really disappointed in these and in nest"
64.7%

returned it to buy this

"i bought a cheap camera and it was so bad i returned it to buy this"
64.7%

frequent disconnects

"frequent disconnects"
64.3%

lost the feed

"originally had two of the motorolla cams but they didn't have the wide angle lens and then when hubble their platform was updated in june 2016 and we lost the feed for over 24 hours and their communication about it to everyone was so poor we went for two of these nest cams"
64.1%

failed means no pictures

"in some cases apparently the camera can still transmit pictures but in my case failed means no pictures"
64.1%

awkward configuration

"it removes a lot of the awkward configuration needed for ip cameras at the cost of tying you to nest for full functionality"
64.1%

broadban connectivity

"i have great internal wifi and broadban connectivity reverted back to foscam cameras which just work"
64.0%

cheap option

"it's not a cheap option"
63.7%

started to go wrong

"but as soon as i was forced to pay for the monthly subscription it started to go wrong could not recall past 'events' and then on occasion website would not pick up the webcams"
63.6%

renders this useless

"pain in the behind and renders this useless as it's so unreliable"
63.5%

single drop

"since using the nest we’ve had not a single drop out"
63.5%

keep failing

"both of mine keep failing"
63.2%

delay in live streaming

"delay in live streaming even with the fastest broadband speed 150 mbps "
63.1%

fire alarms

"i bought this camera to spy on my dogs but also to make sure that i could spot if there was a fire in case the fire alarms go off "
63.1%

poorly designed

"poorly designed"
62.9%

drops one star

"it drops one star however as the video quality is not great but usable"
62.7%

failed after a month

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
62.1%

terrible product

"so overall i think it's a terrible product and the worst customer service i have every had"
61.9%

forced on the cameras

"everything worked well and out of nowhere a new feature is forced on the cameras"
61.9%

really clunky software

"previously we had been using a couple of cheap wifi ip cameras chinese bought here on amazon that were a nightmare trying to get them to connect to the network and used really clunky software"
61.7%

stops and closes

"when it disconnects if it can't reconnect immediately the app just stops and closes without giving an immediate alert that it has disconnected"
61.7%

slow to load

"downsides are the actual nest app is so slow to load"
61.6%

remove the camera

"tried turning on and off several times with no joy so decided to remove the camera from the account and re install"
61.6%

continually rejected

"i tried to subscribe but my post code was continually rejected"
61.6%

avoid these cameras

"my advice at the moment is to avoid these cameras"
61.3%

wasted over an hour

"i could not reinstall and wasted over an hour"
60.7%

delayed by 1 2 minutes

"they are on average delayed by 1 2 minutes"
60.6%

lots of false

"nest app very good cons: lots of false alerts due to its picking even lights in the hall etc"
60.5%

replaced it happens

"people lose get their cards damaged all the time need to have them replaced it happens !"
60.4%

worse to the point

"secondly the reason we got it was the movement and sound detection and notification system which worked well initially but gradually got worse to the point we would hear the baby crying out and the app was saying there was no issue"
60.4%

frustration with them

"i've given nest plenty of grief over the last several weeks regarding their products and my frustration with them but i think i need to be fair here and re write my review about the indoor cameras and their subscription fee"
60.4%

poor reviews

"ignore the poor reviews"
60.0%

cloud storage therefore

"the problem is i don't want 10 days cloud storage therefore i don't pay the £8 per month £80 per year subscription"
59.5%

disappointing ir quality

"disappointing ir quality too much reflection leading to distorted images from reflective service at night"
59.1%

apps and website

"the apps and website are up to date and the camera has the specs you want 1080p night vision microphone speaker "
59.0%

fairly useless

"worse you pay a lot for the cameras and then they are still fairly useless without paying an annual subscription as well"
58.7%

will be cancelled

"if you change country after the 30 day free trial has begun it will be cancelled and you will not get it back personal experience nest support is utterly useless and slow"
58.6%

number of outage

"however a number of outage to nest's servers means that there is no way to view the output from the camera"
58.6%

broken into

"neighbour got broken into and camera caught the whole thing great devce"
58.6%

software is rubbish

"the software is rubbish"
58.5%

pile of trouble

"so works well but if a payment does not go through expect a pile of trouble"
58.4%

good as useless

"this camera is as good as useless"
58.4%

cried wolf too often

"they drop offline from time to time for no apparent reason and trigger at the slightest movement which leads to a classic "cried wolf too often" problem"
58.2%

gets flagged

"at the moment all movement gets flagged and there is no algorithm for the software to learn what matters like the cleaner arriving and what doesn't her then working around the house"
58.2%

gets uploaded

"if you're on a connection with a data cap then look elsewhere because everything gets uploaded and there's no alternative"
58.2%

lies the problem

"you can't use them at all without using the supporting software and services and herein lies the problem"
58.1%

very choppy

"the picture and sound sent by the camera are by my estimation anywhere from four to six seconds delayed and the picture isn't smooth it's very choppy barely one or two frames a second at times"
57.9%

novelty wears

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
57.8%

n't have everything

"the only negative is that it looks quite ugly compared to my logicircle but i guess you can't have everything!"
57.6%

first sign of problems

"the setup process was the first sign of problems"
57.5%

killed the deal

"but what killed the deal for me was its advertised as 1080 resolution but i just cant see how it is"
57.3%

plenty of grief

"i've given nest plenty of grief over the last several weeks regarding their products and my frustration with them but i think i need to be fair here and re write my review about the indoor cameras and their subscription fee"
57.2%

misses the right moment

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
57.2%

constant streaming

"but it also gets very hot too possibly due to the constant streaming to the cloud service"
57.2%

software a bit lacking

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
56.9%

have a break

"if you have a break in and the camera misses the right moment faces or other particularities it was all a complete waste of money"
56.8%

rubbish with huge

"the netatmo welcome was absolutely rubbish with huge lag and no 2 way audio"
56.8%

completely useless

"i am now selling it and buying from another brand as completely useless"
56.7%

wait indefinitely

"i spent an hour on the phone with a google senior advisor and he told me 'this is a known issue and we are working on a fix please wait indefinitely until we may or may not be able to fix this""
56.5%

cancelled my subscription

"all worked great during the free trial but when i tried to subscribe to nest aware so many problems they cancelled my subscription without telling me so my home wasn't being protected"
56.5%

n't make me laugh

"don't make me laugh"
56.5%

not suited to myself

"i found the software a bit lacking and the cloud storage subscriptions are not suited to myself but i appreciate that right now q1 2016 storage of 24 7 1080p video is prohibitively expensive"
56.4%

bother me too much

"the need to have the nest aware package does not bother me too much"
56.4%

camera is faulty

"one camera is faulty"
56.4%

card had expired

"however i had an issue where a payment bounced because a card had expired"
56.4%

n't find them

"i do this when the dogs merge with the sofa and i can't find them"
56.4%

terrible experience

"my terrible experience with them is that i had the free trial and something went wrong their end and it was all deleted"
56.3%

much time wasted

"such a shame so much time wasted!"
56.2%

that was not right

"about 10 days ago i received notice that my payment for the monthly fee had not gone through well that was not right as funds are pretty plentiful and was only12 pounds i contacted cs right away it turns out it was my mums bank card that had just been lost and was being replaced so in other words nest taking payments off a card rather than straight from a bank account !"
56.2%

have had to return

"unfortunately nest cam doesn't work with my bt infinity router and nest support couldn't get it working so i have had to return it"
56.2%

would be a problem

"however for people looking to use the camera for monitoring pets children or the elderly as well as in many other use cases these same issues certainly would be a problem"
56.2%

trying to connect

"you enter the name and press next expecting to be asked for a password or some additional settings but instead nest starts trying to connect"
56.2%

hefty price

"as others have mentioned the camera is basically useless without a subscription which comes on a hefty price"
56.1%

it's so slow

"i have other non nest hd cameras that are much faster to load i just can't understand why it's so slow"
56.0%

comes to unit not working

"website not very useful for support when it comes to unit not working"
56.0%

works with me not

"because of that i no longer want this product i want one that works with me not me working around it"
55.9%

being lied

"i have literally 20 emails from 17 different people all saying different things and being lied to"
55.9%

flash is not supported

"i could not find an app that worked with the nest and your browser will not be able to run the website because nest are using flash to playback the nest picture and flash is not supported"
55.9%

it's not the cheapest

"it's not the cheapest but it's well build and good quality"
55.9%

router problems

"once i'd resolved the router problems set up was done in about 2 minutes"
55.8%

through expensive service

"as it is these cams are let down by a poorly thought through expensive service"
55.8%

hopefully there wo

"it's not yet alerted me to any security issues but that's because there haven't been any and hopefully there won't"
55.8%

does n't always

"i have just noticed that the app doesn't always show the activity though well today it didn't"
55.8%

just too annoying

"the first thing i noticed was the picture quality was great but that the fish eye distortion just too annoying due to the extreme wide angle"
55.7%

very annoying

"very quiet and constant static noise in the background which is very annoying"
55.7%

replace another

"original review below: i bought this camera to replace another far cheaper camera and considering the significant financial investment i expected a truly first rate product"
55.7%

which do nothing

"i've spoken email to about 30 people all of which do nothing"
55.5%

biggest problem

"my biggest problem with these cameras is that one and it was always the same one would lose internet connection for no obvious reason"
55.5%

right away it turns

"about 10 days ago i received notice that my payment for the monthly fee had not gone through well that was not right as funds are pretty plentiful and was only12 pounds i contacted cs right away it turns out it was my mums bank card that had just been lost and was being replaced so in other words nest taking payments off a card rather than straight from a bank account !"
55.5%

have n't done

"to store the recordings you do need to pay the subscription which i haven't done yet"
55.4%

device is rubbish

"this device is rubbish"
55.4%

should be trivial

"so let's say you want to schedule all of you cameras coming on for some event you've going to have to tap a ridiculous number of times to setup something that seems like it really should be trivial"
55.4%

stealing stuff

"this is after actually capturing a cleaner stealing stuff from our holiday home"
55.4%

that has its own problems

"there’s no power cuts and my ring camera is connecting perfectly although that has its own problems tbh so it’s not the internet"
55.4%

next to useless

"it's true that these are next to useless with nest aware currently £80 a year for the first cam then £40 per cam after that"
55.3%

nest website

"i have found that if you view the video feed through the nest website not the app then if it disconnects it seems to reconnect itself and you can carry on watching the video from the camera"
55.2%

nothing there

"daily i'm getting notifications saying something is happening just to make panic and see that there's nothing there"
55.2%

