Most video doorbells are cheap hardware that locks you into a monthly subscription to access your own footage. The Reolink Video Doorbell takes the opposite approach: local storage, no subscription required, and your recordings stay yours without an ongoing fee. Prime Day just dropped it to $83 (down from $119) within a few dollars of the Black Friday record low it hit last year, for this wired 2K WiFi doorbell with 180-degree field of view, dual-band WiFi, human detection, two-way talk, and an included chime. This deal requires Prime membership, and the 30-day trial needs no card.
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Local storage, no subscription, your footage is yours
The Reolink Video Doorbell stores recordings on a MicroSD card of up to 512GB, which means footage goes directly onto a card in your possession rather than to a cloud server that requires a paid plan to access. No monthly fee to review last night’s package delivery. No subscription tier required to see footage from more than 24 hours ago. No paywall between you and recordings of your own front door. That’s the fundamental difference between Reolink’s approach and the subscription-first model that most competing doorbell brands have built their business around.
