Nanit vs Owlet Baby Monitors

Nanit vs. Owlet: How Do They Compare?

There’s a lot to think about when you’re shopping for a smart baby monitor. To make planning a little easier, here are some of the differences that set Nanit apart from Owlet.

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 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 with zero sensors or radar. Our Breathing Band—that your baby may not even realize they’re wearing and comes with our Pro Baby Monitor—and Breathing Wear use a unique geometric pattern printed on the fabric. Both work with Pro Baby Monitor to detect breathing motion patterns and stream them directly to you. Pattern, soft fabric, Pro Baby Monitor, that’s it!

Owlet: Owlet’s Dream Sock, for use with infants between 1 and 18 months, utilizes advanced sensors to track baby’s pulse rate and oxygen. 

Nanit vs Owlet Breathing Motion Monitoring

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, 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. 

Nanit vs Owlet Notifications

Care Logs

Nanit: Nanit’s in-App baby tracker helps to share the mental load and track your child’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

Nanit vs Owlet Care Logs Baby Tracker

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 livestream. 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 smart phone. (Owlet does not have a split-screen option.) 

Nanit vs Owlet Video Viewing Live Screen

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 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.

Nanit vs Owlet Video History

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. 

Nanit vs Owlet Stands

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.

Nanit vs Owlet Parenting Team

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, number of crib visits and more. We compile all the information into detailed sleep summaries so parents can spot patterns, understand more about their child’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.

Nanit vs Owlet Sleep Analytics

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. 

Nanit vs Owlet Sleep Coaching

Developmental milestone tracking

Nanit: Nanit detects and captures notices 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

Nanit vs Owlet Developmental Milestones

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 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 

Nanit vs Owlet Sound + Light

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 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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CONTRIBUTORS

Natalie Barnett, PhD serves as VP of Clinical Research at Nanit. Natalie initiated sleep research collaborations at Nanit and in her current role, Natalie oversees collaborations with researchers at hospitals and universities around the world who use the Nanit camera to better understand pediatric sleep and leads the internal sleep and development research programs at Nanit. Natalie holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of New England in Australia and a Postgraduate Certificate in Pediatric Sleep Science from the University of Western Australia. Natalie was an Assistant Professor in the Neurogenetics Unit at NYU School of Medicine prior to joining Nanit. Natalie is also the voice of Nanit's science-backed, personalized sleep tips delivered to users throughout their baby's first few years.

Mackenzie Sangster is on the Brand and Community team at Nanit. She supports content development and editing for Nanit’s Parent Confidently blog as well as other marketing initiatives. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her friends, cooking, being active, and using the Pro + Flex Duo to keep an eye on her fur-baby, Poppy!

Holly Hays is a contributor and writer for Nanit, channeling her years as a mama and former magazine editor to create fun, useful content for fellow busy, trying-to-do-their-best parents and caregivers. Holly has written for a wide range of brands and media outlets (Ergobaby, HGTV, Manhattan Toy Company, OXO), loves to cook and read mystery novels, and leans heavily on her two daughters to keep her up to date on all the latest slang.

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