Le Baby – newborn tracker 4+

Highly recommend to new (or already experienced) parents!

My husband and I just had our first baby and were pretty overwhelmed at how many things we needed to keep track of after bringing baby home from the hospital. We started with tracking on actual paper but quickly realized there had to be an app for this to make it easier.

We love how simple this app makes tracking things like wet and dirty diapers, his temperature, vitamin D drops, how much he’s eating, and so much more. This apps design is beautiful and simple, making it easy to quickly put information in.

Please give this app a try - from one parent to another, an easy to comprehend tracking app for my exhausted brain is so wonderful and I’m thankful I found it!

Synching/sharing used to work, stopped, no response

We loved the simplicity and ease of Le Baby, so we purchased the more expensive version to ensure that my husband and I could check on bottles, diapers, and times without always having to ask each other. Even though we had paid and purchase sharing was turned on for both of our phones, the developer had to (and did so kindly) share a promotional link to my husbands account so he wouldn’t also have to pay since we were supposed to be able to share. A few days ago, our journals stopped synching information and the quick buttons for diapers and bottles disappeared from the journal page. So now my husband and I cannot view data inputted by the other person. Using an app to record all this information is not useful if your spouse can’t see what you’ve entered, plus we paid for that feature. I reached out to the developer through the contact button and through e-mail and haven’t gotten a response yet. Our IOS is updated (as suggested on a review response). I truly hope this can be remedied easily and quickly.

Developer Response ,

Hello, we’re sorry we’ve left you without answer when you reached out via email. We found no trace of your message at the time, even in our spam folder, and can only guess a problem occurred between our respective mailboxes.

We took some time to look into the problems you described in your review, and waited to see if other customers could be facing similar issues. For now, it hasn’t been the case.

Journal sharing, as well as Purchase sharing, relies on technical solutions provided by Apple to developers: iCloud and Family Sharing. For Le Baby customers, this guarantees privacy of their data and purchase decisions. This also means that these features’ reliability is in Apple’s hands.

Purchase sharing can take some time to flow between Apple accounts, as you experienced. We found out in his can happen when the group is set up after making the purchase. Nothing in Apple’s documentation warns developers about this situation that we discovered through support exchanges with affected customers. We’re actively working on a solution that will replace Family Sharing and offer a better experience for our customers.

Syncing usually stops working when there is no more available space in customers iCloud storage. Deleting a few files is what it takes to solve the issue, as journal data is very lightweight.

The ability to add new entries (and the presence of quick action buttons for sleep and bottle entries at the top of the journal) for Apple accounts owners who benefit from others’ purchase can be affected if the Family Sharing group is edited, or the Apple account itself disrupted. The app itself wasn’t modified around the time your problem.

We’re very sorry Le Baby wasn’t functioning for you as it should have, and for the lack of answer from our part.

Generally great

The apps user interface is clean and it’s generally very easy to use. The sharing function is very useful and also very easy. The ability to edit entries after the fact and adjust them is great. I only noticed two areas for improvement: firstly it’s not entirely clear upfront that all users will need to purchase a full membership in order to share all entries. This feels a little bit misleading because it feels like one membership will allow all family members to share, but in fact, we had to purchase two memberships. That should be clearer from the start. The other thing that could be improved is printable reports. It would be great to include a functionality where users could print detailed reports to share with their pediatricians. There are printing capabilities currently in the app, but they are fairly limited and don’t provide a lot of detail.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you very much for your kind comments about Le Baby!
Regarding the need for all journal participants to make a purchase: you have the choice to use the in app purchase compatible with Family Sharing, Apple's solution for members of a family to share purchases and subscriptions. But you might have experienced a problem for the purchase to be accessible to every member of your Family Sharing group; we've seen this happening from time to time, and it can take a few days to kick in. This process is in Apple's hands and there's not much we can do. If you've set up Family Sharing and made the second purchase not too long ago, you should ask for a refund. We can go through this in more details if you wish to: contact us using the "send feedback" link in the journal's settings.
Your suggestion of a pdf export for doctors is on our list, but we haven't started working on it. It would help us a lot if you could let us know, in broad strokes, what informations doctors should be able to get from this pdf.
Again, thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts!