REASONS TO BUY
Smooth pan and tilt function
Privacy cover
REASONS TO AVOID
Lacks motion tracking and facial recognition
Ring Pan Tilt Review
A capable indoor pan/tilt camera that captures clear video, but lacks the high-tech features of premium cameras
Credit: Matt Lighthart
By Sentry Kelly ⋅ Senior Review Analyst ⋅ June 13, 2025
Contributions From: Kolby Anderson
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Our Verdict
The Ring Pan Tilt is an indoor camera capable of always finding the perfect angle with its ability to pan 360 degrees horizontally and tilt 169 degrees vertically. The feature set of the Pan Tilt allows for motion, person, and vehicle recognition, as well as two-way audio. It captured good image clarity, but ultimately paled in comparison to the best security cameras I've reviewed. And, most of its functionality is locked behind a monthly subscription fee.
Our Analysis and Test Results
The Ring Pan Tilt camera is a hard-wired indoor security camera with pan/tilt capabilities, giving you a smooth 360-degree 1080p video, and is available in five different colors. Despite its lack of high-end features, I truly like this camera for its clarity, panning and tilting abilities, and thoughtful features like a privacy shield for when your camera isn't in use.
I appreciate that the Ring Pan Tilt can quickly scan the entire room.
Credit: Matt Lighthart
Video Quality
For a 1080p camera in this price range, the Ring Pan Tilt captured clear and useful images packed with a decent level of detail.
Aside from the overexposure in the sky, this unit has pretty solid daytime image clarity.
Credit: Matt Lighthart
As far as color accuracy is concerned, my main gripe is with some light banding around the edges of the color boxes, which is darker than I would like. The overall daytime image quality is a little dark, but nothing terrible besides overexposure of the sky. The nighttime results were also a little dark but had a good amount of contrast, enabling me to make out facial details.
Although not the most crisp results, the letters on our chart are fairly legible down to the fifth line.
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Monitoring Performance
The Ring Pan Tilt has a pretty simple feature set, allowing it to detect motion, people, and vehicles and utilize two-way audio capability. It does not have facial recognition, but it was able to recognize motion at all five distances that we tested.
The Ring app allows you to customize motion zones with eight drag-and-drop points.
Credit: Matt Lighthart
Motion zone management on the Pan Tilt allows you to create up to three individual motion zones and define them with eight drag-and-drop points. This camera doesn't have many bells and whistles, but I found it to be great at capturing motion.
The Ring Pan Tilt has great object recognition, immediately notifying you when a person moves into the frame.
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Ease of Use
It was easy to navigate the Ring app, except for a few points. First, the home screen doesn't show a live view of the camera. Though, it does show a thumbnail of the last motion event and provides a timer in the lower left-hand corner to tell you how long ago the captured image was, which is nice. Even after clicking on the thumbnail of the camera, it takes an additional click on the play button to access the live view. That said, I love the clean, intuitive layout of the Ring app, and the features are mostly easy to find and utilize.
The sleek mounting system of the Ring Pan Tilt is user-friendly and straightforward.
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The Ring Pan Tilt can also pan 360 degrees horizontally and tilt 169 degrees vertically, allowing you to find the perfect angle in almost any circumstance. It requires a hard-wired connection to power it and is not capable of using batteries. It also has a unique feature, a manual privacy cover that you can cover the lens with, and that will turn the camera off until you decide you need it again.
On the right side of the camera, you can see the manual privacy cover of the Ring Pan Tilt that turns the camera off until your next use. I love the peace of mind of a manual cover.
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Should You Buy the Ring Pan Tilt?
The indoor-only Ring Pan Tilt camera captures crisp and clear images with the ability to pan and tilt to find whatever you're keeping an eye on. Keep in mind, though, that without a paid subscription to Ring Home, you'll only be able to see live view when motion events are triggered. Accessing the camera in the app without the subscription will only show you an image of the last captured motion event. If you're fine with a monthly subscription, you'll gain access to all that the Pan Tilt has to offer. Otherwise, I suggest looking into something else that has the capabilities you need without the monthly subscription.
The Ring Pan Tilt has pretty good image quality, but only slightly better than the average of all the cameras we tested.
Credit: Matt Lighthart
What Other Security Cameras Should You Consider?
If you're intent on avoiding monthly fees, the Kasa Spot Pan Tilt and TP-Link Tapo 2K Pan c210 both offer pan and tilt capability like the Ring Pan Tilt but allow you to view live view without a paid monthly subscription if you utilize their local storage. The Wyze Cam Pan V3 is another pan/tilt camera that captures clear video at a reasonable cost.
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