Best Free Baby Apps That Make Parents Lives Easier
Discover the best free baby apps designed to simplify parenting. These user-friendly apps are a game-changer, making parents’ lives easier and more organized.
When you want the best for baby,
there’s a free app for that.
There are many free baby apps, so you won’t need to pay out big bucks to have the best.
There’s an app to track baby feedings and diaper changes.
Want to know what to expect at a certain stage in baby’s life?
There’s an app for that.
No time to sing to baby?
There’s an app to soothe them to sleep.
We checked the apps we found out there, and these caught our eye. We picked the ones we feel will be helpful for this baby stage in your life.
1. Baby Tracker – Newborn Log
Free on IOS and Android.
Baby Tracker manages feedings, diaper changes and nap patterns.
Best of all, it has a Milestones section for journal entries and even photos. You know we’re all for keeping track of Baby’s Milestones (See our best-selling Baby’s First Year Keepsake Calendars).
The Baby Tracker app has a Health section to track doctor visits, check ups, shots and sick days.
Then, when baby grows out of this app, you can download all the data to keep for future use.
2. Peanut – share with other moms
Free on IOS and Android.
Having a newborn in your life for the first time can make you feel as if you’re the only one on the planet trying to raise a baby. You can feel wrapped in a time warp, where life feels super slow and yet so fast. All of a sudden the stage you thought you were prepared for feels like you’ve traveled to a foreign country, and you don’t have a map.
Perhaps you have a church family in the wings or lots of friends in the same stage of life that you can share with and ask questions about baby stuff.
But perhaps you don’t.
The Peanut app can connect you to other new moms going through the same daily deal changers, both in your life and baby’s.
Sharing makes life more fun.
Even if you don’t connect one on one, the app has “Peanut Pages” that’s a question and answer forum where you can mine the minds of moms who went before you.
3. Glow Baby – new tips daily.
Free on IOS and Android with option to upgrade with subscription.
Glow Baby is a baby milestone and schedule tracker app, with one bonus above the others that I noticed.
It offers helpful mama and baby tips daily, so you can feel you’re on the right track.
We also liked these features:
Timers – Schedule your baby’s feeding, diaper changes, sleep times and more.
Notifications – Stay on track with Glow Baby’s reminders.
Personalized summaries – Get complete PDF downloads of all your child’s data, plus interactive growth charts.
4. Sound Sleeper – the white noise app.
Free on IOS and Android
The Sound Sleeper app has a variety of white noises, ranging from womb sounds to hair dryer to nature sounds.
Turn it to listen mode, and it will start up automatically when baby cries!
You can even record your own sounds so baby hears you and you might not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night.
Use two devices; one to monitor and regulate the noise from your own room while the other one listens in your baby’s room.
It has a clock, night light and can track sleep patterns, which parentstoparentsapps say will help your child create good sleeping habits.
5. Baby Night Light – when the room is too dark.
Free on IOS and Android.
You’re away from home and baby can’t settle down in the darkness of a new space.
Baby Night Light app to the rescue.
Other apps also have this feature, but this app focuses on the value of a night light along with other features. You choose colors, timer for slowly shutting off the light, and a noise monitor that lights it up again if baby awakes.
6. WebMD Baby – a pediatrician in your pocket.
Free on IOS and Android
We’ll let the WebMD Baby app speak for itself:
Five comprehensive tools to keep track of important needs and stay on schedule:
– Breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and solid-food trackers – record and review all your feeding and nursing sessions, including both breast milk and formula.
– Sleep tracker: Records not only time of each session, but location such as crib, car seat, stroller, and more.
– Diaper tracker: Keep track of each diaper change — dry, wet, or both.
– Growth tracker: Allows you to record height, weight, and head circumference.
– Baby Book: Capture your baby’s memories and share them with collaborators. (Note: videos cannot be shared or backed up due to file sizes)
– The nursing and feeding trackers allow you to schedule reminders and even base them on previous feedings.
– Collaborate with your partner, relatives, or caregiver to keep track of all your child’s needs. Tracker updates sync across all devices.
The app also has vaccine info and well-baby check up guides.
7. Hatch Baby – links to the Hatch changing pad.
Free on IOS and Android.
The Hatch Baby app says it tracks feeding, sleep and diapers.
And that, if you dig into the app details a little more, is just for starters. There’s a long list of pluses, but the biggest in our view is the weighing option. If you have the Hatch baby changing pad, you can link the app to the changing pad and it becomes a scale.
There’s also a Hatch Grow device that weighs and tracks baby’s eating.
The scale is what sells this app for us.
7. My Baby Today – activity ideas for mom and baby.
Free on Android
The My Baby Today app has all the goodies like a calendar, feeding tracker, milestone tracker and so on.
The thing that sets it apart for us is the list of weekly activity suggestions for mama and baby.
I used to worry that I was missing the games and activities that helps baby move to the next developmental stage. My inner critic accuses me that if I’d had an app like this when my youngest was born we may have caught her autism sooner. I have to let that one go, though. No app can help you get it all right. Which leads me to this advice for you new moms with first time babies (or second or third).
That’s our roundup of the Best Free Baby Apps
Take it from someone who’s been there and remains close to young mamas now…
Relax and let God nudge you in the right direction for baby nurture.
I believe apps can be helpful, but don’t let routine or someone else’s ideas rule your life.
Getting input is one thing, but trying to follow all the advice can never be a good thing.
Find the apps that work for you.
We’d love to hear what you think about them.
