At the time of writing, the New York Times slash “Wirecutter” recommend the Babysense MaxView monitor as their Top Pick. Many other review sites do the same.

I’m just pissing a small voice into the SEO winds to say that it actually sucks.

• The battery barely lasts a few hours, even with the video off.
• The build quality is super flimsy.
• It’s huge and bulky.
• The screen will burn out your eyeballs if you look at it at night, even with the brightness at a minimum.

I have no recommendations for better ones, but at least the HelloBaby we had before (it got chewed up, don’t ask) was lighter, better build quality, longer battery life. It was also much too bright, but at least the screen was smaller so the neighbours didn’t also get retinal blasted.

Charging up for another night of eyeball scalding