14 day storage plan

"i opted to take the 14 day storage plan for 2 cams at 12 pounds per month all worked fine and was able to capture and store copy of a section that showed mum having a fall and just how good the response was to the incident on the day"
55.2%

have no access to

"it's in a holiday home and i have no access to it easily otherwise it would go back"
55.2%

delivers as stated

"easy to add to current system and delivers as stated"
55.1%

way talking is rubbish

"two way talking is rubbish"
55.1%

they ca n't do anything

"1 person finally came back saying its gone forever and they can't do anything"
55.1%

there's no alternative

"if you're on a connection with a data cap then look elsewhere because everything gets uploaded and there's no alternative"
54.9%

little work

"software needs a little work"
54.9%

does n't work as

"i really wanted this camera to be good so i could buy a few for around the house and also in the garden using the waterproof cover but it just doesn't work as it should"
54.8%

smoke alarms

"i'm now going to buy some smoke alarms"
54.7%

smoke detectors

"i have 3 nest smoke detectors and this should compliment them"
54.7%

flaw in the product

"i did return it but my decision was based on it just not really fitting with my requirements and not a flaw in the product"
54.7%

n't load constantly

"it stops recording randomly logs me out won’t load constantly"
54.7%

not deal breakers

"for my purposes and what i use my camera for these issues while mildly irritating are not deal breakers and i will tolerate them"
54.7%

n't think it through

"i didn't think it through and bought this as i trusted the nest brand name"
54.7%

n't like that

"i also didn't like that i could only access the camera from the nest app"
54.7%

not record anything

"only disappointing part is that i cannot record anything!"
54.7%

glare of the window

"i do not like this camera i have an indoor one that look through a window but there’s a glare of the window then there light which shows there’s a camera on show and at night reflects of the window making the camera useless "
54.7%

done nothing about

"they've done nothing about it"
54.7%

it's so unreliable

"pain in the behind and renders this useless as it's so unreliable"
54.6%

justify a lesser product

"not sure how nest google feel they can justify a lesser product for over twice the price?"
54.6%

dead and useless

"the main problem with these ip cameras is a robber only needs to cut the incoming telephone or cable feed and it's completely dead and useless"
54.6%

dent in your wallet

"there's an utter lack of basic features behind the scenes that really becomes apparent after the novelty wears off and then the dent in your wallet starts to really hurt"
54.6%

does n't work at

"yeah the camera looks nicer but you’ll regret you paid so much for something that just doesn’t work at all"
54.6%

n't know though

"i think the camera must get triggered my changes in light level entering the room don't know though"
54.6%

not buy this camera

"do not buy this camera"
54.6%

n't work reliably

"without subscription you get motion and sound alerts but they don't work reliably"
54.6%

not work with wifi

"setup did not work with wifi and was forced to connect the cam to a pic first"
54.6%

most definitely

"i cannot see a thing and it is most definitely not 1080p"
54.6%

there was no issue

"secondly the reason we got it was the movement and sound detection and notification system which worked well initially but gradually got worse to the point we would hear the baby crying out and the app was saying there was no issue"
54.5%

will not buy again

"expensive piece of kit that we will not buy again"
54.5%

interfere with bandwidth

"i"ve also created a dedicated wifi network in the house for the cameras as we found that they interfere with bandwidth if using the regular network"
54.4%

like no tomorrow

"but eats into your data allowance like no tomorrow not a problem if you are on a contract with your mobile phone company"
54.3%

nothing happened

"they worked fine so long as nothing happened but as soon as they detected movement they switched themselves off for up to 24 hours"
54.3%

wait for a few seconds

"you have to purchase cloud memory for this to really be useful so ur paying allot of money to buy it and then a monthly fee on top to use it in full the audio is the big problem here when you press and hold the audio button one way at a time only you cant hear the other person speaking once you let go of the button you have to wait for a few seconds before you can start hearing the other person"
54.3%

expensive peephole

"this is as others have stated a glorified expensive peephole"
54.1%

lond powere lead

"it comes with a lond powere lead which makes life easier for positioning"
54.0%

could n't ask for more

"couldn't ask for more"
53.9%

make panic

"daily i'm getting notifications saying something is happening just to make panic and see that there's nothing there"
53.9%

somewhat lacking

"after a few weeks of using the camera we did notice that the audio quality via our phones was somewhat lacking"
53.9%

register as logging

"as suggested i setup the unit with the ios app which was straightforward enough once i realised that i didn't register as logging in was actually registration"
53.9%

miss a step

"nest have thought of everything pull tabs for opening everything with ease instructions on tabs to guide you through the process so you don't miss a step"
53.8%

loses the video history

"less than 3 days in place the 3 month trial subscription just 'falls' off my account and loses the video history"
53.8%

blamed on poor signal

"i was only in my garden connected to the wifi so it can not be blamed on poor signal"
53.7%

lets the trio

"i would only recommend if you want to speak to your dog at home otherwise it's useless i own the whole nest range and the camera lets the trio down!"
53.7%

the blurry image

"its only a small living room so why the blurry image"
53.7%

uncompressed video

"a super quick estimation which could be totally incorrect sees an uncompressed video at a peak rate of 24mbit s yielding 8mb s so 8 * 3600 means 28gb per hour 696gb per day 20tb per month and a whopping 240tb per annum"
53.6%

does n't automatically

"also the nest apps home away feature isn't faultless sometimes it thinks i'm home when i'm not so cam doesn't automatically turn back on"
53.5%

camera is poor

"one of the cameras failed after a month and got replaced after a torturous process with customer services and frankly the camera is poor"
53.5%

wasting my money and

"i'm in trouble with my wife for wasting my money and i am tech savvy!"
53.4%

just wicked

"the nest software has gotten better and far more reliable too and its just wicked"
53.3%

higher initial cost

"disadvantages of using nest cameras over standard cctv are: higher initial cost per camera and optional monthly annual subscription fee"
53.3%

flat design

"i'm sure you enjoyed it the first time let's have you do it all over again so you can really appreciate the flat design and pretty fonts"
53.3%

stealing things

"we had some caught in the act of stealing things and no proof"
53.2%

not recover or return

"so i have a camera i cannot recover or return"
53.2%

it's not the internet

"there’s no power cuts and my ring camera is connecting perfectly although that has its own problems tbh so it’s not the internet"
53.0%

correct your errors

"then i tried to purchase again and the website says "correct your errors" when there were no errors on the page so i still can't subscribe"
52.7%

with no subscriptions

"great cameras but i don’t like the fact you have to pay a subscription service especially because amazon sell similar cameras for less with no subscriptions needed"
52.7%

faulty power socket

"the first one had a faulty power socket and kept switching itself on and off"
52.7%
...

total waste in both products

"total waste of time now having to return it and ask them to delete my account didn't setup correctly was poorly packaged and i was not comfortable giving them so much personal information and having no means to delete the information afterward"
99.8%

pretty poor in both products

"but the sound quality both ways is awful night vision is pretty poor to unless something is within a metre of the camera and not in pitch black"
94.6%

useless product in both products

"such a useless product very difficult to set up"
74.9%

only gripe in both products

"my only gripe is that the free clips are too short"
74.9%

only issue in both products

"my only issue is i can not turn the cameras off"
74.9%

more expensive in both products

"for my purposes i only bought the camera because it was a cheap way to find out if i really needed a better and probably more expensive one"
74.8%

very lacking in both products

"however the recording options are sadly very lacking"
74.8%

even worse in both products

"very poor quality built to snap images is rubbish and the app is even worse"
74.8%

does n't work in both products

"the app keeps logging my wife out so the whole arm disarm when one of us is in the proximity doesn’t work"
74.8%

main issue in both products

"the main issue i have had with this camera is that it decided to delete footage before the 14 day period"
74.6%

pretty useless in both products

"however this neos camera does not have the ability to define the motion trigger area but instead it reacts to any movement anywhere within its field of view so you constantly get false triggers and loads of video of random people walking by in the street outside and random cars driving by which makes the motion sensing pretty useless"
74.5%

connection problem in both products

"alexa connection problem sorted and now working fine on both my cameras"
73.9%

utterly useless in both products

"utterly useless"
73.7%

false alarms in both products

"so you'll end up disabling motion tracking on those cameras due to the amount of false alarms"
73.4%

false alerts in both products

"sound and motion sensitivity has to be dialled right back otherwise you will be inundated with emails from false alerts"
73.4%

main problem in both products

"the main problem being is you don't realize you are not getting notifications until you haven't got any!"
73.0%

free trial in both products

"i've started the free trial for the 1 min recordings and they are all good quality"
72.7%

same problem in both products

"i got told that other people have had the same problem"
72.4%

only negative in both products

"the only negative is that it doesn't work with google home hub at the moment"
72.3%

overly sensitive in both products

"however there are a number of points for improvement: the supplied usb cable is too short to reach the level of power sockets if the camera is ceiling mounted the 10 second recording time is too short to be very usable the motion detection is overly sensitive it will often record passing car headlights and on one occasion even a moth in the room"
69.8%

power cable in both products

"first the length is just under 2m so if your power source socket is further including traversing corners etc then you will need the specific power cable for this"
69.6%

does not work in both products

"have this in my living room now i know where all my cats sleep when i’ve gone to bed disappointed with the neos boost have paid for the subscription but it does not work"
69.1%

waste your money in both products

"don't waste your money"
68.1%

stopped working in both products

"i have lowered the rating on this camera due to the fact that a few weeks after installing it and buying another one the live stream stopped working"
67.8%

