Nest Cam Indoor
I know—it’s a security camera. But after spending some time reviewing and then living with the revamped Nest Cam, I can honestly say it’s one of the best security cameras to consider if you’re looking for one right now.
The $100 wired indoor Nest Cam is more expensive than cheaper alternatives from TP-Link and Wyze, but its facial recognition works well, and it’s all on-device, so the information never leaves your phone for Google’s cloud. The overall design of the Nest Cam is excellent, too, as Google developed it to look like an accessory in the home rather than what it truly is: a pastel-colored, modernized surveillance device.
The only major downside to the Nest Cam is that Google is still working out the kinks of its smart home landscape. The company is switching over from the Nest app to its consolidated Google Home app, which has left folks like myself who still have older cameras in their ecosystem a little flustered. I don’t love having to navigate between two applications to check my home security footage, but Google is aware of the mess it’s made, and the company is working on a fix. —Florence Ion
