Hello Belly: Pregnancy Tracker

Visually the app is really appealing. The illustrations are cute and the app itself is easy to navigate. My main complaints are: I don’t like push notifications. Every time I logged into the app it asked to allow push notifications. I especially do not want a push notifications during the very early stages of my pregnancy while I’m keeping it a secret. My phone is often laying out, especially at work and don’t want to chance someone I’m not ready to tell seeing a pregnancy app notification pop up. I’m not renewing solely because I found it so irritating to be asked everyday to allow this feature. Also, I found some of the articles to be condescending. I just honestly didn’t care for the tone in which some of the daily tidbits were written.

There are so many better baby apps on the market that offer free information regarding your help. The minimal information that is available is so poorly written it’s like it was run through Google translate. Half of it doesn’t make sense. The way information is written is cringy and uncomfortable and not reassuring for a new mother. It’s very hard to know how to feel when trying to gain information from this app. I do not recommend.

so boring just lost 24.99 deleted after 3 seconds it’s obnoxious and there’s better ones out there for free

i downloaded after seeing on tiktok. when i put my period it gives me my due date in jan when im due dec 31 when i try to fix my due date it wont let me. i uninstalled pls fix

The layout is easy to navigate and not overwhelming. Lots of information on a variety of things. Also includes meditations and yoga moves. What I don’t like is it asks you to allow notifications every time you open the dang thing. But more importantly a lot of the blurbs come across as judgmental and shame-y which seems to be a thing in pregnancy world. A lot about what you need to be doing and what you should not be doing and not a lot validating that sometimes just getting through your work day and managing to eat anything is a miracle enough. A classic example “eat it without a twinge of consciousness but don’t forget it will not bring much benefit to you and the baby” …ok so that sound like a guilt trip to me. Just doesn’t make me feel good at a time when I already never feel good.

I love the illustrations on this app and was excited to use it, but one of the first articles I read contained some major food shaming. Balanced diet is what is key for good health and the suggestion that a person will regret every cookie they ate during their pregnancy is infantilizing and condescending. There are far more important things to worry about after the birth of a baby.

This app offers information that is inaccurate and EXTREMELY judgmental. For example, there’s a whole article about how drinking soda in your second trimester will lead to GD, and you should be consuming less than 150mg of caffeine a day. The official limit according to doctors is 200mg a day. This is only one example, I have frequently been put off by their articles and advice. Being pregnant is already a difficult time with many restrictions, give moms a break and at least offer judgment-free accurate information.

it’s kind of a pointless app because you don’t get much without having to pay for it. i can’t even tell if i like the app because i can’t do much without having to dish out money to even find out. more should be offered for someone to decide if they like it enough to purchase. also the dates are wrong i’m 35 weeks and due february 13th but when i put that date it tries to tell me i’m 36 weeks. and if i put 35 weeks it tells me i’m due february 20th which is wrong. if you have irregular periods don’t even bother using that because all information will definitely be wrong. the app needs work.

When I put my due date in it does not calculate the correct amount of weeks as my other apps and my doctors office do. It makes it hard to keep up to date on where I actually am in my pregnancy. I had to delete the app because it wasn’t adjusting correctly.

Not only is the app way more expensive than it should be, but it kept glitching to the point that now I can’t even open it! I downloaded this thinking it would be better than other free apps and it’s not. I want a refund. Very disappointed.