Nanit makes a smart baby monitoring system designed to give parents peace of mind.

Tor Ivry

Andrew Berman

Dr. Assaf Glazer

Baby & Kids

Nanit

floor stand camera bundle

Tech

We call the Nanit the Tesla of baby monitors. It does everything we could ask for in a baby monitor, and then some. Of course you have to pay for the subscription, which is somewhat annoying, but with the ongoing feedback and input from the app it is worth it for us.

Sometimes the Nanit doesn't take video at the right moment (it usually captures and motion in the room, but sometimes it's not accurate.) 

I wish there was a way the Snoo and the Nanit could work together to provide combined data. 


I have a young baby and have certainly recommend the Nanit to other new parents.  It is a very simple baby monitor system that allows you to see and hear your baby on your phone. There are additional features I use all the time – the built in noise machine, the nightlight, the videos that I review, taken by Nanit when it senses motion in the room. The product is very easy to take apart and put back together so we travel with it.

We absolutely love our Nanit cameras. They have clear images and sound, I love that you can connect over WiFi, and have cool features like a nightlight and speaker. The app has continued to improve as well- I love being able to see a split screen to view multiple children. My only complaint is about the paid subscription- I wish these were included with the camera. It’s not something I’m willing to pay for

Love having a monitor on phone. Great camera quality.

For an expensive monitor, they should include more functionality beyond the subscription product. Now that the first year (free trial) has expired and it feels like I've lost a lot of the benefit.

They've just done a great job. The brand, the app, their support. We have the travel stand and it's been super easy to take whenever we're away.

"cool aunt" review 
Love that I can view the app and camera from my phone when babysitting and the review videos are super cute. 

Love this monitor (just bought a second as we're having another baby). Great camera + audio quality. Helpful features (built in nightlight/sound machine etc). Easy to use and the data dashboard is really helpful in the beginning when you're trying to track/understand your baby's sleep. 

We really like the Nanit. Out of the box to installed in the nursery was a quick and painless process, and the app is easy to use and intuitive.  We switched to Nanit for our second kiddo from one of the camera + monitor combos and it's been a major upgrade.  The camera quality is good (much better than the previous setup), we can use our phones when we're outside the house with the other kiddo to keep an ear (and sometimes an eye) on the little one, and it looks nice.  When we bought our Nanit it came with a 1 year subscription to the premium app, which was awesome.  They offer a bunch of different add-on products, but we've only used the mobile mount (which has been fantastic when we travel.

A few things to note; 
If you keep the app open, even in the background, it does drain your phone battery.  Much faster if you have the app open (duh), but it's something to be aware of.  The ONLY major drawback / issue I have with the Nanit is the inability to move the camera remotely.  Every once in awhile we'll get a sound notification and we can see that they baby is asleep.  There's a decent field of view with the camera as it is, but if I could move the camera, I'd be able to see if the noise was from the dog or our older kiddo checking in on her sister.  Not a huge issue, since again, the field of view is good enough as it, but it could be awesome. 

The downside is that after a year, it becomes almost mandatory that you pay the recurring yearly fee to access what were originally sold as core features. 

We’ve loved our Nanit - the product and experience are premium all around and the app experience continues to get better to add key features. 

As many parents do, I read so many reviews and articles researching baby monitors with our first son. Everyone talked about how great the Nanit was but once I actually had the product I found it to be lacking in meeting expectations, key information missing on the website, felt the advice of customer service directly contradicted all of the instructions on the website, and ultimately didn’t use any of the monitoring capability. 

If your child is going to start out by sleeping in a pack and play bassinet in your room you will want the floor stand for the Nanit camera bc you won’t want to screw the Nanit wall mount into your temporary crib location. (This isn’t mentioned anywhere on the website. These stands are sold separately and pretty pricey). However, the floor stand height is not adjustable. The breathing alarm kept going off in the middle of the night bc it kept saying the baby wasn’t breathing, which he was. As a new mom recovering from a c-section being startled in the middle of the night is pretty painful. We had so many false alarms with the monitoring swaddles I contacted the company. They told me to adjust the height of the pack n’ play bc the baby was too small and too far from the camera. Pack n’play heights are not adjustable and my son was an average size newborn. Why did they not make the floor stand height adjustable?! I was then told to use the traveling camera stand instead which goes against everything the website says that the camera has to be directly over the crib to properly monitor the baby’s breathing. We completely stopped using the breathing swaddles after The first month. 

The second thing I found very frustrating about the Nanit was that I felt committed to it for my second son since we use it with our first. All of a sudden they changed their access program so that you are limited in how many people can have access to view the camera feed. My children are 16 months apart so not much time had passed. With my first son you were allowed to have unlimited accounts viewing the camera feed. So both parents, grandparents, and/or a nanny could all have access on their phones when babysitting. By the time my second son was born only 2 people can have access to view a camera without paying an annual subscription fee. That is absurd and I feel extremely misleading. 



Overall I really like the ability to have my children’s baby monitors with me where ever I go, but there are definitely some things I find frustrating about the product/company’s transparency.  

A staple in my MUST HAVE first baby products. This made me feel so much ease every time my baby boy fell asleep. It allowed me to monitor the slightest movements and track his breathing all from my iPhone! The convenience and effectiveness of this product is 10/10, I highly recommend. 

Unreliable connection. When your router has to restart then most of the time you have to add the camera again to the Nanit app which can be frustrating. 

Overall good experience and when it works it's great. Simply set up to create an account and get started with your camera. We currently have two Nanits and you can "live stream" both of them with a split view which I think is a great future. 

If you use sleep sacks you don’t get much info on biometric 

Great product. Does not work as well with a sound machine one in terms of picking up crying

Amazing product. I have all the breathe-wear technology but the sleep sacks are not as comfortable and my twins often prefer different brands with softer fabrics. I assume it’s because the Velcro wrap around creates a lump they’re uncomfortable sleeping on. 

I’m obsessed with my Nanit and have been recommending this to all my new mom friends. I have 5 month old twins and from the beginning I made it a priority to implement healthy and independent sleep habits. I love that Nanit gives us daily detailed sleep analytics so we can know we’re on the right track regarding their ever changing wake windows. We get age appropriate tips to help improve their daily and nightly sleep. All this is included with the free version but I’m tempted daily to upgrade. The split screen option allows me to see both of them at the same time which is my favorite feature. 

A must have baby product. The camera is easy to mount. The directions are seamless. The notifications are great and the app is made to handle multiple devices if you have two children or more. They do charge you after a year for insights like how long they sleep, level of sleep and other data points. 

It's a 10/10 product I would only knock them for charging for insights after a year. 

Anytime you think you should get the cheaper shit for your kid just stop. I spent so much on lesser products and could finally just rest easy knowing I had the best thing with Nanit. The price is well worth the product and anything that helps rest your tired ass head when the kid ain't sleepin right is well worth it. 

Mixed feelings. Breathing wear is great but sometimes a pain to put on. Insights are nice but cost more. Split screen is nice to view both babes but you can't access much from that screen. Biggest gripe is the need to pay to have more than 2 users, a bit of a pain. 

Again, another product I’ve used since the birth of my son two years ago. Love that I’m able to connect miles away, the quality is great, never had any issue using! 

We started out with a different brand of baby monitor, and it drove me crazy. It was (worse quality and) constantly running out of batteries and beeping incessantly. the Nanit is great. I don't LOVE having a wifi-connected monitoring system, but I trust Nanit. It did miss one time when our kid fully jumped out of the crib. But otherwise no notes.

This monitor has been perfect for us. We are not paying for the subscription to get extra insights and have not used the breathing tech & extra gear. But even without those things, Nanit has been a great purchase. Always reliable, always working, and personally, I love having the monitor on my phone & iPad and not having to think about yet another thing that needs to be charged. The travel stand is also very convenient for our lifestyle.

I don't like the design of the floor stand - it takes up too much space and looks awkward. I also think that for the price Nanit should give more of the insights and data for free. It seems a little too much for me to have that as such an expensive add on.. But hey, who doesn't want a recurring revenue stream... :)

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