waste of money in both products

"waste of money"
66.7%

absolute waste

"absolute waste of money!"
99.9%

poor ratings

"check the google play store and you'll see the poor ratings"
99.8%

frustratingly useless

"frustratingly useless"
99.8%

fiendly waste

"more than night vision stays on even the system is disabled and live view is not in use not echo fiendly waste of energy intrusive"
99.7%

shockingly poor

"shockingly poor piece of kit"
99.7%

extremely annoying

"the fact you can buy it directly from neos company for only £20 is extremely annoying that i paid £25 for it here"
99.7%

worst thing

"the camera seems ok but the app for it is genuinely the worst thing i've seen in ages"
99.5%

without this

"we wouldn’t be without this kit"
99.5%

extremely poor

"ok i have extremely poor eyesight but still find it very difficult on a 10 inch tablet"
99.4%

embarrassing unable

"tried several times again this evening and had a multitude of issues ranging from time outs "i'm sorry this is really embarrassing unable to generate a qr code unknown error" messages still not connected to alexa still not working"
99.0%

takes forever

"fed up of a blank white box appearing on screen some sort of missing error message and have to restart the app fed up with autoarm function takes ages to detect ive left home hours sometimes likewise takes forever to detect your return home"
98.8%

extremely short

"i thought this neosmart cam would be a great replacement but although the sound and picture is very good it does not automatically record except for extremely short clips triggered by either the sound or motion sensor"
98.4%

most awful

"also there is no was to turn off the audio feed so if you are in the same room as your camera with the app operational on your phone you get the most awful feedback"
98.4%

useless cameras

"so i have three useless cameras"
98.2%

useless feature

"this is useful for saving battery life on battery operated cameras but these cameras are mains wired so it just a useless feature that cannot be turned off"
97.3%

quite slow

"in general baby monitors have bad image quality poor sound and can be quite slow but you pay a premium as it’s a baby product"
97.1%

time delay

"you have to log off then back on each time you want a different view between cameras also the time delay can be annoying from camera triggering"
96.4%

hugely disappointing

"overall hugely disappointing and i certainly wouldn't recommend it"
96.0%

bloody terrible

"but the reality is the app is bloody terrible"
95.1%

sparse and unable

"the instructions are sparse and unable to find anything online"
93.9%

failure to do as stated

"i also believe they use ‘‘tis a part of home insurance with arriva i would question the legality of any claim due to its failure to do as stated?"
93.8%

netflix everytime

"means me and wife have more time together rather than start stopping netflix everytime"
92.1%

extremely worrying

"like others i found its insistence on knowing your full address and the app having access to the phone's location services extremely worrying"
91.5%

quite confusing

"i think she finds that quite confusing but it at least distracts her for a bit!"
91.0%

fails on a regular basis

"this unit fails on a regular basis to “self arm” when leaving home!"
89.9%

with this junk

"but seriously amazon should dis associate their alexa device 'deal' with this junk"
89.1%

that is terrible

"i have a purpose outside camera with a huge wifi ariel that is terrible"
89.0%

absolutely useless

"well it recorded what happened before and after the gate opened so was absolutely useless to find out who entered my garden"
88.9%

useless outdoors

"but i've also found that the motion detection is useless outdoors with or without zones sensitivity or sound settings"
87.8%

limited cloud storage

"the limited cloud storage is an annoyance"
75.0%

buggy ios app crashes

"buggy ios app crashes freezes "
75.0%

losing connectivity

"always losing connectivity demanding me to reset the camera almost daily and even doing that i have no guarantee it will work"
75.0%

wasted money

"so annoyed i wasted money on this as finding one to work with my alexa"
75.0%

doesnt work

"however in reality the software has significant bugs which when you chat to the developers via the app nice feature they tell you that they know it doesnt work but they are working on a fix but cant give you any idea of when the fix will be ready"
75.0%

error notifications

"i constantly get error notifications of armed then disarmed this can carry on alday"
75.0%

noisy motorbikes

"motion detection: i've given it a 5 i have it set to the lowest sensitivity which seems fine it does pick noise from a noisy motorbikes going past and the wind if it's a windy day"
75.0%

error messages

"i'm often seeing error messages which say the camera cannot be accessed these go away after restarting the app"
75.0%

locked down

"it will only record the few seconds the manufacturers allow and the footage is "locked down" by proprietary format not generally compatible with anything else"
75.0%

privacy issues

"i have no concerns with privacy issues and the firmware is regularly updated"
74.9%

nasty taste

"and it just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth"
74.9%

unwelcome intruders

"i have no doubts at all that i will be buying another very soon to protect my man cave from unwelcome intruders"
74.9%

error screen

"next morning at work checked the neos app error screen no live feed an error has occurred"
74.9%

small issue

"however a small issue"
74.9%

limited functionality

"basically a closed system with limited functionality that forces you to spend £30 a year to automate turning all your cameras off or on"
74.9%

somewhat hamstrung

"dislikes: contrary to the advertised functionality the sd card actually records continuous 1 minute clips regardless of whether camera is armed disarmed and regardless of motion detection thus rendering the camera somewhat hamstrung if customers only want to record extended 'motion' events when out of the house for a couple of weeks"
74.9%

poorly made

"the software is well made and the features are great 👍 not like some of those crap chinese poorly made interfaces"
74.9%

delete footage

"i have 2 of these in my flat but for some reason they both at the same time randomly delete footage!"
74.9%

expected cons

"motion detection works as expected cons: sound is below adequate not great for live feeds"
74.9%

useless brick

"bin file in order to flash the camera so now i have a useless brick which is a shame because it seemed like a decent little camera while it worked"
74.9%

lowest setings

"geofencing often fails motion detection triger huge number of fake alarms even on lowest setings and the noise does same is triggered by itself when night vision is comming on "
74.9%

ridiculous issues

"i really don’t recommend this and i believe they had plenty of time to fix these ridiculous issues"
74.9%

fake alarms

"geofencing often fails motion detection triger huge number of fake alarms even on lowest setings and the noise does same is triggered by itself when night vision is comming on "
74.9%

faces leaves

"there are colour aberrations on edges of objects and fine detail say text faces leaves are not clear indicative of a poor lens"
74.9%

noisy neighbours

"if you have noisy neighbours who might set it off you can turn it off "
74.9%

average worse

"all set up picture quality on the poor side of average worse in the dark could not connect to alexa"
74.9%

fake details

"in response to the security concerns you are required to provide your address on signup although you could provide fake details but you do not need to provide access to your iphone's location unless you want to use the auto arm disarm feature"
74.9%

falls flat

"unfortunately you buy this camera as a package and this is where it all falls flat on its face"
74.9%

significant bugs

"however in reality the software has significant bugs which when you chat to the developers via the app nice feature they tell you that they know it doesnt work but they are working on a fix but cant give you any idea of when the fix will be ready"
74.9%

return fees

"the only reason why i don't return it its because i'm based in italy so amazon will let me pay for the return fees"
74.9%

false advertising

"it is not compatible with your alexa smart devices at all total false advertising at its best"
74.9%

rather expensive

"customer support is outstanding and there are no cloud storage fees unlike some rather expensive big brand cameras"
74.8%

ridiculous password

"you require a ridiculous password for the phone app that can never be remembered"
74.8%

seem unfounded

"previous concerns around the app wanting too much information in another review seem unfounded as i was only asked for my address which was explained"
74.8%

major issue

"this is a major issue which they promised to address somehow but it's unclear if this feature will be free or if this will come with a sub based system or similar"
74.8%

find error

"they set up quite easily then the app told me the firmware needed updating i tried for times and it failed each time so i cancelled that went back to look at the camera picture to find error 90 and no picture and it would not reconnect"
74.8%

practically useless

"bought to use as a nursery camera and it's been practically useless"
74.8%

poorly packaged

"this product poorly packaged and terribly constructed"
74.8%

fails again

"and if it fails again back it will go"
74.8%

hardware shame

"in summary it's an amazing kit of hardware shame that the software lets it down"
74.8%

delete videos

"anyone who knows that you have this camera could easily download the app and view inside your property delete videos totally defeating the purpose of having a cam"
74.8%

seems unsecure

"it seems unsecure always under maintenance and often offline"
74.8%

main gripe

"main gripe is sound cannot be switched off and is very sensitive so my show repeats everything with slight delay that becomes very annoying if left on tried to cover mic hole but had little effect"
74.8%

intrusive behaviour

"the sdk is same as chinese products with more or less flaws retain same intrusive behaviour you can be watched at anytime"
74.8%

very inconvenient

"initially it runs in cut down form and provides you with a triggered 12 second recording which cannot be triggered again for a 5 minute “cooling off” period which is very inconvenient"
74.8%

very uneasy

"we turned the camera on as we were leaving on a holiday and on day 4 it decided to disconnect and stop working completely leaving us very uneasy worrying and wondering about what is happening back at home"
74.8%

overpriced cloud storage

"i can imagine what it is like from other cameras i've used overpriced cloud storage for fifteen second clips"
74.8%

equally frustrating

"equally frustrating is that you can only alarm all or none of your devices"
74.8%

fall behind

"please be aware that the live stream can fall behind by several minutes after viewing for a few minutes"
74.8%

avoid reflection

"you can record out of a window but needs to be placed very close to avoid reflection at night"
74.8%

made worse

"the problems seemed to be made worse when adding a 2nd user onto the account"
74.8%

intrusive info

"also intrusive info regarding physical address of camera required at set up"
74.8%

very laggy

"very basic need to add your address for some random reason very laggy didnt love the quality returned for refund although a nice "concept" if people can make use of it no good as a security camera though as if its monitored 24 7 there is lag which isnt good for security might be good for checking pets"
74.7%

didnt work

"saying " alexa show me kitchen " just didnt work"
74.7%

record out windows

"supposed to be indoors only but can record out windows but needs to be in intimate contact to avoid glare from night vision leds"
74.7%

absolute junk

"absolute junk would not work from first installation tried installing again and again kept getting the same message "cannot find the specific network name" tried to contact customer services no reply"
74.7%

