Choosing the best baby monitor for you can be a minefield due to each one's numerous features, the various price points, and the three different types: audio, video, and smart-enabled. We've put together a guide of the best baby monitors to help you make an informed decision, have peace of mind, and choose the best baby monitor for you and your family during your baby's first year and beyond.
Our Best Buy
The Lollipop Smart Baby Monitor is a stylish and practical smart baby monitor for your home, great features such as event saving and data history mean you can learn more about when your baby is more active or even when your baby is less happy thanks to its true crying detection capabilities. It also comes with a Contactless Breathing Monitor to keep track of your little one’s breathing rhythm and alert you to any changes. Once you partner all of these with the ability to watch your baby live from your smartphone, there is very little that can go wrong.
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The Best Video Baby Monitors
Our Review
The HelloBaby HB32 is a great wireless video baby monitor that offers you loads of great features to keep you and your baby calm, collected, and most importantly, connected. With an enhanced 2.4ghz connection for no dropout and increased security, as well as signal loss and battery level warnings, you can always be with your little one without fear of disconnecting. This excellent connectivity is partnered with infrared night vision, two-way talk, pan, tilt and zoom functionalities and even lullabies to give you and your baby the complete experience.
What we like
- 100% private connection and prevent signal dropouts
- Temperature monitoring system and warning
- Eight lullabies
Useful product information
- High-resolution 3.2-inch digital colour LCD screen
- 2.4GHz wireless technology
Angelcare Ac327 3-in-1 Sensasure Baby Movement Monitor with Video
Price: £196.73
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The Angelcare AC327 bundle is one of the best baby monitor bundles for parents who want knowledge of everything their baby does. With multi-camera functionality, voice-activated sound transmission, and a wireless movement sensor pad with alarm, you can check in on your baby in whatever way suits you and low battery alarms on both the movement pad and the parent unit mean you'll never be unexpectedly disconnected from your baby.
What we like
- Crystal clear sound with reduced interference and optimised security
- Room temperature displays on parent unit display screen
- Monitors movement and motion without ever touching baby
Useful product information
- Video displays on 4.3
- Two-way audio
- Movement and motion sensor which goes under the baby's mattress
Our Review
You can watch your baby from anywhere with the excellent Motorola Nursery VM50G Baby Monitor. With the ability to watch from a mobile or tablet, remote pan, tilt or zoom the camera, and ability to monitor room temperature, the Motorola Nursery VM50G Baby Monitor proves itself as a great way to watch over your little one without spending as much as you might for some of the higher-end video baby monitors.
What we like
- Remote HD video streaming
- Lullabies
- Infrared night vision
Useful product information
- Range of up to 300m
- 2.4ghz wireless technology for in-home viewing
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Our Review
The Tommee Tippee Dreamee Video baby monitor is the best baby monitor out there for parents wanting the complete picture. Thanks to its 360-degree camera unit and movement pad, you can see every movement your baby makes and be notified when they're still for too long, meaning there is no need to worry that something isn't right, and thanks to the CrySensor, your baby can be soothed instantly by a selection of lullabies or even music of your own choosing.
What we like
- Wide-angle view of your baby, including tilt, pan and zoom
- Cry sensor and two-way talk-back
- Baby motion and movement monitor and thermometer
Useful product information
- 300-metre range
- Wall-mountable 360°-night vision camera
- HD colour monitor
Our Review
The Lollipop Smart Baby Monitor is a stylish and practical smart baby monitor for your home, great features such as event saving and data history mean you can learn more about when your baby is more active or even when your baby is less happy thanks to its true crying detection capabilities. It also comes with a Contactless Breathing Monitor to keep track of your little one’s breathing rhythm and alert you to any changes. Once you partner all of these with the ability to watch your baby live from your smartphone, there is very little that can go wrong.
What we like
- Fast and easy setup
- Parental monitoring via an app
- Notifications when your baby cries, climb out of the crib or makes loud noises
Useful product information
- Compatible with both iOS and Android systems
- Advanced infrared night vision
Our Review
The Owlet Baby Monitor Duo proves to be an excellent option for a secure baby monitor, which still is packed full of features. With the ability to live stream and even talk to your baby securely from anywhere via the Owlet app, plus heart rate tracking and even oxygen level monitoring, you can have peace of mind that your baby and your connection are completely safe.
What we like
- Weekly wellness history
- View results of tracking in real-time on your smartphone
Useful product information
- Parental monitoring via an app
- Tracks heart rate, oxygen levels and sleep trends
- HD video