This product is not all that and a bag of potato chips like it pretends to be. After 3.5mo of use, I find it is definitely overpriced and would have looked for a different solution had I known what I know now. Pros: 1. The night vision feature is done well. I don't have a point of comparison for other products, but I have no complaints about the night vision (other than overall camera resolution, see below). 2. An unexpected benefit is the running-timers of sorts - like "I woke up 13 minutes ago" or "I fell asleep 1h 13 minutes ago." These are very helpful. They're often wrong and very delayed: while writing this, I watched it switch from "I woke up 49 minutes ago" to "I fell asleep 18 minutes ago"... sometimes 30 minutes is *the whole naptime* and yet the Nanit wouldn't have even updated the status. Other times, baby never actually woke up but it says he did. Still, having these is a nice reference point to have an idea when things happened or to judge when the next wake window closes. Just don't believe them completely. 3. Night mode is a big plus. Not talking about night vision on the camera, but rather there's a screen-darkening mode for the app, for dark rooms and sleeping if you don't want to turn the phone screen off completely. 4. Background Audio mode is great to have. Using this, you can hear the baby even if you do turn your phone screen off. 5. Temperature and humidity readings are nice to have. We have standalone sensors already, but having them integrated into Nanit is a small quality of life upgrade. Cons: 1. Resolution is not very good. If you're trying to zoom in and watch to see if baby is breathing (because good luck with the monitoring), you're going to spend several minutes deciding whether the blob in the chest area is shifting a tiny bit because of breathing or just because of the camera autoadjusting to the available light. 2. The breathing band that comes in the bundle is a sham. You're not supposed to use the band until you can put it directly around the chest -- that is, after baby's arms are free/not swaddled... which usually is around 3 months. And the breathing band they send you is sized for "0-3mo". So, you basically don't get to use it, you have to buy other "breathing wear" products if you want to use that feature. 3. The application didn't have any breathing monitoring or analytics page showing up until ~2mo of usage. Maybe an app update or something, but before that there was just ... nothing. The "help" page shows screenshots of the app that did not match the app. 4. Your "included" subscription starts the moment you set up the camera. So if you wanted to, you know, not be fussing with the camera on the first night with baby by setting it all up ahead of time, your 1year clock already started even though you're not actually using it. Our baby came 3 weeks late... so we had already burned over a month of our included subscription before we even had a reason to turn on the video feed. Is it that hard to have 'set-up' and 'activation' be different steps? 5. The smart-sheets only fit a specific mattress size. You're out of luck if you're using something different. 6. Only being able to turn the nightlight feature on from the app is a huge oversight. If I am changing the baby and realize I want a bit more light, I now have to wet-wipe my hands, run over, find my phone, unlock it, and fumble in the app to turn on the light? 7. Another reviewer got it right - you're less buying a product as you are signing up for a subscription. And the app makes sure you know it, listing various categories of data in the analytics tab... "Upgrade to Premium to view". It doesn't make you feel good to know you've *already* spent a bunch of money for a "premium product" only to be continuously reminded that you should be spending even more money. 8. If you lose internet, you're probably losing the Nanit feed. *Sometimes* (25% of the time) the Nanit app will switch to "Local View Only" [just for devices on the same network as the Nanit] but even when this happens, if you *gasp* minimize or close the app, the Nanit will not reconnect - it errors and tells you to check your connectivity, feed and audio are gone. There's no justification for this. We lose internet routinely but our wifi is on battery backup, so the camera-to-app communication never goes down, yet the Nanit still won't talk directly to the app on the same network most of the time. 9. There is no noise cancellation on this device. So if you're using a white noise machine for the baby, you're constantly hearing the white noise machine through the Nanit. 10. Also be prepared for daily marketing emails trying to sell you more cameras and bundles, even though you already have one.
