Breastfeeding is vital for both the baby and the mother, and in this age of technology it goes without saying that apps would be designed to make it easier and help breastfeeding mothers carry out their mission.
I've researched and recommended the 10 best apps for breastfeeding mums at this time of their lives, based on high user ratings and reviews.
1. Free breastfeeding monitoring ? Breastfeeding app
This app is a handy and reliable assistant for breastfeeding your newborn baby. You can track breastfeeding, bottles, solid foods and milk pumping. You can save your baby's diaper change, sleep periods and the results of your baby's height and weight measurement. It is in Greek. Most functions are free of charge.
Android rating: 4.7 stars
2. Breastfeeding monitoring, pump log
It is a program to monitor breastfeeding, pumping, bottle feeding, solid food consumption, tracking the number of wet and/or dirty diapers your baby has, sleep schedule, height and weight, and more. With the click of a button your baby's care history will be saved in the app, where you will have an easy to maintain history of your baby's growth. It's in Greek. Some in-app products are charged.
Android rating: 4.7 stars
3. Baby Tracker - Newborn Feeding, Diaper, Sleep Log
Designed by busy parents, for busy parents, this app is simple and quick to keep track of your baby's daily habits as well as all your child's important information for doctors. It's in English. It's free but offers in-app purchases.
Android rating: 4.6 stars
4. Baby Manager - Breastfeeding Log and Tracker
Simple and intuitive, this app will give you peace of mind as it takes over the monitoring of your little one and reminds you in time of everything a parent needs to do every day. It records breastfeeds, sleep, diaper changes and your baby's growth. It is in English. It's free but offers in-app purchases.
Android rating: 4.7 stars
5. Baby tracker - feeding, sleep and diaper
With this app you can track the number of breastfeeds, your baby's daily feeding, sleep, diaper changes and keep a diary and notes. It's in English. It's free.
Android rating: 4.9 stars
6. Nursing Timer Tracker
It includes breastfeeding, bottle feeding, pumping, sleep recording and how many diapers your baby changed. Offers in-app purchases.
It contains extra:
- Sleep sounds
- Multi-language support
- Dark mode for night use
Android rating: 4.6 stars
7. BabyAppy: breastfeeding, sleep and diapers tracker
Its main features are that you can keep a diary and notes on breastfeeding, bottle feedings, solid foods (complementary feeding), diapers changed and sleep recording. You can also have daily and periodic statistics of the information you pass in the app.
It's in English. It's free. It offers in-app purchases.
Android rating: 4.7 stars
8. Baby Care Tracker - Breastfeeding
Child care is made easy with this simple and useful app for moms who need breast or bottle monitoring, pumping and diaper changes.
It's in English. All functions are free! There are no hidden charges within the app! It has nice graphics.
Android rating: 4.8 stars
9. Baby Daybook - Breastfeeding & care tracking
This is a suitable application to record and monitor breastfeeding, diapering, feeding (bottles/solids) and growth curves of your baby. It is also invaluable as a baby health monitoring app as you can have a medical history diary, a diary to record your baby's temperature and physical activity. It is in Greek.
It's free with in-app purchases.
Android rating: 4.6 stars
10. Baby Connect (activity log)
This is the perfect app to keep track of lots of different things for your baby, including their feeding schedule. You can sync the data to share with your partner. Baby Connect is the most comprehensive baby monitoring app on the market. It features graphical reports and charts, weekly averages, weekly average, medication calendar, vaccine calendar, timers, alerts, emails, data export, easy-to-use login and allows you to share information with your spouse wherever you are. Nice graphics. It's in English. It costs 3.89 euros.
Android and iOS rating: 4.8 stars
11. Huckleberry: Baby & Child Tracker, Sleep Experts
Get the parenting guidance you want from real experts and follow your child's daily routine to learn their natural habits. Based on parents of young children. Includes recording of sleep, breastfeeding, pumping, bottles, diaper changes, medication log, temperature and growth curves. This app understands that every family is unique and that the same approach to an issue does not work the same for everyone. It is in English. It is free but offers in-app purchases.
Android rating: 4.8 stars
By Irini Votsi, dietician - nutritionist
