Baby Monitor

MVA

- July 29, 2012

Everyone

Lifestyle

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Description

Turn your phone into a baby alarm.

Baby Monitor is an app that helps you in watching your baby even when you are not around. If your baby is asleep and you are in another room, the baby monitor will detect if your baby is crying and alert you by a call or a text message.

The following features are supported in this version:

✓ A baby alarm which either text or calls you when the baby is crying (with customizable sensitivity)

✓ Image surveillance - take a picture of your baby if the alarm is triggered and sent it to another phone

✓ A sleep diary which allows you to take notes and see how long time your baby has been sleeping

✓ Tips on how to get your baby to sleep and other useful facts

✓ Sends a warning text message if battery is getting low

If you discover any bugs or problems please write to mvainformatics@gmail.com and we'll try to fix them before next release.

Would you like to try the new unreleased version? You can participate in the beta program by installing the app from:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/dk.mvainformatics.android.babymonitor

Reviews

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Jan Jaap van de Wetering

Awesome app. Works excellent. 6/5 stars. I can't hear the little dude crying because my pc sounds like a 747 taking off. I work at home sometimes, but we didn't want to buy a baby monitor. Well guess what, who needs one anyway with this app. I let it call my landline, I can hear if it was just a cough or if he's really awake. When I hang up it continues listening. Perfect.

A Google User

Excellent. Works well in a wide range of noise environments. As long as both phones have signal it's fairly faultless. Very useful and better than any hardware monitor I've tried yet. Doesn't seem to tax the battery unduly, and will let you know if it's getting low. Keep up the good work!

James Fitzgerald

Amazing Amazing Amazing This app worked seamlessly. Tried it last night at a hotel. When our little boy cried the app triggered by noise called my wifes phone allowing us to monitor what was going on. Perfect. I used the app on my phone at 90 sensitivity and turned my in call volume down (baby will hear it ringing otherwise)

Felix Zapata

Works like a charm So far its never let us down.. We use it only in situations where the baby is deep asleso and we need to get some other things done.. No app is perfect so please don't stop checking in on your kids every 10 to 20 minutes.. Awesome app!

Amandeep Ahluwalia

An end to a parent's concern!! Its an amazing app which works flawlessly.. Just that v need to keep sensitivity a lil high so that it does not activate at other sounds.. M very happy with it.. But since I have twins I hope u guys come up with something which can let me know which baby is up.. Lol... Thank you for this wonderful app guys.. Keep it up.. !!

Lilian Boo

Fantastic! This is fantastic app. My son tends to wake up from nightmare, and I usually hears him only when he cries at the top of his lungs. This app is perfect as I only need to know if he is awake crying before it gets too bad. I get a call on my other mobile phone when I'm downstairs.

User reviews

Jan Jaap van de Wetering December 17, 2012

A Google User August 28, 2012

James Fitzgerald August 11, 2014

Felix Zapata August 28, 2016

Amandeep Ahluwalia October 27, 2014

Lilian Boo February 12, 2015

O. J. Sills August 3, 2014

Best baby monitor app So easy to use, takes a picture of the baby when activated by noise. You can set the sensitivity to adjust for surrounding noise. I recommend it to anyone that needs an app instead of carying a monitor around when traveling. Also let's you track baby's sleep pattern with a log. One of the best apps I ever got. Best Price too. ...free!

Nate Woodward March 24, 2015

Alarm only This is a baby alarm only, not a full blown monitoring app. It listens for sound, and then calls or texts a phone number when the sound goes above a threshold. It can text a photo, but there is no way to monitor sound or video actively on another device.

melody mooney July 10, 2014

Great monitor on Vacation Worked great, only glitch was we could not get audio TEXT alert to work with my Husband's Samsung Galaxy S5. It would only vibrate. We switched to being alerted by a call. Make sure to adjust the sound sensitivity to the your LO's room.

Ronel Jacobs June 2, 2017

Gr8 - uses it when visiting friends! Sometimes my baby cries for a min or 2 after she slept 40-45 min; but she falls back asleep if she doesn't see you. Thus, we snooze our home monitor for 3 min and if she still cries after that we go to her. Usually we don't have to as she falls asleep for another hour. Thanks for this app!

