Babysense Prisma Baby Monitor with Camera and Audio, 5” HD Video Baby Monitor with 2 Cameras, 6-Color Night Light, Split Screen, Baby Sound Machine with White Noise & Lullabies, Secure No WiFi

This is a completely independent and honest review, based on a unit which I bought myself - unlike all of the other reviews so far, which have all been handed out as Vine freebies for the sake of securing a (good) review. I purchased this monitor in September 2024 for about £80 (Amazon had a 10% discount voucher). It was intended to replace a Babymoov YOO Moov camera which I had been using for approx. 4 years (before gravity intervened and it fell into the toilet). I took a bit of a punt on this one, as there were no reviews whatsoever for this model on Amazon UK when I ordered, and even a Google search brings up very few results – it is presumably a new line for the UK / EU. Hopefully this review will be useful to others in the same situation!>>> DELIVERYDelivery was quick and on-time using the specified day Prime delivery option. The monitor was well packaged inside an Amazon box, with a good amount of packing material to stop it moving around too much inside.>>> FIRST IMPRESSIONSFirst impressions of the baby monitor after removing it from the Amazon packaging were really good. The item is housed inside a very sturdy cardboard box which is not shrink-wrapped but does come with tamper-proof seals for reassurance. Once opened, the box contains a polystyrene-type cut-out inside it to safely house the cameras, the monitor unit, the chargers and the paperwork.>>> POSITIVESIn terms of general common sense, the monitor unit feels sensibly designed overall. The kickstand is centrally placed on the back, with two different options for how reclined you want the unit to be. The charging point is on the side, so it does not interfere with the kickstand. On the same side of the unit is the power on/off button. Volume up/down buttons are on the top.Setup was a piece of cake. The monitor unit arrived pre-charged so as soon as I turned on the monitor and plugged in the cameras, the former found the latter without any hassle at all. When powering the monitor unit off and back on again, it links to the cameras instantly.Reception is excellent so far. We have had no dropouts whatsoever, and have not needed to raise the aerial on the receiver unit.The cameras and the monitor unit are all powered with well-placed USB-C ports. A separate charger is provided for each of them. The chargers have a really nice, small profile but it is also reassuring to know that the USB-C ports mean that you can also use your phone charger if you are travelling and want to reduce the amount of gear you are carrying. The cameras and monitor unit seem to be very unfussy about which USB-C charger you use, which is also really helpful.The screen is really good quality. Some baby monitors offer full HD screens on units this size but I honestly think that anything more than 720p on a unit this size is unnecessary. The screen is very crisp and clear, with good colour reproduction during the day time and a very clear picture in low light levels or complete darkness.Sound reproduction is very good. Any unit this size will find it difficult to reproduce sounds without them sounding a bit thin and tinny, but this is better than the other monitors we have used up to now. The delay between a sound taking place in the room and being relayed to the monitor unit is minimal.The monitor unit has a range of buttons for frequently used functions. These are: power on/off; volume up/down; menu; night light; two-way talk; camera switching; and camera tilt/pan/zoom. These all work well and have a consistent feel of quality with regard to ‘clickiness’, feedback etc.The on-screen menu is really clear and self-explanatory.Battery life on the receiver seems good: the receiver unit easily made it through the night on a single charge. There is a power-saving option which claims to extend battery life even further.The night-light function is great, with the option to choose between three levels of brightness, six colours and even a rainbow mode which cycles smoothly between the colours.The 'talk' function works really well. Again, there is always a limit to how natural your voice will sound when coming out of a tiny speaker on a camera unit but compared to some of the other baby monitors we have used, the function works well here.The ‘vox’ option works extremely well. I gave a very poor review to a completely different unit a couple of weeks ago because its vox function was abysmal. Here, the screen and speaker on the camera unit are triggered promptly and effectively when even very faint sounds are detected in the room(s) being monitored. This is vital for our circumstances as a family so I am delighted that it works so well here. For buyers who want fewer interruptions, there are three sensitivity settings based on how easily you want the function to be triggered. Helpfully, the receiver unit explains exactly on-screen what the different options means (e.g. ‘high’ means that quieter sounds will wake the unit). There is also a ‘scan’ mode which allows you to use the vox mode across more than one camera in different rooms: if one of them registers a sound, it will automatically show the feed from that room.There is a temperature alert function which lets you know if the temperature gets too high or low in the room(s) being monitored. Helpfully, you are able to specify the ‘trigger’ temperatures you want using the on-screen menu. Again, many cheaper units do not allow you to do this and simply give you a preset high and low temperature, which is not particularly helpful if you prefer to focus on heating beds and bodies rather than entire rooms (for slightly older children rather than babies).The remote control tilt/pan function works really smoothly.>>> NEGATIVESThe zoom function is okay, but not great. In addition to the normal view, there are two levels of zoom. The first of these is actually not too bad, but the closest zoom level is pretty unhelpful. Like most baby monitors, the cameras on this unit use a digital rather than an optical zoom. This means that zooming in just gives you an even more interpolated / blurred view of the image. At maximum zoom level, it’s all just a bit too unclear.The kickstand does not feel particularly strong, but this seems to be pretty standard for baby monitors these days. Whilst the hinge has a metal pin inside it, the actual standing ‘leg’ is quite thin and I suspect it would break pretty easily with just a little bit of force. The aerial is better than on some of the baby monitors I have seen, but it still feels like it could snap pretty easily. This is definitely not a heavy duty unit like our old Babymoov monitor, so it makes sense to keep it out of reach of little hands.>>> OVERALLOn the whole, I am really impressed by this unit. Yes, at £80 it wasn’t the cheapest option but it comes with all of the features we really need as a family. There are much pricier options out there, but I’m not sure how much more genuinely useful quality they could really add, other than perhaps slightly more durable build quality on the kickstand / aerial and an optical zoom on the cameras. Also, bear in mind that the package I bought contains two cameras, and there is a similar package with just one camera which (at time of purchase) costs £20 less. For many families a single camera will be sufficient, and that sort of price seems like outstanding value for a very fully-featured piece of kit from a brand name which is well established as being reliable and user-focused. Considering our old Babymoov monitor cost well over £100, this Babysense Prisma is brilliant value and highly recommended.

Ideal monitor, easy to work, clear picture. Excellent additional features, like lullaby music, white noise, colour night light features from the cameras themselves. If you want a straight forward and easy to use baby monitor, I can't recommend this enough.

We’ve gone through a few of the more common baby monitors but these are our favourite. They’re so clear and work great

Great camera and the brand and company are incredible to deal with but one of the cameras kept overheating, sent back and got replacement ones and so happy would recommend

Easy to use. Clever design; very flexible.Worth the money. Does what it says on the box!

Brilliant product for the money

Good quality screen, love the spit screen feature. Sound is good and goes loud. Sensitivity to disturbance is good.

Really can’t fault. Especially considering the price. Vox works perfectly. Night light function is good and easy to change brightness/colour or turn off. Split screen/scan mode is good. Only slight negative would be image resolution but they do a more expensive version if you need every detail. In my opinion this is more than adequate. Would definitely recommend.