FirstYear - Baby tracker, breastfeeding, nursing, sleep and diaper timer, growth and health log Medical App Review (iOS, Free)

Description

Designed by busy parents FirstYear is the easiest way to track baby’s daily activities as they come along. No need for typing. No fuss with alarms. All events can be logged with two simple taps on your iPhone or iPad. View trends daily, weekly or monthly. Keep medical information and health questions handy at doctor visits. FirstYear is just what you need to monitor baby’s well being while keeping your sanity in check.

Great reasons to try FirstYear:

#1: Powerful note taking features that track all aspects of baby’s first year of life:
* Easily record baby’s feeding, diaper changes, sleep, activities, development milestones and sickness.
* Record nursing & pumping sessions, manage feed with formula or expressed milk.
* Record diaper changes. Identify dehydration based on pee color. Identify constipation or diarrhea based on color and constancy of baby’s poo.
* Track baby growth with percentile reference to World Health Organization baby growth standard.
* Record baby’s health issues - temperatures, symptoms, doctor appointments, medication and allergy reactions. Drop down questions when they come to you and bring them to your doctors next time you pay a visit.
* Take a quick snapshot, or find an image from camera roll and put your thoughts into a scrapbook entry in the journal section.
* Powerful search and index functions allow easy access to the record you need.
* Allows for multiple baby profiles. Toggle among two or more baby records with one tap.

#2: Intuitive input modes for quick input or with more details:
* Use quick input mode when you are pressed of time. Record everyday activities like feeding, diaper change etc, with two easy taps and no typing required.
* Screen formats tailored for both iPhone and iPad.

#3: At-a-glance review of baby’s well being with reports:
* Well designed reports to review daily, weekly and monthly activities. Easily identify patterns, trends and abnormalities.
* Nicely formatted reports for hassle-free email and printing.

#4: Share baby’s progress with family and friends.
* Set up automatic synchronization among different devices. Enable family members and caregivers to review and record baby activities when needed.
* Share joyful moments with friends and family through Facebook, Twitter and email.

#5: Easily back up records to online storage to enjoy peace of mind.
* Store records on devices and online folders.
* Restore data from online folder for the latest seven sessions.
* 100% privacy and ownership of your data. FirstYear does not collect or share your data with others.

The FirstYear app comes with a 100 free record limit. You can upgrade to unlimited lifetime entries through in-app purchase.

Customer Reviews

• Highly recommend

  by Drama wiki freek

  The ap works wonder. As a first time mom, I am constantly worrying about my baby girl and this ap helps me keep track of her feeding and sleeping pattern. This allows me to adjust my daily routine to fits my newborn baby. This ap is great in helping me keep a digital daily log versus the manual notebook based one.

• Great app

  by Edaddy01

  Awesome

• Awesome!!

  by volleygalore

  Love this app! Thought I would only use it for the baby's first month of life, but we are going on three months now and still love it! I love being able to just open the app and see the most important things - actual time and time span wine last feeding or sleep. Definitely worth the full app purchase! My only issue is I forget to sync with my iPad and then it has so many records it won't sync, so I have to set up the sync again often, but that is my own fault, not so much the app.

• Awesome app to keep track

  by Ign37

  Awesome app to keep track of baby's activities. I love growth chart!

• Incredible

  by drdcmaynard

  My wife and I love this app and look forward to sharing our daughter's earliest of days with her when she's older!

• Great App!

  by Mom O'Brixx

  Easy to use & has all the necessary features to keep track of breast feeding, pumping & bottle feeding. I also like the daily journal, photo entries & charts to see any fluctuations in the babies activities.

• Great App!

  by Mom O'Brixx

  Easy to use & has all the necessary features to keep track of breast feeding, pumping & bottle feeding. I also like the daily journal, photo entries & charts to see any fluctuations in the babies activities.

• Very handy!!!

  by Lobilisa

  Well thought-through app: very flexible and fast to use. It works also as an "it's been", telling times since last feed, sleep, diaper change. I also love the journal option where I can download images and jot down thoughts quickly. The only difficult part is transferring data to Dropbox and my husband had to buy the app, too, so we could both use it. It would be nice if it can be used for one price on two devices for the same baby even if you do not have the same Apple ID. Thanks for making life easier for moms and dads!

