Cubtale: Pregnancy & Baby

Review by eFreeware

Most families end up juggling several tools at once: one for cycle tracking while trying to conceive, another for pregnancy milestones, and something else entirely once a baby arrives. The records never quite line up, and the handoff between stages is where details tend to get lost. Cubtale, from the developer of the same name, is built to close that gap by covering all three stages in a single app.

It is a free download in the Parenting category, with ads and in-app purchases. The install base sits at over 50,000, and the average rating is 4.2 from 1,614 ratings. It first appeared in February 2021 and was most recently updated in early October 2026, so it is a project the developer keeps working on.

The pitch is continuity: the same timeline that starts with a fertile window carries through a due date and into feeding, sleep and growth logs. Whether that matters to you depends on how much you value having one record rather than three.

Who gets the most from a single timeline

The clearest fit is someone at the start of the journey who expects to keep using the same app for years. If you are tracking cycles now and plan to track a pregnancy and then a baby, the value of one continuous record is obvious from the beginning. Starting mid-journey works too, but you lose some of the payoff.

Shared parenting is the second strong fit. The app supports adding parents, grandparents and caregivers, with real-time updates and multiple child profiles, so everyone reads the same information instead of keeping separate notes. Families where one person does most of the logging will notice the difference most.

Pumping parents are a third group the developer has thought about specifically. The breastmilk inventory tools go well beyond a simple feeding log, and that depth is unusual in a general parenting app. If your routine involves a freezer stash, that section alone may justify the install.

Someone who wants a lightweight notes app for a single purpose, such as counting kicks during one pregnancy, will find far more here than they need. The breadth is the point, and it is also the reason the app asks for some patience at the start.

Fertility tracking and test scanning

The trying-to-conceive side starts with the basics: logging your cycle and period, seeing a predicted fertile window, and identifying the days most likely to lead to conception. The app also follows how your cycle shifts over time and suggests the right moments to take a test or start trying. None of this is unusual on its own, but it sets up the rest of the timeline.

The more distinctive part is the scanner. You photograph an ovulation test with your phone and the app returns a Low, High or Peak result, which you can then follow over time and compare against your cycle. Pregnancy tests work the same way, with results saved so you can see how they change across several tests. For anyone who has squinted at a faint line and tried to remember what yesterday's looked like, keeping those images in one place is the real benefit.

Together these tools cover the two questions that dominate this stage: when to try, and when to test. The app frames its role as making that path easier to understand, and the cycle-plus-scan combination is how it tries to do it.

Pregnancy tools, week by week

Once a pregnancy is confirmed, the app shifts to structured guidance. There is week-by-week development information, size comparisons for the baby, due date tracking and weekly guidance that the developer describes as personalized. This is the part most pregnancy apps cover, and Cubtale follows the familiar pattern.

Monitoring is where the toolset fills out: a kick counter, a contraction timer, weight tracking, symptom logs, appointment and test reminders, and visit notes you can keep alongside everything else. Having reminders and notes in the same place as the tracking data is convenient, particularly in the later weeks when appointments come quickly.

The app also keeps a pregnancy record through weekly photos, milestones, personal notes and a timeline view. That material carries forward, which is the thread that connects this stage to the baby years rather than leaving it behind as a separate chapter.

Baby care, feeding and growth

After birth, the app continues with the logging that fills a new parent's day. Feeding covers breastfeeding with side and duration, bottle feeding, pumping sessions and solid food, along with custom reminders. Sleep sessions, diaper logs, daily summaries and pattern charts handle the rest of the routine. The goal is a fast, repeatable log rather than a detailed diary.

Growth and health tracking includes weight, WHO growth percentiles, milestones and vaccination logs. Percentiles are the kind of reference data that is tedious to look up separately, so having it attached to your own measurements is genuinely useful at checkups.

The breastmilk inventory is the standout feature here. You can note how much you pumped, save the date and time of each session, keep track of several storage spots, and let the app handle expiration tracking, first-in-first-out rotation advice and deadlines for thawed milk. Numbered milk bags let you assign a unique number to each bag so you can find a specific one and know which to use next, keeping freezer totals accurate. Smart milk labels go further: scanning a QR label logs the milk instantly and links the bag to its quantity, date and location, which cuts down on manual entry errors. For anyone managing a serious stash, this is a level of detail that general baby trackers rarely attempt.

Sharing, sync and the connected extras

Cubtale is built around the assumption that more than one person is doing the caring. You can add parents, grandparents and caregivers, updates appear in real time, and multiple child profiles are supported. Logs can be exported for pediatrician visits, which turns weeks of scattered notes into something you can hand over at an appointment.

Connected extras round things out: logging from an Apple Watch, syncing in real time between devices, custom notifications, Cub integrations and smart milk label integration. The dashboard is customizable and there is a dark mode, which matters for anyone logging feeds at three in the morning. The app centers on quick logging and connected tracking.

Memories tie the whole thing together: the trying-to-conceive journey, the pregnancy timeline, baby milestones, monthly photos and important dates all sit in one record. It is the part of the app with no practical function, and for many families it will be the part they keep coming back to.

What it costs and what comes with it

Cubtale is free to download, and it contains ads and offers in-app purchases. I would treat the free download as the starting point rather than a full picture of the long-term cost.

The honest position for a free app with purchases is to try the parts you need before relying on them. If the breastmilk inventory or family sharing turns out to be central to your routine, that is worth keeping in mind.

One thing worth stating plainly, because the developer does: Cubtale is not a medical device. It offers health and parenting information for educational purposes and is not a tool for diagnosing, treating, curing or preventing any condition. It is not a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare professional, and the fertility and pregnancy features should be read in that light. The app organizes what you record and what you are told; it does not replace a clinician.

How it compares with the alternatives

The obvious comparison is a dedicated cycle-tracking app. Those tend to go deeper on fertility charting and predictions, and some people prefer that single-minded focus. What they do not do is follow you into pregnancy and then into feeding logs, so you would be starting over at each stage and carrying your history across by hand.

A dedicated baby tracker is the other option, and those can be very good at feeding, sleep and diaper logging. They generally begin at birth, so the app concentrates on the newborn and baby months rather than the trying-to-conceive and pregnancy stages. Cubtale's argument is that the earlier record is worth keeping in the same place, and the memories timeline is the clearest expression of that idea.

For pumping families, a specialized milk-management tool is the third alternative. Cubtale's inventory features are unusually thorough for a general parenting app, and the numbered bags and QR labels are the kind of detail those tools specialize in. The trade-off is that a general app has to spread its attention across many areas, so a specialist may still go further in one narrow one.

A strong pick for families starting out

Cubtale makes the most sense for someone at the beginning of the process who wants one app to carry them through. The cycle tracking and test scanning give it a genuine starting point, the pregnancy tools cover the middle, and the baby logging plus breastmilk inventory handle what comes after. Add family sharing and the export for pediatrician visits, and the case for keeping everything together is clear.

The caveats are the ones that come with any broad app. It contains ads and in-app purchases, and it is not a medical device, so it informs and organizes rather than advises. Anyone who wants a narrow tool for one stage will find more depth in a specialist alternative, and anyone who dislikes ads in a daily-use app should weigh that before committing.

If you are planning a family and expect to be logging something for the next few years, this is an easy one to try. Over 50,000 installs and a 4.2 average suggest plenty of families have already made that call.

What's new in version 4.10.0

Thank you for using Cubtale, here is what's new in this version: • General improvements • UI updates