About Pilu: who builds it, and why
Pilu is a baby monitor app for iPhone and Android that keeps everything at home: two devices, one direct, end-to-end encrypted connection over your own Wi-Fi — no cloud, no account, no recording. It is built and published by Deep Platforms GmbH, a software company in Gröbenzell near Munich, Germany.
Why Pilu exists
Most baby monitor apps route the picture of a sleeping child through servers somewhere on the internet, tie it to an account and bill it as a subscription. We found that a strange thing to accept as normal for a device that spends every night in a nursery. Technically, none of it is necessary: two phones on the same network can talk to each other directly.
So we built the baby monitor we wanted for our own family — one whose privacy is a property of its architecture rather than a promise in a policy. If there is no server, nothing can leak from it. If there is no account, nothing can be breached. If nothing is recorded, nothing can be sold.
The principles behind the app
- Local only. Video and audio travel from device to device through your Wi-Fi, or through the small network Pilu creates on the road. There is no Pilu server anything could be sent to.
- Trustworthy silence. Green in Pilu means the connection is provably fresh and the nursery is genuinely quiet. If the connection dies, a loud alarm overrides silent mode and Do Not Disturb — a baby monitor that dies quietly isn't one.
- Audio before video. When Wi-Fi gets weak, the picture goes first and the sound never.
- Honest limits. Pilu cannot show you a live stream from the office, and it never records. We say so on every page rather than hiding it in the fine print.
- Fair pricing. Audio monitoring with every alarm is free for good. The picture comes as Pilu Full — monthly, yearly with a free week, or once for forever — and one purchase covers both devices of a household.
Who is behind it
Deep Platforms GmbH is registered at the Munich district court (HRB 246874) and led by its founder and managing director Blagovest Ouglechov, M.Sc. (Technical University of Munich). He is also the author of the articles on this site and responsible for their content.
The app, its 21 languages, the in-app guide and this website are developed in Germany, under the GDPR. Company details, the privacy policy and the terms are published in their binding German versions: Impressum, Datenschutz, AGB.
How we write our comparisons
Pilu is our own product, and our comparison articles say so in the first sentence. Everything we state about other apps comes from their own descriptions and pricing pages, with the date we checked, and we describe their real strengths — including the situations in which a cloud app is the better choice and Pilu is not. We don't publish ratings we haven't earned, we don't run affiliate links, and we correct mistakes when readers point them out.
Contact and press
Questions, feedback, press enquiries: info@deep-platforms.com. We answer in English and German. The Pilu logo and app screenshots are available on request.
Further reading: the Pilu guide & FAQ, the blog and the big baby monitor app comparison.