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About Tuck
TL;DR. Tuck is built by Veronata, Inc. — a small US team making a baby monitor that uses two iPhones, works without Wi-Fi, and adds personalized AI lullabies (with your baby's name in the lyrics). We're not building medical hardware; we're building thoughtful software that treats parents and babies with respect.
Why we built Tuck
Most baby monitors ask you to buy hardware that's worse than the iPhone you already own. The cameras are blurrier; the apps are slower; the parent units lose Wi-Fi the moment you walk into the basement. We had a drawer full of retired iPhones and an unanswered question: why isn't there a baby monitor that just uses these?
The answer turned out to be: building one well is hard. Real-time WebRTC across two devices is finicky. Cry detection that doesn't fire on every neighborhood dog needs careful on-device ML. And the single most important thing — that the monitor keeps working when the network doesn't — required us to build a custom Bluetooth Coded PHY transport, which is the kind of work that doesn't pay off on a sprint board but does pay off the night you're in a hotel room and the Wi-Fi is broken.
Tuck is what you get when a small team takes those problems seriously, ships the boring foundational stuff first, and only adds AI features after the core monitor works.
What we believe
- One plan, everything included. Tuck is $14.99/month or $99.99/year (save 44%) with a 14-day free trial. The single plan includes continuous video and audio monitoring, two-way talk, cry alerts, AI scene captions, morning sleep diary, a curated lullaby library with sleep timer, and free family viewer access — no separate Pro+ tier, no per-feature unlocks.
- AI is opt-in. AI scene understanding runs entirely on-device and only activates after a clear consent screen. Your nursery video is never sent to a cloud AI.
- We don't record your nursery video. Tuck doesn't stream live audio or video to our servers for storage — the LiveKit relay forwards frames between your two phones in transit (DTLS-SRTP encrypted) and discards them. The one exception: cry-moment snapshots. When a cry or pose change triggers an AI caption, Tuck uploads a single still encrypted to its backend with a 30-day TTL so the morning sleep diary can render a thumbnail strip. You can disable this in Nursery settings.
- No medical claims, ever. We do not detect SIDS, apnea, breathing, heart rate, or oxygen saturation. We won't ship features that imply we do — even when product managers really want us to. The right monitor for medical concerns is an FDA-cleared device, not a connected baby monitor.
- Tuck V1 does not ship voice cloning. We architected and prototyped it during planning, then cut it before launch — the consent flow added enough onboarding friction that we couldn't justify shipping it for V1. If we ever revisit voice cloning, the consent floor is non-negotiable: no cloning anyone who isn't present and consenting, ever.
The tech, briefly
Tuck is native iOS — Swift + SwiftUI, AVFoundation for media, Core Bluetooth for the offline transport. Real-time media uses LiveKit's WebRTC stack on the active path; cry detection runs on-device using a small Core ML model. Scene understanding also runs on-device (an on-device vision model), with explicit consent and no cloud round-trip. Lullabies are a bundled catalog — they ship inside the app, no cloud round-trip. Convex acts as the state-broker for pairing and subscriber metadata — no audio or video passes through it.
We picked this stack because each piece has a clear failure mode we can communicate to a parent. "Wi-Fi dropped, falling back to Bluetooth." "Scene captions need internet; lullabies don't." "Cry detection runs on your phone, no internet needed." Tech that's hard to explain to a sleep-deprived parent is tech we don't ship.
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Tuck?
Tuck is built by Veronata, Inc., a US-based company. The team has prior experience shipping real-time WebRTC products, AI-powered consumer apps, and privacy-respecting iOS software. Tuck is our first dedicated baby-care product.
Why build a baby monitor as software, not hardware?
Most parents already own one or more iPhones. A modern iPhone has a better camera, better microphone, better processor, and better battery than 90% of the dedicated baby-monitor hardware on the market. Asking parents to buy another piece of hardware to do something their existing devices already do well felt wrong. The interesting problem is the software — making two iPhones into a real, reliable monitor — not the hardware.
What does "not a medical device" really mean?
Tuck does not diagnose, monitor, or treat any medical condition. We do not detect SIDS, sleep apnea, breathing irregularities, oxygen saturation, or heart rate. If you want medical-grade monitoring, look at FDA-cleared devices like Owlet Dream Sock — they're a different category of product with different regulatory clearance. Tuck is a connected baby monitor in the same category as Nanit or Cubo Ai: a great pair of eyes and ears, plus AI conveniences.
Why does Tuck use AI? Isn't that dystopian?
AI in Tuck does one thing: it describes what the camera sees in plain English, so you can glance at your phone instead of staring at a video feed. (Lullabies are a curated, bundled library — not AI-composed.) We're not running facial recognition, behavioral profiling, or sleep-pattern data sales. The scene-description AI runs entirely on-device — your nursery video is never sent to a cloud AI — and it's opt-in with explicit consent.
What will Tuck never do?
We will never (1) make medical claims about SIDS or breathing detection, (2) sell or share your audio/video data with advertisers, (3) charge separately for family viewers (grandparents, nannies are free as guests on the parent's account), (4) ship a feature that requires the device to phone home to keep working.
How does Tuck make money?
Tuck is a single $14.99/month or $99.99/year subscription with a 14-day free trial. One plan, everything included — continuous monitoring, two-way talk, cry alerts, AI scene understanding, morning sleep diary, personalized AI lullabies, free family viewer access, and offline Bluetooth Coded PHY. The economics work because Tuck uses iPhones you already own (no proprietary hardware), doesn't continuously record video to the cloud (only short-lived cry-moment snapshots back the morning diary, with a 30-day TTL and an opt-out), and the LiveKit WebRTC is only spun up while monitoring is active.
Where is Tuck based?
Veronata, Inc. is a US company. Customer data is hosted in US data centers. We follow US privacy law (CCPA, COPPA where applicable for content involving minors), and we publish a plain-English privacy policy at tuck.baby/privacy.
When did Tuck launch?
Tuck is live on the App Store as of May 2026 (iPhone, iOS 17+). The 14-day free trial starts the moment you pair a parent and nursery iPhone — no waitlist, no invite code.
Get in touch
Press: hello@tuck.baby
Support: tuck.baby/support
Privacy: tuck.baby/privacy
Try Tuck
Live on the App Store. iPhone, iOS 17+. 14-day free trial — no extra hardware to buy.