Reolink's new subscription-free security camera protects your home with 360-degree coverage and super-bright floodlights

• The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi is a new outdoor security camera
• It can pan and tilt to cover 360 degrees, and has two extra-bright floodlights
• You can store footage locally, and use AI-powered search to find subjects

Reolink, which is behind some of the best home security cameras we've tested here at TechRadar, has launched a new outdoor security cam with dual lenses, dual floodlights, and (perhaps most impressively) no monthly subscription necessary to save and view your recordings.

The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi camera not only has two lenses, it can pan 360 degrees for 360-degree coverage to minimize potential blind spots. The camera uses AI to identify and track people and animals, as well as reducing false alerts that can be frustrating and cause unnecessary battery drain.

Your videos are saved to an SD card, and you can use AI-powered search to find specific moments rather than scrubbing through hours of recordings. For example, you could search for 'white van' or 'woman in blue shirt' to pinpoint a moment using natural language.

It sounds very much like the AI-powered Smart Search that began rolling out for Ring security cameras and video doorbells in March, but unlike Ring, Reolink won't be locking the feature away behind a paywall.

If you want to store your videos off-site for extra peace of mind, you can sign up for the Reolink Cloud service, which saves them to the company's servers, but it's not essential. The camera is compatible with SD cards up to 512GB, and you can store even more video on a Reolink Home Hub or NAS device.

Spot the difference

The camera's two spotlights have a maximum brightness of 3,000 lumens (compared to 2,000 lumens for the Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Plus), and adjustable color temperature so you can create a warm welcoming glow that activates on a schedule, or powerful white light that's triggered by motion to illuminate and deter potential trespassers.

It sounds impressive, and I'm hoping to review it soon for TechRadar, but Reolink isn't the only company competing for a space on your walls. The Swann MaxRanger4K (which earned four stars in our review, also records at 4K, saves your footage locally so you don't have to pay for cloud storage, and unlike the Reolink camera, has a solar panel to reduce the need for recharging.

As its name suggests, the MaxRanger4K has a particularly long wireless range so you can position cameras over a wide area, but it lacks the pan-and-tile feature of the ReoLink TrackFlex.

Which one will be more practical for your home? Stick with TechRadar for a full comparison of the two very soon.

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