Jessica Phillip July 13, 2016

Works! This app does exactly what it's supposed to. You just put in a phone number, and when the noise level goes above what you set it to, it calls or texts the number depending on what you've specified. We've used this app several times while traveling. One suggestion I would make for an update is to whatsapp or use some other type of wifi supported program to contact the other phone for countries your phone may not work in.

Alan Grice May 5, 2014

Impressed At first I was very skeptical about this app, couldn't imagine how it could work properly, however, after reading all the reviews I decided to download it. Tested it out with my wife and neither of us could believe how great it worked. Will have to wait till our daughter is born to get the true experience, but as of now we are sold on this app.

panayiotis kapiniaris August 20, 2015

Does what it says.needs some change It does exactly what it promises. As now on the devices come with two sim card slots when it triggers it asks which sim card to use. So it needs u to be there and this makes it useless if u dont wish to switch off any of your si cards. It must include in the settings the default sim card choice.

John English October 9, 2015

This is a "No Brainer". It just works. About 5 minutes and I had it up and running, and I'm no GEEK. I am using it to keep in touch with a sick relative in another part of the house, especially when I am in the back yard. They don't have to do anything to get my attention other than to call out. This activates the app, and next thing I am getting a ring on my phone. Absolutely luv it.

Kim Le January 3, 2015

Works great! Does what I need for free! Easy to use. Tested it out and it called my husband's phone or whoever's phone you set. Very good sensitivity. 80 the rec level works great without picking up the busy street noise.

Sabrina Lynn July 13, 2014

Very grateful for this app! I forgot my actual baby monitor after traveling 7 hours from home and i just had it call the home I was at so my child could sleep upstairs! Lifesaver! You can even test the sensitivity before setting the actual alarm. Worked perfect!

melodi montoya August 31, 2014

Love this app This app is great! One of the best one yet. I tested it out to make sure it would go off when my son would cry and it never failed me.so happy I found this app now I don't have to.spend money on a baby monitor :)

Colin Perkins September 15, 2013

Amazing! What a life saver! Forgot to pack the baby monitor and needed to make sure the baby wasn't screaming his head of while he took a nap. This saved the day and alerted the number I designated as soon as he made a noise above the sound level I set.

Headphone Amp December 24, 2016

It works great, but technical bug When the phone detects the sound, it calls the phone, and after I hang up the call from the destination/contact phone, app gets back into the monitoring mode and it shows 20dB at first couple of seconds, and then 0dB,and then doesn't detect anything (until I start monitoring again(without restarting the app)). To avoid this problem, I enabled external speaker option, and plugged in headphones. It works just fine now and montioring works always, even after it called once or any number of times. App is great

Bobi Marley May 21, 2014

Skype might prevent this app from calling you After the newest skype update, skype prevents this baby monitor app from calling you. It asks if the call is to be made over skype or over the phone. Thus the baby might be crying and the app will be waiting for someone to tell it to use the phone.

A Google User July 31, 2012

Awesome app Its a life saver! I highly recommend to give it a try. This app exceeded my expectations by a landslide. Let's you test to make sure the monitor can hear baby cry over grey noise and resets itself after a 30 sec delay to listen if baby sets it off. Perfect for when he pouts when he's asleep.

Thomasina Schmitt June 13, 2015

Disappointing I wanted an app that would track my baby's sleep. The sleep diary doesn't allow for editing, which is frustrating. It also adds comments from other entrys if you leave it blank. I am uninstalling this app and tracking baby's sleep by hand. Very disappointing.

A Google User October 15, 2012

How awesome is this! Needed a baby monitor in a pinch, checked the app store just as a joke really and to my astonishment here was exactly what I needed and it works flawlessly. The future is here and I have a galaxy S3 to enjoy it!

A Google User October 2, 2012

Love it love it Works amazing. Mu daughter cried it called my husbands cell phone n we heard het n it also sent us a text a must have app.. SAVED US MONEY

Glen Boonzaier July 7, 2015

1 improvement needed I give this 4* because it does what it says. The only thing I would like is for the call to be made with speaker phone on automatically. So when I answer the call, I can talk to my child while I'm on my way.

A Google User September 7, 2012

Fantastic app This app works perfect! Just set the sensitivity and now we can go out on the deck, do yard work and not have to worry if baby is awake and crying.