• Lifesaver!

  by KangarooPouch

  The only complaint/change I would make to this is that you can't use the other features while the nursing timer is going... While I'm nursing would be a great time for me to fill in info about other feelings, diapers, etc. or write in the journal. Still an awesome five-star ap though!

• Excellent App, and starts fast every time!

  by kliz22

  I've tried other apps for tracking feeding, sleeping, diapers, and pumping. Was very surprised to find an AIO app that works so well! It's so frustrating having to wait for an app to open when you've got a baby in your arms! This one is instant every time. It has a great looking interface too, which is nice since you'll be looking at it often throughout the day. I like that it can sync with other devices too. Plus, the graphs are awesome for helping you to find patterns, especially sleep patterns! This app was everything I needed and more.

• Has all the needed feats

  by Umgirl

  This app has been great to use with our newborn. I love that you can include your own notes when writing down different feedings. I use it everyday multiple times a day the one complaint I have is that I wish there was a tutorial or help guide you can turn on or off. I basically figured everything out by sleepily playing with it but a quick tutorial would've been a lot more helpful.

• Great app

  by Winegirl519

  I use this app all day every day, and it has been great for tracking everything related to my baby's daily habits. I tried a few others, and ended up buying the full version of this because it far exceeded the others.

• Great app! Every parent needs!

  by Simon.Hucko

  This is a wonderful app- it has helped us to keep track of our baby's feelings, diapers, and growth. Such a huge help for when going to the doctor too! I recommend this to all new parents!

• The best one

  by Funnyloy

  This app is the best one

• Love it!

  by Anabustos81

  Helps me to keep track of everything! Love the reports for my doctors appointments!

• Thumbs up!

  by Daggy Mommy

  Super helpful & easy to use! Love the option to add photos!

• Great App!

  by LindsB00987

  Really helps track everything you need to for a newborn!

• Awesome!!

  by LAM858313

  Best app ever !!! I have control again, you don't have to remember everything this app keeps track of what you need to know. (First time mommy)

• Absolute life saver

  by snipun

  My wife and I each purchased this app after extensively reviewing other apps. We found this one to have the needs and finesse we sought out in such an app. The reporting and review capabilities are amazing. Even within the first few days of birth we found the ease of use and ability to recall the number of diaper changes (wet vs soiled vs mixed) and feeding sessions to hell us through appointments where those questions are regularly asked. We could give exact times and counts , leading to us focusing less on the recall of the events but any problems surrounding then instead.

• Best app I've found

  by JenFromBrooklyn

  I've used almost every app out there and this is the best one I've found. The workflow is smooth and fast, and well-suited to use with one hand while managing a wiggly baby with the other. I also find the app easy to use while half-asleep, which is when I'm logging things a lot of the time :). It has one really important feature that none of the other do as far as I know: you can retroactively start a timer. So if the baby falls asleep, for instance, and you can't hit the sleep timer right away, when you have a minute you can tell it the baby started sleeping 20 minutes ago, and it starts the timer from there. With all the other apps I've tried, you have to wait until the baby wakes up and log the sleep then. I'm way too tired to remember what time ahe started sleeping for that long! This is also the only app that lets you look at the sleep graph for either a month or a week at a time. The month view is really helpful. The graph is a little bit buried, but once you get to it, it's the best layout I've found. Also, this app is the most beautiful to look at pf all the apps I've used. I look at this app 15 or 20 times a day. It matters to me that it's not ugly or cloying.

• Awesome App, Amazing customer service!!!

  by tas45732

  First off, this app is awesome! I live by it. I've been using it with my 4 month old since he was born, along with my husband. It helps keep track of when he's fed and for how long, when he sleeps, poops etc. This comes in handy not just at your doctor visits when they ask about all that, but also for me, since I'm back at work now, I don't have to text my husband (or whoever is with my son) asking what's going on- they Judy log it in the app, and I can sync to see the latest info. Speaking of synching, I was having issues with the sync on my new iPad, emailed customer service, and they responded within 12 hours. Not only that, we couldn't resolve it after a few emails, so the rep called me at a scheduled time, and we got it all worked out!! Impressive service which I didn't expect from a $4.99 app. Very impressed!!!!

