Ring Doorbell Review - It Sucks

Oh Ring doorbell, how I hate you.

It's a clever idea and sounds amazing on paper being able see and speak to people at your door while you are away. However, the Ring sucks. Badly.

I have gone through two Ring doorbells and both have lots of problems.

Wi-Fi is always dropped and I have to take it apart and reinitialize it to our router. Our router is two five feet away from Ring and we have super fast internet. If Wi-Fi is working, it takes forever for the app to load what the camera is showing and the person ringing your doorbell has already walked away.

Ring doesn't know if it's bright or dark outside and will alternate between night vision and regular mode. Open the app during daytime and it's blinding because Ring is using night vision and you can't toggle between the two. Someone rings your doorbell at night and you can't see anything because Ring is stuck in daytime mode.

The App is atrocious. Absolutely terrible. They constantly update the app but the only major feature added is advertisements and get money for referring friends crap.

Freezes a lot and doesn't know what to do. App or doorbell freezes and doesn't know what to do so you can't connect and see who is at the door. Ring freaks out at Halloween and will reset it's configuration. A blue light will circle the button until you take it off and do a hard reset.

Costs money to record after a free month trial. Not worth it, reason below.

Camera and audio is terrible. Unless somebody is standing right in front of the camera you will not be able to make out anything more than a few feet. Past that range and everything is really blurry and you can't make out a license plate or anything. The audio is terrible with lots of echoing and static. With poor audio visual why would I want to spend money on recording something that is terrible?

Costs more than a single Google Nest Camera with poorer capabilities and video. So what am I really getting? I hope Ring can really step it up and improve their product and app because I can't recommend their doorbell to anyone. I hope their are more competitors will better products coming because it's overpriced crap.