There are roughly forty baby tracker apps in the App Store, and on any given week, parenting forums recommend half of them. Most of the differences are smaller than the marketing suggests. The differences that do matter rarely show up in the side-by-side charts: pricing model, who you can share with, whether the app coaches you or just tracks, and whether it works on your phone in the first place.
So here's a chart that covers those.
We looked at the five apps that come up most consistently in 2026 reviews, App Store search, and parent communities. Pricing and feature notes were verified against each app's own pricing page or App Store listing in May 2026.
The short answer
| App | Platforms | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckleberry | iOS, Android | Free / $58.99/yr Plus / $119.99/yr Premium | Sleep optimization and nap-prediction |
| Nara Baby | iOS, Android | Completely free | Parents who want a clean tracker with no upsell |
| Glow Baby | iOS, Android | Free / $59.99/yr / $79.99 lifetime | Parents already in the Glow fertility/pregnancy ecosystem |
| Baby Tracker (Nighp) | iOS, Android | Free + one-time $4.99 unlock | Parents who hate subscriptions and just want clean exports |
| Tottli | iOS only | Free (Premium $9.99/mo or $79.99/yr) | iPhone-first parents who want the fastest one-handed logging in a calm, native app |
If you want a single recommendation: most parents will be happy with either Nara Baby (if you want completely free) or Tottli (if you're on iPhone and care about how the app feels in your hand at 3 AM). The other three are excellent for specific situations described below.
Huckleberry
Platforms: iOS and Android Pricing: Free tier, Plus at $58.99/yr (~$4.92/mo), Premium at $119.99/yr (~$9.99/mo). Sleep Improvement Plan add-on at $49.99. App Store rating: 4.9 stars, ~61,000 ratings (US iOS).
What it does well. Huckleberry is the category leader on sleep. Its "SweetSpot" feature predicts the ideal next-nap window from your baby's age and recent sleep history, and parents report it being roughly 80–85% accurate. The Premium tier includes expert-designed sleep plans and a parenting AI chat called Berry. If you're considering paying for a sleep consultant ($800–$2,000), Huckleberry Premium is the lower-cost first move most parents try.
Where it falls short. Premium is the most expensive subscription in this category by a wide margin. Several features that used to be free now sit behind the paywall, including some widgets. Some users report that the predictions encourage obsessive logging rather than reducing anxiety, which is the opposite of what a tracker is supposed to do. Customer support around cancellations is a recurring complaint.
Best for. Parents whose primary problem is sleep, who are comfortable paying for guidance, and who want data-driven nap and bedtime windows. Less ideal if you mostly want a fast, no-coaching tracker for everyday logging.
Nara Baby
Platforms: iOS and Android Pricing: Completely free. No premium tier, no ads, no in-app purchases. The app is funded by Nara Organics' infant formula business. App Store rating: 4.9 stars, ~22,000–25,000 ratings (US iOS).
What it does well. Nara is one of the few apps in this category with no paywall and no advertising. It tracks the standard set (feeds, diapers, sleep, growth, milestones, medications) with a clean, modern design that holds up well at 4 AM. It also includes maternal wellness tracking for postpartum mood, hydration, medications, and journaling, which most other trackers either skip or paywall. iOS Live Activities and Dynamic Island are supported, and multi-caregiver sync is included for free.
Where it falls short. Nara is a tracker, not a coach. There are no predictions or scheduling suggestions, and no sleep-training guidance. If you want recommendations on top of data, you'll find them somewhere else. Some users also raise a fair question about long-term sustainability: a free app supported by a formula company has obvious incentives, even if the app itself contains no formula promotions.
Best for. Parents who want a beautiful, no-pressure tracker without subscriptions, who appreciate the maternal-wellness inclusion, and who don't need their app to also be their parenting coach.
Glow Baby
Platforms: iOS and Android Pricing: Free tier with ads. Glow Premium at $59.99/yr after a 7-day trial, or $79.99 lifetime (which spans all four Glow apps). Family plan around $90/yr. App Store rating: 4.7 stars, ~23,000 ratings (US iOS).
What it does well. Glow Baby is the baby-tracking arm of a women's health platform that started with fertility and pregnancy. If you used Glow during conception or pregnancy, your data carries through. The standout feature is "Comparative Insights," which benchmarks your baby's stats against millions of other babies on the platform. Some parents find that reassuring; others find it anxiety-inducing. The Glow community forums are unusually active for an app of this kind, and Apple Watch is supported.
Where it falls short. The free tier shows ads, which is jarring in a baby-tracking context. Reports, exports, and the comparison data are paywalled. Multi-caregiver sync has a history of reliability issues, with users reporting entries that take hours to appear on the partner's device. Some parents are uncomfortable with the social and benchmarking features in what should be a private record.
Best for. Parents who already use Glow's fertility or pregnancy apps and want to keep their data in one ecosystem; parents who value the community and benchmarking features.
