Baby Activity Logger by Nerdtown is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch
When Aaron from Nerdtown contacted me via email to ask me to review Baby Activity Logger, he offered me a code for a free download. Well, this was the first time we had ever looked at an app that costs money, and we accidentally ended up paying for it, but I must say: This app is well worth purchasing.
My husband, Chris, particularly enjoyed Baby Activity Logger. The fact that everything can be tracked (the “something else” option allows you to enter whatever you want), edited, and annotated really appealed to his geeky side. Whenever I would sit down to nurse the baby, I’d holler: “Chris! Left breast, left breast!” In fact, I think that for the first several days of testing, he hardly let me have the iPod because he wanted to track everything!
For myself, I think the app is really fun and useful. I would have liked to have it when Maia was born and I was more concerned about her feedings, diaper changes, and sleep patterns, because at this point, I’m so laid-back about it all (mostly) that keeping track of it was actually hard to remember to do. Most of the time I’d end up opening the app after I’d nursed her or she’d slept, and entering an approximate start time and length. This is definitely a strength of the app. I appreciated that I could edit start and end times for activities.
Something else fun about Baby Activity Logger is that it is integrated with e-mail. This means you can send yourself (or any email address) a PDF or CSV report of what your baby has done for the day (here’s a PDF report of Maia’s activities on July 28th). It’s also integrated with Twitter, so you can set it to automatically tweet to your account when you enter an activity:
Pretty funny, but not useful to me at all. Maybe if you had a separate Twitter account set up just for tracking your baby’s activities this would be a useful feature, but I’m not sure why you’d do that.
Pros:
- For us, it let Dad take a more active role in parenting.
- You can enter EVERYTHING, and it’s all in chronological order.
- Very easy to use.
- Very easy to correct mistakes or fill in information after the fact.
- Designed to allow for tracking multiple children.
- Several ways to track, report, and analyze the data collected.
Cons:
- The app is called “blogger”, which meant I overlooked it a few times when browsing apps by name. Admittedly, the icon is a picture of a cute, cartoony little baby face, so when I browse by icon, it’s easily noticeable.
- Only for the iPhone / iPod Touch
- Difficult to give as a gift
- Sleep doesn’t roll over into a new day. If baby sleeps from day one into day two, the sleep is all recorded under day one.
Now, for my readers:
Interested in obtaining a copy of Baby Activity Logger for your iPhone or iPod Touch? I have TWO free downloads available. You can enter by doing the following:
1) Tweet the following statement: “Win a copy of Baby Activity Logger from @nerdtown & @averygoodyear at http://bit.ly/O3OGL!”
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I found this app for my iPod a couple of months ago and god, I wish I’d had it from the get go with my twins. We have STACKS of legal pads with this crap written down, and the Baby Activity Logger made tracking them so, so, so much easier. I am with you on the pros and cons, too. I wish the sleep data could be separated out a little differently. I also wish there was a quicker way to switch between babies. Nitpicky, but hey, at 3:42am that extra step can be a real PitA. Good and fair review of a must-have product, imo, if you’re a mom of multiples.
that is so awesome (and super awesome giveaway, i might add) but what am I going to do with that app with my toddler? LOL
I would definitely had used this with my first if the iPhone/iPod had been around! I logged everything he did for a long time. Not so with my second! But a cool app.
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