Pregnancy Tracker & Baby App

Review by eFreeware

Pregnancy and a baby's first years generate a staggering amount of information to hold on to: appointment dates, kick counts, feeding times, milestone firsts, questions that arrive at two in the morning. Most people end up juggling a notes app, a calendar, a stack of bookmarked articles and a group chat. The What to Expect app, from the developer What to Expect, is built to fold that into one place, starting with family planning and running through pregnancy into the newborn and toddler stage.

It is a free download with ads. The install numbers back up the name recognition: more than 5 million installs and a 4.9 average from 121,580 ratings, with 19,133 written reviews. The app has been on Google Play since October 2010, which makes it one of the longer-running titles in the Parenting category, and it was updated in late September 2026.

What interests me is the span it attempts. Plenty of apps handle pregnancy well and then stop, or handle baby logs and ignore the months before birth. This one is organized around a continuous timeline, and the question for anyone considering it is whether that breadth holds together well enough to replace the scattered approach.

The due date calculator and the weekly tracker

The due date calculator is the entry point. It works from the last period, an IVF transfer, the date of conception or an ultrasound, and alongside the estimate it surfaces facts about the baby. Week by week, the app follows the pregnancy with updates on how the baby is developing, common symptoms and how the family can prepare.

The presentation is more visual than a plain article feed. Development across the 280 days is shown through 3D videos, a countdown and themed size comparisons. For a first pregnancy especially, that structure gives you something to look at each week rather than a wall of text, and the daily tips keep a small amount of new material arriving between the weekly updates.

The journal is where the tracker turns personal. My Journal holds bump photos, symptoms, pregnancy weight, kick counts, a birth plan and memories. Later, the contractions counter tracks the frequency and duration of contractions, which is the kind of thing you want recorded precisely rather than estimated from memory when you are deciding whether to call someone.

After birth: feeding logs, milestones and daily guidance

Once the baby arrives, the app shifts to logging. The baby tracker times and records feedings, pump sessions, diaper changes and tummy time, and the milestone tracker follows month by month from newborn through the toddler stage, including the key first-year milestones. Postpartum symptoms and medications can be recorded too, which matters because recovery tends to get far less attention than the pregnancy itself.

The reading material continues on the other side of birth. There are videos and articles on sleep schedules, feeding, milestones and growth, plus medically reviewed material on baby health, doctor's appointments and vaccines. Daily tips adjust to the baby's age and stage, to postpartum recovery and to the broader parenting picture, so the guidance is meant to move with you rather than sit in a fixed library.

Family planning sits at the front of the same timeline. There is a due date calculator for those trying to conceive, an ovulation calculator and tracker, information on early pregnancy signs, and a journal for recording feelings during that period. Articles cover ovulation signs, fertility issues and surrogacy, and community groups exist for preparing for pregnancy and fertility treatments.

Community, registry tools and buying guides

The community side is organized around groups rather than one general forum. You can join groups for people with due dates in the same month, for newborn care, for maternal health conditions and for parenting styles, among others. The most recent update added Community Answers, which the developer describes as curated insights from thousands of mothers addressing common questions, and a Partner Updates bubble for sharing short, stage-specific updates with the people supporting you.

There are also practical planning tools. The Registry Builder helps assemble a baby list and registry, and the app carries detailed reviews of pregnancy and baby products alongside expert buying guides. For anyone facing a twin pregnancy, there is material on the different types of twins and possible fetal positions.

The editorial side is framed around medical review. The developer states that medical professionals check the content, naming the What to Expect Medical Review Board, and that it follows current health guidelines and Heidi Murkoff's books, drawing on groups such as ACOG, the AAP and the CDC as well as peer-reviewed journals. That is a claim worth weighing rather than taking at face value, but it does describe a review process rather than a content farm, and it is the main reason the article library carries weight.

What the app asks of you

The app is free to download and supported by ads. How much the advertising bothers you will depend on how often you open the app.

The bigger commitment is input. The tracker is only as useful as the data you put into it: feedings, pump sessions, diapers, tummy time, weight, symptoms, contractions. This is not a passive read; the logging features reward consistency, and a parent who abandons the log after a week will get much less from the app than one who keeps it current.

There is also a breadth cost. The app covers trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum recovery and the toddler years, and that range means you will spend time in sections that do not apply to your current stage. The content rating is Teen, and the material spans fertility, pregnancy complications and infant health, so it is written for adults rather than as a child-friendly experience.

Getting the most from it

Set the due date properly at the start, using whichever method actually applies to you, since the weekly tracker, daily tips and community group suggestions all key off that date. If you are trying to conceive, the ovulation calculator and the journal are the parts to use first, and the fertility groups are worth joining before rather than after a positive test.

Treat the journal as a record you will want later. Bump photos, weight and symptom notes are easy to skip in a busy week and hard to reconstruct afterward, and the same goes for kick counts and the contraction counter. For the contraction counter in particular, entering data as it happens gives you a usable pattern; trying to recall the timing afterward defeats the purpose.

After birth, the feeding, diaper and tummy time logs are the features most likely to earn their keep, especially in the first months when pediatric appointments tend to come with questions about exactly those numbers. The daily tips and the age-based articles are the low-effort half of the app, and the milestone tracker gives you a reference point for the first year without needing to search for it.

The community groups are worth using selectively. Joining the group for your due-date month gives you a set of people at the same stage, and the condition-specific and parenting-style groups are there when a particular question arises. The developer's recent additions, Community Answers and Partner Updates, are aimed at exactly this: quick answers and keeping your support network in the loop without repeating yourself.

A tracker for the whole run, not just the pregnancy

What to Expect is at its best for someone who wants one app across the entire arc, from trying to conceive through pregnancy and into the baby and toddler years, and who is willing to keep logging rather than just reading. The combination of a due date calculator, weekly development tracking, journals, feeding and milestone logs, and stage-matched community groups is a lot of ground for a free download, and the medical review process behind the articles is the part that gives it credibility beyond a typical tracker.

The reservations are straightforward. The logging features depend on your own consistency. If you only want a due date and a weekly update, a narrower tool would do the job with less to navigate. If you want the whole timeline in one place, including the months after birth that many pregnancy apps treat as an afterthought, this is the version of that idea with the longest track record and the largest audience behind it.

I would point it at expectant parents, people in fertility treatment or trying to conceive, and new parents who want feeding and milestone records alongside guidance they can check quickly. The 4.9 average across more than 121,000 ratings suggests that combination has worked for a great many people, and the scope is the reason.

What's new in version 7.92

Introducing Community Answers! We’ve curated insights from thousands of fellow moms to answer your biggest questions. Also included in this release is the new Partner Updates! Look for the new Partner bubble to share bite-sized, stage-specific updates directly with your support system. Thanks for choosing What to Expect! It’s users like you that make the WTE community a trusted source of support for millions.