Baby monitor apps, side by side.

What each app’s own website and store listing say it does. Cloud is Cloud Baby Monitor and 3G is Baby Monitor 3G. The details are in each app’s section below.

Prices from the US Google Play and App Store on 7 October 2026, or from the app’s own website where it says so. They change, and differ by country.

Good for: parents who want the monitor and the day’s log in one app. It listens on the nursery phone for crying itself, rather than any noise over a level, and alerts you after a few seconds of steady crying. Coughs and voices are noted without an alert. Auto-Soothe can play a lullaby or your recorded voice when it hears a cry, and rings you if the crying carries on. Feeds, naps and nappies are logged with a tap, and the week comes out as a PDF for the doctor.

Not for you if: you need several cameras at once, more than one parent phone watching, a monitor that works with no internet, or a TV or tablet as the screen. It’s in English only. It needs a little light to see: phone cameras have no night vision. Every feature, in one list.

Good for: Apple households and anyone who’d rather pay once. Besides phones it runs on iPad and Mac, with Apple TV as a screen and alerts on an Apple Watch. By default the two devices talk over your home Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with no internet needed; a mode called Unlimited Range, which needs an account, lets them connect over mobile data or another network. It can use the nursery device’s screen or flash as a light so the camera can see.

Keep in mind: alerts are for noise and motion. You buy it separately for Android, for iPhone and iPad, and for Mac.

Good for: a monitor with no account and a one-off price. It works over Wi-Fi or mobile data, pairs with a code, lets several parent devices watch one baby, and has a night light and a log of when your baby was awake, with the sounds to replay.

Keep in mind: lullabies only play when an iPhone or iPad is by the crib, its help pages say it watches one Baby Station at a time, and you buy it separately for each platform.

Good for: the widest choice of screens and cameras. Annie runs on phones, tablets, Mac, Windows, Linux, web browsers and Android TV, can use some IP cameras as the baby unit, and watches several babies at once. Like Baby’s Day In it has a baby tracker for feeds, nappies and sleep.

Keep in mind: after a 3-day trial it’s a subscription or a lifetime purchase. Its own security page says it uses the Meta SDK to track app events such as installs and subscriptions.

Good for: several cameras and big screens. Nani connects unlimited parent devices and several cameras, runs on Android TV, Fire TV and in a web browser, streams up to 4K, and can save event clips to its cloud for 30 days if you turn that on.

Keep in mind: after a free trial it’s a subscription, and sign-in is with Apple or Google.

Good for: Android-only homes, and places with no internet: it can link two phones over Wi-Fi Direct or a hotspot. It has no account, says it has no analytics or tracking, and gives 4 hours of monitoring free every month.

Keep in mind: there’s no iPhone version, alerts work from noise levels that adapt to the room, and watching a second or third child needs its companion apps.

• Check your phones first. Mixing an iPhone and an Android phone rules out Dormi.
• Decide how you want to pay. Free now (Baby’s Day In), once per platform (Cloud, Baby Monitor 3G), or a subscription (Annie, Nani, Dormi after its free hours).
• Think about the alert you want. Most apps alert on noise over a level you set, which also catches a dog barking or a door. If you’d rather hear only about crying, look for an app that recognises it.
• Count your cameras. Two children in two rooms needs Cloud, Annie, Nani, or Dormi with its extra apps.
• Test your connection. Every app needs a steady signal between the two phones. Try it for a nap before you rely on it overnight.
• Read the privacy page. All six say the live stream is encrypted; what they keep, and who else gets data, differs. Seven questions to ask any of them.

On 7 October 2026 we read each app’s own website, help pages, and its Google Play and App Store listings in the US. We didn’t install the other five, so we only repeat what their makers say, and we left out anything their own pages contradict. Store ratings are left out because they change daily. If something here is out of date, tell us at hello@babysday.in and we’ll fix it.