The Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0 is an affordable baby monitor with strong night vision and a handy portable battery, but its unreliable app and the fact that so many of its safety features are locked behind a paywall hold it back. At £149.99 it’s tempting, but you’ll need to budget for extra costs to get the camera to reach its full potential.

• Comes with an external portable battery as standard, giving you on the go or backup power
• Night vision’s white balance is really impressive
• Seven colour night light is a nice touch and isn’t distracting when on

• App is unreliable with camera struggling with interference during testing
• No built-in pan or tilt reducing the effectiveness of monitoring
• Constant in-app notifications trying to push the HubbleClub subscription
• Kickstand feels flimsy

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• 2K UHD resolution Genuinely impressive camera quality for the price

• 6x zoom operated from the parent unit or app

• Included portable battery Up to eight hours of power guaranteed for peace of mind on the go or during powercuts

When you’re looking for a baby monitor, especially as a first-time parent, there’s a certain level of choice paralysis that sets in after a while. Every camera offers something different, whether that’s improved video resolution or AI-features, and you start asking yourself whether it’s actually worth spending £250 or whether you can get away with something a bit cheaper.

The Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0 sits firmly in that cheaper category. At £149.99, it undercuts cameras like the eufy E21 and the Motorola PIP1710 Connect by a wide margin, while still offering impressive specs, including 2K UHD resolution, seven colour options, and a full suite of AI-powered features.

The only thing is that most of those AI features sit behind a subscription fee, a separate ongoing cost that isn’t immediately obvious from the price tag alone. So with that in mind, is the GoBaby+ 5.0 still a legitimate choice as one of the best affordable baby monitors or does the lower upfront cost just delay the real price you’ll end up paying? I put the camera through its tests to find out.

Design and features

• No pan or tilt, but 6x zoom
• Seven-colour night light
• AI features need a subscription

In the box, you’ll find the camera, parent unit, a portable battery, two USB-C cables, two plugs, and a wall mounting kit, which includes a camera support sleeve, mounting wall plate, and ten wall wire covers.

Setup is fairly straightforward: you just need to plug the camera into the wall and then turn on the parent unit, and you’ll get a picture right away. I recommend doing this first committing to mounting the camera. That way, you can test the signal and the camera position before wrestling with the mounting kit and support sleeve.

Setting up the Hubble Club app takes a little bit longer since you’ll need to make an account and add your device. To do this, you’ll need to turn the parent unit off and pair the camera by entering your Wi-Fi details and scanning the QR code from your phone onto the camera. Once the pairing has been completed, you’re prompted to update the firmware and you’re good to go.

While this is a fairly simple process, I was delighted to see that the camera still detects audio while the firmware update runs via the app. The parent unit has to be off for the update to load, but if you’re caught short by an update and you need to keep an eye on your baby, you can do so via the app.

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the Hubble GoBaby 5.0+ has no built-in pan or tilt. That’s because Hubble has designed it to offer a bird’s-eye view or close-up view of the crib. Of course, if something changes in the environment or you baby moves just out of shot, you won’t be able to adjust the feed view like you can with most other baby monitors on the market. Since the camera doesn’t actually move, it makes absolutely zero noise at night, which is perfect if you’ve got light sleepers.

And while there’s no pan or tilt available, the camera ships with 6x zoom from either the parent unit or the app. It’s easy to trigger, but there’s no auto recentre and the extra zoom comes at the cost of clarity. Still, it’s handy to have, especially to get a closer look at your baby if you’ve mounted the camera in a birds-eye view. It’s a shame that double-tapping the parent unit’s enter button doesn’t trigger the zoom, though.

There are ten sounds built into the camera, which covers everything from white noise, audiobooks, and nursery rhymes. These are handy to have, especially if you need to soothe your little one from afar, but I wasn’t impressed with the audio quality, especially with the nursery stories. These sounded a bit too tinny for my liking and felt quite distracting to have on. Still, if your options are limited, the sounds are nice to have.

It also comes with a night light, which can be illuminated in seven different colours. This is bright enough to see what you’re actually doing during a nightly check-in, without risking waking the baby.

You can set an alarm and timer via the parent unit, but this repeatedly beeps once it goes of – you can’t dismiss it without going back into the alarms menu, which feels counterintuitive. To save battery, you can set the screen to time out after 5/15/30 minutes, but the sound will still come through, allowing you to monitor your baby.

