1. Best for parents who want a good tracker for nothing, permanently
Nara Baby & Pregnancy Tracker
by Nara Organics, Inc.
A deliberately minimal tracker that is free, ad-free, and tracks the birthing parent alongside the baby.
Why 1st: Free with no paid tier, the highest rating on this page, and the only one here that tracks the birthing parent too. Nothing about it asks you to commit to anything.
- Price
- Free. No in-app purchases were listed on the Australian App Store on the review date.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.9★ from 922 ratings
- Shared care
- Partners, grandparents, babysitters and other carers are invited to your Nara account and can see recent activity when they take over.
- Free trial
- None published — the free tier is the trial.
Where Nara Baby & Pregnancy Tracker beats BubSync
- ✦Sharing between caregivers costs nothing. BubSync is free to use too, but live sharing between accounts is a Premium feature — so if a shared log is the only thing you need, Nara does it for nothing and always will.
- ✦It tracks the birthing parent — mood, hydration, sleep — which BubSync does not do and most trackers ignore entirely.
- ✦It has a native iPhone app today. BubSync does not.
Pick it if: You want the simplest possible log, you want the sharing free forever, and one or two people are doing the logging.
2. Best for the lowest lifetime cost of anything here that is not free
Baby Tracker — Newborn Log
by Nighp Software LLC
The quiet workhorse of the category: feeding timers, nappies, sleep, WHO growth percentiles and medical history, with no subscription anywhere in it.
Why 2nd: The largest installed base in the list by a wide margin — 227,000 US ratings and more than three million Android installs — with thorough tracking for a single A$7.99. Price and popularity both point the same way, which is rare.
- Price
- Free with ads. A single "Remove Ads" purchase was listed at A$7.99 on the Australian App Store on the review date. There is no subscription.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.8★ from 14,862 ratings — The Australian count understates it badly. The same app carries 4.8★ from 227,000 ratings on the US App Store, and its Android listing shows more than three million installs — this is the largest installed base in the list by a wide margin.
- Shared care
- Caregiver devices sync through the family’s own iCloud or Dropbox account rather than through the maker’s servers.
- Free trial
- None published — the free tier is the trial.
Where Baby Tracker beats BubSync
- ✦One payment of A$7.99 against A$79.99 a year. Over three years that is a difference of more than A$230, and the feature set covers what most families actually log.
- ✦A decade of iteration and a review base BubSync will not match for years — 227,000 US ratings against our zero.
- ✦Backups go to your own iCloud or Dropbox, so the data does not depend on the maker staying in business.
Pick it if: You want thorough tracking, you do not want a subscription, and you are comfortable with sharing that works device-to-device rather than by role.
3. Best for families whose actual problem is sleep
Huckleberry: Baby Tracker
by Huckleberry Labs Inc.
A sleep-first tracker built around SweetSpot nap predictions, with paid access to human sleep consultants on the top tier.
Why 3rd: 4.9★ from 8,883 Australian ratings and the best-known sleep features in the category — on popularity and on what it does, it beats us. What holds it here rather than higher is money: A$169.99 a year for the top tier is the most anything on this page asks.
- Price
- A free tier, then Plus and Premium subscriptions. The Australian App Store listed Plus at A$16.99 and Premium at A$20.99 for a month, A$99.99 and A$169.99 for a year, plus a one-off Sleep Improvement Plan at A$79.99, on the review date.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.9★ from 8,883 ratings
- Shared care
- Caregivers share access by signing in to the same account on each device, rather than each holding their own.
- Free trial
- Two weeks, per their pricing page.
Where Huckleberry beats BubSync
- ✦The sleep science is genuinely better. SweetSpot nap-timing predictions are the most recognised feature of their kind in the category, and ours are simpler.
- ✦You can pay for a plan reviewed by a human sleep consultant. BubSync does not offer that at any price and has no plans to.
- ✦A native iPhone app, a large user base, and years of reviews behind it.
Pick it if: Sleep is the thing keeping you up, and you want a tool built around it first and a logbook second.
4. Best for shared care where not everyone should see everything · our app
BubSync
by BubSync (Australian owned and operated)
A tracker built for families where several people log care — each with their own account, each seeing only what they should, and one subscription covering all of them.
Why 4th: Placed on price and features: a free tier, the cheapest paid one of the freemium apps here, and shared-care handling nothing else on the page does. Held back by the third axis and badly — no App Store listing and no ratings at all is the worst popularity score here, and the three apps below us each have thousands. Discount this position accordingly; we would.
- Price
- Free to use, with an optional Premium subscription at A$9.99 a month or A$79.99 a year. One subscription covers the whole family — unlimited carers, unlimited babies, no per-seat charge. Those are Australian prices; Apple and Google set the equivalent in your own currency.