cooling down

"i’m struggling with the concept of a security camera that delivers 12 second motion detected clips then waits 5 minutes before it will do the same neos call this a cooling down time or something "
74.7%

cheap cameras

"no rtsp support that many other cheap cameras offer"
74.7%

annoying that

"annoying that didn’t work on 5ghz & had to switch phone to 2"
74.7%

biggest issue

"this was probably the biggest issue i had with this product"
74.7%

increasingly lag behind

"it worked pretty well for 3 weeks but suddenly the live feed started to increasingly lag behind"
74.7%

software issue

"it doesn't work properly at the mo apparently due to a software issue which they're investigating"
74.7%

very intrusive

"the set up was very intrusive as reported by other reviewers and i was unhappy about providing exact address location"
74.7%

disgruntled customers

"all of the above comments have been raised by disgruntled customers since product launch yet the neos developers can't seem to be able to release firmware updates to fix these basic oversights"
74.6%

error message

"it still records clips and you can play them back but you get an error message "unable to connect to camera" when you try to view in real time"
74.6%

absolute nightmare

"however as time has gone on the app and software have proven themselves to be an absolute nightmare and very unreliable"
74.6%

very badly

"if you only ever want to use it for live view and the motion alerts it's fine but it is very badly restricted without the ability to playback your recorded videos from the app"
74.6%

slight issue

"had a slight issue with the firmware update timing out on installation of camera one"
74.6%

slow connection

"the only downside is that it appears to stream to neos and then back to my device which on a slow connection is a negative"
74.6%

very sketchy

"firmware and integration with amazon echo show devices is very sketchy"
74.6%

update rubbish

"fed up with the live feed delay when live feed actually loads neos keep repeating we fixed it in last update rubbish read the reviews "
74.6%

very irrelevant

"a very irrelevant answer that doesn’t help at all!"
74.5%

been stolen

"apparently a sd card will record all events but this is only useful after the robbery and assumes that the neos has not been stolen"
74.5%

closes down

"the app crashes and closes down regularly"
74.5%

stop me using

"for a cheap camera this is kind of enough to stop me using it"
74.5%

prevent glare

"setup behind door surround glass to prevent it's theft but then had to disable led's to prevent glare so night image not so good while in daylight it is superb"
74.5%

only problem

"the only problem i would say is the microphone isn't the greatest and the night vision is reasonably ok but apart from that i can't fault it!"
74.5%

their dog poop

"hoping to catch the dog owner that keeps letting their dog poop on my property and doesn’t clean it up!"
74.4%

under maintenance

"it seems unsecure always under maintenance and often offline"
74.3%

utter crud

"i can only presume they had been paid to promote it because it is utter crud"
74.3%

major fault

"the second major fault is the motion detector"
74.3%

failed immediately

"sometimes it failed immediately sometimes it froze halfway through sometimes it had a flickering message"
74.3%

which annoyed

"i have given this only 4 stars as despite being tech savvy and computer literate i still needed their support which annoyed me"
74.3%

grainy distorted

"picture faultless talk back so grainy distorted scares the crap out of my daughter"
74.2%

zero notifications

"very erratic operation either you get zero notifications then you are inundated with them"
74.2%

basic oversights

"all of the above comments have been raised by disgruntled customers since product launch yet the neos developers can't seem to be able to release firmware updates to fix these basic oversights"
74.2%

camera isnt

"the camera isnt being picked up"
74.2%

mixed feelings

"mixed feelings about this camera on the whole it's good for the price"
74.2%

would n't work

"i really wanted to like these but just wouldn't work"
74.1%

questionable security

"questionable security and use of sensitive data"
74.1%

kept failing

"tried to reconnect but kept failing"
74.1%

minor issue

"the other minor issue is that the night vision mode is set to auto and occasionally it doesn't seem to reset to normal mode when it becomes day time"
74.0%

stupid camera

"such a stupid camera i have never seen such a delay in any camera"
74.0%

cheapo chinesium

"cheapo chinesium for me now"
74.0%

zero stars

"i would give it zero stars if i could"
74.0%

spent more

"ah well it's only £25 you've thrown away i've spent more on a tankful of petrol and with nothing to show for that!"
74.0%

unknown error

"tried several times again this evening and had a multitude of issues ranging from time outs "i'm sorry this is really embarrassing unable to generate a qr code unknown error" messages still not connected to alexa still not working"
74.0%

confusing website

"it has a confusing website that seems to be a houshold insurance website with minor links to this camera"
74.0%

throw away

"while it's true this only for indoor use so is not as robust as a nest cam in pretty much every other respect this is equally good and comes for an almost "throw away" price"
73.8%

loud hissing

"the issue i had with my previous camera is that the audio was terrible all you could hear was loud hissing"
73.8%

return another

"i may have been unlucky but im not risking paying out and having to return another again if it doesnt work"
73.7%

limited options

"and the limited options to be able to record to sd card as the developer would like you to subscribe to their cloud however for me it is my house i do not want to share my privacy with the world"
73.7%

fussy husband

"and i’ve researched many even my fussy husband loves them"
73.7%

some glare

"this really is an indoor camera i face mine out the window at my cars so i get some glare from the glass but there are mounts for external available"
73.7%

some trouble

"i had some trouble setting it up as i inputted my address incorrectly i thought my internet wasn't connecting because the cause of set up failure wasn't clear happy i managed to figure it out"
73.7%

just plain

"i can accept low quality but this just plain doesn't work"
73.7%

constantly unavailable

"the live feed is constantly unavailable have had to re set up the camera on a regular basis involving reconnecting it to our wifi and to the app that comes with it which is a real inconvenience"
73.6%

more useless

"one of the more useless features of the app is the "auto arming" which should arm the camera when you move out of your geographical area and disarm when you return home"
73.5%

disable audio in the

"it would also be good if it were possible to disable audio in the app as ours is mostly pointing outside through the window"
73.5%

false triggers

"however this neos camera does not have the ability to define the motion trigger area but instead it reacts to any movement anywhere within its field of view so you constantly get false triggers and loads of video of random people walking by in the street outside and random cars driving by which makes the motion sensing pretty useless"
73.4%

single problem

"very disappointed i wish i had bought a tp link camera instead have a couple of them for years and never had a single problem "
73.4%

focal seizures

"our son has been seizure free for almost 2 years but in june they returned as focal seizures so we decided to install the camera as he likes to spend most of his time in his room playing video games so the motion sensor would alert us when it picked up move ment so we could respond accordingly and also as a watchful eye as he sleeps"
73.3%

loses settings

"constantly drops off the network most times loses settings"
73.2%

primary issue

"the primary issue that i identified in my initial review was rectified some time later"
73.2%

longer recordings

"i dropped a star due to the constant requests to upgrade at a cost i think way to high for longer recordings which were free when i first had them"
73.2%

waste money

"don't waste money if you have any latest samsung"
73.1%

sync faulty

"the actual hardware software not in sync faulty"
73.1%

return home

"one of the more useless features of the app is the "auto arming" which should arm the camera when you move out of your geographical area and disarm when you return home"
72.9%

poorly printed

"there is no support on this product you have to figure everything out for yourself using the rubbish instructions and poorly printed qr codes"
72.9%

soooo intrusive

"the app is soooo intrusive!"
72.9%

privacy concerns

"addendum july 2020: i am amending my original review from 1 star to 4 in recognition of the fact that neos did make changes to their mobile application which addressed enough of my privacy concerns for me to not only begin using the camera i initially purchased but to go on to purchase an additional three other units"
72.7%

pointless security

"the boost payment doesn’t upgrade to ‘full’ recording and as below still has a cool off period of 1 minute itonly records 50% if the time pointless security if it doesn’t capture everything!"
72.7%

does connect

"software lets it down alexa echo show sometimes won’t connect when via the app it does connect"
72.7%

continually freezes

"takes ages to sync and the app continually freezes"
72.7%

delete account

"it didn't work and i tried it on 2 separate wireless networks also after having to create an account and the device didn't work there was no option to close delete account so this is more time wasted trying to contact them to request the close my account"
72.7%

kept becoming faulty

"within 2 years we were on our 4th motorola baby monitor £150 and it kept becoming faulty"
72.5%

rather poor

"for £30 which is about what my other two cameras mentioned earlier cost in comparison to those the live stream on this neos is rather poor"
72.4%

working software

"now they are charging for neos 'boost' a month optional subscription for 'extras' i think the priority should be working software!"
72.2%

drops connection

"someone only needs to fart within 200 metres of it and it drops connection"
72.0%

been unusable

"since a firmware update at the end of march this product has been unusable as the app hangs when trying to review clips"
71.9%

little trouble

"i often have trouble viewing the stream but the bandwidth at the property is low so that may be the reason that said i have little trouble viewing the feed from the nest doorbell"
71.7%

poor sound

"in general baby monitors have bad image quality poor sound and can be quite slow but you pay a premium as it’s a baby product"
71.6%

seem silly

"the complaints about privacy seem silly to me how can you expect notifications to be sent to your mobile if you aren't prepared to give the system your number?"
71.6%

important glitch

"how long does it take to fix this important glitch?"
71.3%

gets worse

"video delayed about 10 seconds then gets worse got to 20+ seconds"
71.2%

needs improvement

"it's ok but needs improvement"
71.2%

unstable though

"i’ve found the app extremely unstable though"
71.1%

breaks down

"connectivity is a nightmare this might sometimes be due to bad wi fi or dodgy 4g but the feed constantly breaks down and leaves a blank screen"
70.7%

have got greedy

"as i said previously they have got greedy and will not get any more money from me in subscriptions or cameras"
70.7%

walks free

"this meant that footage of a burglary taking placing that i was suppose to be forwarding to the police so they could arrest the individuals no longer exists and the burglar walks free"
70.6%

lesser cool

"they obviously know this is not very good because you can upgrade with a monthly subscription to get a longer recording with a lesser cool off time i therefore bought one from china that records motion until it stops which is what you would expect from a security camera!"
70.4%

movement useless

"it only records little snippets not continuous when it sees movement useless if you are using it for security"
70.4%

very erratic

"very erratic operation either you get zero notifications then you are inundated with them"
70.0%

