Nanit 4+

Love love love!

This is my first kid and my first monitor so I don’t really have anything to compare it to besides those grainy images or sound only machines you see in the movies. I love thé Nanit. I’m so happy we made the investment into such a great machine with such an easy to use app.
I think once a month it loses connection, but I get out of the app and back in and we’re back in business. I recommend the Nanit to all my pregnant friends- and even strangers!

Permanent text over my video feed asking me to upgrade to $179 per year subsrciption

This was the last straw. Was already sick of being shown ads on what feels like a weekly basis to upgrade, not there’s permanent text over my child’s video feed asking me to upgrade. The hardware is not cheap, and there’s no reasonably priced subscription if you wanted to support the company with a reasonable amount (say $5 per month).

Worried that the company is financially unstable if they’re getting this desperate for new subscriptions. Since they run everything through a cloud service, their expensive hardware will be useless if they go under.

I’ve recommended Nanit to at least 6 friends, won’t be recommending this anymore.

Also, no Homekit integration.

Seriously, it has a camera, light, thermometer, and it can detect motion but none of that is accessible through Homekit. Some developers in the Homeassistant community have got it working but I don’t have the technical understanding to make that work, but at least it proves it’s possible. There’d be so many useful integrations you could set up, and I hate having to use their slow app when checking on my house before I go to bed.

Developer Response ,

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Good app but keep moving the paywall goal posts.

We bought the Nanit plus with the free one year subscription, at first we loved all the features and the videos with memories it made for us. What was especially useful was a timer of how long they had been asleep so we could keep them to a good routine.

With each update these features we loved were slowly being migrated to the premium subscription package. It’s an expensive unit for what it is with similar units being half the price but it’s software features got us over the line, those being gone wish we had never bought it.

We never used any of the breathing functions because they don’t allow you to wrap or swaddle them.