- Australian App Store rating
- No App Store listing yet — There is no App Store rating because there is no App Store listing: BubSync is in pre-release open testing on Google Play and on the web. Treat every other app on this page as better proven than ours, because it is.
- Shared care
- Every caregiver has their own account, so the timeline shows who logged what, and one subscription covers all of them with no per-seat charge. Access is then scoped by role — a babysitter, nanny, daycare educator or grandparent can be limited to the babies explicitly shared with them, which is the part none of the others do.
- Free trial
- Seven days.
Pick it if: Several people log care and each should see a different slice of it — a babysitter scoped to the one child they help with, a co-parent across two households, a grandparent two afternoons a week — all on one subscription, with handovers you can send as a link and a baby book kept beside the log.
5. Best for sleep schedules and settling sounds
Napper: Baby Sleep Tracker
by Napper AB
A sleep-led tracker built around age-appropriate schedules, wake windows and a large library of settling sounds.
Why 5th: 4.8★, a free tier, and subscriptions that stop at A$69.99 — the money and the ratings are both fine. It sits here because the feature set is deliberately narrow: excellent on sleep, thin on everything else a tracker does.
- Price
- Free to download, with subscription tiers. The Australian App Store listed several, from A$13.99 up to A$69.99, on the review date — check the listing for which term each one buys.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.8★ from 557 ratings
- Shared care
- The baby and the subscription can both be shared with as many caregivers as needed, so a second parent does not pay again.
- Free trial
- None published — the free tier is the trial.
Where Napper beats BubSync
- ✦The sound library and the guided, age-appropriate sleep schedules are a category BubSync does not compete in at all.
- ✦Sleep is modelled far more deeply than in a general tracker, and their listing is explicit that the subscription travels with the shared baby.
- ✦A native iPhone app, and an App Store editorial history BubSync has no equivalent of.
Pick it if: You want a schedule to follow and sounds to settle with, and logging is a means to that rather than the point.
6. Best for carrying on from a pregnancy app you already use
Glow Baby Tracker & Growth
by Glow, Inc.
The baby half of the Glow family of apps, with tracking, growth charts and a large community attached.
Why 6th: The widest Australian rating base below the halfway mark, and a lifetime purchase that lets you stop paying — but the tracker is the side product of a pregnancy app rather than the main event, and the family plan runs to A$149.99.
- Price
- Free to download, with Glow Premium tiers listed on the Australian App Store between A$26.49 and A$99.99, a family plan at A$149.99 and a lifetime option at A$99.99, on the review date.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.7★ from 1,184 ratings
- Shared care
- Partners can be added to the account and see each other’s entries across devices.
- Free trial
- None published — the free tier is the trial.
Where Glow Baby Tracker & Growth beats BubSync
- ✦It carries on from Glow’s pregnancy and fertility apps, so your history moves with you. BubSync starts at the birth.
- ✦A large community and article library sit alongside the tracker; BubSync has neither.
- ✦There is a lifetime purchase option, so you can stop paying entirely. BubSync has no equivalent.
Pick it if: You already track with Glow through pregnancy and would rather not start a new app at the newborn stage.
7. Best for families whose daycare centre already runs it
Baby Connect: Baby Tracker
by Seacloud Software LLC
A long-established, detail-heavy tracker widely used by daycare centres and by families sharing care across households.
Why 7th: On features alone it would be near the top — the deepest records here, and the one daycare centres actually run. It lands last on the other two axes: the only app on this page with no free tier at all, and the thinnest Australian rating base at 329. If your centre uses it, ignore this position entirely and read the entry.
- Price
- Free to download, but a subscription is required to keep entries once the trial ends — there is no permanent free tier. The Australian App Store listed a Family plan at A$9.99 a month, A$49.99 for six months or A$79.99 a year, covering up to five children, on the review date.
- Australian App Store rating
- 4.7★ from 329 ratings — Australian ratings are thin for an app this old, which is worth reading as a distribution fact rather than a quality one — its centre of gravity is North American daycare.
- Shared care
- One subscription covers every device and every family member or caregiver on the account, with no per-seat charge.
- Free trial
- Seven days, per their App Store listing.
Where Baby Connect beats BubSync
- ✦Daycare centres genuinely use it, and there is a Professional plan for up to fifteen children. If your centre already runs Baby Connect, matching them is worth more than any feature difference on this page.
- ✦Its medical and developmental detail runs deeper than ours, and its web logging has been in service far longer than our web app has existed.
- ✦More than a decade in service, with a native iPhone app and the track record that comes with it.
Pick it if: Your daycare already uses it, or you want exhaustive medical and developmental records and are happy to trade interface polish for them.