Momly: Pregnancy App & Tracker

Review by eFreeware

Momly is a pregnancy tracking app for Android. It has been on the Play Store since the summer of 2019 and has passed five million installs, with a 4.8 average from more than 63,000 ratings. That kind of history is worth noting for an app you may lean on over nine months, because it suggests the basics have held up for a large number of people.

The reason to consider it is straightforward: it gathers the tracking and preparation tasks of pregnancy into one place. The developer leads with weekly baby growth updates, but the app also covers symptom logging, birth planning, hospital preparation, baby names, contraction timing and postpartum recovery. For someone who would rather keep one app open through pregnancy than juggle several, that breadth is the main draw.

It is free to install and supported by ads, with in-app purchases available. I would treat it as a personal organizer rather than a medical service: it helps you record what is happening and prepare for the delivery, and the decisions about your care stay with you and your clinician.

Weekly growth updates and the symptom diary

The feature the developer puts first is the weekly baby growth update. Each week you get an update on how the baby is developing, a visual comparison to convey the size, and a tip to go with it. The visual size comparison is the part I would expect to stick: it turns an abstract measurement into something you can picture, which is useful when you are trying to follow along between appointments.

The symptom diary is the more practical half of the same idea. It lets you record symptoms, weight and blood pressure in one log rather than on scraps of paper. Blood pressure in particular is the sort of figure that is easy to forget by the time you are asked about it, so having a running record you can bring to an appointment seems like the sensible use here.

These two features work well together because they cover both sides of the experience: what is happening with the baby and what is happening with you. Neither is complicated on its own, but the value comes from the record building up week after week, which is the sort of thing that only pays off if you keep at it.

Planning tools for the delivery and after

The birth plan creator is where the app moves from tracking to preparation. You set out your preferences for labor and delivery in one document instead of trying to remember them in the moment. A written plan is easier to share with whoever will be with you and easier to hand over when you arrive, and having it stored in the app means it is one less piece of paper to keep track of.

A hospital bag checklist is included too, covering what to pack. Packing is the kind of task that gets pushed to the end and then done in a hurry, so a list you can work through over a few weeks is a reasonable way to spread the load. The two features are complementary: one is about what you want to happen, the other about what you need to bring.

For after the birth, the app includes postpartum care tips covering your own recovery and newborn care. That extends its useful life past delivery, which matters if you would rather not switch tools the moment you come home. It is advice rather than tracking, but it fits the same role as the rest of the app: a reference you can return to during a stretch when you are unlikely to go looking for one.

Names, contractions and the smaller tools

The baby names section offers thousands of options to browse. That is a different sort of feature from the rest, closer to a reference library than a tracker, and it suits the long, undecided stage of choosing a name rather than a single sitting. If you and a partner are working through lists separately, having a large pool in the same app you are already using saves a step.

The contraction timer is the tool I would expect to get the most focused use. It monitors contractions so you can judge when it is time to head to the hospital, which is exactly the moment when you do not want to be counting on a phone's clock app and guessing. Because it is built into the same app as your symptom log and birth plan, everything you might need in that moment is in one place.

Taken together, these smaller features round out the app rather than define it. None of them would justify installing Momly on its own, but they fill the gaps between the tracking and planning tools, and they are the reason the app can plausibly stay on your home screen for the whole pregnancy.

What it asks of you

Momly is free to download and shows ads, and it offers in-app purchases. If you prefer to avoid advertising in an app you open daily, that is a factor to weigh before you commit to it as your main tracker. The purchases are there as an option alongside the free version.

The other requirement is your own consistency. A symptom diary only helps if you enter symptoms, weight and blood pressure as they happen, and a growth update is only meaningful if you read it week by week. The contraction timer, by contrast, asks nothing until the day you need it, which is a fair split: some parts reward routine, others simply wait.

The app has a content rating of Everyone and sits in the Parenting category, which is where you would expect to find it. It was last updated in late August 2026, and the notes for that release focus on bug fixes rather than new features, so the current version is a maintenance pass on what is already there.

Getting the most from it over nine months

My advice would be to decide early which parts of the app you will actually use and set a rhythm around them. Reading the weekly growth update and logging weight and blood pressure on the same day each week turns two features into one habit, and it produces a record that is genuinely useful at appointments rather than a pile of one-off entries.

The planning tools are better spread out than saved for the end. Building the birth plan gradually gives you time to think about your preferences instead of filling in a form under pressure, and working through the hospital bag checklist over several weeks is easier than doing it in a single evening. Browsing baby names is the one part with no deadline, so it can fill the waiting time whenever you have a few minutes.

When the due date gets close, the contraction timer becomes the feature you will reach for, and it is worth knowing where it lives before that moment arrives. The same goes for the postpartum tips: they are easy to forget about until you need them, so it helps to know they are in there. The app rewards a little familiarity more than it rewards exploration.

A well-rounded companion for the months before birth

Momly stands out through its breadth of coverage rather than any single standout tool. Weekly growth updates, a symptom diary, a birth plan creator, a hospital bag checklist, baby names, a contraction timer and postpartum advice together cover most of what an expectant parent needs to track and prepare. The 4.8 average from over 63,000 ratings suggests that combination has worked for a lot of people since 2019.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with a free, ad-supported app that also sells in-app purchases, and the fact that the tracking features only pay off if you keep them up. Neither is unusual, but both are worth going in with your eyes open. I would also keep expectations of it as an organizer: it is where you record and plan, not where medical questions get answered.

This is a good fit for expectant parents who want one app to follow the pregnancy week by week and prepare for the delivery, and who are comfortable with ads in exchange for not paying upfront. If you want a single tool for logging, planning and timing contractions, Momly covers that ground well.

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