Nanit Pro Smart Baby Monitor

The Nanit is overkill and we love it. This overhead camera mounts on the wall above the crib and does way more than just show you video of your sleeping baby. It tracks sleep patterns, gives you a nightly sleep score, monitors breathing motion through the Nanit Breathing Wear band (sold separately), and lets you see highlights of your baby's night without scrubbing through 10 hours of footage. The video quality is legitimately good, even in night vision. You can see your baby clearly, zoom in, and the two-way audio lets you shush from the couch. The sleep tracking data is genuinely useful during sleep training because you can actually see how long it took baby to fall asleep, how many wake-ups happened, and what time they occurred. The app is well-designed and supports multiple users (both parents, grandparents, babysitters). Here's the catch: the best features require a paid subscription. Without it, you get live video and basic alerts. With the Nanit Insights subscription (about $100/year), you get sleep tracking, tips, and video history. That ongoing cost adds up. The camera itself is already premium-priced. But if you're a data-driven parent who wants to understand your baby's sleep, nothing else comes close.