Dozzi Night-Shift System

The Dozzi Night-Shift System: the one that wakes the right parent.

Every other baby monitor answers one question: is the baby crying? Dozzi answers the harder one: whose turn is it? It listens to the nursery, and when your baby genuinely needs someone, it wakes exactly one of you. The other one sleeps through it.

Already have a Nanit, Owlet, or any other monitor? Keep it. Dozzi sits alongside whatever you already use and handles the one job it doesn't do: deciding which of you gets up, so every sound from the nursery stops waking you both.

• Wakes one of you, not both. Alerts go to whoever's turn it is: by turns, by schedule, or by whoever's sleeping lightest. The other one sleeps through it.
• The audio never leaves the room. Your Dozzi Base listens and decides on the device itself, in the nursery. No audio is recorded, no audio is uploaded, and there is no live listen-in, so there is no way for us, or anyone else, to hear your house.
• Pay once. No subscription required. Every core feature is always included: no monthly fee, and nothing stops working if you never pay us again. The one optional extra is the Ring camera link: $3/month, billed through your Ring account.

How it works

1 · Set it up once. Your Dozzi Base sits on a dresser, shelf, or nightstand, anywhere flat and at least three feet from the crib. Connect it to your Wi-Fi in the app and you're done.

2 · Both parents get on the same page. You each install the Dozzi app. This is what makes Dozzi different from every other monitor on the shelf: it knows there are two of you, and it knows which one is which.

3 · Choose how you'll split the night. In the app, pick an alert mode, and change it whenever life changes:

• Alternating: You take turns. Dozzi wakes one of you this time and the other one next time, automatically, so neither of you has to keep score or remember whose turn it was.
• Schedule: You're on duty from 10 PM to 2 AM. Your partner takes 2 AM to 6 AM. Dozzi handles it automatically so there's no ambiguity and no negotiation.
• Smart: Dozzi reads each parent's heart rate and movement against their own baseline, plus who's had less sleep and who answered last. The parent best positioned to wake up gets the notification, and the other sleeps through. Requires an iPhone with an Apple Watch.
• All Caregivers: Sends alerts to everyone monitoring simultaneously. Choose it on the nights you want everyone woken together.

4 · Go to sleep. Your Dozzi Base listens, and only escalates on sustained crying. You can tune the sensitivity to match your household.

5 · One of you is woken. Not both. A distinctive vibration (on your wrist if you wear a smartwatch, on your phone if you don't) that's long enough and strong enough to actually pull you out of sleep, and silent enough that it doesn't wake the room. No alarm tone. No screen lighting up at 3 AM for the parent who isn't on duty.

The audio never leaves the room

Your Dozzi Base has a microphone, so it is fair to ask where the sound goes. The answer is: nowhere.

The listening and the decision-making both happen on the device itself, in the nursery. Sound is analyzed as it arrives and discarded on the spot. What actually travels over your Wi-Fi is that a cry happened and how loud it was: a number, not a sound.

• Analyzed on the device. Cry detection runs on your Dozzi Base, in the room. The sound itself is never shipped off somewhere else to be listened to or understood.
• No audio is stored. No audio recordings exist: not on your Dozzi Base, not on our servers, not in a log.
• No audio is streamed. There is no live listen-in feature, by design. There is no way for us, or for anyone else, to hear your house.

Helping improve Dozzi's models is opt-in and off by default. Dozzi is built to run with your internet on, so please don't count on alerts during an internet outage. Our FAQ explains exactly what still works.

Why only one of you wakes up

Every other monitor broadcasts. A sound goes off, or a notification fires, and everyone in range is awake, including the parent who didn't need to be.

Dozzi doesn't broadcast. It decides. When your baby needs someone, Dozzi picks which caregiver to wake based on the mode you've chosen, and sends the alert to that person only. The other one is never contacted.

That's the part that's new, and it works the same whether the alert lands on a wrist or a phone.

Wrist or phone: your choice. A watch does it most cleanly: a buzz on your wrist reaches exactly one person, with no sound and no screen lighting up at 3 AM. (If you go that route: Apple Watch Series 7 or newer with iPhone, or a Wear OS 3+ watch with Android.) A phone does the same job. It depends a bit more on where you put it, and a watch has to be charged, so neither one is effortless. Some people prefer the watch; some prefer to use only a phone. And you don't both need the same thing: one caregiver can be on a watch while the other uses only a phone.

With an iPhone, an Apple Watch unlocks two things a phone can't. It's already tracking your sleep stages every night, so in Smart mode Dozzi reads each parent's heart rate and movement against their own baseline and wakes whoever is sleeping most lightly. Insights uses the same data. Everything else works either way.

The app

The Live screen shows what's happening right now: which mode is running, who's currently on duty and until when, and whether your partner's device is connected and monitoring. The Blueprint screen is where you set your mode and shift times. Insights shows you how the nights have actually been going over time.

Want eyes on the room? Connect a Ring camera.

Dozzi itself is audio-only. If you already have a camera in the nursery, it keeps covering video exactly as it does today. Don't have one, or want the view right on your wrist? Link a Ring camera to Dozzi in about two minutes.

When an alert reaches your wrist, pull a snapshot from the camera right there on your Apple Watch. That's usually enough to tell "she's just rolling around" from "someone needs to go in." If you want more than a still, open your phone and stream the live feed.

This is the one place video enters the picture, so to be precise about it: the live feed streams directly between your phone and Ring and never passes through Dozzi's servers. Dozzi briefly holds the latest still so your Apple Watch can show it, and deletes it when you disconnect the camera. Skip the integration and there is no video anywhere in Dozzi.

You can turn it off any time. The Ring integration is an optional add-on for $3/month, billed through your Ring account. It requires a Ring account and a compatible Ring camera. Everything else Dozzi does works without it, at no recurring cost.

What's in the box

• Dozzi Base
• USB-C cable
• Power adapter

What you'll need

• Wi-Fi
• A phone for each caregiver: iPhone (iOS 17 or newer) or Android (8.0 or newer)

That's the whole list. A watch is optional: Apple Watch Series 7 or newer with iPhone, or a Wear OS 3+ watch with Android. Smart mode and Insights need an iPhone with an Apple Watch. Every other mode works the same on both.

Specs

• Power: USB-C, 5V 2A, standard cable and adapter, nothing proprietary
• Placement: any flat surface at least 3 feet from the crib. Never inside it.
• Phone: iPhone (iOS 17+) or Android (8.0+)
• Watch (optional): Apple Watch Series 7 or newer with iPhone, or Wear OS 3 or newer with Android
• Subscription: None required for core monitoring. The optional Ring camera integration is $3/month, billed through your Ring account.
• Ships to: United States and Canada

Safety & testing

• Passed independent lab testing to the applicable clauses of ASTM F2951, the voluntary consumer safety standard for baby monitors.
• Passed CPSIA lead testing on the Base, cord, power adapter and printed materials, and phthalate testing on the cord and labels.
• Tested to FCC Part 15B and Canada's ICES-003 (Class B) for electronic interference.

See the lab reports →

Earned, not claimed

15+ working prototypes designed and built in-house by our own engineers, then tested in real homes by real families before we asked anyone to pay for one.

Dozzi is protected by U.S. Patent No. 12,446,836. Additional patents pending.

Dozzi is not a medical device. It is not a substitute for safe sleep practices, pediatric advice, or your own good judgment. Ring is a trademark of Ring LLC. A Ring account and compatible camera are required for the camera integration and are sold separately. Dozzi has a commercial partnership with Ring and earns a share of revenue from the camera integration.