Baby Tracker by Nara 4+

This app is gold. It has all the common activities you’d want to track for your baby done simply, beautifully, intuitively, and without fuss. I love that you can be as specific or as simple as you want, other apps won’t let you save an activity without filing out all the fields. As a second time mom, there’s plenty of times where the toddler distracts me from logging right away and getting some info entered later in the day is better than none! As others have mentioned, typing things in or just hitting start/stop is intuitive and easy - I’m never saying “how do I do this?” with this app!

BUT what makes this app really special is the ability to track activities for mom. With my first baby, the baby blues quickly spiraled into Postpartum Depression because keeping myself hydrated, fed, and showered was easy to forget. While babies cry to remind you something’s forgotten, Mama bodies will just keep grinding until you’re so depleted you can’t get out of bed. Tracking myself along with baby in one place is simple and beautifully executed! There’s even the ability to track mom sleep (not that you have much control over it) but when you “wake up” from a night of 2 hour stretches b/c of a growth spurt, it’s easy to see why you feel foggy and short fused! Without a doubt I’m a better mamma because of the insight I get from this app!

Things my partner and I love about this app: -great timer for breastfeeding: can time each side, pause, enter other data in the app, then go back to timer without losing your time/info. -simple buttons and choices for entering data like diaper changes, routines, etc. -opens keyboard for entering data when you select that field (you’d be surprised how annoying this is when it doesn’t happen—I have a wiggling baby, I don’t have time to select the same thing twice because someone didn’t think that I would want to enter data into a field I literally just selected 🙄) -automatically enters the time when you select the data you want to enter (see above again) -can sync with a partner/others to coordinate care -timer sync as well! Super helpful if one of you puts down the baby for a nap and the other gets them up—either person can start/stop the timer so you’re never left with a timer hanging out there in the ether. -can enter growth info like weight, height, head size, etc. -can enter personalized ‘routines’, like tummy time and baths as well as creating your own items. -beautiful design and colors. Not cluttered or distracting. Not constantly trying to sell you something.

This app is the best. No need to search any further. It’s simplistic but visually appealing screen is perfect and easy to see and use. Tracks everything you need, feeding (breast, formula, solids), diaper changes with options to record what the waste looked like, sleep, routines, medical history and more. It doesn’t require a lot of clicking through screens which is great when you have one hand and you’re trying to add a feeding before you forget while holding a bottle in place with your chin. Since I downloaded it they updated by adding “routines” as something to track. You can add your own routines and save them so they’re available in the future. We added tongue-tie exercises to keep track of how many times we do them in a day. You can do the same for medicine or vaccines. It really is a great app! And what makes it even better is that it’s free. It’s better than any of the paid apps. Oh and it provides easy to read summaries if you really want to evaluate your data! Save yourself time, download this app, delete and forget about the others. This app needs to be #1 on all of the best baby tracking apps. Nothing compares.