Live video and sound
See and hear the nursery as it happens. Lock your phone and the sound keeps playing, so you can listen with the screen off.
Baby monitor for iPhone
Your nursery, on every phone
Put a spare iPhone in the nursery and watch from your own. Live video and sound go straight to the parent phones you choose, end-to-end encrypted and never recorded.
Coming soon to the App Store
- Live video and sound
- End-to-end encrypted
- Never recorded
What it does
Watch from the next room or across town
The baby phone streams over Wi-Fi or mobile data, and your phone picks it up wherever it has a connection.
End-to-end encrypted
Video and sound are encrypted on the baby phone, and only the phones in your nursery hold the key. The service that relays the stream only ever sees encrypted data. Not even we can watch.
Never recorded
Dennest streams live and keeps nothing. No clips, no history, no cloud storage.
Night mode
Brightens the picture in grayscale when the room is dark. On Auto it switches on by itself, and you can change it from your phone.
Every parent phone
Add as many parent phones and iPads as your family needs. Everyone can watch at the same time.
Face ID lock
Lock Dennest with Face ID or your passcode, so a borrowed phone does not open the nursery.
Picture in Picture
Keep the nursery in a small window while you use other apps.
Sound alerts
Get a notification when the nursery stays loud for a while, as long as Dennest is open or running in the background on your phone. It also tells you when the baby phone's battery runs low or its connection drops.
How it works
Two phones. One QR code.
No sign-up, no email address, no account. Your phones form a private nursery of their own.
Set up the baby phone
Open Dennest on the phone that stays in the nursery, choose Baby camera and create your nursery. Plug it in and place it at least a metre (about 3 feet) from the crib.
Pair your phone
On the baby phone, tap Add parent device. On your phone, choose Parent viewer and scan the QR code. Each code works once and expires after five minutes.
Start streaming
Tap Start streaming on the baby phone and keep Dennest open there. Your phone shows the nursery live, and the screen of the baby phone dims while it streams.
You can also join by typing the nursery code and passphrase. Dennest works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later, over Wi-Fi or mobile data.
Privacy
The nursery stays between your phones
Only your phones hold the key
The stream is encrypted on the baby phone and decrypted on yours. Our server and the video relay pass along data they cannot read.
Nothing is recorded
No video, sound or snapshots are stored, on your phones or on any server.
No accounts
No email address, no phone number, no login. Your passphrase never leaves your phone.
No ads, analytics or tracking
Not in the app, and not on this website. No cookies either.
FAQ
Good questions
Setup, permissions and alerts are covered in more detail on the support page.
Is Dennest a medical device?
No. Dennest lets you watch and listen to the nursery. It does not monitor breathing, heart rate, temperature or health, and it does not replace looking in on your child yourself.
Does Dennest record anything?
No. Video and sound are streamed live and never stored, not on your phones and not on any server. There are no clips and no history to look back through.
What do I need?
Two iPhones or iPads with iOS 17 or later, and an internet connection on both, over Wi-Fi or mobile data. One stays in the nursery, plugged in, with Dennest open. The other is yours. You can add more parent phones whenever you like.
Does it work when I am away from home?
Yes. The phones connect over the internet, so your phone does not need to be on the same Wi-Fi as the baby phone.
Will I hear the nursery with my phone locked?
Yes. Sound keeps playing when you lock your phone, and sound alerts arrive while Dennest is open or running in the background. If you close Dennest completely from the app switcher, alerts stop until you open it again.
Who can see my nursery?
Only the phones you add. Each new phone joins with a one-time QR code or with your nursery code and passphrase, and you can remove any phone from Known devices at any time. We cannot see or hear your nursery, and neither can the services that carry the stream.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email address and no password account. Dennest is a paid app on the App Store, with no ads.