Best Baby Monitors 2019 (+ 3 popular, but bad monitors)

Our picks for best baby monitors of 2019, why they're great, what you need to know. Plus 3 popular but not-so-good monitors.

Here's what we cover in this video:

To arrive at our picks for top baby monitors of 2019, we've done in-depth testing of dozens of baby monitors including both wifi baby monitors and traditional monitors.

We test monitors across a number of attributes, including picture quality, sound quality, ease of use, and standout features.

We'll show you our top 3 picks, why all 3 of our top picks are wifi baby monitors (meaning they connect via wifi and use a phone app as the parent unit), and the 3 features shared by all 3 of our top 3 baby monitors of 2019.

Next, we discuss three popular but not particularly good baby monitors (one of which, the Nest Cam, isn't even a baby monitor, even though a lot of people wish it was!). We'll explain the flaws in each of these you need to watch out for.

Finally, we'll discuss our giveaways of our winner for the best baby monitor of 2019!

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Shop our top 3:
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To enter the contest:
1. Question about baby monitors? Ask it in the comments below. We'll answer, you'll get an entry
2. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, you'll get two entries
3. Subscribe to our email list for parents of babies and young kids, you'll get 3 entries
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Full Contest Rules
2. This contest is run by Fathercraft and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with YouTube. By entering the contest, you are releasing YouTube from any liability related to this contest
3. Fathercraft’s 2019 Nanit Plus giveaway is open to residents of the United States 18 years of age or older.
4. To enter, participants must fill out the above form, be a member of Fathercraft’s email list as of January 31st, 2019, or comment on Fathercraft’s Best Baby Monitors of 2019 YouTube video.
5. This contest will run from February 2019 through January 2020.
6. Five winners will be selected – one by the end of March 2019, one by the end of June 2019, then winners in September, November, and January..
7. Winners will be chosen by uploading all contestants into a secure Google Sheet, along with information on how many entries they received to account for weighting. Winner will be randomly chosen using Google Sheet’s RAND() function
8. Winners will be announced via email from Fathercraft, identifying only the winner’s first name & last initial & city name
9. Winners will be notified by email entered into the above form, an email given to Fathercraft, or via YouTube message if the winner is randomly chosen to be from a YouTube comment.
10. Winners will have 7 days to respond confirming they would like to receive their Nanit Plus. 11. In the event a winner does not respond, another winner will be chosen.
12. Upon consent, winner’s name and physical address will be requested and shared with Nanit for the fulfillment of the prize.
14. No purchase is necessary to enter this contest.
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[Fathercraft]

Stay tuned (and subscribe) for our Best Baby Monitor of 2020 video, coming very soon!

[newbycrewoffive]

I have loved our infant optics, it has been 3 years now and it never failed us. It has been through multiple drops and it is still going strong. It may not have a good resolution but it is a good baby monitor.
Anyways, I love this content. Watching this coz it just goes to my recommended videos and it intrigues me. Lol!

[Chattanooga_Sparrow]

@Fathercraft - I have done lots of searching and reading reviews and bought and returned multiple monitors, and we continue to use the Infant Optics DXR-8. I'll tell you why.

Of all the different ones we've tried, each had its own quirks that would compromise something important... whether it be latency, lack of connecting, time to activate, ease of use etc... but with the DXR-8, it just works!

All of the wifi versions we've tried had problems with connecting or providing notifications accurately or even at all! Many work well on apple products, but don't care to put as much focus on android platform... this is made very clear, and to me shows they aren't trying... or don't care.

With that said, did you also test on android platform and have the same experience? I think that is very key to note.
With the DXR-8 (for example) it doesn't matter what phone you have, or how expensive your phone is, or if your router is up to par and provides reliability as well. These systems are fully packaged with no need for other technology to be 100% reliable.

I'm not sure about most of the people out there, but I don't want to have to wonder if: my wifi signal is strong, if my router crashed, if my ISP is having issues, etc etc.
I only worry about if I hear something on my standalone, dedicated baby monitor. Something I don't want to multi-task.
So... back to my point... erm after an un-intended rant... before you say something is bad, perhaps you should first look into why it's bad FOR YOU, and not broadcast your opinion as fact.

[laurayost]

First time mom with a two month old! Really glad I watched this first before making a purchase!

[brittanydeblasio]

Soon to be new mom here! Thanks for all your advice! Good luck to everybody in the contest!

[moshake]

Expecting in October '19. Thanks for the helpful review!

[karenweir]

Very Cool reviews, it was very helpful.

[bitterrotten]

If you press and hold the owlet base station, the light will dim to a reasonable bedroom level.

[kellyrichmond]

Thank you guys! I’ve been comparing the Nanit and the Cocoon for a while and haven’t been able to decide - you made it really easy!

[iangalinato]

You onow hes a real dad from all his dad jokes LOL

[yb-vvxe]

Keep up the amazing work. Solid review and thanks for all the tips.

[JamieNotLamie]

I will say the summer monitor I got from Walmart for $100 is solid. Good video and audio and nice big prop up screen to see your LO.

[jakeasomeify]

First time dad coming in October! A nanit would be awesome!

[sharayahshores]

I am so glad I came across this video. It has helped me narrow down which monitor I want for my baby in August.

[Emilia]

Glad I watched this video because I never heard of the nanit before I saw this video 👍🏻

[BeautyBlossomed]

Thank you for making a simple and clear video review of the baby monitors! I get tired with so much build up to the content and I enjoy that you have tidbits of fun and your own personality without taking a long time to tell us about the products!

[brandiekirkpatrick]

I never thought about the monitoring limitations of the Nest cam. I've definitely removed it from my list due to your advice.

[ashleighegerton]

Great video!! Especially happy that you mentioned monitors to steer clear of! Very helpful for this momma to be!

[Fathercraft]

Questions or thoughts? Just comment, we're here! Also, NEW GIVEAWAYS ADDED! We'll be giving away 3 MORE Nanit Plus's, one in early September, one in early November, one in early January 2020! So, subscribe and then head to fathercraft.com/tube to enter the contest.

[buhbyeee]

Subscribed! Just what I was looking for :)