Piece of mind for anxious parents
Our baby is currently one month, so he is still in the bassinet. We haven’t actually used the camera yet, since it’s in his nursery, but from what I can tell, the feed and sound are clear. The owlet sock is amazing. I absolutely love the piece of mind it gives me every night. If I’m worried about noises or lack thereof, I just hop on the app and make sure it’s all good. The only annoyance is with the alerts. When he is fussy and kicks around during diaper changes, the sock will alert to either a bad connection or sock placement issue. I think this is mainly due to the movement, since he kicks a lot. It’s annoying because most of the time, it’s either me or my husband up with him and the base is alerting the sleeping parent. Other than that, this is amazing!

Let Me Save You Big Money – This is Trash
I’m all about the power of biometric data to create a better life. I’ve been using fitness trackers for nearly a decade. I check the health app on my phone daily. I make decisions based on the feedback they provide, and my overall health has improved greatly. So I saw this as a godsend.In truth? It’s a waste of money. Let’s start with the Camera – the framerate is worse than a 2005 webcam. I first encountered this problem during setup when I was trying to point the camera in the correct direction. I would move the camera, then have to wait several seconds to see the updated picture on the app. Now don’t get me wrong – the resolution is great. This would make a fine still camera. But as a full motion camera, particularly one that is timely, it fails miserably. The motion alerts are practically useless. Way too many false alarms. There can be nothing in the room whatsoever, and it will trigger a motion alert. Trying to figure out what caused it? Good luck because the app does not store video at all. This is frankly the biggest failure of the camera part of this product is that you cannot review stored footage. I wound up installing an old Ring cam in the room for this purpose. I discovered that in part, one thing that will cause a false motion alarm is if outside sunlight changes, such as at sunrise, sunset, or if something outside casts a shadow. Also, those motion alerts – they can be several seconds or even a minute later than the thing that triggers it. As far as the physical camera goes, it appears to be well made with quality hardware. The application on the other hand basically cripples it, making it a very poor quality and low value items. Shame on Owlet. and their app developers for putting such a pathetic app into the market with a straight face. Everyone who needs a cam is far better off buying a cheap Ring cam.Now to the anklet monitor. Again, the monitor itself is great. Once you get it adjusted correctly, it is comfortable and stays in place without causing the baby any discomfort. The app on the other hand fails miserably. You cannot review real-time or even near-real-time data. You cannot review historical data. You cannot set your own alert levels based on heart rate and/or SPO2. Frankly, the app makes the actual monitor useless. Its only discernible use appears to be in providing false alerts. I’m going to say one thing about the anklet in Owlets favor – I’m aware that the application is somewhat neutered because the FDA in its infinite stupidity decided that a biomonitor for babies should be regulated as a medical device. Rest assured that wherever there is a private sector solution, the government will come. in and turn it into a problem. But having said that, Owlet should have not have caved, and should have fought the FDA on this one. There are other monitors on the market which circumvent whatever brain-dead shackles the FDA have dictated for it.I would strongly recommend you don’t buy this. Instead, take the money put it into a college fund.Update 10/24/2023: As miserable a product as this is, I didn’t expect to get just 6 months of use out of. The battery started to degrade significantly. It now does not even make it through a full nights sleep. In fact, the State of Charge reported by the app goes from a reported 16 hours to just 30 minutes of available charge, in an hour. This thing woke my kid up two nights in a row with it’s obnoxiously loud musical alert from the base station, which cannot be disabled. The app on the other hand didn’t even register an issue until I opened it. And how I’m having to deal with ridiculously long wait times and runarounds from their customer service while trying to get it RMAd. Oh, and the camera got worse. I have to kill the app and restart it to see what is actually going on at any given time. It takes forever for both the camera and the base station to connect or update over wifi despite being just 6 and 8 feet from the wifi hotspot respectively.

‏إذا كنت تشتريه من داخل المملكة العربية في السعودية فهذه المراجعة تهمك. الجهاز قديم وغير متوافق مع الشبكات اللاسلكية الحديثة في المملكة مثل 5G . لقد جربته وكان الكاميرا تعمل في البداية ثم توقفت عن العمل بغير سبب واضح. وأيضا تم تجربة الجورب الذكي sock 3 وكان لا يعمل على الإطلاق ولا يمكن أن يشارك شبكة اللاسلكية. كانت رسائل الخطأ والمعاناة التي أخذت من وقتي الكثير لمحاولة اصلاحه. أعتقد أن جهازي يحتاج إلى تحديث. لقد قمت بإرجاعه وخسرت 25% من قيمته بسبب رسوم الاستيراد. في النهاية لا أنصح به أبدا من تاريخ هذه المراجعة.

DO NOT buy this!I usually do not give any kind of reviews – but the experience with this product is bad – really bad!Not only is the device that was sold to me inside the UAE AMAZON Store – now that i have installed the “Owlet app” from the appstore and configured the camera that was part of the bundle inside that app, now when i try to install the SOCK it said first of all – oh you need to choose a different region when setting up the account for this – i thought ok… not nice but be it. So i created another account. This time when i tried to setup the SOCK, pairing went fine, it connected the SOCK to wifi but now the APP said – instead of the Owlet care app – you need to have the Owlet Dream APPI am not sure what the developer has planned here or what kind of ignorant behaviour this is – besides the fact that i also realized they are using Firebase (Google Cloud) meaning all private data from my baby is now all over the internet in googles system :/ – but also in the end this means its just a pile of garbage i can literally throw away.This was supposed to give peace of mind to my wife – so i gifted it her for christmas – 3 months before the baby was due and by that time willing to pay extra for a “quality” vendor seemingly thats not the case.My user experience is a disaster, device not usable, 400 USD garbage.Cannot iterate more : DO NOT BUY THIS (at least in UAE i can tell for sure)

This is not made for UAE. Constant issues with connectivity. If app gets the update, you will need to change all Wifi settings and connect it again. If connection between sock base gets lost you will need again to reset everything. This is made for America, not UAE. I highly recommend to not buy it as you will face a lot of stress. Especially if you do not understand well IT.