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Wyze
Is Wyze worth buying?
Wyze earned a buy verdict on 0 of the 7 Wyze products we compared (0%), well below the 50% average across every brand on the site. We would skip 7: Wyze Thermostat, Wyze Watch 47c, Wyze Home Monitoring Core Starter Kit and Wyze Cam v4 and 3 more.
Verdicts synthesize independent testing and long-term owner reports; we do not run a lab and never take review units. Each product below links to the comparison it was judged in. How we review.
Skip it 7 products
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Best Smart Thermostats of 2026: Honest Picks and One to Skip · Smart Home
Wyze Thermostat
Cheap and simple, but recurring connectivity and accuracy issues make it hard to trust.
Why we skip it: Wi-Fi connections drop and force reboots
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The Best Budget Fitness Trackers (and the One to Skip) · Outdoors & Fitness
Wyze Watch 47c
Cheap and pretty, but it's a glorified pedometer that overestimates nearly everything it measures.
Why we skip it: Workout tracking is minimal, with a Run mode as its main dedicated option
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The Best DIY Home Security Systems: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Wyze Home Monitoring Core Starter Kit
Temptingly cheap, but a trail of security incidents and bare-bones dispatch make it hard to trust with your home.
Why we skip it: The brand has a documented history of security and privacy incidents, which independent reporting says has left a lasting trust deficit - a real issue for a product guarding your home
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The Best Pet Cameras in 2026: Treat-Tossers and Monitors We'd Actually Trust at Home · Pet Supplies
Wyze Cam v4
Cheap and sharp on paper, but a repeated history of exposing customers' feeds makes it hard to trust inside your home.
Why we skip it: A 2024 glitch let roughly 13,000 users see thumbnails - and in some cases video - from strangers' cameras, following similar incidents in 2023 and a 2019 data leak
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The Best Smart LED Strip Lights: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Tech & Gadgets
Wyze Light Strip Pro
A cheap segmented strip that will not tell you how bright it is.
Why we skip it: No total brightness figure: Wyze lists only per-LED lumens for single red, green and blue channels.
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The Best Smart Locks: 4 Compared (and One to Skip) · Smart Home
Wyze Lock Bolt v2
A low-cost fingerprint deadbolt with built-in Wi-Fi, but its own page lists only BHMA Grade 2 and no Apple Home Key or Matter.
Why we skip it: Maker lists BHMA Grade 2, a step below the AAA rating on the Schlage pick
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The Best Smart Plugs (2026): Matter, Energy Monitoring, and One to Skip · Smart Home
Wyze Plug
Cheap and compact, but cloud-only control and no Matter make it feel dated fast.
Why we skip it: No local control; scheduling and voice commands all route through Wyze's cloud
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Wyze in our categories: Smart Home (3) · Tech & Gadgets (2) · Outdoors & Fitness (1) · Pet Supplies (1)