very basic

"very basic but at £20 what do you expect!"
69.9%

storage fees

"customer support is outstanding and there are no cloud storage fees unlike some rather expensive big brand cameras"
69.8%

your money mine

"do not waste your money mine are all going back!"
69.6%

no real definition

"very poor struggled with low light and no real definition"
69.5%

small extras

"it does take a sd card and also has an upgrade on the app that allows you small extras like 1 minute of recording instead of 12 seconds for something like £3"
69.3%

after initially

"took about 24 hours for it to work after initially trying to set it up"
69.3%

absolutely rubbish

"the app is absolutely rubbish"
69.2%

little snippets

"it only records little snippets not continuous when it sees movement useless if you are using it for security"
69.1%

little blighters

"and being more skilled than the average techie i had a look at what the little blighter was passing back over the internet neos might be a british developed sofware planted on chinese hardware but i discovered these little blighters are sending api calls back to a server in china!"
69.1%

little bundles

"don't be tempted the hassle you have to go through to connect these little bundles of joy is just infuriating besides neos wanting to know everything about you and your house the set up i had to do was lengthy and ultimately pointless if you have a dual band router which is probably 95% of you you're gonna run into trouble these only connect to the lesser 2"
69.1%

poor picture

"my wifi is great so it's not the signal that is causing the poor picture the movement detection feature is a joke"
68.8%

unwanted notifications

"this is great to prevent unwanted notifications"
68.8%

cheap nanny

"so if you need it for a cheap nanny cam it would do the job"
68.7%

missing recordings

"i had just one camera set up for about 3 weeks with only 1 occurance of missing recordings"
68.7%

replacement same issues

"they tried to resolve it by sending me two replacement same issues"
68.6%

giving it a 4 star

"i have been using this camera for almost a year now and it's good for indoors but not recommended for outdoors night vision is perfect you can see very well as to who it is it records noises and detects a moving object and alerts you straight away on your phone reason why i'm giving it a 4 star is because"
68.5%

n't quite enough

"it would be useful if you could adjust the length of the clip captures as sometimes 12s isn't quite enough"
68.3%

potential but not worth

"has potential but not worth it yet"
68.3%

getting tired

"they replaced motorola focus 35 cameras which are getting tired"
68.3%

it's not good

"during the day it is good but at nighttime through a window it doesn't work and during the day if there is sunlight shining towards the glass it's not good"
68.2%

constant crashes

"while the camera quality is really good and the system is easy to set up it's let down by near constant crashes"
68.1%

no ifttt support

"* motion detection is very good no false positives so far cons are all software and so hopefully sortable : * no ifttt support for the non technical this is a neat way to link home devices such as turn on the lights if motion detected * no ability to mask certain areas"
67.5%

no rtsp support

"no rtsp support that many other cheap cameras offer"
67.5%

less important

"no idea why this has less important functionality than the us version"
67.5%

disappointed i wish

"very disappointed i wish i had bought a tp link camera instead have a couple of them for years and never had a single problem "
67.5%

keeps crashing

"unfortunately after only a couple of days the motion noise alerts stopped app keeps crashing and signing you out"
67.4%

lacks sharpness

"the quality of the image is slighty blurry and lacks sharpness and that's in hd!"
67.3%

remove sd card

"720 hd old school short clips unless you want to pay for longer if you put micro sd card in the software in camera won't let you watch it unless you remove sd card and connect to computer to watch"
67.3%

issues i guess

"at least the app takes you to a website telling you they are having issues i guess that's a plus lol"
67.2%

many issues

"the app itself is basic and has so many issues it’s difficult to list them"
67.2%

heart attack

"slight heart attack"
67.1%

security concerns

"in response to the security concerns you are required to provide your address on signup although you could provide fake details but you do not need to provide access to your iphone's location unless you want to use the auto arm disarm feature"
67.1%

skeptical about this

"i was a little skeptical about this from reading reviews of the app asking for too much info"
67.1%

disconnects after 30 mins

"when used with alexa the screen on any device disconnects after 30 mins"
67.1%

limited alexa integration

"great if you want a cheap fun camera in your house but i wouldn’t really put it in the home security category and i’m surprised they sometimes bundle this camera with the echo show 5 given the limited alexa integration"
67.0%

tinny and difficult

"sound quality form the tiny inbuilt speaker is awful very tinny and difficult to understand the speech"
66.9%

awful night vision

"but the sound quality both ways is awful night vision is pretty poor to unless something is within a metre of the camera and not in pitch black"
66.9%

much information

"previous concerns around the app wanting too much information in another review seem unfounded as i was only asked for my address which was explained"
66.9%

disconnects all the time

"the camera disconnects all the time!"
66.9%

quality slight

"easy to setup and good picture quality slight lag of live feed but not that long"
66.8%

negative points

"negative points"
66.7%

error code

"i kept having network issues with it and it refused to connect giving me error code 90"
66.7%

screw and wallplug

"my kit never actually contained a screw and wallplug as stated so i would say that if you are handy with a drill and countersink and you dont need extra usb cable then dont bother with the mount kit"
66.5%

give it a miss

"give it a miss"
66.4%

first week

"it doesn’t take any stills when it detects motion it should so i don’t know if mine is faulty it did the first week set up was hit and miss it’s quite discrete i like that element"
66.3%

widespread problem

"i am not sure if this is a widespread problem but be wary!"
66.3%

additional areas

"i already have a good cctv setup costing several hundred pounds but wanted additional areas covering to keep an eye on my cats and kittens who love to hide away in difficult to reach areas"
66.3%

completely false

"this description needs to be changed it states with an sd card you can record for x amount of days and have the footage this is completely false"
66.2%

massive holes

"there are 2 massive holes in the feature set for this device: 1"
66.2%

having trouble

"hope this helps any of you having trouble connecting"
66.2%

remove the card

"updated december 2019 so neos still haven’t added sd card support through the app meaning the only way to view the sd card footage is to physically remove the card and plug it into a computer"
66.2%

lengthy conversation

"this can't be used as a nanny cam anymore and according to a lengthy conversation with their support they have no intention of fixing this"
66.0%

sending it back

"i received my 1st neos smartcam today and have to admit that after reading all the comments i was ready for sending it back but as there where also quite some positive feedback i just had to try it myself"
66.0%

awful business model

"secondly the ‘boost’ premium payment is an awful business model even though they have dropped it to £2"
66.0%

draining my battery

"i don’t want to have to have location settings draining my battery on all the time and i don’t always remember to manually switch the alerts in and off"
65.9%

settle down

"i'm not sure why but it seemed to take a couple of days to "settle down" and react to whether my phone was in the house or not but since then has been working fine"
65.9%

n't work there

"it didn't work and i tried it on 2 separate wireless networks also after having to create an account and the device didn't work there was no option to close delete account so this is more time wasted trying to contact them to request the close my account"
65.8%

totally useless

"i have found that bug in the software means that it doesnt retain the settings so when it you do go out it does arm but then doesnt record or notify you rendering the camera totally useless"
65.8%
...

Compare Pros

works perfect in both products

"using as a baby monitor and works perfect"
100.0%

excellent product in both products

"excellent product set up in less than 10 minutes and is used in living room to check on elderly relative the alerts are great so if our father who is unstable moves we can check on his safety plus you can have chat so they don’t feel lonely"
100.0%

brilliant camera in both products

"brilliant camera"
100.0%

excellent piece in both products

"excellent piece of technology"
99.9%

highly recommend in both products

"i highly recommend"
99.6%

really good in both products

"additionally the £5 or 5 eur a month depending where you live for 30 day motion cloud storage + 7 day continuous recording for up to 10 cameras from google is a really good deal"
99.3%

works perfectly in both products

"easy to set up and works perfectly"
98.6%

best camera in both products

"the best camera i ever had "
96.0%

very impressive in both products

"the clarity of the 1080 pictures are amazing and the build quality is also very impressive"
95.6%

excellent camera in both products

"an excellent camera"
92.9%

great camera in both products

"great camera which we are using as a baby monitor for the nighttime mainly"
88.5%

really happy in both products

"in most areas these cameras are excellent they are very fast to access and provide a wide range of useful features i have four of them now and am really happy with them definitely recommended"
88.4%

works well in both products

"camera is good resolution placed indoors and the night vision works well"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"it used to be this amount per camera but for up to 10 cameras it's now a great deal!"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"clarity of picture is excellent and the alerts are very handy"
75.0%

looks good in both products

"magnetic base is very good and looks good on the shelf"
75.0%

insurance company in both products

"i pay £120 for two cameras for 12 months and i even managed to get my house contents insurance a little cheaper by informing the insurance company of these cameras"
75.0%

great value in both products

"great value"
74.9%

really well in both products

"works really well love this product"
74.9%

smart tech in both products

"links well to other smart tech within the home"
74.9%

looks great in both products

"very reassuring and looks great too"
74.8%

picture quality in both products

"i looked into many nursery cameras monitors and read nothing but bad reviews on connection issues and picture quality so i turned my attention elsewhere"
74.8%

work great in both products

"it work great!"
74.6%

good picture in both products

"good picture and works well in terms of notifications however to get the best out of this you do net to subscribe to nest for £80 per annum hence 3 stars"
74.5%

good enough in both products

"going to buy a couple more but not planning to subscribe as it’s very expensive so alerts only is good enough for me if it had an ssd card that would make better than paying for subscription"
74.5%

fantastic camera in both products

"fantastic camera"
74.1%

motion detection in both products

"we liked this because it is motion detection has sound has 2 way communication live feed as well as recorded history & all the family could log in to keep an eye ticked all the boxes for us"
73.7%

cctv camera in both products

"currently £10 per month for a single cctv camera is stupid and negative marketing"
73.4%

quality is great

"it quality is great"
100.0%

brilliant piece

"brilliant piece of kit"
100.0%

excellent play

"it's a lot but i get to record create clips and excellent play back for that service"
100.0%

very pleased

"very pleased"
100.0%

amazingly great

"amazingly great camera"
100.0%

truly wonderful

"truly wonderful people and and a credit to the organisation and other companies would do well to follow their lead"
100.0%

