The Best Apps For Babies

As a new parent, you might be looking for new ways to entertain and engage your little one. Not to mention ways to record and keep memories, or even track routine.

Luckily, more apps than ever now exist to help you take care of, entertain and store memories of your babies.

Here, we take a look at some of our favourites.

Apps For Bedtime

Especially for new parents, bedtime can be a tough part of the day. Making sure your baby is napping at the right times can be hard to keep track of, especially if you are sleep deprived yourself!

If you need to, try some of these:

Napper

Napper is a sleep app that uses data, science and AI to predict your baby’s next nap through understanding their natural rhythm.

The app also has noises to help babies feel calm and safe, and provides data to help parents understand the best times to put their children down for a nap, preventing overtiredness.

Midmoon

Midmoon is a baby sleep tracker that helps caregivers track a child’s schedule.

This includes sleeping, eating and activities that help parents stay on top of their baby’s schedule, especially in the early months.

Huckleberry

For parents struggling with sleep training, Huckleberry gives them accessible and affordable advice to improve it.

Using AI to develop a custom sleep plan, the app collates data from experts to give parents actionable advice on mastering sleep.

Apps For Tracking Milestones

BabySparks

The early years can make a huge difference in a child’s development.

BabySparks creates a series of activities for parents, helping them drive development, track milestones and give expert tips for optimising sleep and feeding.

The Wonder Weeks

The wonder weeks is an app based on the premise of 10 ‘leaps’ that happen in the first 20 months of a child’s development. The app shows parents when a leap starts and allows them to track signals that their babies give them, helping them navigate them more easily.

The app can be shared with family and friends, allowing parents to more closely track their child’s development.

Precious

For parents looking for slightly more sentimental tracking, Precious automatically organises your baby’s photos into monthly pictures, allowing you to track them as you grow.

The app can create slideshows, albums and be shared between family members – allowing parents to have a real life photo book in their pockets.

Apps For Weaning

BabyLed

When it comes to weaning your baby onto solids, it can be hard to know where to start.

Baby-Led is a weaning recipes app, with over 800 recipes to choose from. With all recipes being age appropriate and nutrient rich, it’s a great tool for any parent looking for some cooking inspo.

Solid Starts

Solid Starts is an app that tells you everything you need to know about introducing solid food to babies.

The app talks about how to start spoon feeding, how to chop certain foods and gives real advice from dieticians to give children the right meals for their development.

Apps For Learning

Whilst it isn’t recommended for children to spend long periods of time looking at a screen, some apps can be great to introduce from 12 months onwards.

First Words

For babies learning to talk, this app can be a great tool. It uses elements like repetition and learning to teach basic words to your kids.

Though it’s definitely one for 12 months+, it can help with elements like vocabulary growth and development.

Goodness Shapes

Goodness shapes does what it says on the tin – helps your child start learning shapes!

The app has a collection of mini games designed to help kids visually understand and sort different shapes. Again, it’s more for toddlers, but definitely a nice one to download for the future.

Peekaboo Barn

Every child loves peekaboo, and this app helps combine that with educational content.

The app uses shapes and sounds to get them familiar with their animals, using the game of peekaboo to keep them engaged.