Wyze

Wyze Reviews

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About Wyze

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Wyze is a tech company that aims to make advanced technology more accessible for everyone. It’s known for its smart home systems, but it sells a variety of other products — like smart scales, lighting systems and vacuums. The company offers both professional and self-monitoring options.

Pros
  • Affordable starting price
  • Customizable
  • Free DIY option
Cons
  • Confusing pricing
  • Cam Plus required for most camera features

What is Wyze?

Wyze is a smart home technology company that sells everything from smart home cameras and lighting to smart scales and robot vacuums. Other companies have huge markups for this type of technology, but Wyze offers relatively affordable and accessible options. It offers a free do-it-yourself monitoring option, which is ideal for customers who want a basic security system. There is also a professional monitoring option and a wide variety of equipment that can create a customized security system for any home.

Wyze products

Wyze monitoring

Wyze offers several types of security monitoring: an unmonitored plan, Cam Plus, Cam Protect and Home Monitoring.

Let’s cover the differences between the unmonitored plan and Cam Plus first. The unmonitored plan is free and includes real-time DIY monitoring, but that’s about it. The Cam Plus plan is for individuals and families who want more out of their security system — its features include unlimited video recording and environmental monitoring.

Cam Protect is a step up from Cam Plus. It includes everything in Cam Plus as well as facial recognition technology and 24/7 professional video monitoring backed by live agents. This plan costs $3.33 per month per camera.

Finally, there’s Home Monitoring. This plan features 24/7 professional monitoring in partnership with Noonlight. It costs $8.33 per month and comes with some free equipment and a discount for purchasing additional products for your system.

Wyze price

Wyze is extremely customizable in terms of cost. The starting price is affordable for most — a minimalist system including a Wyze sense hub and entry sensors costs $53.98 at the time of publishing.

Another option is to sign up for Home Monitoring. In this case, $99.99/year gets you professional monitoring, with a Wyze sense hub, motion sensor and keypad thrown in for free. That price also includes 40% off additional items purchased for your system.

Creating a customized system, even with 40% off, can increase the cost of your security system pretty fast. That said, Wyze is likely still more affordable than many competitors for what you get.

Wyze FAQ

What’s the difference between the Wyze app and Wyze home monitoring service?

The Wyze app is how you’ll access the Wyze monitoring service. It’s pretty limited in scope and doesn’t offer many additional features unless you pay for add-on services like Cam Plus or professional monitoring.

Does Wyze have a contract?

No, and you can cancel at any time. If you pay yearly rather than monthly, you’ll continue to receive service until the pay period is complete. There are no refunds if you choose this option, though.

What is Wyze’s cancellation policy?

After your first purchase, you have 30 days to get a full refund. After this point, you can cancel at any time. Your plan will stay active until the end of the pay period, meaning you won’t get a refund and will have service until the end of the paid period if you pay yearly.

Who monitors Wyze?

Wyze partners with Noonlight, a professional monitoring company, to monitor its systems. Its dispatchers are on standby 24/7 to route vital information to 911 call-takers and first responders.

Does Wyze work with Google products?

Yes. You can control your system with Google Assistant and watch footage through Google Chromecast or your smart-home hub. Wyze also offers integrations with Amazon Alexa and IFTTT.

Is wyze good?

Wyze is a good option for those who need simple security solutions. The company offers a wide variety of products and makes it easy to customize your home security system. If you have a big house or want a lot of cameras, then its plans and pricing will get more expensive. We recommend first identifying what you want from your security system — if your needs are fairly simple, Wyze is likely a solid choice.

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    Customer ServiceCamera & VideoSales & Marketing

    Reviewed March 14, 2025

    Terrible camera, terrible after-sales service. I think these cameras are a rip-off! The cameras don’t record well, even though they have SD cards in them, it still doesn’t record. The clarity of the pictures are terrible and blurred and it’s impossible to contact customer service. Today one of my cameras wasn’t working and when I called customer service they said because it was past the one-year warranty, I couldn’t get an exchange camera and there was nothing that they could do. I was told since I was a valued customer that they would give me a five-dollar gift card. What a joke! I asked her if she could get anything for five dollars in their company and she said she was just doing me a favor then she didn’t need to do it because it was out of warranty, but she was still offering me the five-dollar gift card. All I can say is this company is a joke and a rip-off. I’ll never buy from them anything again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2025

    This company has an abundance of negative reviews about their products, massive amounts of critical reviews, but it seem to me my experience and consequently a negative review is reminiscent of a scam retailer who takes a buyer's money then does not deliver the item purchased. Yes they on their site sold me a camera product, charged my card, then deleted the order. I called the customer service while waiting on hold for over two hours only to be told my concern will be transferred to the sales department and they will contact me shortly....They never contacted me. Shame on you WYZE!!

