Baby tracker pro version7/5/2023 ![]() This strikes me as insane and borderline offensively anticonsumer. While Glow supports multiple users, if you want to use Glow Premium, each user has to purchase a Glow Premium account ($48/yr or $80 lifetime). Growth charts to see your baby's progress against the general population by percentile Support for multiple users (BUT see below) Can be handy to spot unusual trends/behaviors in your baby's day-to-day.Īllows you to export your data generates pleasing PDF charts of various data being tracked (BUT see below) The premium insights give you comparative statistics of your baby's sleep, feed & diaper habits against all Glow users (adjusted for age, I think?). The free insights give you basic information about what a typical baby the age of yours should be expecting w/r/t things like feeding & diapers, and I found them to be surprisingly helpful (although I think their range is limited and after a week or so you might not get a lot more out of them). Glow's "insights" seem actually quite useful. Very good UI/UX - not as lovely as Huckleberry (Glow's UI includes things like article recommendations that aren't technically ads but look like ads on the homepage), but still an attractive and professional design. No growth charts (I was wrong about this) If Huckleberry actually perfected this feature it would be a killer, but in practice it wasn't reliable enough.Įxpensive subscription (BUT - the free version is very powerful, you don't need to subscribe in order to get a lot of value from the app) When it works, it's great, but for us it wasn't working half the time - feeds or naps started on one parent's phone weren't showing up on the other parent's phone, leading us to accidentally create duplicate events with different times, etc. Simultaneous syncing of events is very hit or miss. As a disclaimer, I discovered that you can get Huckleberry to send you an export of your data if you email their customer service but that's a slow process that happens on their schedule - they aren't awake for 3am feedings when I'm on my computer! And you have to email them each time you want to do it. I also find it kind of philosophically annoying and anticonsumer for the app not to let you export your own data, especially when all Huckleberry's competitors seem to allow this. ![]() I'm sure I'm in the minority in this regard but I like to be able to get the data into a spreadsheet and slice & dice it myself to get at the questions I find useful, which don't always overlap with the app. While I appreciate the various summary statistics that Huckleberry & other apps provide, some of them are kind of dumb (e.g., in your 7-day average statistics, the app counts your partial current day as a full day, throwing off your averages), and they don't provide every possible look at data that I might want. For me, this was basically a dealbreaker. Very detailed poo color/texture tracking options, if that's your thingĭoes not allow you to export your data. Very detailed sleep tracking options (state of baby when they went to sleep, where/how they slept, how they woke up) Getting the full suite of recommendations requires paying for the app, which is expensive ($120/year)! Provides recommendations for sleep tailored to your baby - disclaimer: I didn't use these so I don't know how useful they are. BUT - see below (the implementation leaves something to be desired).Īllows you to adjust the start time of your baby's daily calendar (i.e., the top of the calendar can be whatever time baby normally starts their day, like 7am or 8am, rather than being locked to midnight the nice part about this is that it allows you to lay your calendar out to show your night as roughly one continuous block, rather than split across two days). Support for simultaneous syncing of events across multiple users (i.e., one parent can start tracking a feed or a nap on their phone, and the ongoing feed/nap will show up on the other parent's phone as well, allowing them to start/stop/pause it in progress). Very full-featured (pretty much anything you could want to track, you can track) Really beautiful, extremely usable design. ![]() The best UI/UX of any of the apps we tried. Note that we are both on Android but I don't think the feature sets in these apps is very different between iOS/Android (let me know if I'm wrong). Ultimately, none of the apps we tried were perfect for our needs it became a question of which drawbacks were easiest for us to accept. We spent this week bouncing between a few different apps, and spending time transferring data between them in an earnest attempt to use each one, and I thought it might be helpful to share some thoughts here for folks trying to think through what will work best for them. ![]() As our baby closed in on 4 weeks old, we decided to explore some of the newborn tracking apps so that we could better visualize the baby's rhythms and patterns in advance of trying to structure his sleep more.
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