8 Best Webcams in 2023 [Tested and Reviewed]

Insta360 was founded in 2015 and develops original products, primarily focusing on action cameras. The Insta360 Link is a 4K webcam equipped with AI that detects and tracks the subject automatically. You can enable AI tracking, zoom in and out, or switch to whiteboard mode with gestures. It also has a privacy setting that automatically points the camera downward if you haven't spoken for 10 seconds.

This camera demonstrated natural colors and captured even hair and skin in great detail. It has incredible automatic adjustment functions, preventing the person's face from being darkened when the camera faces a light source and clearly projecting facial expressions. It also has autofocus support, allowing seamless focusing even on up-close objects. It smoothly captures motion when the user moves to the left and right or waves their hands.

Its diagonal field of view is 79.5 degrees, which is enough not to impede your gestures during presentations. The camera can rotate 90 degrees, making it useful for livestreaming and making short clips for YouTube or TikTok as well. It also features a desk view mode, in which the lens aims down and records your desk.

On top of all that, it has high sound quality thanks to its noise-canceling microphone. It cuts out unnecessary noise and transmits your voice clearly. While it does come with a hefty price tag, its image and audio quality are top-notch, and it has plenty of useful features. This webcam is best in class, not only for meetings, but for livestreaming, too.

EMEET specializes in the development of speakerphones and webcams. Their 1080p Webcam with Microphone comes with an adhesive privacy cover for those who need one. The colors are very natural and the camera projects the person’s face in fine detail, presenting a three-dimensional view of their facial expressions. It automatically adjusts the brightness based on the subject and there was hardly any overexposure. The person’s face doesn’t appear especially bright when facing a light source, but it’s not too dark to make out their facial expressions.

The motion tracking on this webcam is superb, as it smoothly follows the person’s face even when they move drastically to the left or right. Despite being a fixed-focus model, it has a good depth of field that allows it to focus quickly, even up close. Its 90-degree diagonal field of view allows it to capture the entire upper body. If you adjust the distance, you should be able to record two people at the same time. It’s easy to attach and adjust, as you simply need to clip it on.

However, the noise-canceling was not as good as we'd hoped. It projected the person’s voice clearly, so it probably wouldn’t disrupt a conversation, but it does pick up some other noises that could bother some people. It offers excellent image quality at a reasonable price, so we recommend this product to those who aren’t concerned about the internal mic. You can also capture your desk by aiming the lens downward, which will come in handy if you want to share documents or demonstrate something.

The C920x HD Pro is produced by Logitech, a company that deals in a wide variety of computer peripherals on a global scale. It’s a 1080p webcam with a 78-degree diagonal field of view and its settings can be adjusted via a smartphone app, although we did not use the app when testing it.

It automatically adjusts the picture quality based on the color of your clothes and skin tone to display your face’s natural shadows. There was a bit of overexposure when facing a light source, but it wasn’t enough to be concerning. It takes about one second to adjust under these conditions, but the brightness is sufficient to make out your facial expressions. It has autofocus capabilities and brings your face in focus within one to two seconds after moving it towards the camera.

On the other hand, it struggles to track movement. There’s a noticeable afterimage when waving or making large movements to the side. It captures a person from the chest up, so it facilitates using gestures for communication. Its internal mic doesn’t pick up a lot of noise and it’s easy to understand the speaker.

The webcam is extremely easy to attach, as you simply have to place it on. It has excellent anti-slipping measures, so it can be adjusted precisely without sliding off. While it struggles to capture movement, it has excellent image and audio quality, making it suitable for online meetings.

Aluratek specializes in smartphone accessories and computer parts. Their LIVE 1080p HD Webcam with a ring light has three different brightness levels. As far as image quality is concerned, it does have a bit of a bluish tint, but it’s still within the natural range. We noticed a bit of overexposure when wearing white clothes, but there were no issues with any other colors and the resolution was crisp.

The camera does have an autofocus feature, but the minimum distance is about three inches, making it unsuitable for coins and other small objects. It doesn’t track movement well and leaves some blurring, but refocuses quickly afterwards. Its field of view is 74 degrees, capturing video from the chest up and keeping gestures in the shot.

However, the internal mic picks up small sounds, and the speaker’s voice sounds somewhat muffled. It's easy to attach and is flexible when it comes to adjusting the angle. The ring light illuminates your face, making it easy to see your facial expressions. If this is usually difficult because of the lighting in your room, this product can be an effective solution.

The NexiGo N930AF is a 1080p webcam with autofocus and a 74-degree-angle field of view. It distinctly captures facial features and wrinkles in your clothes, but tends to overexpose a bit on colors close to white. The brightness adjustment features are adequate, and though the person’s face does appear a bit dark when the camera is pointed at a light source, it’s bright enough to make out facial expressions.

It tracked motion well, as it captured the face clearly even during vigorous motion to the side. It focused on objects within one to two seconds, even when they were close up, which is very useful when sharing documents directly with the camera. On the other hand, the mic doesn’t eliminate noise completely and constantly emits a slight scratching sound, which could bother some people. It also picks up mouth sounds, so it’s not so easy to understand the speaker.

While it’s simple to attach, it feels unstable when adjusting the angle. But we think this webcam is good for people who give a lot of presentations using frequent gestures, as it captures movement well and covers from the chest up.

This 2K webcam by AnkerWork features an adjustable field of view that can be set to 65, 78, or 95 degrees using an app. It has a high resolution and captures clear video, but it looks like a yellow filter has been applied when using the default settings. For the test, we left every unit on its default setting for the sake of consistency, but this webcam could only achieve natural colors by using an app to update its firmware.

In addition, it doesn’t excel at capturing motions such as waving and vigorous movements. It has autofocus, but it takes a while to focus and sometimes focuses on the background if your face is close to the camera. The mic is omnidirectional by default, so it picks up a large range of sounds and causes audio quality to decline. These sounds get quieter when you start talking, but they are quite loud at the beginning.

It can be attached by simply clipping it to the monitor. It doesn’t have great image or audio quality out of the box, so you need to install an app. If you’re looking for a simple plug-and-play webcam, you might want to look elsewhere.

This 1080p webcam by Elgato features an 82-degree field of view. It comes with an attached privacy cover, but doesn’t have an internal mic. This webcam captures facial features clearly in different kinds of light, but has a bluish tint, and the image sometimes appears dark depending on the color of clothing and skin tone.

While it’s a fixed-focus type camera, it tracks movement well and focuses quickly even when someone moves their face forward and backward. This webcam would work well for presentations with many gestures. However, it's rather bulky and really sticks out when attached to a laptop. While it can be flexibly adjusted to different angles, it’s not very secure and it has a heavy cord, which can sometimes move the camera on its own. Overall, it’s a bit difficult to use.

This is one of the many webcams aimed at businesses produced by Logitech. It’s a compact product that can fit in one hand. It has a 720p resolution and is fixed-focus. This camera showed significant overexposure in direct light, and when aimed at a light source, the user was almost completely dark. You’ll need to arrange your room properly if you want to use this webcam for online meetings.

To make matters worse, it doesn’t exactly track movement well, either. Since its focus is fixed, it doesn’t focus on close-up objects. With a diagonal field of view of only 60 degrees, you have to carefully plan where you point the camera to capture gestures. While it’s not enough to disrupt a conversation, the mic constantly picked up a slight noise. The speaker didn’t sound muffled, and there was no echo, but we noticed some deterioration when the person spoke loudly.

It’s moderately priced, but you get what you pay for. We recommend looking for a different product if you’re looking for good image quality.