Hatch Rest 2nd gen vs Rest+ 2nd gen

Hatch Rest 2nd gen and Rest+ 2nd gen are set up and run the same way, from the Hatch Sleep app, with bedtime and wake-up routines in your own colors and sounds, and different schedules on different days. The difference that decides it is power: Rest+ has a battery and a charging base and keeps going in a power cut or another room; Rest stops when it is unplugged.

Which one

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Hatch Rest 2nd gen

Choose it if it will always stay plugged in by the bed.

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Hatch Rest+ 2nd gen

Choose it if the light must keep going in a power cut, or you want to carry it between rooms.

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Hatch no longer makes or sells either Rest; Hatch Baby, the one it sells now, has no battery. Neither works without an app; if you want buttons only, see the no-app guide.

Which Hatch is which

What Hatch sells now: Only Hatch Baby. Hatch says it no longer makes or sells Rest 2nd gen or Rest+ 2nd gen and recommends Hatch Baby instead; the first Rest and Rest+ are no longer made either. Any Rest you see for sale now is sold by another shop, not by Hatch.
Which one you have: Rest+ 2nd gen sits on a round charging base, and its clock flashes “BASE” or “PLUG” when you connect the power. Rest 2nd gen looks the same without the base. Both have a metal touch ring on top and three buttons on the back, the round one in the middle for the night light. The first Rest has no clock on its front, and the first Rest+ has no night light. Hatch Baby is shaped differently: a wide, rounded shade with one big round button on top.
Free, or Hatch+: On all three, the Hatch Sleep app, the Time-to-Rise light, bedtime schedules and the free sounds cost nothing. Hatch+ adds stories, music and guided content, and on Hatch Baby sleep guides and chat with Hatch’s sleep team. Hatch Baby comes with 3 months of it; the Rests came with a 30-day trial. Hatch’s shop lists Hatch+ at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, and its Hatch Baby page at $6.99 a month (checked on 30 October 2026).
Battery: Only Rest+ 2nd gen has one: about 8 hours for most people, and up to 12 at low brightness and volume, Hatch says. Rest 2nd gen and Hatch Baby stop as soon as they are unplugged.

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What your child sees on both

Bedtimea bedtime color you pick in the app
Wake-up timea wake-up color you pick in the app

Hatch lets you pick the colors in the app; this drawing shows one choice.

Same app, same schedules

Both are set up in the Hatch Sleep app, with an account and Wi-Fi. Both run bedtime and wake-up routines with several steps a night, and both can use different schedules on different days of the week. Both have a child lock, a light you can adjust, sounds and a time display that you can dim, put on a schedule or switch off in the app.

Rest+ runs on its battery; Rest stops when unplugged

Rest+ 2nd gen comes with a charging base and runs on its rechargeable battery: up to 12 hours at low brightness and volume, Hatch says, and about eight hours for most people.

Rest 2nd gen has no battery and does not work with the Rest+ charging base, so it stops the moment the power goes.

Without the internet, both keep playing what you saved

If the internet goes down, both should still play the routines you saved, perhaps a few minutes late, and the app reaches them over Bluetooth. Until it is back you cannot create or change routines, set a timer, or change the child lock or the time display, and some Hatch+ content may not play.

Rest+ keeps going in a power cut, but it still needs the app and Wi-Fi to set it up and to change it.

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