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Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Very reasonably priced
- Compact and versatile
- Even higher picture high quality than the step-down mannequin
Cons
- Motion-based recording is hair-trigger delicate
- Infrared evening imaginative and prescient is middling at greatest
- We encountered some setup troubles
- Subscription is all however required for normal use
Our Verdict
Higher decision is all the time welcome, and the extra upgrades over the still-available Blink Mini 2 keep this reasonably priced digicam’s suggestion.
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$49.99
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$25.99
The Blink Mini 2 is an easy safety digicam that lives as much as its identify: Small, unobtrusive, cheap, and easy; it’s “mini” in each sense of the phrase. But its 1080p decision isn’t precisely dazzling in 2026.
That’s certainly why the Amazon-owned operation gave the digicam an improve with this newest launch—the Blink Mini 2K+—boosting decision up 2K ranges whereas throwing in a number of extra, if much less seen upgrades.
Specifications
The $50 Blink Mini 2K+ doesn’t look loads completely different from its $40 cousin, however its greater decision alone jutifies the value premium.
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The Blink Mini 2K+ and the Blink Mini 2 we reviewed in 2024 (that mannequin stays available on the market for $40) look an terrible lot alike; they’re each tiny, squared-off units that, at 2 inches per aspect, match simply within the palm of your hand. The digicam connects to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and stays powered through a USB-C cable. It’s designed for both inner or exterior use, with IP65 climate resistance promised—offered you utilize a Blink Weather Resistant Power Adapter (offered individually for $10).
A 138-degree diagonal viewing angle is barely tighter than the 143 levels that the Mini 2 delivers, and the unit will also be paired with a second 2K+ digicam and the Blink Arc adapter (evaluation forthcoming) if you wish to approximate a 180-degree ultra-widescreen impact.
The Mini 2 featured a tiny highlight supposed to be used as a kind of evening gentle, however this characteristic will get an improve on the 2K+ to supply sufficient illumination for “color” evening imaginative and prescient in case you so want. Standard black-and-white infrared evening imaginative and prescient can be included in case you desire your safety to be extra discreet. And whereas two-way speak stays within the combine, Blink now boasts that the microphone contains noise cancelation options. And whereas the unique Mini 2 included particular person detection as a subset of its movement detecting system, the 2K+ provides automobile detection to the combination.
The digicam stays accessible with both a black or white end, with the facility cable in an identical coloration.
Installation and setup
The Blink Mini 2K will be indifferent from its easy stand in case you don’t must tilt its viewpoint.
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The Blink Mini 2K+ options very deep-set USB-C ports (designed to be weatherproof), and as soon as the included cable is linked, bodily setup is basically executed. The unit maintains the identical mounting system because the Mini 2, with a bracket that may be simply snapped on and off from the digicam physique and completely affixed to a wall or ceiling with the included screws if desired. The digicam will also be merely rested on a bookshelf or tabletop for extra informal or non permanent use.
The Blink app gave me complications throughout the digital portion of configuration, as I acquired a number of connection failures all through this section of setup (an issue I encountered constantly with two Mini 2K+ cameras I examined). But this and different elements of setup are extra nuisance than downside, together with bugs just like the app’s failure to recollect your Wi-Fi login credentials, forcing you to re-enter them for every system you arrange.
Regardless of the occasional headache, I used to be finally in a position to get the digicam arrange and working efficiently inside a couple of minutes of effort.
Using the Blink Mini 2K+
The older Blink Mini 2 has strong video high quality given its decision, and that’s improved additional with the 2K+. By daylight, video is crisp and easy, with nearly no distortion evident. Under infrared lighting, nonetheless, I discovered the evening imaginative and prescient mode to be middling at greatest, with footage relatively grainy and dim. A critter the digicam captured in my yard on many late-night sojourns stays definitively unidentified, even at a spread of lower than 15 toes. (Skunk or raccoon are the prevailing theories.)
The stronger highlight on the 2K+ does assist fairly a bit, and in case you don’t thoughts the digicam making its presence identified, the ensuing video after hours marks a substantial enchancment over that captured below the IR bulbs.
I discovered the 2K+’s movement sensor to be extremely delicate, a lot in order that I spent per week dialing it down till it was on the lowest stage accessible. Even then, the digicam nonetheless recorded tons of of movies with no movement evident that I might see, with notifications duly delivered to my telephone. Clips are cataloged in a chronological record, and whilst you can type clips to filter for folks or autos within the picture, by and enormous scouring by means of recordings for what you want is a scroll-and-tap affair, scrubbing by means of one clip at a time.
You’ll must pay for a subscription to allow the Blink Mini 2K’s particular person and automobile detection options.
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One observe of recommendation with this digicam: It received’t file in any respect until the system is ready to “Armed” within the app and the digicam’s movement detection setting is ready to “On.” It’s a complicated design that Blink outlines on this support page, however the upshot is that the Armed/Disarmed settings allow you to disable a number of cameras without delay, whereas movement detection is a per-camera parameter.
Other key settings embody adjustable cooldown/retrigger time (10 seconds to 60 seconds) and configurable clip size (5 seconds to 60 seconds). As an Amazon product, strong Alexa help can be included.
As with different Blink digicam merchandise, the digicam can’t save video until you’re paying for additional providers. You’ll want a Blink Subscription Plan to file dwell video, which is saved to Blink’s cloud service for as much as 60 days. The plan can be wanted for particular person/automobile detection and prolonged dwell streaming (maxing out at 90 minutes). The plan runs $4/month or $40/12 months (up 33% this 12 months) for one system or $12/month or $120/12 months for an infinite variety of units.
For these allergic to subscriptions, you possibly can add a Blink Sync Module 2 ($50) or a Blink Sync Module XR ($70) to your community to retailer video from as much as 10 Blink cameras domestically, though each units solely retailer motion-sensed exercise and may’t retailer dwell video clips recorded on demand just like the subscription plan can. You’ll additionally want to supply native storage to plug into both system: a USB thumb drive for the Sync Module 2 or a microSD reminiscence card for the Sync Module XR. There’s most capability of 256BB in both situation.
Should you purchase the Blink Mini 2K+?
At $50, the Mini 2K+ is hardly a serious funding, although the requirement of a subscription and/or extra {hardware} to unlock all its options modifications that calculus a bit.
If you already use different Blink gear at residence, upgrading to those cameras on an as-needed foundation makes nice sense, although few customers will seemingly be compelled by the upgrades to switch present Mini 2 cameras in the event that they’re nonetheless working effectively.