Baby + | Your Baby Tracker

Review by eFreeware

Most baby trackers do one thing: they count feeds or chart sleep. Baby+ tries to cover the whole first year in a single app, from feeding and nappy logs to milestone photos, weekly development guides and even lullabies. That breadth is the most distinctive thing about it, and it's the reason it has stayed relevant.

It comes from Philips Electronics UK Limited and is free to download, with ads and no in-app purchases. The install base is substantial: over 5 million installs on Google Play and a 4.7 average from just under 100,000 ratings. If you are a new parent who wants one app to hold the practical records, the reading material and the keepsakes, this is built for exactly that.

Who will get the most from it

The app is designed around the first 1,000 days, so the natural user is a parent in the thick of newborn life, or one who is about to be. Feeding, sleep and nappy tracking are the kinds of things you do many times a day in those months, and having them in one place rather than scattered across notes and memory is the appeal.

It also suits parents who want context alongside the logging. The articles, weekly development guides and parenting guides are tied to your baby's date of birth, so what you read should match roughly where your child is. That pairing of record-keeping and reading is the core of the offer.

Families with more than one young child are covered too, since the app supports multiple children and twins as separate profiles. Sharing with a partner, grandparent or other caregiver is part of the design as well, which matters when more than one person is doing feeds and changes.

What I'd keep in mind is that this is a general information tool, not a medical one. The developer makes clear that the app should not be used as a substitute for a doctor's care or professional medical advice. It is for keeping your own records and reading supportive material, and for anything that worries you the guidance is to speak to a healthcare professional.

Feeding, nappies and sleep: the daily logs

The feeding tracker covers breastfeeding, expressing and bottle feeding, which means you can record whichever combination your household uses rather than being pushed into one method. For breastfeeding specifically, the app includes video guides aimed at helping with latching, so there is something to watch when the practical side is not going smoothly.

Around that sit the logs you'd expect for a newborn: a nappy tracker for how often your baby needs changing, and a sleep and soothing tracker for behavior patterns. None of these are unusual ideas on their own, but having them together means one app is recording most of the day's recurring events.

The health side is covered by a tracker for temperature, medications and vaccinations, and there is an appointment tracker for you and your baby. That combination is useful in the weeks when checkups, jabs and the occasional fever all arrive at once and you want the details in one place rather than on scraps of paper.

Growth, teeth and your own weight

Growth tracking is one of the headline tools: you follow your baby's growth over time rather than relying on a single measurement. The teeth tracker logs dental development against monthly reference charts, which is a narrower feature than the rest but a sensible one for the months when something new seems to appear every week.

There is also a weight tracker for you, if you want to use it. It is optional in the sense that it is simply there as a tool, and it acknowledges that the postpartum period involves your own body as well as your baby's. I'd expect parents who like having numbers to hand to use it, and others to ignore it entirely.

The app also lets you add your baby's name and photo, which makes the development tracking feel personal rather than like a generic log. It is a small touch, but it is the difference between a spreadsheet and something you might actually keep looking at.

Memories, milestones and things to do

Alongside the logs, Baby+ is built to hold the parts you'd otherwise forget. A daily journal lets you record experiences, and the moments feature captures photos of your baby to share and look back on. Milestones such as grabbing, crawling and walking can be marked as they happen.

There is also a set of activity ideas, described as age-appropriate, for keeping your baby entertained, plus recovery tips aimed at looking after yourself after labor. Those two sit at opposite ends of the same problem: filling the day with your baby, and remembering that you need looking after too.

For sleep, the app offers lullabies and white noise, with sounds including womb, rain and hairdryer options. A fresh Disney lullaby is offered each month at no cost, according to the developer. I'd treat that as a nice extra rather than the reason to install, but it fits the overall pattern of the app trying to cover the whole day rather than just the record-keeping.

Reading material tailored to your baby's age

The content side is more substantial than a token blog. Daily posts are meant to put relevant information in front of you at the right time, weekly development guides follow your baby's growth according to their age, and parenting guides cover the first year. Because everything is keyed to your baby's date of birth, the material should track your child rather than sit at a fixed starting point.

This is where the app's breadth shows most clearly. A parent who wants to read about what is coming next, and to have it arrive without searching, gets that here. A parent who only wants a feeding log will find a lot of this simply passes them by.

The quality question is one I can't settle from a description. The developer describes the app as trusted by over 80 million parents across its pregnancy and baby apps, which is a marketing claim rather than something I can verify. Guides and reminders tied to your baby's age are a sensible way to organize this kind of content.

What it costs and how it's funded

Baby+ is free to download. It contains ads, and there are no in-app purchases, so there is no tier of paid features to weigh and nothing to buy inside the app. That is a straightforward arrangement.

For a free app with this many tools, that trade-off is worth thinking about in advance. If you would rather not see ads in an app you open several times a day, that is a real consideration, and it is the main thing to weigh against the breadth of what is included.

There is nothing in the way of a subscription to cancel or a purchase decision to make later, which keeps the setup simple. The app was last updated in November 2025, with the developer citing performance improvements and bug fixes.

How it compares with other ways of tracking

The alternatives fall into a few groups. A notebook or a notes app costs nothing and asks nothing of you, but it won't tie reading material to your baby's age or produce charts from what you enter. A dedicated feeding app tends to go deeper on one job, with less around it.

Baby+ sits in the middle by trying to be the single place for logs, guides, memories and sleep sounds. That is convenient, and it is also why the app has more surface area than a simple tracker. If you want one place for everything, the breadth works in your favor; if you want to record feeds and nothing else, much of what is here will go unused.

The other thing that separates it from a plain logging tool is the family angle. Sharing the app with loved ones so they can follow and track your baby's growth together, and keeping separate profiles for twins or multiple children, are the features that make it a household tool rather than a personal one.

A well-rounded pick for the first year

Baby+ earns a recommendation for parents who want one free app to carry them through the first year: feeding, nappies, sleep, health, growth, milestones, photos, reading and sleep sounds, all in one place.

The caveats are straightforward. It is a general information tool rather than a medical one, and its breadth means parts of it will not matter to every parent. Those are the things to accept going in.

If you are expecting a baby or have just had one, and you would rather have a single app than three, this is a sensible place to start. If your needs are narrower, a simple log may be all you want, and the extra tools here will sit unused.

What's new in version 3.2

Thanks to your feedback, this update includes: • Enhanced performance, so you'll have a smoother experience using the app • A few bug fixes Download the latest version of the free Baby+ app today, and tell us what you think!