Smart Sleep Coach by Pampers‪™‬ 4+

Best thing ever!!!

Honestly, I cannot thank this app enough. It has literally changed my life. My 8 month old baby was not sleeping at all and would wake every two hours at night. I was at my wits end until I started doing some research and found this app. I was skeptical at first and was like I’m going to try it for 7 days and cancel. But after day three, my eight month old was sleeping through the night only waking up once or twice sometimes for a feed and would go straight back to sleep. I don’t have to spend hours on end rocking or trying to put her back to sleep. I literally just put her in the cot walk away and she puts herself to sleep and her naps are even better as well as she’s able to self soothe herself when she wakes from her naps. I feel so much happier and more energised and I’m no longer snappy and cranky and those awful migraines have also gone now which means happy mummy happy baby. Thank you so so much for creating this app. It has been a game changer. Any parents struggling with sleep this will be the best thing you have purchased in a long time.

Developer Response ,

YAY! So pleased we have been able to help you - we read your review out at our morning meeting this morning and faces were beaming. Thank you thank you thank you!

Really helpful for the first 12 months of a new baby

I downloaded the app and got the annual subscription when my LO was 6 months and I was just at my wits end with her sleep. We never really had a schedule, she was contact napping for most of the day and kept waking up screaming/crying every night at the same time. I did the trial and followed the scheduled and within 5 days she was no longer doing her nightly ritual wake up and sleeping through and she was getting down ok for her naps. My LO is now 13 months and just started nursery and I was able to get some advice on how to adjust her nap routine from the sleep doctors via the app so that has been really helpful. Although it may sound quite expensive for an annual subscription it was better and cheaper than any online sleep course I had paid for and most importantly it worked!

I’m not giving it 5 stars as the only issue with the app is that you must have internet connection for it to work and update your schedule. This can be annoying if you are out somewhere and the baby has woken up from the nap and your phone has poor signal or like when we were on a cruise holiday with no WiFi we were unable to use it (however by then my LO had got into a routine so we knew when her nap times were and how to adjust it if timings were off).

Developer Response ,

LOVE this review and LOVE this suggestion - I'm passing it to the product team. Wishing you much sleep in your life!

Decent for sleep, but has clunky and unintuitive interface

This app works well for suggested nap and sleep times (I have a 6-month old on 3 naps a day). The predicted nap times are pretty spot on for my child, and we’ve been able to create a more stable routine. I like that you can also pause naps / sleeps so that you can track the length and frequency of wakings. I have not tried the sleep training features (yes, that’s what the “coaching” part refers to).

However the app as a whole is clunky and not as good as peer apps, such as Huckleberry which have a far more intuitive interface. For example, in this app you can only track apps at specific times (during the app’s recommended times) — e.g, if a nap is suggested between 12-1:30 pm, but your baby falls asleep at 1:30 pm, you cannot use the live tracker option. This is silly! You also cannot adjust the start time of naps and feeds while you are tracking. Again, this is a feature that exists in Huckleberry. The iWatch app has the ability to start and end a nap but no button to pause a nap — again, why would you not make this the same as the phone app?!

Developers: for the amount of money I’m charged for this app (more than £100 for annual subscription), I expect a much much better user face. Please do better!