• Awesome App, Amazing customer service!!!

  by tas45732

  First off, this app is awesome! I live by it. I've been using it with my 4 month old since he was born, along with my husband. It helps keep track of when he's fed and for how long, when he sleeps, poops etc. This comes in handy not just at your doctor visits when they ask about all that, but also for me, since I'm back at work now, I don't have to text my husband (or whoever is with my son) asking what's going on- they Judy log it in the app, and I can sync to see the latest info. Speaking of synching, I was having issues with the sync on my new iPad, emailed customer service, and they responded within 12 hours. Not only that, we couldn't resolve it after a few emails, so the rep called me at a scheduled time, and we got it all worked out!! Impressive service which I didn't expect from a $4.99 app. Very impressed!!!!

• Helped a lot

  by Stacy Loopy3

  Helped me a lot!

• Great App

  by Dannylloyd

  I really like this app. It is simple to use and allows me to keep track of which side my baby ate on last and also easily keep track of how much I have pumped. Tracking the sleep is hard at this point with a newborn, so I don't use that function right now.

• Great app!

  by Mghhgm

  Pretty easy to use and very comprehensive. Would love it even more if I could overlay the graphs (like how does sleeping related to feeding times), and if graphs of times went morning (at top) to night on the y axis, rather than night to morning (at bottom).

• Great app!

  by Bodicita

  This app is extremely well-designed. The only complaint I have is how the data outputs. It aggregates total sleep and feedings per day, which is pretty useless. It doesn't output any aggregate data about how long the baby goes between feedings or how long she sleeps at a time. That would be much more useful. However, for quickly keeping track of the basics and sharing that info with other caregivers, this app is fabulous.

• Great app!

  by Ndo64

  Great app! I'm using it for my newborn and it's so easy! Amazing to track a pattern with the chart for breast feeding!

• Awsome app

  by lio.liu

  It's an awesome app. Though it takes some time to get familiar how to use it, I love it soon

• Very useful

  by Carola42

  Good and easy app for tracking and charting newborn activities, has a nice journal feature with the option to upload pictures and notes on every diaper and feeding.

• Nice

  by ChristinaJuanita

  It has everything you would want to track including a journal, milestones, baths, and more. My only complaint is it's a little confusing. I think it could have been made a little more user friendly. I'm sure I can figure it easily with time.

• Remembers and tracks all those details so I don't have to!

  by Mebtiger

  Amazing app! It especially makes middle of the night feedings so much easier when I don't have to watch a click and try to add numbers together when I'm half asleep. I just push play when he's eating and pause when he's not. I also love not having to remember which side he ate from last, and it tells me exactly how long ago he last ate and was changed! When the doctor asks questions about his diapers, it's all right there charted on my phone. Once in a while the timer resets and acts like I never paused it, so I have to change it manually. Other than that, and the fact that I wish I could get the same app on my husbands phone and sync it, this is perfect!

• Good job!

  by PrettySilvia

  Indispensable app for first-time parents) It really helps me,thanks!

• Great

  by Brooklyn Ross

  Ooh, great app, good idea , I like it!!

• Lifesaver!

  by Sagifaith

  1st time mom & this app kept me sane (& from driving my hubby crazy) & organized. I'd tried other methods for tracking baby's sleep/eat/diaper trends & nothing worked as well as this. Love that reports can be exported as csv files & that I can view trends weekly/monthly- all this helps during doctor checkups too when he asks about baby's habits. Love the milestone suggestions. Haven't tried the multi device synch over Dropbox yet, but looking fwd to it! Only thing I'd love to see improved: search offered by type (like when last bath was). Didn't mind the price for upgrade (storage) either - reasonable price & worth every cent (even to this frugal gal)

• Extremely powerful application

  by Geek SLP

  My son is 10 days old and this app has become a huge part of my life! Thaís for creating it.

• Great app!

  by LindseyEP

  Would be nice to start the day at time of birth instead of midnight but everything else is perfect!

• Neat !

  by Who oo

  I really like this app, it helps to remind me which breast i last breastfed on and for how long... I can get busy from time to time so when time flies its the fastest to use and easiest to understand. Nice app!

• Amazing

  by Shadow21312131

  I love this app so much, it helps me to be a good mom for my one year old baby, i wish i had found it before!

