Best smart locks 2025: Reviews and buying advice

Who should buy the Level Lock Pro?

This Matter-certified smart lock is a great high-end option for anyone, regardless of your smart home platform of choice, although you’ll need a bridge of one type or another to connect it to your Wi-Fi network. That bridge can be in the form of the company’s own Level Connect plug-in device, an Amazon Echo or Google Nest smart speaker, an Apple TV 4K or Apple HomePod, or a Samsung SmartThings Station, among others. The beauty of this smart lock is that it doesn’t look like a smart lock at all. If you didn’t know better, you’d think it was an ordinary deadbolt. But you can open it with a touch, with the Level Lock app on a smartphone, an iPhone or Apple Watch, a keyfob or key card, or–if you purchase Level’s PIN pad accessory–a numeric code.

In addition to its compatibility, it’s a breeze to install simply by replacing your existing deadbolt, and requires just a Phillips screwdriver to accomplish. Its understated design is a big key to its appeal. It can function on its own, or you can integrate into a broader smart home system.

Level Lock Pro: Further considerations

This is our highest-rated smart lock for obvious reasons. You won’t find a more innovative or beautiful smart lock for your door, and this latest model even incorporates a sensor that can detect if the door is open or closed. It comes with two RFID key tags, but you can also program it to open with a touch when you return home. There’s simply nothing else on the market like it. The icing on the cake: It’s BHMA-certified AAA, earning the top grades for security, durability, and finish.

Who should buy the Kwikset Halo Select?

The Kwikset Halo Select strikes a good balance between the minimalism of our top pick in smart locks, the Level Lock+ Connect, and the ultra-sophisticated–and uber-expensive–Lockly Visage Pro. While it lacks a fingerprint reader and doesn’t support Apple Home Keys, it delivers lots of other features and it supports all the other smart home ecosystems, including Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. It supports both Wi-Fi and Matter connections.

The Halo Select is straightforward to install, with the aid of a Kwikset app should you need it. Management of the lock is also straightforward, with operation of the lock happening via the app or a numeric pin of 4 to 8 digits. The Halo Select offers a generous 250 pin codes, which can be set as permanent, time-limited, or recurring based on time of day and day of week.

Kwikset Halo Select: Further considerations

You can integrate this attractive smart lock into your smart home system using either Wi-Fi or Matter over Thread, which will deliver much better battery life. While enabling the latter disables some of Kwikset’s own special features, the system you’re integrating it into can presumably provide equivalent functionality. We also appreciate that Kwikset made the effort to obtain BHMA certification for this lock, not all manufacturers do.

Who should buy the Tapo DL100?

If you’re working with a tight budget and you can do without a fingerprint reader to gain admission to your home, the Tapo DL100 is a great and full-featured smart lock for not a lot of money—it’s less expensive than our favorite retrofit product.

It’s BHMA certified as an ANSI Grade 3 lock, the lowest of the three grades, but those ANSI grades are for commercial, as opposed to residential, locks.

This lock is outfitted with a numeric PIN pad and a conventional key cylinder, and it’s a Wi-Fi lock. That means you don’t need a bridge or hub to integrate it with your smart home. It’s compatible with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, and IFTTT. What’s missing? A fingerprint reader, Matter certification, and Apple Home support.

Tapo DL100: Further considerations

Tapo promises seven months of battery life from four AA batteries when connected to Wi-Fi (that rises to 10 months if you only use a Bluetooth connection), but there’s a USB-C on the bottom of the lock that will power it up if the batteries die while you’re out.

Who should buy the Level Bolt?

Once it’s paired with a Wi-Fi Bridge (Level’s own Level Connect, an Apple TV, or Apple HomePod), the Level Bolt becomes the best retrofit smart lock on the market. It replaces only the interior component of your existing lock, so there are no changes at all to the rest of your existing hardware–you can even use the same keys as before. There is also a Matter-compatible version of this lock that can be integrated into any of the three major smart home ecosystems: Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and Google Home.

Level Bolt Connect: Further considerations

The Level Bolt can be unlocked with the Level app, a voice command, or a physical key. It also works with the Level Keypad, which makes it easy to use for family members who don’t have smartphones, guests, and visitors. You can grant temporary access to service workers, contractors, and vacation renters, too.

Who should buy the Lockly Visage Zeno Series Facial Recognition Deadbolt?

Yes, it’s a very expensive smart lock; and no, it doesn’t support Matter, but if you want the ultimate flexibility when it comes to opening your door, there’s nothing quite like Lockly’s high-end offering.

This smart lock’s facial recognition technology works delightfully well, and it can be opened via a host of other ways, too: Fingerprint, PIN code, smartphone app, NFC tag, and for those in the Apple Home camp, either an iPhone or an Apple Watch.

There are a large number of components to this sophisticated lock and installation can take some time, but there are thorough and helpful instructions if you take the time to read them carefully.

Lockly Visage Zeno Series Facial Recognition Deadbolt: Further considerations

Our enthusiasm is mildly tempered by this lock gargantuan proportions and less-than-elegant industrial design, but there’s just no competition in terms of its sophistication.