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Ring Stick Up Cam Battery vs Wyze Cam v4: what real owners say

Real owners rate these about evenly: 45% of 20 Ring Stick Up Cam Battery owners recommend it, vs 49% of 45 for the Wyze Cam v4.

Verdicts aggregated from Reddit, enthusiast forums, and YouTube owner comments — affiliate reviews excluded. Sample sizes differ; judge accordingly. How we score

Ring Stick Up Cam Battery

45%of 20 owners recommend
45% recommend · 10% neutral · 45% don't
Owners praise
  • Works reliably over the long haul for many owners, with several running fine for a year or two
  • Decent video and night vision, plus two-way talk that owners say works as advertised
  • Flexible placement and easy to mount or set anywhere you want it
Owners complain about
  • Drops connection or stops sending notifications, sometimes for hours, regardless of router or signal
  • Misses motion or has hit-and-miss detection, and object detection feels dated
  • Battery drains fast, especially the more features you use, so you're frequently recharging or adding a solar panel
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Wyze Cam v4

49%of 45 owners recommend
49% recommend · 9% neutral · 42% don't
Owners praise
  • Sharp, detailed 2.5K video quality
  • Very cheap, quality well above the price point
  • No subscription needed for local microSD recording
Owners complain about
  • Key event features locked behind the Cam Plus paywall
  • Night-vision and IR problems in the dark
  • Goes offline and drops wifi, stuck on 2.4GHz
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What Ring Stick Up Cam Battery owners say

“A lot clearer than videos seen in street crime or store robbery vids seen on YouTube.”
— @Jeff-mu4mt on YouTube
“I highly recommend solar panels.”
— @carlrogers8730 on YouTube
“I have 7 ring cams extremely poor video quality any more”
— @davidr8505 on YouTube

What Wyze Cam v4 owners say

“Wyze Cam v4. I think it’s perfect. There’s a yearly subscription for cloud features that identifies pet movements so I can see my hamster’s footage from the night before. It works pretty well at identifying my hamster”
— Spiritual_Lack5649 on Reddit
“I love my Wyze cam v4”
— @scenesofstjohns5308 on YouTube
“I'm done with wyze cam, just for the fact that most of the features that was free when they first started are behind a paywall”
— @ScheldonR on YouTube