A pet camera with a treat dispenser, no subscription: what tosses free

It's lunchtime. You open the app, and your dog is already sitting in front of the camera, staring at it, waiting. You press the button.

Yes, you can toss treats with no plan on every treat camera here: Furbo, Petcube's Bites 2 Lite and eufy's Pet Dog Camera D605. What a plan buys is the video. The eufy is the only one that keeps recordings for free; Furbo and Petcube keep nothing to look back at unless you pay.

Below: which treat camera fits you, why treats get stuck, the small print on the "free" and $30 cameras, and what the plans cost over two years. Everything was checked on each company's own website on 20 October 2026.

Which treat camera fits you?

It depends on what you want besides the treat. Four situations come up again and again in what pet owners search for, and each one points to a different camera.

You just want to toss a treat at lunch

Then you don't need a plan at all. Every treat camera here tosses from the app for free, along with live video and talking to your pet. Buy the camera outright and that's the whole cost. Petcube's Bites 2 Lite lets you choose how many treats and how far, and it holds up to 1.5 lb of them. One catch on the small Furbo Mini 360°: Furbo says it "can hold up to 10 small treats", so it's a few rewards a day, not a buffet.

You want to see what happened while you were out, too

This is where the treat cameras split. Furbo and Petcube keep no video without their plans. eufy's Pet Dog Camera D605 does: eufy says it has 16 GB built in, so your recordings stay there with no monthly fee. It also tosses treats at three distances and turns 270° to follow your dog. The catch is where we could read it: eufy's product page for the D605 is on its Australian store, and the US address sends you to a blog post. It is listed on Amazon in the US, which is where the link below goes.

You have a cat

Cats get treats too, and two Furbos are set up for them. The 360° Cat Camera tosses treats and comes with a feather wand toy, and the Mini 360° asks you to choose "dog" or "cat" when you set it up. Cat treats are small, so check the size: Furbo asks for dry, firm treats of 0.4 inches on its cat camera. What else cats need from a camera is on the cat camera page.

You saw a free or $30 treat camera

Read how long you're signed up for. Petcube's "free" Bites 2 Lite comes with Petcube Care at $9.99 a month for at least 12 months, and cancelling early means paying for the camera. Furbo's $44 and $30 prices come with a Furbo Nanny plan; on the yearly plan, that's a year paid up front. Neither is a bad deal if you wanted the plan anyway. Both are a bad surprise if you didn't. The details are below.

Which treat cameras keep video without a subscription?

Only eufy's Pet Dog Camera D605, of the treat cameras here. It has 16 GB of local storage built in, which eufy says means "your recordings are always accessible without another monthly subscription fee." On Furbo and Petcube you can watch, talk and toss, but without the plan you lose the video: there is nothing to scroll back through.

If your pet is home alone for long days, that third column is the one to read. A treat tells your dog you're there. Video tells you what happened at three o'clock. For a camera that records to a card and doesn't toss treats, see the page on watching your dog at work.

Why won't the treats come out?

Usually the treat. Furbo and Petcube both ask for small, dry, firm treats of one shape, and each sets its own size: Furbo says 0.4 inches for its 360° Cat Camera and 0.25 to 0.5 inches for the Mini, and Petcube says 1 inch or less for the Bites 2 Lite.

Furbo also says to "avoid moist, crumble, or oddly shaped treats" on the Mini. If yours jams, the treat is the first thing to change, before you blame the camera.

Is the free Petcube treat camera really free?

Only if you keep paying for a year. Petcube's Care Bundle page says "Cancel anytime" at the top, but its offer terms say the plan "should be renewed for at least 12 months", and that if you cancel earlier "you will be required to pay the full camera's price": $99.95 for the Bites 2 Lite.

So the "free" camera is $119.88 for the first year of the plan, the minimum. If you cancel after a year, Petcube says you keep live video and regular motion and sound alerts, and lose the video history and smart alerts. Bought on its own, the Bites 2 Lite was listed at $99.99 on Petcube's store, and it tosses treats without any plan. If you were going to pay for Care anyway, the bundle is fair. If you weren't, buying the camera costs less.

One more thing, if you were looking for the Bites 2: Petcube's store lists it as sold out and offers the Lite instead.

Is the $44 Furbo really $44?

Only with a year of Furbo Nanny. Furbo's page showed the 360° Dog Camera at $44 and the Mini 360° at $30, each with the yearly Standard plan; on the 360°, the button read "Subscribe now - $127.92": the camera plus $83.92 for the first year.

That plan renews at $95.90 a year. On monthly billing, Furbo says you can cancel "anytime after 3 months." Without Furbo Nanny the camera still tosses treats and sends bark alerts; it keeps no video.

Careful on Amazon, too. The same Furbo 360° Dog Camera is listed twice: one listing is titled "Core Features, No Ongoing Cost", and another "Paid Plan Required to Activate". If you don't want the plan, check the title before you buy. The Furbo link on this page goes to the first one.

What does a treat camera plan cost over two years?

Anywhere from nothing to $407.76 over two years, for the plan alone. Furbo Nanny Standard and Petcube Care Optimal are both $9.99 a month, $239.76 over two years. A treat camera bought outright and used with no plan costs nothing more after you buy it.

Every camera plan, with the date its price was read, is on the subscription tracker, and the same split for pet cameras without treats is on the pet cameras page.

What should you buy so you never pay a monthly fee?

A treat camera bought outright: every one here tosses with no plan. If you want the video too, eufy's Pet Dog Camera D605 keeps it on storage built into the camera. If you only want the treats, the Bites 2 Lite and the Furbo 360° both toss with no plan, and the Bites holds up to 1.5 lb of them.

What to get so you never pay a monthly fee

All three toss treats with no plan. The eufy is the one whose maker says it also keeps video without one; the Furbo link is the listing titled "No Ongoing Cost". Specifications as published by each maker, read 20 October 2026; nothing was tested.

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Corrections

Pet camera plans, bundles and prices change often, and both Furbo and Petcube were running sales when we read them. If something here has moved since 20 October 2026, tell us and it is corrected with the new date noted.

How this was checked

Every quotation and price was read from the company's own page on 20 October 2026: Furbo, https://furbo.com/us/products/furbo-360-dog-camera, https://furbo.com/us/products/furbo-360-cat-camera, https://furbo.com/us/products/furbo-mini-360 and https://furbo.com/us/pages/furbo-nanny; Petcube, https://petcube.com/store/product/bites-2-lite/, https://petcube.com/store/product/bites-2/, https://petcube.com/care-bundle/ (including its offer terms) and https://petcube.com/care/; eufy, https://www.eufy.com/au/products/eufy-pet-dog-camera-d605. The two Furbo listing titles were read on Amazon the same day. Two-year totals are the monthly price times 24, or the plan pages' own yearly figures. Nothing was set up or tested, and no figure came from a review site.