Parents, plus the caregivers you trust, sharing one live log. Entries save instantly at 3am and sync the second there’s signal — and when one of you needs sleep, you hand the baby off instead of texting “when did she eat?”. Run it on your own server, or let us.
Open source (AGPL) · Installs from the browser, no app store · Twins welcome · Export everything, anytime
A quick look
Why it’s different
Up to six grown-ups — parents with full control, caregivers who can log, run timers and cover but can’t touch settings. What anyone taps appears on every phone instantly. Twins? Up to ten children per household, a pill to switch between them.
Entries save on the phone first and sync when there’s signal — no spinner between you and Save. The sheet opens pre-stamped with the time and a guess at what’s next, so most logs are four taps. Live nursing, pumping and sleep timers run across every phone.
“Can you take her?” is a button. Request with a note, accept with a plan drafted from her rhythm and an “until” time, watch feeds tick it off, get a summary when the cover ends. A push pings you both when it’s over. How it works →
Open source under the AGPL. One SQLite file. Export a CSV whenever you like; import your Baby Buddy history in one go. Tracking is never paywalled — the hosted plan only ever sells the hosting. No telemetry, no rug-pulls.
And the small things
Covers, not just a log
That sentence is a first-class flow in mybabynotes — the part no other tracker has. A cover is what you start when one of you actually takes over. The rest of the time nobody’s covering and you’re both on, which is how most days already work.
Tap the clipboard in the header, then Hand it to someone else and name them — your partner, a grandparent, anyone in the household. They’re here now starts it on the spot; Ask them first waits for a yes. The button spells out which one you’re about to do. The app drafts the plan — next feeds, meds — from his actual rhythm, with an “until” time.
Every feed they log ticks an item off; you watch progress on a read-only card, or don’t — you’re asleep. When “until” passes it pings you both, then closes the cover a quarter of an hour later, so “Grandma until 4” ends at 4 without anyone acting at 4.
A running cover has a single End my cover — feeds, diapers, sleep, last thing that happened, instead of a “so when did you…” conversation. It ends back at nobody covering, not at whoever’s left holding it.
Run it your way
Every tracking feature is in both. Hosted just means we run the boring parts.
Sign up, invite the household, start logging. We handle the rest.
Free for 14 days. No card until you’re sure.
Your baby’s data on your own box. Unraid, Docker Compose, whatever you run.
Hosted pricing
You’re paying for hosting, not for features. Cancel anytime, export first.
$5 /mo
Good for “let’s just try it”. Month to month.
$50 /yr
Two months free. Covers the year you’ll actually be logging.
$60 once
One payment, 18 months, then it stops on its own — no auto-renew, no card kept on file. That’s $3.33 a month, newborn through weaning.
$0 forever
All of it, on your hardware. Install guide →
Prices are placeholders until hosted launches. Free 14-day trial on every hosted plan; no card needed to start. The 18-month pass is a single payment — nothing renews, and we don’t keep a card on file when it runs out.
Yes — every tracking feature, including realtime sync, shared timers, handoffs and push. The code is AGPL. The only thing the hosted plan sells is us running it for you.
Off-site backups, push notifications that work out of the box, a public HTTPS address so invites and password resets arrive by email, and updates you never think about. Nothing about tracking is different.
Both, and your laptop. It’s an installable web app: open it in the browser, add it to your home screen, and it behaves like a native one — full screen, offline, notifications. No app store. (On iPhone, push needs it installed to the Home Screen first.)
You export it — a CSV, any time, from Settings. And the exact same code is open source, so you can keep running it yourself. That’s the whole point of shipping it this way.
Offline-first logging, realtime sync across every caregiver’s phone, the cover handoff flow, and a phone-first UI built around four-tap logging. Baby Buddy is great software with more breadth — growth charts, WHO percentiles, and nearly a decade of community translations. This is built for the 3am case, and Settings → Import reads Baby Buddy’s CSV exports if you switch. Both integrate with Home Assistant.
Invite them as caregivers. Up to six adults per household: parents have full control; caregivers can log, run timers and cover, but can’t change settings or membership. Every invite is a code — emailed, or shown on screen to text over.
The whole household, one log — wherever it lives.