There is a kickstand too, but this feels a little flimsy in comparison to the other cameras I’ve tested.

The Hubble also has a number of AI-enhanced features, which might have caught your attention if you’re in the market for a camera. This includes rollover alerts, covered face detection, Sleep Insights, and more. However, these are locked behind the Hubble Premium subscription, which you’ll have to pay monthly or yearly for. It also includes picture-in-picture viewing, 10-days of clip storage, recording lengths of up to 60 seconds, multiple camera view, more sounds, and improved feed sharing.

Some of these features are more helpful than others, especially for first-time parents, but again, it’s a shame to see core safety features locked behind a paywall.

Video and audio quality

• Sharp up to 2m in daylight
• Excellent night vision
• Two-way talk with a short delay

Resolution wise, the parent unit offers a 5-inch 1280x720p display, while the app runs in 2K UHD. In practice, the video quality is good. In my daytime tests, the quality and clarty of the video is really good up to 2m. Any further away and this drops considerably, but this is more down to the camera’s viewing angle, rather than the resolution itself. And since the camera is built to be mounted for bird’s-eye or close-up views, it’s built to be used at close range anyway.

Night vision is where the camera genuinely shines. At 1-2m, I could still pick out the pattern on the baby grow and the mesh of the next-to-me crib. The white balance is really good too and noticeably better than the Motorola PIP1710 Connect’s. Whites render well without overexposing, faces remain clear and visible, and the camera’s focus remains on the cribs without having to adjust.

There’s a roughly 1.5 second delay between real-time movement and what displays on the parent unit, which rises to 2 seconds on the app.

As for audio quality, two-way audio works well, but there is a noticeable delay between enabling the microphone on the parent unit and transmission on the camera. This is because it takes a second to establish the connection – once that has been established, the delay rops to about half a second.

Audio clarity depends on how close you are to the microphone on the parent unit – I found it works best to be speaking within 15-20cm of the screen for clear transmission.

From the other direction, audio from the camera to the parent unit has a similar half a second delay, with the parent unit picking up on the sound and displaying it on the sound bar on the left-hand side.

App and software

• Frequent subscription prompts

The app is probably the most disappointing of all the baby monitors I’ve tested so far. That’s because I struggled to get the feed into fullscreen mode, the fact that I felt I was constantly trying to be upsold into a subscription deal, and a dodgy connection on Wi-Fi. Sometimes the feed would update quickly in app view, other times it would be frustratingly slow – and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to this pattern.

I also ran into a specific Wi-Fi signal problem during testing: the app insisted it needed 70% signal strength to install a firmware update, but showed only 60% even when I was setup right next to the router. It took me a number of days to get this sorted, and even then, my parent unit’s camera feed kept disconnecting every 20 seconds or so when Wi-Fi was enabled during parts of the test.

Restarting the camera brought the feed back to the parent unit immediately, but the app showed it as offline for a further 15 minutes, despite Wi-Fi being active throughout. This is a clear signal that the app struggles with interference and connection more than the hardware itself – so if you have busy networks, this might not be the camera for you.

One thing I did like about the app is the Events section, which works similar to a Ring-style activity tracker. You’ll get a screenshot of the motion and a timestamp. You can watch the clips back in the app, but the recordings are capped at 30 seconds.

You can also filter those events by motion, zone, and alert type, helping you get to the bottom of any disturbances quickly.

Where I felt Hubble lets itself down, though, is the constant attempts to upsell you to the Premium Club. I had several notifications during the test period to upgrade to the subscription in order to unlock the AI-driven features. I don’t mind the odd occasion, but given this is a gadget to help you monitor children, being pinged by unnecessary notifications is an unhelpful distraction and becomes genuinely irritating.

Range and connectivity

• Clear signal up to 100m
• Dropped off Wi-Fi repeatedly

One of the most important things about buying a baby monitor is making sure that you can see and hear your baby throughout the house, wherever you are. I’m pleased to say that Hubble passed my range tests with flying colours.

With Wi-Fi switched off, I had clear audio and video throughout the house and garden, only losing connection when walking to the end of the cul-de-sac – about 100m away from the house. While this is shorter than both the eufy E21 and the Motorola PIP1710 Connect, this is still a promising result for a camera which sits more in the affordable range.