Baby Tracker (Nighp)
Platforms: iOS and Android Pricing: Free with a one-time $4.99 in-app purchase to unlock the full version. No subscription. App Store rating: 4.8 stars, ~227,000 ratings (US iOS), by far the largest review base in this list.
What it does well. Baby Tracker by Nighp Software is the quiet workhorse of this category. It covers the standard set (feeding timer, diaper logs, sleep schedule, growth records with WHO percentiles, milestones with photos, medical history) and it does it with no subscription. The PDF exports are clean enough that parents take them straight to pediatrician visits. The 5.0 redesign in early 2026 modernized a UI that had been showing its age.
Where it falls short. No predictions, no coaching layer, no smart reminders. The cross-device sync runs through iCloud or Dropbox rather than a real-time cloud of its own, which works but feels less seamless than competitors. Smaller community presence and fewer marketing-driven feature releases than the bigger players.
Best for. Parents who actively dislike subscriptions, who want a long-haul tracker that will keep working for years on a single $4.99 payment, and who care more about clean data and pediatrician-ready reports than coaching.
Tottli
Platforms: iOS only (iPhone and Apple Watch) Pricing: Free, with all core tracking included. Tottli Premium at $9.99/mo or $79.99/yr layers extra conveniences on top (eligible yearly subscribers start with a 14-day free trial). Released: Newly launched in 2026.
What it does well. Tottli is the fastest logging app in this list, and it's built around that one job: logging a feed, diaper, sleep, or pump in seconds, with one hand. The home screen surfaces quick-log buttons, smart defaults pre-fill the common case from your recent history, and undo is one tap. The app is native Swift and SwiftUI, so it feels noticeably more responsive than the cross-platform competitors. The free tier covers everything most parents actually need: multi-baby support, a reverse-chronological timeline, real-time household sync with caregiver invitations, and account and privacy controls. Premium is optional polish on top: smart reminders, Apple Watch logging, Lock Screen widgets, and Live Activities.
Where it falls short. Tottli is the newest app in this list, so the user base is small compared to Huckleberry's or Baby Tracker's millions. It is iOS-only, which is a hard no if anyone in your caregiving group is on Android. Photo attachments, in-depth analytics, milestone tracking, and growth charts are not in the current scope. Tottli is deliberately a tracker, not a parenting platform.
Best for. iPhone households who want a calm, fast tracker over a feature-dense one. Parents who care about how the app feels at 3 AM more than how many tabs it has. Anyone who has tried Huckleberry or Glow and found them too busy.
Honorable mentions
Two more apps come up often enough in 2026 lists to deserve a quick acknowledgment:
- Baby Connect ($49.99/yr Family plan, $14.99/mo Pro for daycares). The professional pick. Web access for daycare desktops is a real differentiator if you have shared custody or a daycare that wants to log into the same record.
- Baby Daybook ($29.99 lifetime or $4.99/mo). The other affordable all-rounder. Often shows up in budget-comparison roundups as the strongest alternative to Baby Tracker by Nighp.
Both are credible options, but most parents will land on one of the five above.
How to actually pick one
The five apps overlap on roughly 80% of features. The decision usually comes down to four questions:
1. iPhone-only household, or mixed iPhone and Android? If anyone caring for the baby uses Android (partner, grandparent, nanny), you need cross-platform. That rules out Tottli and pushes you toward Huckleberry, Nara, Glow, or Baby Tracker.
2. Do you want a tracker, or a tracker that also coaches? Huckleberry and Glow are the coaching apps. Nara, Baby Tracker, and Tottli are the trackers. There's no wrong answer, but parents who don't want their phone telling them what to do tend to bounce off the coaching apps within a month.
3. What's your subscription tolerance? Nara is free forever. Baby Tracker is $4.99 once. Glow has a $79.99 lifetime option. Huckleberry and Tottli are subscription-only at the premium tier. The difference between $0 and $120/yr over an 18-month tracking window is real.
4. How does it feel in your hand? The best tracker is the one you'll actually open at 3 AM. Download two or three of the free tiers, try them for a week each, and pay attention to which one you reach for without thinking. The data lives or dies on this question.
What we'd suggest
If you want a definitive ranking, we don't have one. The right app depends on your phone, your partner's phone, your budget, and your tolerance for being told what to do.
If you want a starting point: Tottli if you're an all-iPhone household and want the fastest, calmest logging experience. Nara Baby if you want completely free and cross-platform. Huckleberry if your problem is specifically sleep and you're considering paying for help. Baby Tracker by Nighp if subscriptions make you twitch. Glow Baby if you're already in the Glow ecosystem.
Whatever you pick, the test is the same: can you log a feed in five seconds, with one hand, in the dark? If yes, you'll keep using it. If no, you'll be back to scrolling the App Store in a month.