Noor
Turns the old phone in your drawer into a baby monitor — without putting your nursery on somebody else's server.
The problem with baby-monitor apps
Most of them route your camera through a company's servers, need an account, and ask for a monthly subscription to unlock the features you assumed you were getting. Some put the alerts themselves behind the paywall.
Noor is built the other way around.
How it works
You install Noor on two Android phones. One becomes the camera and stays in the nursery; the other becomes the viewer and stays with you. You pair them once by scanning a QR code.
- Nothing leaves your home network. The two phones talk directly to each other over your own Wi-Fi. There is no server in the middle, no account, and no relay — because there is nowhere else for the video to go.
- The stream is encrypted with DTLS-SRTP. That is not a setting we added and not one you can turn off: WebRTC refuses to carry unencrypted media at all.
- Cry detection runs on the phone itself. The camera phone listens with an on-device neural network (Google's YAMNet). No audio is uploaded, because no audio is sent anywhere at all.
- It tells you when it cannot see. Noor alerts you if the camera phone goes unreachable, if its battery gets low, or if somebody unplugs its charger — the quiet failures that make a monitor dangerous rather than merely broken.
- It survives being swiped away. Monitoring runs in an Android foreground service, so closing the app on the camera phone does not stop it watching.
- Also included: motion detection, a photo timeline of the night, lullabies the camera phone can play, talk-back, zoom, and locked focus for a camera that sits still all night.
- English, French and Arabic, including right-to-left layout.
Noor is not a medical device. It helps you see and hear your baby from another room. It does not monitor breathing, heart rate, or any other vital sign, it cannot detect a medical emergency, and it does not replace checking on your child. No baby monitor of any kind prevents SIDS.
What you need
- Two Android phones, Android 7.0 or later.
- Both on the same Wi-Fi network.
- A charger for the camera phone — watching a room all night is exactly as demanding as it sounds.
What it costs
Noor is free. There is nothing to buy in this version — no purchase screen, no advertising, no subscription, and no billing code inside the app at all. Every feature described on this page works without paying anything.
A later version will add a one-time purchase for some conveniences — a second camera, the full lullaby shelf, and nights before last night. It will never be a subscription.
What will never be behind a payment: every alert. Crying, low battery, a disconnected charger, a camera that stopped responding — these are the reason the app exists, and putting any of them behind a price would make the free version quietly unsafe. This is a commitment in our terms, not a marketing line.
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