Wi-Fi can be switched off directly from the camera, and doing so is near-instant – the app shows the camera as offline. You can also disconnect the camera from Wi-Fi via the parent unit using the window-icon in the menu. This is an excellent feature and something the eufy E21 is lacking.

But while the Hubble’s range and Wi-Fi kill switches impressed, its overall reliability left a lot to be desired. The camera dropped off Wi-Fi repeatedly during testing and the app was noticeably more sensitive to interference than the others I tested.

Security and privacy

• Firmware update prompt at setup
• Sharing needs a subscription

In order to use the camera’s Wi-Fi abilities, you’ll need to create a Hubble Connected account via the app and sync to the camera. I liked the fact that you had to scan a physical QR code to sync the camera to the app, adding a further layer of security to the setup process. I also liked that you’re prompted to update the firmware as soon as the camera is set up.

You won’t be able to add a second account to the camera without purchasing the subscription, though. While you can make a second account, pairing that account to the camera will knock the primary owner off, ensuring that only one device can be connected at a time. While this is good from a security perspective, locking the share function behind a subscription is disappointing – especially given the fact my husband and I both wanted access to the camera for monitoring purposes.

Battery life

• Portable battery included
• Around eight hours from the battery pack
• Parent unit lasts about 18 hours

In a nice touch, Hubble includes a portable battery in the box as standard. This lasts about eight hours independent of mains power, with charging taking just under an hour to complete.

The parent unit itself lasts about 18 hours on medium to high brightness, but you might get more or less from it depending on the settings you run.

Price and value

• Affordable at £149.99
• Core features work without a subscription
• HubbleClub Premium costs £5.99/month

At £149.99, the Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0 is one of the more affordable baby monitors that I’ve tested – notably cheaper than the eufy E21 and the Motorola PIP 1710 Connect.

The core features work without a subscription, but to get the most out of the camera, you’re probably going to want to join the HubbleClub Premium at £5.99/month or £59.99/year. That gets you access to feed sharing, 24/7 live monitoring, 10-day clip storage, rollover alerts, and sleep insights. This does feel cheeky given that some of these are core features – and in my view, should be included in the core price.

And if you are tempted to enroll on the subscription, I’d weigh up the total cost. A yearly subscription would take your cost close to £200 – and for a couple of quid extra, you could have either the eufy or the Motorola, both of which run with little to no subscription additions.

It’s also worth noting that if you decide to use the camera without the premium features that you’ll get multiple notifications trying to upsell Premium to you in the midst of sending you app notifications about the monitoring of your child.

Should you buy it?

When it comes to pure hardware, the GoBaby+ 5.0 is certainly worth the price. The night vision is some of the best I’ve tested, with the white balance holding up better some of the pricier options I’ve tested. The portable battery is also a handy extra that ensures the camera remains usable in a pinch – or even on the go. The Wi-Fi kill switch, available on both the camera and the parent unit, also matches Motorola’s best-in-class approach to safety.

Unfortunately, the HubbleClub’s app lets the baby monitor down. Across a week of testing, I struggled with slow load times and a camera that repeatedly dropped off Wi-Fi, which is not ideal if you’re planning on checking in on your little one remotely.

And then there’s the subscription. HubbleClub Premium boasts a lot of good features, especially from a safety point of view. But these don’t feel like premium features – they feel like core features that have been held back for the purposes of encouraging first-time parents to sign up for costly monthly fees. If you decide to opt for the subscription, you’re looking at a total cost of about £200 – bringing you closer to the total value of more premium options like the eufy, which is subscription free.

If your budget is fixed and you’re willing to live with a camera that boasts core functionality, the GoBaby+ 5.0 is worth it from a hardware perspective. But it’s hard to recommend the monitor beyond this, especially if you plan to use the app on a regular basis.

We test every baby monitor in a real-world nursery setting for at least a week. We check video and audio quality on both the parent unit and the app, run night vision tests at set distances, and check the range throughout the house and garden to test its reliability.

Security and privacy get particular attention – we check account creation, two-factor authentication, and local-only WiFi modes. We also check battery life against manufacturing claims and check the value of subscription costs where they apply.

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• Used as our main baby monitor for the review period
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	Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0 Review
Manufacturer	–
Size (Dimensions)	x x INCHES
Release Date	2026
First Reviewed Date	20/10/2026
Model Number	Hubble GoBaby+ 5.0
Resolution	x
Battery Length	hrs
UK RRP	£149.99
USA RRP	TBC