In short, Ring is far superior to Nest, in my opinion.

I was using a Nest Cam indoor on the interior window sill of our living room. Daytime video quality was excellent but the nighttime quality was quite poor. To be fair, I could not use the infra red lights as it caused a reflection in the window so at night time, I was relying on illumination from a hall door light.

The biggest downsides of Nest are definitely the interface and motion detection/notifications. Nest Cam was detecting literally every movement in the frame as motion including trees blowing in the wind and changes in light when cars drove by with lights on. Aside from being very annoying, it is a security issue as on several occasions I missed important events where people had walked on my driveway because of all of the clutter from other useless events (like a car driving by outside of my activity zone).

Perhaps strangest and most annoying of all was how when using the Nest app on my phone, it was not possible to pause the video when playing back an event!

Today I installed a Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Plus and my first impressions are that it is far superior to Nest. The installation was very straightforward and the build quality is excellent.

Most importantly though, the Ring’s features are 10x better than Nest. Video and audio quality is superior and the Ring app is brilliant. Most importantly, Ring is accurately detecting human beings in my driveway and so far, I have not received any false alarms from random motion! I haven’t need to use the feature but I really like that Ring allows you to adjust motion detection sensitivity.

I have not yet tested the floodlights or Night Mode in the dark but the lights are extremely bright so I have no doubt they will work very well.

If you looking to buy a security camera and are weighing up Nest vs Ring, I can say with certainty that Ring is a much better product. Oh, and the subscription is cheaper by €1.00 per month!