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      Customer ServiceCamera & Video

      Reviewed Feb. 14, 2025

      I ordered a refurbished Cordless Vac, on the 6th day I receive a XS WYZE logo T-shirt. Wait till next day and called Customer any thing but service and was told, after having to prove I got T-shirt that they are out of refurbished Cordless Vacs and will only refund my money but I can keep the XS shirt. I have numerous WYZE cameras and pay for CAM+ plan so I am very frustrated with there solution. They did not say they were out of inventory when I ordered the product.

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      Online & App

      Reviewed Jan. 30, 2025

      I have had these cameras for YEARS and they have never worked good. We have multiple around our house. When we go on the app to see who is at our door it takes literally 5 minutes or even not at all to see the motion which the person is already gone. The cameras always disconnect from our internet, however even on sensitive they miss a lot of things they should catch. We are finally fed up and in the market for new cameras. Do not waste your money.

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      Customer ServiceReliability

      Reviewed Jan. 25, 2025

      Wyze products are cheap for a reason, incredibly unreliable cameras and locks, and customer service is a joke. “We can’t do anything about your subscription because it was purchased in-app”. Cancellation was requested on first day of billing cycle. I’ve had Wyze products for about 5 years. I’ll be moving to Ring, NEVER have a problem with that camera.

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      Camera & Video

      Reviewed Jan. 21, 2025

      Wyze has disabled my video doorbell after going to support because it wasn't recording continuously.. They were so slow getting to the point that I said, "Thank you. I gotta go".. My camera hasn't worked since after sending them my log file.. It's the only time my camera wouldn't connect in six months.. Unless you pay them monthly fees for the rest of your life their cameras do nothing.. -5 stars

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      Reviewed Jan. 5, 2025

      The Wyze camera shows clearly BUT the biggest catch is the subscriptions are too expensive. If you get the one for $2.99 per month you are not able to use any of the home, disarm nor away features! If you decide to get one, your subscription will start at $9.99 per month to be able to use all of the services. 🤨

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      Camera & VideoOnline & App

      Reviewed Oct. 24, 2024

      Wyze has ““improved”” the wyzecam app to the point that it has become 99 percent un-usable. The latest crazy change is that wyze has put symbols OVER the event video so that parts of the video are covered up. It’s supposed to be a security camera that allows you to see security risks! They also have removed the delete button from the event clip playback screen which has added TWO extra navigation clicks, and when you are trying to monitor a large property with several structures with 13 cameras this consumes a lot of extra time.

      Also, the app can’t keep up with fast clicks so that what you think you’ve clicked doesn’t actually happen and you have to go back and re-do it. Do you think wyze will refund these cameras since they don’t do what they did when I bought them?? This is what I get for buying cheap junk. Due to these problems and so many others, I'll probably just sell all these cams and spend more money on a better company. Change the name to WyzeScam!

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      Customer Service

      Reviewed Sept. 26, 2024

      I don’t want give to even 1 start, very bad service and very bad item, my business buy total 15 item, every single year will broken 3 or 4 item, have so many problems, also this company is liar, when I have item cam V3 can’t connect any power, customer service a lady told me give to me $15 gift card, then I wait 2 days later, they sending to me $5 gift cards not $15, are you thinking about I am homeless care about your $5 gift care? I am very tired and upset with this bad company. Awful company, I will report you. Company is liar and give to you very bad low review. Now, please stay way this awful bad company, you will save money

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      Customer ServiceInstallation & SetupOnline & App

      Reviewed Aug. 27, 2024

      I have been using these cameras for about 13 months. I had the app 2.50 and it was misbehaving with my brand new cameras and one of my older cameras so I uninstalled to install the upgrade 3.0 to find out my device is not compatible with the new upgrade so I reached out to the company. They told me pretty much to buy a new phone if I wanted to use their products. I'm not going to buy a new phone when the cameras were working and then stopped working...

      As of right now one out of five cameras is working correctly. I cannot view my cameras on my PC without paying for a subscription pisses me off. I would not go with this company. They do not care about their customers. They hide behind emails. You don't get to talk to anyone that's live. I called in and clicked on a button to see who I would give, I got a live person but they read from a script and referred to the tech team and the tech team came back with the same script that you find in your app. They're a bunch of cowards taking your money. Save your money, try a different brand, see how that works

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