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iPhone Baby Apps – Post-labour

October 15th, 2009 by Craig Alan Williamson

With a new arrival in your house, time with your iPhone will become ever more precious. Therefore you really need a new app that will fully legitimise your iPhone usage over the coming months, even when there are bottles to feed and bottoms to wipe.

The most useful iPhone application you can own after your child is born is one that you can use to track your child’s 3 main activities – drinking, sleeping and filling nappies. It is important to monitor these functions carefully as your newborn develops, and the iPhone provides an elegant and useful alternative to paper and pen.

My top two picks are Baby Geek (59p) and Baby Brain (£2.99).

Baby Geek (59p) is a great value application that is simple to use and has some really great timeline graphs to analyse feeding/sleeping/changing patterns. As well as the standard activity recording and tracking of which boob was used last, you can also record other events such as trimming nails or eating a meal. There is also the very useful ability to record and graph your baby’s height and weight. Coming in the next version will be the ability to synchronise data between two devices – this should be a great feature when both parents have iPhones/iPod Touches. My only gripes about Baby Geek are that events entered out of order mess-up the ability to display graphs until you go in and re-sort them (why isn’t that done automatically?), and the interface is a little sluggish at times. But otherwise it is keenly priced, performs well, and the author provides top notch support to any queries.

Baby Brain (£2.99) is at the higher price end of the market and actually does less than Baby Geek. However, the interface is simple and uncluttered, the app is ultra intuitive to use, and it also runs as quick and as smooth as baby diarrhoea. Again you can record sleeping, feeding and nappy changing, but this time there are no extra events, no fancy graphs, and not even the ability to record meals. This limits the use as a complete feeding diary to whenever you begin weaning your baby, which I feel is something that needs to be addressed in a future update. However, the basic functions of Baby Brain work extremely well and there is even a lovely icon of a pair of breasts that will never fail to amuse. If the authors could add a few graphing options, add meals to the logger, and also add the ability to synchronise between different devices, then Baby Brain would truly be the ultimate logging tool.

The following is a list of every single baby logging app available. You should note that to be eligible for my list an app had to cover all 3 activities (drinking, sleeping, changing), not be a ‘lite’ version with limitations, and it had to be available in the UK app store.