superb camera

"a superb camera which was relatively easy to set up in my mother’s supported living facility"
100.0%

great performance

"brilliant easy to insult great performance"
99.9%

really excellent

"brilliant small cam for your home and office security you also add to it to go around all your home easy to turn on and off with your phone really excellent piece of kit resonable subscription rates as well"
99.9%

delighted and impressed

"we have had the nest thermostats and nest protect smoke and co2 alarms for a while and have been delighted and impressed with them"
99.9%

brilliant product

"brilliant product"
99.9%

works beautifully

"i initially missed the logi circle app which just works beautifully simply when the camera was working!"
99.9%

highly secure

"highly secure"
99.9%

absolutely fantastic

"absolutely fantastic camera"
99.9%

superb product

"a superb product for home security and as a baby monitor"
99.9%

amazon offered

"regarding 1 it was an easy choice when amazon offered it and would ship out of u"
99.8%

amazing build

"hardware has amazing build"
99.7%

best thing

"the best thing we have invested in to look after our lovely mum who suffers from dementia"
99.6%

really satisfied

"so easy to set up took minutes fantastic picture quality and sound really satisfied great product"
99.5%

magnetic bases

"they are very stylish exceptionally well made with sturdy metal magnetic bases but come with wall ceiling mounts if you want"
99.5%

quality good

"video quality good with a great wide angle lens"
99.0%

monitoring peoples

"babys room or monitoring peoples coming and going then its good with easy simple to use software and good night vision"
98.9%

been excellent

"in two and a half months they have never failed signal has been excellent from an iphone to the camera even from abroad so their server side is excellent we have very good broadband but even when it has dropped the signal has been good from the cameras "
98.3%

medium quality

"ive a very basic internet package and it works ok on medium quality"
97.3%

whats happening

"easy to set up and use great picture day or night and the ability to speak and listen to whats happening is very good"
97.1%

beautifully designed

"beautifully designed easy to use great software"
96.2%

great accompanying

"fantastic product with a great accompanying app"
95.5%

build is amazing

"the camera build is amazing!"
94.4%

night vision is excellent

"night vision is excellent"
93.1%

they are brilliant

"absolutely love nest cam i always wanted dropcam here in the uk but they weren't available but since google bought dropcam they are brilliant"
93.1%

neat cam is excellent

"this neat cam is excellent"
93.0%

best user experience

"not the best user experience"
93.0%

extremely valuable

"alerts are delayed one every 1 2 hour which limits the security benefits a little but this is still an extremely valuable tool for keeping an eye on things when you are away from home"
92.4%

excellent in that

"the camera itself is excellent in that is has a great field of view and the accompanying app is very well thought out"
92.0%

very smart

"so easy to setup very smart and discreet looking camera the picture quality on my phone is great"
91.7%

nest is best

"now i’ve got 4 cameras but the nest is best !"
91.7%

usability and performance

"pricey but usability and performance are top notch great night cam magnetic grasp is very useful and the app web is very responsive"
91.0%

brilliant present

"i have bought it four times once for myself and three times as a brilliant present"
90.7%

navigate around

"the app was easy to down load although not so easy to navigate around and absolutely not intuitive"
90.6%

really impressive

"really impressive love the app that comes with it"
89.9%

does a brilliant

"i am using the camera as baby monitor and it does a brilliant job for me"
89.5%

quality is superb

"quality is superb"
89.4%

recommend very highly

"would recommend very highly to anyone"
89.2%

class best

"these are top class best cameras ever so clear and precise in every way easy to set up"
89.1%

captures audio

"the fact that it captures audio and has a talk through feature is brilliant"
89.0%

great and easy to

"great and easy to use"
88.9%

good adjustment

"the picture is crisp and allows for good adjustment by zooming in and out"
88.8%

simply brilliant

"simply brilliant!"
88.6%

hardware is great

"the hardware is great and the nest app works well"
88.6%

impressed and happy

"impressed and happy"
88.6%

just brilliant

"the fact that you can zoom in and then make the selected area even better quality is just brilliant"
88.5%

great integration

"great build quality super easy to set up intuitive software and great integration with the rest of my smart home devices"
88.0%

will answer questions

"incredible picture quality intuitive software and a helpful team who will answer questions"
88.0%

storage trial

"only comes with a 30 day free storage trial if you want to store recording after the trial its an £80 annual subscription"
87.1%

greatly reduced

"when viewing remotely resolution is greatly reduced"
75.0%

good addition

"camera is pretty decent quality and the ability to talk through it is a good addition"
75.0%

awesome cameras

"awesome cameras"
75.0%

concise picture

"very easy to set up and provides excellent view angle and a really clear concise picture"
75.0%

decent quality

"pros: easy to set up no router configuration needed which with the foscams took hours solidly built heavy metal decent quality alerts when things move in specific zones of the target area are super useful and i suspect these are more secure than the foscams"
75.0%

very sturdy

"the camera was easy to setup and feels very sturdy"
75.0%

link together

"the cameras all link together and you can have notification alerts set if wished for motion and or noise"
75.0%

good security

"really like nest cameras we have quite a few as landlords it means easy quick access for info has helped a lot and good security for our tenants"
74.9%

speedy delivery

"great product and speedy delivery"
74.9%

ideal alternative

"it does exactly what it says it will do and is an ideal alternative to an external security camera"
74.9%

were great

"at the time of purchase they were great and have been very reliable"
74.9%

perfect picture

"perfect picture and sound easily moveable"
74.9%

great night

"the picture is great night and day"
74.9%

quality surprising

"sound quality surprising good i find"
74.9%

nest aware

"because nest aware is not supported in my country estonia "
74.9%

smart features

"the great smart features mean you are always in the know of something is going on in the home while away giving you peace of mind"
74.9%

better deals

"i hope they give better deals soon for those who have more than one camera"
74.9%

useful setting

"as i use it to keep an eye on my cats there is a useful setting which only activates the camera when you are away from the home reads your mobile location"
74.9%

extra commands

"options to add extra commands via ifttt app"
74.8%

more reliable

"it has much better mobile application and more reliable motion detection"
74.8%

sensor good

"motion sensor good it sends mobile notifications"
74.8%

looking good

"looking good"
74.8%

smart device

"i love them as you can get notifications on you smart device so even when i’m working a night shift i can check up on the babies"
74.8%

saved recordings

"sends notifications on movement good wide angle sharp images easy to set up and manage saved recordings now i can keep an eye on the cat!"
74.8%

seriously great

"the picture quality at night was excellent seriously great"
74.8%

works effectively

"image quality is excellent night vision works effectively too"
74.8%

vision easy

"great vision easy to install with 24hr access"
74.7%

check remotely

"when we bought this camera i wanted something nice that i could check remotely"
74.7%

pretty easy

"product was easy to set up and was up and running in no time i work in the tech sector but thought the set up process was pretty easy and jargon free "
74.6%

easy choice

"when considering protecting your home belongings business etc it was an easy choice"
74.6%

totally reliable

"i have the ring app and have never had a problem it’s perfect and totally reliable w great service"
74.6%

good viewing

"easy to set up good viewing on night mode and sound"
74.6%

importantly peace

"have bought 2 easy to set up and gives you security and more importantly peace of mind while away from the house"
74.6%

natural choice

"so when my 4yr old logi circle started acting up this google nest cam was a natural choice even though it was so much dearer than all the other ring and amazon offerings"
74.5%

also great

"ios app also great"
74.5%

integrates well

"easy setup reliable integrates well with nest app in conjunction with nest thermostat"
74.5%

were smart

"the cameras were cheaper than my original purchase which was a bonus and when they arrived they were smart and fairly easy to plug in and set up"
74.5%

robust and functional

"works as described and is robust and functional"
74.4%

best image

"the camera is recording permanently previous recorded on motion trigger so if you want the best image ie hd 1080 it can use up to 320gb yes gb a month in broadband bandwidth so make sure you don't have limits or you could get a very nasty surprise"
74.4%

these sorts

"but with all these sorts of camera a monthly subscription price to get notifications or record video etc seems over the top"
74.4%

very easily

"the magnet base can be fixed to anything wall ceiling etc and the camera attaches very easily it can even be installed upside down"
74.4%

high quality

"nest have followed apple with not only an extremely well made product but the packaging is of high quality so even opening the box up brings an air of excitement!"
74.4%

reliable and sturdy

"reliable and sturdy"
74.3%

works flawlessly

"setting up zones within the image to watch for movement is simple and effective and the online storage works flawlessly still in trial period though you will need a fast connection"
74.3%

liked this

"we liked this because it is motion detection has sound has 2 way communication live feed as well as recorded history & all the family could log in to keep an eye ticked all the boxes for us"
74.3%

very useful

"mic is sensitive and very useful"
74.3%

working well

"working well very wide angle"
74.3%

super easy

"setup was super easy"
74.3%

fantastic device

"the nest cam does all you expect and more and is a fantastic device to have in your home"
74.3%

good value

"have since bought another as good value and quality rob"
74.3%

please nest

"my apple watch alerts me when the sun comes out goes in or at night a moth flies past so a little more smartness needed please nest!"
74.3%

image quality

"the image quality is hd and it does pick up sound easily"
74.3%

lovely though

"looks lovely though"
74.3%

panoramic views

"brilliant watching and listening to the dog from afar fantastic panoramic views"
74.2%

simple and easy

"i very much recommend this camera to anyone wanting a simple and easy set up of an indoor camera with excellent playback quality"
74.2%

quality product

"immediately when i opened the packet i realised this is a very solid and high quality product"
74.2%

efficient and prompt

"a fabulous product and an incredibly efficient and prompt service"
74.2%

really nice

"the nest cam is a really nice piece of hardware its relativity small compared with my old foscam and sits well on a flat service"
74.2%

perfectly well

"had it for 2 5 years now works perfectly well never freezes"
74.2%

premium subscription

"deducting one star as some of the best features required a premium subscription"
74.1%