Laced Reason October 13, 2014

great but.. this app is great but it would be nice if you could set it to call skype or went through the internet somehow so we could use an old phone or tablet as the monitor part. going to uninstall it as it is kinda useless unless you have a second phone all the time

Christopher O'Shea June 1, 2014

Great app Its a great app especially if you are out and end up staying over and you dont have your monitor. I set it up to ring my better halfs phone if our little one woke up. Worked perfectly. The only downside is not with the app but if you have poor signal it cant call you.

Natalie Grech February 13, 2016

Used to work but now it doesnt I was so happy when i discovered this app and it worked perfectly for about 6 months. Then, for no apparent reason, it stopped working. It still picks up noise in the room but it wont send a text. Very frustrating as it did the job so well for a time.

Adil Malik May 20, 2015

The sensitivity is really hard to adjust to a particular number. If user could simply type in the number, that would be much better. The alarm sometimes triggers with background noise only. But for the same sensitivity, it sometimes doesn't trigger by the baby crying.

Brandon Horwath April 24, 2013

Works, BUT... The app attempts system protected permissions, at a signatureORsystem level, for things like modify_phone_state and call_privileged. An app with these privileges can activate and switch networks, monitor-record-and process phone calls, call any number specifically including emergency services, even de/activate phone radio and such without any user notification! /Dev, no... privileged permission used for emergency calls only. Permission protection requested at system level, reserved for app collaborations.

MVA April 24, 2013

Hi Brandon, You don't have to worry. The "modify_phone_state" is necessary to keep the phone awake when listening for the baby crying. The "call_privileged" is necessary for calling the phone which monitors the baby So, nothing malicious in this app :) /Dev

Blake Hunt December 10, 2014

Love it. Great on the go monitor. I dont usually write reviews but, I love this system. After 2 children I am tired of toting around entire monitor systems on trips. This is a great, quick monitor that is easy to use and very accurate.

Anders Blom November 25, 2013

Some things to keep in mind All in all a very useful app but there are pitfalls. First, always trigger the alarm manually once because if you have e.g. Skype installed your phone will pop up a question the first time instead of calling. Second, if a reminder goes off during the monitoring it may interrupt the app!

Phil Morris November 25, 2013

Great but needs a function... ...to disable calling somehow if accidently left running? I stuck phone in pocket and it spent a fortune calling my wife's voicemail! My own stupid fault but would be great if app detected it.

Amanda Stover January 22, 2015

This app is amazing. My son and I are out of town and I forgot my baby monitor. I was a little skeptical of how well this app would work (especially since it's free), but it works SO well. You can change the sensitivity level (that way if your baby makes little noises while he sleeps, it won't trigger it). If the noise is loud enough to trigger it, it will automatically call or text you, and then you can listen to the other end, so you can listen for whether he's still crying or just made a noise. Definitely download this app!

sugeroby Robert Süge August 4, 2016

Good job Extremely simple yet very useful. One remark: you could add a function that when a call is received the voice is directed on the speaker, so that the child at home can hear their parents directly.

Smeags B March 11, 2016

Could be improved Downloaded this after our actual monitor stopped working. I set the sensitivity to the default of 80. I think our baby slept through all night. I woke at 7 then heard baby crying shortly after. The app didnt make the call though. I probably just need to change the sensitivity but I'd change what the default is. I was also expecting the sleep log to show me some kind of graph, i.e. how many decibels were picked up at night, so id know what sensitivity to set it to. App is okay, can be improved.

A Google User August 18, 2012

Works excellent!!! This works great!!! we were camping with friends and both had kids..we couldnt get to one anothers campsite cause we didnt have baby moniters....we downloaded this app. And it works wonderful....the phone that i had in the tent almost went dead and ghe baby moniter sent a call to the other cell letting us know that the phone needed to be recharged before it actueally died. Highly reccommend this app

A Google User August 29, 2012

Had no problems with it Good reliable app. Wish there was a way to check if the app is still running in the baby side remotely. Note: I am paranoid, never seen this thing close itself.

Eric Anderson August 12, 2014

Images stored in cloud I just installed to check it out. It seems cool but when I noticed the pictures are saved in cloud rather than on phone, I was extremely turned off.. I don't feel comfortable with that. I am anti - cloud when it comes to personal information. Wish developers would allow local storage to those who are privacy conscious.