BabyHQ

BabyHQ covers the two weeks nobody is ready for. Before the birth: a contraction timer built for one hand at 4am — a single button the size of your palm, with a live read of the pattern underneath it. It watches the spacing and length of each contraction and tells you when they have held the 5-1-1 shape (five minutes apart, a minute long) for a full hour, and shares a clean summary you can read out to your provider. It is a timer, not a diagnosis, and the screen says so: whatever your provider told you overrides whatever the app says. Alongside it, a hospital bag checklist with thirty-one items already written across four bags, and an emergency contact list you can dial with one tap. All three are free forever, deliberately — nobody should meet a paywall during labour. After the birth: feeding, diaper and sleep tracking designed to be used half-asleep, with live timers, one tap each for wet, dirty or both, and a dashboard that answers the only 3am question — what has already happened tonight — as one merged list rather than four separate screens. Well-baby appointments sync to your calendar, a twelve-week timeline explains what this week normally looks like in plain language, and lock screen and home screen widgets put the time since the last feed where you can see it without unlocking anything. No account, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no server of ours: everything is stored locally on your iPhone. Premium is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Works Great With

SwipeClean

A newborn fills a camera roll faster than anything; SwipeClean gets it back under control