eufy
eufy Baby Monitor E21
A sharp 4K camera, a proper parent screen and no subscription. The one I'd buy.
Best for Most families who want a bedside screen at home plus the option of checking in on their phone.
Stage guide
Sleep & Monitoring
Baby monitors, smart socks, sensor pads, smart cribs and white noise. The 3am aisle.
Video Baby Monitors
Smart Wi-Fi cameras, hybrids and private non-Wi-Fi screen monitors, compared on picture, reliability, privacy and running costs.
Best for Anyone on a budget who wants to see as well as hear, without Wi-Fi or apps.
Best for Data-minded parents who want detailed sleep analytics and breathing motion monitoring from an overhead camera.
Best for Parents who want a clear picture and no internet connection at all, including families adding a camera for a second child.
Best for Parents who want a big, easy-to-read screen with the option of checking in on their phone.
Wearable Baby Monitors
Smart socks and clip-on monitors that track breathing movement, pulse or oxygen, rated honestly with the UK safer sleep context.
Owlet
Owlet Dream Sock
The most complete smart sock on sale in the UK, with proper medical certification behind its readings.
Best for Parents who want pulse and oxygen readings with alerts on a base station and their phone, and who trust themselves not to watch the numbers all night.
Snuza
Snuza Hero MD
A certified medical device that does one job well, for about a third of the price of a smart sock.
Best for Parents who room-share and want a simple, medically certified breathing movement alarm with no app, no Wi-Fi and nothing to charge.
Owlet
Owlet Dream Duo
The Dream Sock plus a sharp 2K camera in one app: the full kit, at a full-kit price.
Best for Parents who want a smart sock and a Wi-Fi video monitor anyway, and like having everything in one app.
Nanit
Nanit Breathing Wear
No sensors, no batteries, just patterned cotton, as long as you already have the camera to read it.
Best for Nanit Pro owners who want breathing-motion alerts without putting any electronics on their baby.
Breathing & Movement Monitors
Under-mattress sensor pads that sound an alarm if breathing movements stop. Certified UK options compared, with calm safety advice.
Nanny
Nanny BM-03
The most thoughtfully designed breathing monitor on sale, with Class IIb certification and clever safeguards.
Best for Parents who room-share and want the most capable certified under-mattress breathing monitor, with no Wi-Fi or camera.
Babysense
Babysense 7
Two certified sensor pads for under £90: the cheapest sensible way into a proper breathing monitor.
Best for Parents who room-share and want a certified, no-frills breathing monitor with full-cot coverage at a low price.
Angelcare
Angelcare AC25-1
A certified movement pad and a video monitor in one, with the alarm on the parent unit where you'll hear it.
Best for Parents who want a movement pad and a non-Wi-Fi video monitor in one box, with the alarm in their hand rather than in the nursery.
Babysense
Babysense True Sleep
A certified two-pad breathing monitor plus a non-Wi-Fi video monitor, for little more than the pads alone.
Best for Parents who want both a certified breathing monitor and a simple video monitor without paying Angelcare prices.
Audio Baby Monitors
Clear, private DECT audio monitors from around £20, plus when audio-only is all you need and when video is worth it.
Best for Most families who want a reliable, private audio monitor with the useful extras.
Best for Anyone who just wants to hear their baby clearly, or a cheap spare for the grandparents.
Smart Cribs & Bassinets
Cribs and bassinets that rock and shush on their own, plus two sensible bedside cribs, rated against UK safer sleep advice.
Graco
Graco Eluma Nest
The sensible smart crib: cry-triggered rocking and white noise, built to the UK crib standard, for about a seventh of the price of a SNOO.
Best for Parents who like the idea of a crib that rocks and shushes on its own, but don't want to spend four figures on it.
Happiest Baby
Happiest Baby SNOO Smart Sleeper
The most sophisticated responsive bassinet you can buy, with a price, a swaddle system and a subscription to match.
Best for Parents with the budget (or a rental plan) who want the most refined all-night rocking and white noise, and are happy with its clip-in sack.
Baby Swings & Rockers
Powered swings, rockers and vibrating bouncers rated on motion, safety and value, for supervised awake time only.
Maxi-Cosi
Maxi-Cosi Cassia Electric Swing
A light, rotating swing that starts swaying on its own when your baby gets fussy, and runs on batteries when there's no socket.
Best for Most parents who want a proper electric swing that's light enough to carry between rooms and smart enough to react to fussing.
Graco
Graco Baby Delight Swing
A no-frills, battery-powered swing that folds flat, for about the price of a takeaway.
Best for Parents on a tight budget, or anyone wanting a cheap second swing for the grandparents' house.
UPPAbaby
UPPAbaby Mamaroo Smart Swing
Still the swing that moves most like a parent, now sold under the UPPAbaby name, and still priced like it knows it.
Best for Parents who want the most natural-feeling motion and like the idea of adjusting it from their phone or a smart speaker.
White Noise Machines & Sleep Aids
White noise machines and plush soothers rated on sound, safe volume, ease of use and value, with honest advice on placement.
Hatch
Hatch Baby Sound Machine & Night Light
The Hatch Rest's successor, and the most complete nursery sound machine and night light here, controlled from your phone.
Best for Parents who want a sound machine and night light they can adjust from the landing, and that grows into toddler routines later.
Yogasleep
Yogasleep Hushh 2
A tough, rechargeable pocket machine with a night light and a 34-hour battery, and the best value here.
Best for Parents who want one machine for the nursery, the pram and trips away, for not much money.
Sweet Dreamers
Ewan the Dream Sheep Deluxe
The UK's favourite cuddly soother, now rechargeable, with a cry sensor that restarts the sound when your baby stirs.
Best for Parents who want a soother that switches itself back on when their baby cries, and doubles as a travel companion.