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Once a baby is born, they require complete attention of their parents as they keep growing a little every day. Their health needs to be monitored closely to ensure that they are healthy and identify early signs of any health problems.
Parenting can get challenging sometimes, and a baby development app can be your savior at such times. It not only keeps a tab on your baby’s growth but also marks every milestone they achieve. It also helps you monitor early signs of any health concerns in the child.
Let’s have a look at some of the best baby development apps available online.
15 Best Baby Development Apps
It’s time to stress a little less as these baby development apps will help you keep track of major and minor baby details.
1. Kinedu
Available for free/Specific features only for premium members
Nervous about caring for a baby? Don’t be, as this app will guide you through activities best suited for your little one. You can avail personalized plans for your baby and access ‘how-to’ videos and live parenting sessions. It also gives you access to interactive play sessions created by experts. You can also record your baby’s milestones in it.
2. The Wonder Weeks
Available for $5.99
For a first-time parent, understanding a baby’s needs can be a tad confusing, especially when you have no idea why they are crying even after being fed and changed. This app guides you through the various stages a baby generally goes through, so you know how to tackle their changing habits. It also gives you tips and tricks to adapt to your baby’s changing behavior.
3. Babysparks
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
This app is designed to help you create a personalized play program for your child. It comes with ten activities and demonstration videos. Each activity is targeted at developing certain skills such as gross motor development and retentive memory. This app comes with a tracker in which you can record milestones, so you can closely monitor your child’s progress.
4. Baby Connect
Available for $7.99
Are you looking for an app that allows you to store and record almost everything related to your little one? Here it is. It provides you with reports and charts to track your child’s progress and gives you notifications for medicines, vaccines, and so on. You can also store photos on this app. A single subscription gives multiple access so your spouse and child’s nanny can access the app anytime.
5. Hatch Baby
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
A baby entering your life means a ton of added chores. This app helps you keep track of everything your child needs, right from feeding to diaper change and sleeping. It tracks and reminds you of almost everything and anything that has to do with your little munchkin.
6. Glow
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
When looking after a baby, there will be many instances where you may not understand what to do. This app has a feature where you can connect with other parents and get answers to questions you have. It also gives you a detailed account of your baby’s milestones. The tracker feature notes your baby’s feeding, pooping, sleeping, and other habits, to help you monitor their growth.
7. Growth: Baby and Child Charts
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Download: iOS
This app is specifically to track your child’s physical growth. Record your child’s height and weight in it, as it gives you a curve chart displaying your child’s growth over the years. It also gives you a BMI calculation, so you know that your child’s weight is within the healthy range. The chart is available in PDF form, so you can easily download it when required.
8. Baby Tracker
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
This customizable app allows you to record every little detail of your baby. Log in your baby’s habits such as feeding time, nap time, and playtime to make it easy for their nanny and doctor to understand their habits. You can keep track of your child’s height and weight over the years to ensure that your baby is growing as per normal standards. Its health feature allows you to record your child’s medical history pertaining to vaccines, medicines, etc.
9. Playfully
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Based on your child’s age, health, and milestones, this app recommends games that help in their mental and physical growth. The makers of this app believe that playing is an effective method to make a baby learn something. It has easy games that target specific skills that your child needs to develop. It also provides tips to make every activity easier. You can keep track of your child’s growth with data and pictures.
10. Huckleberry
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Doctors say that babies grow in their sleep. This app helps manage your child’s sleeping schedule. Log in their daily habits, and the app will give you a chart summarizing statistics. It has the provision to feed in details of multiple children, so you know you have details about all your children in a single app. It also has a feeding, medication, and nappy change tracker.
11. Baby Nursing
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Here is an app that acts like a baby journal for you. Write detailed accounts of what and how much your baby ate during the week, store photos and videos of your baby’s progress, and keep a record of your baby’s growing height and weight over the weeks. You can easily sync this app with other users, so they too can access your baby’s details when required. Back up of data is also available, so even if you change your phone, you can still have all the records.
12. Tinybeans Family Album
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Track your baby’s development in pictures. No, do not worry! This app is not a social media app but a private app where you can share pictures of your baby’s milestones only with those you want to share with. It comes with a calendar and chart view, so you get a quick glimpse of your child’s progress. You can even create a picture book of it.
13. CDC Milestone Tracker
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Milestones give an idea of your child’s health. Keep track of their milestones in this app to understand your child’s growth and progress. This app recommends activities to promote growth in babies. It gives a timely indication of any apparent problem and if you need to check up with your child’s doctor based on the logs you feed in.
14. Baby Daybook
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
This app provides a log for 20 activities: diaper change, breastfeeding, potty training, and so on. If needed, you can even create your own activity log in which you can record activity type with customized icon and title. You can also create a photo album to save some memorable images during your child’s growth period. The statistics you store creates a chart to give you a quick glimpse of your baby’s health update.
15. Qeepsake: Journal & Milestones
Available for free/ Specific features only for premium members
Turn your baby’s special moments into memories by storing images in this app. Feed in all your baby’s firsts in the app, which can be accessed by anyone you share it with. Store journal entries about your child’s period of growth. You can also print a photo book out of the images you store in the app, which you can share with your baby when they grow up.
Baby development apps are quite useful to record memories of your little one right from their birth till they grow up. Some of these apps have a small community of parents facing similar parenting issues. Parents also keep sharing their tips and tricks about effective childcare that benefit everyone in the community. Are you ready to download and try a few?