Nanit

By and large, this is an excellent baby monitor and app. The picture is very clear, it was incredibly easy to set up, and the app is very reliable. I no longer use a serrated app to track sleep because this is so accurate. That said? There are a few issues. Occasionally the app doesn’t connect to the monitor. This is an issue when I’m trying to turn on or off the light to change a diaper or not disturb a sleeping baby. I have to open and close the app half a dozen times before it works. This happens a few days a week. It also should be possible to toggle night vision on and off. Sometimes there is clearly enough light in the room for the camera to be in standard mode, but it auto changes to night vision anyway. That’s a bit annoying. The price of the app is also obscene, especially when the camera is already so expensive. I’m hoping the year of insights included will more than take us through sleep training so it won’t be an issue, but it still seems like a slap in the face after buying such an expensive monitor.

We had the Miku starting off with our newborn. It would crash, turn off randomly, the no breathing alarm would falsely go off all the time (which was terrifying) even when you had exited the app, and it had very poor quality video. It also made you go into the settings to turn off the breathing sensor every single time you took the baby out of the crib, which is near impossible to remember to do before you’re picking a crying baby up. After experiencing how bad a product could be, we were absolutely delighted to come across the Nanit. The best part is the reliability. Not once has the app crashed and I can fall asleep knowing I will be woken up by my baby’s first sounds through my phone instead of shrieking from the next room, as I did with the Miku. Also, not once has the no breathing alarm gone off. What a pleasure. It would have been a little harder to appreciate all those things if I hadn’t gone through the nightmare of the Miku! But honestly, the Nanit is worth every penny. I’ve recommended it to all my friends.

We can’t get enough of the amazing new features that Nanit offers! Babies make SO many noises while they sleep and so having the Nanit Baby Monitor allowed me to look over and check on him but also be able to go right back to sleep so I actually got a lot more sleep then friends with other monitors and I was well rested to take care of him when he woke. The other feature I love is the data insights that helped us especially when we first had our son to track his sleep and create a schedule that worked best for him. Being sleep deprived and juggling the many new tasks at hand this was so helpful to have already logged for us so we didn’t have to track it ourselves. While sleep training our son it was so important for us to be able to make sure he was okay even when he was initially upset and had to learn to put himself to sleep. Nanit gave us great sleep training tips to help guide us too! He was sleep trained in 3 days! And I never forget to pack our multi-stand when going overnight somewhere!

Love the nanit !! Super easy to install and use and love that the camera floats directly above the baby versus from a certain angle. My only suggestion is regarding the new feature recently added called “night mode” which dims the app so that you can leave the app open at night without having the app shining brightly while you sleep. I do love the feature ! BUT I would recommend that they modify it a bit to allow you to set a time frame for the night mode to automatically turn on and off by itself. Right now i have to turn it on (getting ready for bed) and off (in the morning for the rest of the day) which kinda defeats the purpose of the feature. It should just do this automatically. If I have to manually turn it off and on every night/day then I’m wasting the same amount of time I was wasting before where I was dimming and brightening the light on my screen, before the night mode feature was created. Hope this makes sense! Seems like an easy fix!

The camera itself was super easy to set up & the app is mostly reliable. At times there are connectivity issues, but overall we have been very happy with this camera & app. This is our 3rd baby monitor. The 1st (not a Nanit) was recommended by a family member & had so many stability issues so we had it replaced by the manufacturer. The replacement was just as awful, so my husband did some research and came across the Nanit. We won’t ever use another monitor! One thing I do wish the app had was the ability to cycle through video feeds for those with multiple cameras. We have 2 littles, so have 2 Nanits. Monitoring both requires having 2 separate devices open to the Nanit app. It’s not a huge deal, but is also kind of a pain in the booty. Each night we tie up my iPad & iPhone so that we can keep an eye on both babies. Most basic monitors have the ability to cycle back and forth between different camera feeds, so I hope your developers will consider adding this feature.