• Great

  by neva1234

  Simple and easy to use. A great app for a busy mon and dad. Simple enough for dad to remember to use.

• Perfect

  by Mastermer

  If you have a newborn, you really need this app! Helps to well organize your day!

• Eli

  by Mando two

  Great app. But not intuitive. Needs a learning curve

• Great app stopped syncing

  by NewOctMama

  I really, really love this app. I think there is a good response to feedback as well. My biggest issue is that the app is supposed to sync between devices like my phone to my iPad and it used to work but stopped syncing weeks ago. I tried everything to get it to re-sync and nothing has worked. I hope they fix this soon- we love the app but want to be able to use across devices. As we will be using as a tool to communicate with our care giver.

• Would buy it again

  by Just a kanga and her roo

  This app was giving me a hard time and the tech support was very helpful. The app provides practically every kind of tracking you would need, especially for newborn babies. There are features that allow you to customize the details of certain tracking functions. Overall, great app and helpful service.

• Great App! One small glitch...

  by mleeb1313

  I truly love this app. It's great for tracking eating and sleeping patterns along with many other great features. The only issue I've had is that if you start the timer on a feeding, then leave the app to check email etc, you may lose your timer...or you may not. There is no way to know for sure if the app will save your timer. Other than that, it is an extremely useful tool.

• Looks good but impractical for newborns

  by Anita Luu

  The app design looks better than most other baby tracking apps but it's way too complicated to use. As a new mom, there are too many steps for me to have to access especially when I am feeding, diapering... Should be just a simple start stop button. Also once you start a feeding there is no way to cancel it.

• Looks good but impractical for newborns

  by Anita Luu

  The app design looks better than most other baby tracking apps but it's way too complicated to use. As a new mom, there are too many steps for me to have to access especially when I am feeding, diapering... Should be just a simple start stop button. Also once you start a feeding there is no way to cancel it.

• Awesome, super helpful do-it-all baby app

  by Elizabeth Blue Currier

  This is the first app I've ever been convinced to review because it's so good! At first it's a little complicated but once you get the hang if it (only took me a few uses) it's so great and easy. I only wanted a sleep tracker with a graph to see sleep patterns for my little one but am now using more features, including the journal. So many features it's like a gift that keeps giving... Def the only baby app you'd ever need. Tried a bunch but this is by far the best!!!

• Very good usability & design

  by Homeowner2

  Love this app. Like many moms, I've downloaded few apps to try them out simultaneously (time consuming if u have to enter the same data on multiple apps) but it was but well worth the efforts. I could weigh their pros & cons & this app came out tops. With one tap on the selected square box, u can directly enter into the category (ie. nursing vs bottle formula vs bottle breastmilk...etc). One feature I would like to see is the ability to add new square boxes & deleting others from this main page. For eg. I don't need the bottle formula box, and would like to customize my own box to track poos. Hope this will be avail in the next release!

• Best baby app!

  by Ashhdudjdn

  I have downloaded and tried several baby tracking apps since my son was born 7 weeks ago. This one is far and away the best! It is so intuitive and simple yet detailed and customizable. I would definitely recommend this app to any mommy!

• Easy Tracker

  by Zempele

  I use this app mainly to track nursing-I find it too distracting to mark every nap at this point. It's easy to use and I like how comprehensive it is, even of I currently don't use it all.

• I must be the only one...

  by NikkiPro1218

  I did not find this app intuitive to use. I gave it a shot for a few days, but it never seemed to jive with the information I was inputting. I have since deleted it and found another app that is more suitable to me.

• Great app... When it works

  by TR1031

  This app is awesome when it wants to work, but currently will not stay open when trying to input anything. Very frustrating since I paid good money for a memory waster now. Also started having issues with the new manual sync button prior to this app giving up. It went well for us for two whole months but now I say don't waste your money. At least not until the release a stable version.

• Easy for sleep deprived moms

  by Aimn4dastars

  I have tried several baby tracking apps to log feeds and diaper changes and this has been the easiest one so far. Planning on getting the full version so I can continue to monitor my baby's growth.

• Great app...

  by Firmeh

  I love the interface and the charting reviews. Easy to use and the best I have seen. Covers all vital areas and it has a great workflow. I would like to have the pumping information tabulated and tracked in reports, too.

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