No subscription baby monitor
For families trying to avoid recurring monitor fees.
Private baby monitor app for modern families
BeddyBytes is a private baby monitor app that transforms your smartphone, tablet, and laptop into a secure monitoring setup in minutes with no cloud video relay, no cloud recording, and no cloud storage.
How this private baby monitor app works in 3 steps
- Start Baby Station on the device near your baby.
- Open Parent Station on your phone, tablet, or laptop.
- Monitor with local video and audio streaming over your Wi-Fi.
BeddyBytes uses the backend for account authentication and signalling. Video and audio are streamed directly between your devices, and recordings are saved locally on your device.
Key features for private baby monitoring
🏡 Freedom to roam
Keep an eye or ear on your little one from anywhere your WiFi reaches. Popping outside to hang washing just got a whole lot easier.
🔉 Audio only monitoring
For when you just need the basics - BeddyBytes has an audio only mode. Listen to your little one sleeping or playing in another room.
📹 Video and audio monitoring
Watch and listen to your baby sing and chat themselves to sleep.
🔴 Recording
Recording those especially cute moments is just a click away and completely private - recordings are stored on your local storage (i.e. on your own device).
💻 Monitor from multiple devices
Watch your baby on your phone while you're eating lunch that went cold during the putdown. Then switch to monitoring from your laptop while you're working. More than one caregiver can monitor your baby on their own devices (mobiles, tablets and laptops) at the same time.
💚 Environmentally friendly
Most smartphones, tablets and laptops will support BeddyBytes, giving old devices a new lease on life and reducing e-waste.
🔒 Did we mention privacy?
It's our top concern. BeddyBytes is completely private - your images and videos never leave your own devices.
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Baby monitor app for iPhone and Android
For cross-platform setups using phones, tablets, and laptops.
Turn an old phone into a baby monitor
For parents ready to give a spare device a second life.
Radio baby monitor vs Wi-Fi baby monitor
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Set up your private baby monitor app in under 5 minutes
Frequently asked questions
BeddyBytes uses WebRTC to send video directly between your devices. To start a WebRTC connection your devices first need to find each other. BeddyBytes uses the backend to introduce your devices and relay signalling messages (connection metadata only) so they can establish a direct local connection. No video or audio is relayed through our servers.
BeddyBytes is configured with no STUN or TURN servers, so if your devices cannot connect locally the stream fails rather than falling back to a relay. In the future we plan to support a full offline mode using a self-hosted MQTT server on your local network.
Well, first of all you don't need to leave the couch! But, on a more serious note, BeddyBytes provides privacy and convenience. By creating an app which sends your data directly between devices and only on your home WiFi, we greatly reduce any possibility of unwanted access. Add a log in and encryption, and you're looking like a pretty tough nut to crack. On the convenience front it's hard to overstate how nice it is to pull up the monitor on my phone while we're having lunch and then bring it up on my laptop when I go to my office.
BeddyBytes is also perfect for travel, most of us already travel with at least 2 devices, which means you have everything you need. No need to stuff another thing into your already overflowing baby travel bag. Which also means one less thing to forget! We've got enough on our minds.
If you are weighing dedicated hardware against browser-based monitoring, this radio baby monitor vs Wi-Fi baby monitor comparison is the clearest place to start.
BeddyBytes uses WebRTC to stream video and audio directly between your devices. We don't store any of your video on our servers, and we don't relay your media through our servers.
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Sadly, most smartphone cameras don't have a night vision camera. But there is an audio only mode which we use every night.
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