country estonia

"because nest aware is not supported in my country estonia "
74.1%

perfect product

"perfect product to watch pets while out the house"
74.1%

best features

"deducting one star as some of the best features required a premium subscription"
74.1%

well constructed

"my first impression of the nest camera was good the packaging was premium the camera has metal parts and feels hefty and well constructed and the instructions were simple and well written"
74.1%

sound easily moveable

"perfect picture and sound easily moveable"
74.0%

security device

"i mainly bought it as a security device so i also subscribed to the 10 days recording option to keep history of what happens home in case somebody breaks in and i need to share the video with the police"
74.0%

very responsive

"pricey but usability and performance are top notch great night cam magnetic grasp is very useful and the app web is very responsive"
74.0%

clear and precise

"these are top class best cameras ever so clear and precise in every way easy to set up"
74.0%

very happy

"overall very happy!"
74.0%

most reliable

"this one had the sharpest video stream and the most reliable connection"
74.0%

two things very well

"my previous camera while it did suffer in quality toward the end of its lifespan did two things very well: firstly the image was always in real time with not even a millisecond of delay crucial if you're using your camera for something like a baby monitor and secondly the picture was smooth and the quality was decent"
74.0%

quick and reliable

"there is a microphone and speaker and picture streaming is quick and reliable"
73.9%

ordering this

"i sent that back to john lewis and purchased this device 'nest indoor camera' i did take a huge amount of time before ordering this as the reviews send mixed signals!"
73.9%

clear and sharp

"video quality is clear and sharp"
73.9%

simple and quick

"the installation and activation of the cameras has been simple and quick and the user interfaces via smartphone app and via a web browser are intuitive"
73.8%

reasonably priced

"very straightforward set up literally minutes a very user friendly app and a reasonably priced subscription £40 for year 1 for 5 days i believe "
73.8%

pretty flexible

"the settings are pretty flexible if you don't want to run them all the time you can use the other nest device's 'auto away' setting to switch your cameras on and off or use a schedule"
73.8%

very solid

"immediately when i opened the packet i realised this is a very solid and high quality product"
73.8%

intuitive and useful

"very easy setup with an intuitive and useful if very expensive cloud video recording facility"
73.8%

quality materials

"strong good quality materials"
73.7%

very stylish

"the built quality is excellent the frame is metal not the usual plastic and the design is up to the minute and very stylish"
73.7%

excellent device

"excellent device"
73.7%

monitor her safety

"fantastic night vision so i can monitor her safety 24 7"
73.7%

good product

"easy to install great design good product"
73.7%

very reliable

"at the time of purchase they were great and have been very reliable"
73.6%

great peace

"the android app works well and movement notifications and movement history stored safely on google's secure cloud service give great peace of mind"
73.6%

good and easy

"very good and easy to install"
73.5%

favial features

"you can clearly make out people’s favial features in the footage from them!"
73.5%

innovative product

"fantastic innovative product"
73.5%

full potential

"the yearly subscription is a must to fulfill the cameras full potential and the yearly fee is good value for money"
73.5%

free cloud storage

"other cameras have free cloud storage but we tried those and it really is a case of 'you get what you pay for'"
73.5%

fantastic product

"this is a fantastic product!"
73.4%
...

excellent product in both products

"picture quality could be improved but for the price it's an excellent product"
100.0%

brilliant camera in both products

"brilliant camera for both day and night time viewing connects to phone laptop etc and once activated on phone instantaneously records any movement and sound activations"
100.0%

excellent piece in both products

"excellent piece of kit for the price the reviews on here are very misleading this camera does support alexa via the neos skill and does support triggering via detected noise does everything i need"
99.9%

really good in both products

"night vision this is really good"
99.3%

works perfectly in both products

"as with my first camera it works perfectly"
98.6%

best camera in both products

"this is probably the best camera under £100 in the world"
96.0%

very impressive in both products

"overall a very impressive performance"
95.6%

excellent camera in both products

"excellent camera for the price we paid so we have bought 3 in total so our house is covered by the cameras and peace of mind for leaving the house protected"
92.9%

highly recommend in both products

"highly recommend!"
90.5%

great camera in both products

"great camera packed with all the features and more of cameras 5x it’s value"
88.5%

really happy in both products

"really happy with the camera does a lot for a low price"
88.4%

works well in both products

"i have it placed in 3 different location around my apartment which one location it's slightly poor in wifi signal but camera still works well"
75.0%

great deal in both products

"first of all setup takes a long time and as others have said in their reviews you have to disclose a great deal of personal information"
75.0%

very handy in both products

"it's very handy"
75.0%

looks good in both products

"looks good but you cannot change order of cameras pause recorded videos or view recordings stored on sd card remotely"
75.0%

insurance company in both products

"after researching the manufacturer and associated insurance company i decided to get a quote for my building and contents cover which was very competitive especially with a 20% reduction for using the cameras"
75.0%

great value in both products

"great value would recommend"
74.9%

really well in both products

"overall a really well made product with a really stable app that connects quickly and gives good image quality"
74.9%

smart tech in both products

"has to be a five star rating other smart camera manufacturers take notice cheap smart tech is achievable!"
74.9%

looks great in both products

"the camera it's self looks great and is well made"
74.8%

picture quality in both products

"picture quality is very very good and the sound is clear"
74.8%

work great in both products

"they work great through the app and also with the echo show 5"
74.6%

good picture in both products

"it works well during the day and night giving good picture"
74.5%

good enough in both products

"compact has a magnetic base with fixing if needed nice long usb cable good picture quality plenty good enough to zoom in on "
74.5%

absolutely brilliant

"bought this so we could keep an eye on our dog when we're out and it has been absolutely brilliant"
100.0%

excellent love

"camera quality is excellent love that i can record footage or take pics and also handy when he stirs during the night to see if he's settling ok"
100.0%

excellent great

"fantastic value for money security camera picture quality is excellent great app and easy set up"
100.0%

extremely powerful

"i decided in the end to use an outside mount for it and have it under a porch camera quality is very good although the ir isnt extremely powerful for excellent night vision the alerts were impossible though zoning needs to be implemented"
100.0%

great experience

"a great experience for the user and a good home security product"
99.9%

quite good

"picture quality during the day does seem to be quite good for the price"
99.9%

installation process

"during the installation process you get guided through via voice from the camera and the status of the process is displayed on your phone tablet"
99.9%

extremely detailed

"and what an amazing bit of technology it is not only does it do what it says on the tin but it also records video in 12 second burst so we now have extremely detailed videos of his night seizures to take with us to his hospital visits"
99.8%

great motion detection

"i have two other indoor cameras from another company which are good they swivel around and up and down and the picture is great motion detection is 1st class"
99.7%

real winner

"come on neos smartcam team match the service that wyze cam offer and you will have a real winner!"
99.5%

brilliant as well

"beware of cheap ip cameras that do not have the same security this does through the app fantastic camera app support has been brilliant as well"
99.4%

cam auto arms

"add your address to tell the cam geographically where it is link to you mobile when you leave the house with your phone & the geo bubble round the house the cam auto arms come home & it auto disarms"
99.4%

extremely good

"the reality is that despite being low cost it is extremely good value easy to use two minutes to set up "
99.4%

amazing boost

"the settings and preferences are amazing like the auto geo fencing setting alarm mobile viewing sound and motion alarm sensitivity and sharing recordings notifications of triggers and recordings to play back adding cameras and sharing live view is also a bonus cloud storage amazing boost easy to access and good value considering arlo you have to opt into just to use it which i think is unfair considering you already have to fork out for wi fi"
99.3%

potentially amazing

"a potentially amazing piece of equipment especially at the price limited in functionality by deliberate choices of the company making them which removes most choices and any versatility of use"
99.2%

absolutely amazing

"absolutely amazing camera especially for the price!"
99.0%

amazing product

"motion detection zones needs to be considered as well all in all it's a great product but when things like what i have mentioned and other have too it will turn a great product into an amazing product"
98.5%

pleased and highly

"am very pleased and highly recommend"
98.4%

little vague

"that said support is great though sometimes a little vague "
97.8%

excellent picture

"still water tight and giving an excellent picture"
97.5%

super small cube

"the camera is a nice super small cube with an extending magnetic base which means you can easily place and adjust it anywhere vertically and horizontally"
96.8%

amazingly well

"i would happily pay £40+ night vision works great the picture quality is more than good enough the 2 way audio feature and the auto arming feature work amazingly well"
96.5%

minor comment

"only a minor comment that the power cord is quite short about 1"
95.3%

extra payment

"extra payment for monitoring required"
95.2%

good angle

"crispy colours and a good angle of view enough to capture a full room wall to wall from a central point"
94.7%

well designed

"arrived promptly in well designed packaging"
94.6%

otherwiae its brilliant

"otherwiae its brilliant"
94.4%

sound quality excellent

"sound quality excellent so picks up movement and noise"
93.8%

magnetic disk

"this is a very neat device in a small and discreet housing with adjustable stand and facility to attach to a magnetic disk which sticks to a surface"
93.8%

make it amazing

"for this price is good but a better software would make it amazing!"
93.1%

neos smart

"neos smart cam is probably the best ip cam you could get within its price range!"
93.1%

excellent given the price

"the picture and video quality are excellent given the price"
93.1%

excellent for the price

"the camera is excellent for the price"
93.1%

have fun and enjoy

"have fun and enjoy"
93.1%

night vision is amazing

"night vision is amazing!"
93.1%

these are brilliant

"i think these are brilliant"
93.1%

brilliant i love

"this camera is brilliant i love it"
93.0%

still and excellent

"its still and excellent unit would defo buy another one if i need it "
93.0%

fantastic simply

"the camera quality itself is fantastic simply brilliant"
92.9%

it's brilliant

"for the price it’s brilliant"
92.7%

works brilliantly

"the motion detection works brilliantly and the night vision is great"
92.1%

amazing i love

"wow this camera is amazing i love it it was so easy to set up and connect to alexa the picture quality is great in the day and night it notifies you straight away of a noise or motion on your phone and you can view it straight away"
92.1%

exceptional value

"so far there have been a few outages but overall exceptional value for money!"
92.1%

