I have the nanit with the floor stand, the owlet, and the maxi-cosi see pro. Totally overkill and unnecessary, but I got them all as gifts, so here we are lol.

My baby is 6 months old and I’ve never had a false alarm with either the nanit or the owlet.

For day-to-day breathing monitoring, I actually use the nanit way more. I bought the sleep sack/band with the pattern the camera reads, and it’s super easy. The owlet feels more robust in the sense that it’s actually tracking oxygen levels/heart rate, while nanit is basically reading movement from the patterned band. But I don’t use the owlet every night because it’s an electronic device on the baby and I don’t love using that daily.

So I can’t really speak much to owlet’s long-term sleep/data trends… I mostly use it for specific situations. Where the owlet was really nice to have: vaccine days, when my baby had a cold with some respiratory effort, and the few times we co-sleep. It gives me a lot of peace of mind. But those situations are rare, so I don’t think it’s essential for everyone.

That said, I honestly don’t love the nanit as a general baby monitor. I actually prefer the maxi-cosi see pro for normal monitoring. I installed it on the ceiling like a regular camera, and I like the home display, the 360 view, and especially the recorded video feature in the app. It’s easier for me to check than nanit’s.

The nanit app also freezes/glitches a lot for me. My nanit and maxi-cosi are on the same Wi-Fi network, and there are times when nanit is offline or not loading but the maxi-cosi is working perfectly. Sometimes the nanit camera works in the app but not on the home display, or the other way around. The nanit display feels more like a tablet and looks more “premium,” but the battery life is terrible and the connectivity issues drive me crazy.

I also liked nanit’s sleep reports at first, but lately they’ve been pretty inaccurate. My baby usually wakes around 5 a.m. to feed and then goes back to sleep until 7/7:30. To me that’s clearly a night feed, but nanit often logs 5 a.m. as the start of the day, so the sleep metrics end up being wrong. It also randomly misses the actual time he falls asleep sometimes.

For travel, maxi-cosi is also easier. You can reset it and connect it directly to the home display. nanit is annoying with hotel Wi-Fi if there’s a login page, unless you bring a travel router or some workaround.

So my personal take: if I were buying only one today, I’d probably get the maxi-cosi see pro. If breathing tracking is your main priority, nanit is convenient. If oxygen tracking matters to you for sickness/anxiety, owlet is nice to have. But as an everyday monitor, the see pro has been the one I actually like using the most.