Made for the nights we know.

BabyTeller was built at 3am, by two people who needed it.

When our daughter Elyse arrived, Madelyn and I did what everyone does. We downloaded a baby tracker. Then another one. Then another.

They all worked, more or less. What kept getting in the way was the small stuff. Too many taps to start a feed. A screen you had to find first, while holding a baby who had opinions about waiting. Charts neither of us ever looked at twice. And the quiet, constant sense of being measured: this many ounces, this many hours, this many minutes behind where the app thought you should be.

At four in the morning, with one hand free, none of that helps.

I am a software engineer, so instead of complaining about it for another month I started building the one we actually wanted. Not a better dashboard. Something you could use without looking at it. A button where your thumb already is. A sentence you could say out loud with your hands full. An answer when you genuinely could not remember whether baby had eaten at two or at three.

Madelyn and I use it every day, on two phones, on the same log. Most of what is in BabyTeller is there because one of us hit something that did not work at the worst possible hour and said so. The phrases Siri understands, the order of the buttons, how few words the app says back: all of it got shaped by real nights rather than a plan.

What we decided not to build

There is no streak to keep up. No checklist of things your baby should be doing by now. No red badge because a nap ran long.

When BabyTeller does guess what is coming next, it gives you a window and tells you what it is basing that on, and it will never tell you your baby is late. Every baby we know has ignored the averages. Yours will too, and that is not a problem to be flagged.

Your firsts are kept the same way: as a keepsake, with your photographs the way you took them, and no ages printed next to them.

Why none of it comes to us

Elyse's feeds and photographs live on our own phones, in our own iCloud. I built BabyTeller to work exactly the same way for you.

There is no account to create, because there is nothing for you to create an account with. Your log syncs between your family's devices through your own Apple Account, and it never passes through a computer we own. We could not read your baby's day if we wanted to.

Keeping a copy would mean asking you to trust a company with the most private record you will ever keep, and I would rather not ask. It is also why BabyTeller is one payment instead of a subscription: nothing is running on our side that needs paying for every month.

Read the privacy policy, which says the same thing with more precision.

Where it is going

BabyTeller is coming to the App Store soon. It is still small, and it is still being shaped by the people using it. If something gets in your way at four in the morning, that is exactly the thing I want to hear about.

Jared Teller · Dad and creator of BabyTeller
support@babyteller.app