With all the options in the baby gear world, it’s hard to know what makes the most sense for your family. To sort through all the choices, we find it’s often helpful to focus on what baby products you need and what’s important to you.
In this spirit, here’s how Nanit supports and simplifies the parenting journey and how we measure up to one of our key competitors. In a Nanit vs. Owlet comparison, we’d like to make it easier for you to decide what works best for your family. (Full disclaimer: We may be a little biased, but we are also a team of parents who use Nanit every day to monitor our little ones from newborn to toddler and beyond.)
Better Peace of Mind
Breathing Motion Monitoring
Nanit: Breathing Motion Monitoring lets you track your baby's breathing and movements without sensors or radar, ensuring peace of mind while your baby sleeps. Our Breathing Band (that your baby may not even realize they’re wearing and comes with our Nanit Pro Baby Monitor) and Breathing Wear use a unique geometric pattern printed on the fabric and work with Pro Baby Monitor to detect breathing motion patterns and send real-time
Owlet: Owlet’s Dream Sock, a smart sock designed for use with infants between 1 and 18 months, utilizes advanced sensors to track baby’s pulse rate and oxygen.
Notifications
Nanit: Nanit offers Sound, motion, temperature, and humidity detection, as well as Smart Notifications for every age and stage. From Cry Detection to Baby Standing to Child Out of Bed, age-appropriate notifications are customized to fit your needs and every development stage, helping you monitor and track your baby's sleep patterns from newborn to toddlerhood and beyond.
Owlet: Owlet offers temperature and humidity tracking, as well as cry and sound notifications (that differentiate between whether your baby is crying or just making noises), and motion detection.
Care Logs
Nanit: Nanit’s in-App baby tracker helps to share the mental load and track your baby’s development across areas beyond sleep. Care Log lets you and your parenting team track daily tasks, like feeding and diaper changes, all in one app, serving as a convenient baby log.
Owlet: N/A
Security
Nanit: 256-bit AES encryption and two-factor authentication provide exceptional security for your data
Owlet: Owlet offers 128-bit encryption.
Connection
Video viewing
Nanit and Owlet: See baby from anywhere in crystal-clear HD live stream with night vision. For families with more than one child, Nanit also offers split-screen viewing that lets you see two or even three kids at once, depending on your smartphone. (Owlet does not have a split-screen option.)
Auto-Captured memories to save and share
Nanit: Nanit creates mini memory albums of morning wake-ups, sleep + developmental milestones and more that you can save (up to an unlimited amount depending on your Nanit Insights Plan) and send to family and friends. Plus, memories are stored in the app even if you cancel or downgrade your plan. Access 24/7 video history for two to seven days (depending on Insights Plan) and video clips for your sound and motion notifications.
Owlet: Video clips on cry, sound, and motions notifications are accessible for up to seven days to download and share. After 7 days, clips on the Owlet app are deleted and can’t be recovered.
Multiple viewing vantage points
Nanit: Nanit serves up three stand options: a Floor Stand (adjustable and freestanding), Wall Mount (secure, stable and good for small spaces), and Flex Stand that is easily portable for on-the-go families.
Owlet: Owlet sits on a magnetic base and wall mount.
Shared access with loved ones and caregivers
Nanit: Being able to share access to video streams as well as sleep summaries, Memory clips and even your Care Logs, means you can build your parenting village and share the responsibilities (and cuteness) with your partner and anyone else in your chosen circle. (Our top selling Memories plan allows up to 10 users.) Protect your privacy with the ability to control what your caregiving team sees via permissions setting and a local WiFi only access option.
Owlet: Up to 4 users can access the Owlet App, however all users must use your email and password (or whoever first registered on the App) to log in, and will have full access to the app and video feed.
Sleep Success
Advanced sleep analytics
Nanit: Nanit tracks in-depth sleep data such as when a child fell asleep, how often they woke up, duration of sleep, head and body position, baby's breathing motion, number of crib visits and more. We compile all the information into detailed sleep summaries so parents can spot patterns, understand more about their baby’s sleep, and build better routines.
Owlet: Owlet’s Dream Sock is a piece of hardware that looks like a small boot that you slip onto your baby’s foot. It works with Cam 2 to track sleep patterns including total sleep, wakings, and sleep cycles.
Personalized sleep coaching
Nanit: Our pediatric experts deliver customized guidance for each stage of development including personalized sleep and age-based tips based on your baby’s own data. Whether you’re traveling, the time is changing, or your baby is transitioning between naps, we’re with you each step of the way with guidance in the app, plus personalized sleep and feeding schedules (with our Sleep Schedule Generator, an added resource on our website from Nanit Lab).
Owlet: Uses data like a child’s age, the last time they slept and the duration of sleep to calculate wake windows and suggest nap and bedtimes.
Developmental milestone tracking
Nanit: Nanit detects and captures your child’s developmental milestones such as rolling over, sitting up, and standing. We compile important moments into Milestone videos so that, even if you’re away, you’re never missing these exciting times. These paired with our sleep summaries help caregivers have the information you need to make more confident decisions.
Owlet: N/A
Sound + Light
Nanit: Sound + Light is Nanit’s three-in-one device that includes an audio monitor, white noise machine, and a nightlight. Control the sound type and volume as well as the light’s brightness from within the App. Sound + Light is also a super sidekick to Nanit Pro Baby Monitor, joining forces for features like OK to Wake. (When the Pro Baby Monitor picks up that your little one is sitting or standing, it signals to Sound + Light to turn green if the time is within your “OK to Wake” window, red if it’s too early.) And Alexa and Google Home can be paired with both the Camera and Sound + Light.
Owlet: N/A
Confidence
Nanit: Nanit is the only baby monitor that supports your parenting journey from before you even come home from the hospital, to toddlerhood and beyond. Our features that grow with you include our suite of Smart Notifications, split screen viewing, white noise and nightlights integrated into Pro Baby Monitor, a variety of stand options and more. Plus, you can customize our products depending on your parenting style. Love to have access to every last detail? We have data galore! Want to enjoy date night down the hall? Have fun, we’ve got the night shift! And our Nanit Community is a rich addition to your village, so no parent has to feel like they’re going it alone.
Owlet: Owlet specifically targets the early months of a child’s life. Owlet’s Dream Sock is for use with young babies and infants up to 18 months. Owlet has some of the same offerings as Nanit (temperature and humidity readings, sound and motion notifications, two-way audio), but it lacks a sound machine or nightlight and less specialized notifications.
The Result:
When it comes to choosing the best baby monitor between Owlet vs. Nanit, Nanit puts you in the driver’s seat with our robust range of products and features that suit every kind of parent, from the deeply data-driven to those often on the go to parents hoping to get back a little more time to themselves (and sleep). Nanit has you covered where you most want an assist and grows along with your family, supporting your parenting journey for years to come.
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