Eight Awesome Apps for New Parents (Updated 2021)

Apps are where it’s at.  Even for parenting!  Not only can apps help you get pregnant by tracking your ovulation cycles and alerting you to prime fertility, they can help you identify sleep and feeding patterns, find the best price on diapers,  and heck, even help you make other parent friends!  Here are our choices – in no particular order – for eight awesome apps for new parents.

1.  Baby and Child First Aid – This app, brought to you by British Red Cross, enables parents and caregivers to learn first aid care for babies and children. The app offers skills videos with step-by-step instructions and animations, first aid information, expert tips and advice, a place to record your child’s medication needs and allergies, FAQs on 17 first aid scenarios, and preparation checklists.  Please note that the emergency numbers provided in the app are unique to the UK, but the information provide is relevant everywhere.  Available for iOS and Android.  Free.

2.  Baby Pics  - This app helps you capture your weekly baby bump growth, baby’s first kick, first steps, messy moments, and other daily joys or milestone moments and enhance them 350+ beautifully crafted artwork overlays and personalized text notations.  The app also facilitates secured sharing.  Ranked #1 photo app in 90+ countries.  Available for iOS and Android.  Free.

3.  Baby Monitor 3G – New parents are inundated with things to buy and traveling with a very small child often results in traveling with a gazillion items and not enough space to carry them all.  This app helps you save money and takes one thing off your packing list.  The app creates in your phone, tablet and computer, an HD- quality video and baby monitor that allows you to hear every noise, stream live video and even comfort your baby remotely.  Consequently, you don’t have to buy a baby monitor or pack one when you travel.  It supports both Wi-Fi and cellular 3G/LTE networks, giving you baby monitoring capabilities with reach that is unaffected by distance.  It also creates an activity log, which helps you determine sleeping patterns, plays lullabies, and has many other convenient features.  It works anywhere internet is accessible.  Available for iOS and Android.  $3.99

4.  Ovia Parenting: Newborn and Baby Tracker – This app is multi-functional, providing health and development trackers, updates on your baby’s development delivered directly to your timeline, thousands of free expert articles about baby’s development and parenting tips. It allows you to log your baby’s daily feedings, diapers, sleep, and developmental milestones week by week, upload photographs and videos, and securely share your family’s most memorable moments.  Ovia also has a great fertility app for when you are ready to work on baby #2!  Available for iOS and Android.  Free.

5.  Milk Maid – This app is great for pumping mothers. It helps you track pumping time and output, your stash, baby’s consumption and use of milk. You can track milk storage supplies in different locations that you can set up (i.e. home, office, daycare fridges), and you can view and export pumping and feeding stats. It also has an alarm to remind you that it’s time to pump.  iOS.  $2.99

6.  Baby Connect - Baby Connect is a comprehensive baby tracking application on the AppStore. You can record feedings, nursing, naps, diapers, milestones, pumping, but also the baby's mood, temperature, what kind of game he's playing, his gps location, and attach pictures.  It creates graphical reports and trending charts, weekly averages, medicine, vaccine and growth tracking, timers, notifications, emails, .csv export, an easy to use interface, unlimited data, and it allows you to exchange information in real time with your spouse, babysitter, nanny or daycare.  A web interface is also accessible for free at com from any browser, so you don't need an iPhone or an Android phone to view and enter information about your baby.  Android, iOS, Kindle.  $4.99

7.  Peanut – Peanut is a great way for pregnant women and moms to meet. Being in touch with other women experiencing similar ups and downs can help a new mom feel more connected, understood and supported during a time many describe as somewhat lonely.  Much like the dating app Tinder, Peanut lets you swipe right or left on potential mom friends.  Once a match is made, you can start messaging each other.  Available for Android or iOS. 

8.  Winnie - Winnie is the app that gives parents superpowers! Whether you want to find local daycares and preschools, new things to do with your kids, or ask for advice, we can help.  Research child care providers: Research daycares and preschools near you by easily comparing photos, prices, parent reviews & more.  Available on Android or iOS. Free.

For more great app options, check out these articles on Women Love Tech, the Bump, and Healthline Parenthood.  

Do you have any apps that you really find useful?  Give them a shout-out in our comments section!