excellent usually

"customer support is excellent usually reply same day"
92.0%

best 20 quid

"best 20 quid i spent "
91.8%

very effective

"motion detection i'd very effective perhaps a little too much for how we have located it"
91.8%

principle is superb

"the principle is superb"
91.7%

they 're excellent

"i do have mine set up as outside cameras using the third party outdoor housing £9 on amazon but they’re excellent"
91.7%

great also

"night vision is great also"
90.6%

bargain for the price

"a bargain for the price"
90.6%

best outcome

"the best outcome out relate to the above with respect to the nanny cam the ability to have alexa automatically start viewing it on an echo show when there is motion would be amazing"
90.4%

quality excellent

"the camera has a built in stand which is great if you need to lift it slightly it also has 2 way speech so you can talk to and speak back to anyone in the vicinity of the camera the angle of view is very wide and picture quality excellent"
89.7%

excellent coverage

"wide field of view for excellent coverage and with digital zoom which does degrade the quality as you zoom in but still adequate"
89.7%

amazing for the price

"the picture quality is amazing for the price"
89.2%

good downstairs

"my router is in the attic so wifi is good downstairs but not strong the camera live stream was a little patchy as a result but moving it upstairs the issue goes with a stronger wifi signal"
88.8%

amazing the clips

"the picture quality is amazing the clips when it is armed are good night vision is great too"
88.6%

way audio is great

"i have managed to connect a mi fi device network so added bonus for me the features are reliability are well beyond those of the cheaper far eastern chinese ones so not even comparable in my opinion face id is also amazing but not yet used two way audio is great"
88.5%

absolute bargain

"considering how much all other smart home cameras cost this is an absolute bargain"
88.4%

flipping awesome

"for a cheap camera that's alexa compatible it's flipping awesome"
88.3%

secure & reputable

"i've also spoken to neos and they've told me the data from the cameras is fully encrypted both in live viewing & when being sent to the cloud & can only be viewed by the owner protected by id pass the cloud services are also provided by amazon so all channels seem secure & reputable"
88.3%

really amazing

"this little camera is really amazing"
87.0%

fact optional

"the phone number during signup is in fact optional and doesn't need to be provided!"
85.9%

nicest looking

"i was wondering if i was doing the right thing but i bought it because this camera was the smallest the nicest looking and one of the best prices"
84.9%

detailed instructions

"camera came well packaged and with short but very easy detailed instructions usb cable power adapter similar to apple and mounting plate if needed"
84.7%

good coverage

"good picture good coverage easy to install and the app to view when away from home works every time whether via wifi or mobile data"
75.0%

reasonably good

"so i’ve bought 2 of these i was originally fairly impressed the picture was reasonably good the motion detection works well and for the price there wasn’t too much to argue with"
75.0%

good price

"good price as well"
75.0%

moderately useful

"these cameras are amazing value for the price but the system is so flakey and unreliable it cannot be used for any moderately useful security application"
75.0%

waterproof case

"other than that great camera and plan to mount outside in a waterproof case"
75.0%

good instructions

"nice compact camera easy to set up good instructions"
75.0%

great price

"super little security camera at a great price i was sceptical when i brought this because it was so cheap however the quality of the picture in both day and night mode are exceptional at this price point"
75.0%

precise signal

"precise signal is needed to set up and it took perseverance to position the camera on line"
75.0%

good points

"good points: easy to setup"
75.0%

love these

"i love these"
75.0%

stable position

"took ages to set up the app is way too finicky too much personal data needed and nightmare getting cam to point in a stable position as the slightest movement of the power cable disturbs alignment of camera swivel joint on the fixed bracket is too loose"
75.0%

great features

"really great features using as a security cam the only thing i would say is that what is the point of haveing an sd slot that could record two weeks or a month like other cameras which are a fraction of this value camera to just record 12 second clips which wipe however long?"
75.0%

seems well

"i have had a few niggles and issues initially but all seems well now"
75.0%

recognition cameras

"we live in an age where londoners are being arrested for merely looking away from facial recognition cameras"
74.9%

cctv cameras

"love these wifi cctv cameras"
74.9%

indoor cameras

"i have two other indoor cameras from another company which are good they swivel around and up and down and the picture is great motion detection is 1st class"
74.9%

seems great

"having the option to record everything onto a mini sd card seems great but having to remove the card to see whats there is a pain"
74.9%

light enough

"the only thing is occasionally when i think it would be light enough it remains on night vision when in the auto mode"
74.9%

looks appealing

"the installation was very easy and the product looks appealing but it doesn't really work"
74.9%

increase rating

"may increase rating if that gets fixed"
74.9%

massive positive

"having the additional option to put in a microsd card to keep recording longer is a massive positive too"
74.9%

good reviews

"for the low cost and otherwise good reviews i decided to get the item and i do not regret it"
74.9%

outdoor lighting

"it's not designed as an outdoor camera yes you can get housing to overcome this but if you have good outdoor lighting then this will take good shots at night through glass"
74.9%

outdoor cameras

"they aren't supposed to be outdoor cameras but you can buy third party cases i have two outdoors fully open to sun wind and rain: no issues whatsoever"
74.9%

record continuously

"the best way to use is probably to set it to record continuously using an sd card 32gb is about good enough for 2days i believe "
74.9%

ideal solution

"these "cameras" are an ideal solution for this purpose"
74.9%

better software

"for this price is good but a better software would make it amazing!"
74.9%

outdoor version

"would like them to do an outdoor version"
74.9%

would happily

"i would happily pay £40+ night vision works great the picture quality is more than good enough the 2 way audio feature and the auto arming feature work amazingly well"
74.9%

great device

"a great device thoroughly recommended"
74.9%

functioned flawlessly

"the camera was very easy to set up and the app functioned flawlessly from the start allowing remote live viewing of the room from anywhere in the world with an internet connection and access to stored online recorded video of any movements and sounds detected by the camera"
74.9%

better products

"bound to be better products out there"
74.9%

recommended these

"i have recommended these to every one even brought a few as gifts"
74.9%

recommend these

"i would now i'd recommend these for indoor use they also work with alexa which is great for use as a baby monitor"
74.8%

very quickly

"currently using 64gb microsd card and works perfectly i have had 1128gb with no problems night vision and motion detection works very well however the motion detection can be a little strong in some occasions notifications are great and come through to your phone very quickly!"
74.8%

equally impressive

"the nightvision is equally impressive night vision on a camera that cost less than a half decent meal"
74.8%

outdoor camera

"it's not designed as an outdoor camera yes you can get housing to overcome this but if you have good outdoor lighting then this will take good shots at night through glass"
74.8%

price range

"neos smart cam is probably the best ip cam you could get within its price range!"
74.8%

simple instructions

"is when we are out also reacts to shadows over the front door admitted we face the sun light just a shame the print is so small on the simple instructions and it took me ages to find the app two things to improve on a nifty little thing wont replace outdoor cct but does add to your armoury"
74.7%

proper security

"this is great for use as a baby dog monitor but would advise to seek elsewhere for proper security use"
74.7%

best prices

"i was wondering if i was doing the right thing but i bought it because this camera was the smallest the nicest looking and one of the best prices"
74.7%

five stars

"five stars in all categories!"
74.7%

being useful

"not really used the record function but can see it being useful if we go away as a security cam"
74.6%

worked flawlessly

"noise and motion detection has worked flawlessly thus far"
74.6%

really wide

"however the technoligy is great the autoarm movement and sound sensors are good night vision is fantatsic and the camera has a really wide lens"
74.6%

blown away

"for such a cheap camera i was blown away by the features of this camera and app"
74.6%

smart plug

"reliability of recording increased by rebooting each camera by way of a smart plug just after arming"
74.6%

fantastic cameras

"fantastic cameras"
74.6%

metal disk

"i also purchased the extra mounting kit which has another metal disk with a countersunk hole in the centre for the screw"
74.6%

prob relieved

"he’s prob relieved!"
74.5%

easy to navigate

"app is easy to navigate"
74.5%

very competitive

"after researching the manufacturer and associated insurance company i decided to get a quote for my building and contents cover which was very competitive especially with a 20% reduction for using the cameras"
74.5%

pretty easily

"night vision works pretty well but the ir led's are very obviously on so any real intruder would spot the cameras pretty easily"
74.5%

monthly subsciption

"you may also need depending if setting up outside a weatherproof casing more add ons which bumps up the price and the option to pay a monthly subsciption of £3"
74.5%

super clear

"i use this for 2 reasons 1 as a baby monitor so much better that those expensive ones picture is super clear and i use it as a cctv when i am out of the house"
74.5%

amazing price

"amazing price for such a well designed well functioning piece of kit"
74.5%

arrived home

"for example last week i arrived home and the gates was open and i thought i check what happened"
74.4%

just amazing

"and to round it all off the price is just amazing would i recommend these little cameras absolutely!"
74.4%

were not wrong

"the reviews were not wrong"
74.4%

will probably

"all in all happy customer and will probably buy some more to use around the house"
74.4%

pretty good

"the android app is also pretty good again does a lot of things similar to nest"
74.4%
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Compare Emotion analysis

Google Nest Cam Indoor Smart Security Camera

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31.0% 35.7% 33.3%
  neutral 35.4%
  worry 28.6%
  happiness 17.6%
  fun 5.9%
  relief 3.5%
  sadness 3.1%
  love 1.9%
  hate 1.2%
  surprise 1.2%
  enthusiasm 0.9%
  fear 0.2%
  anger 0.2%
  empty 0.2%
Neos SmartCam | Wi-Fi SmartHome Security Camera, Works with Alexa, 1..

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15.0% 50.2% 34.8%
  neutral 50.2%
  worry 30.9%
  happiness 11.2%
  sadness 3.5%
  relief 2.2%
  fun 0.8%
  surprise 0.4%
  love 0.4%
  hate 0.4%

* analysis performed using Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, data for the analysis has been gathered from multiple publicly accessible sources.
** strength is the level of sentiment expressed in a sentence, phrase or keyword. It ranges from 0 to 100%
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last analysis update 2024-11-14