Ovia Parenting & Baby Tracker

I love Ovia Parenting for its timely and relevant articles… I love the personalized write ups. Thank you team.

Having used several parenting apps for my older children I can confidently say Ovia is great. It may not provide the level of detail that some of the others do but it's the best I have seen for milestone tracking and the set up is attractive and user friendly. At the moment it's the best there is for my current needs.

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Used Ovia for a while through pregnancy and now as a parent and then started seeing political articles in my baby app. Are you freaking kidding me? Should not have to see articles such as tips to raising a gender fluid baby. Also the app crashes constantly. Putting in breastfeeding is a two step process while being littered with lots of adds. Then there is no dark mode so there are too many problems to keep using it even though it’s free.

This is the one of the best app have used so far keep it up I love you.

Although I greatly benefited from the Ovia Pregnancy app, I was disappointed by the parenting version. 90% of the articles on my feed pertained to returning to work and had very little to do with…parenting. I was further disappointed when an article by the title of “Managing your period as a trans, genderqueer, or non-binary person” appeared on my timeline. Not only does this have nothing to do with parenting, it also falls short of being remotely substantiated by medical research or reality. The title alone is bizarre and ridiculous. To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. However, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

This app has been very useful for logging feedings and sleep, diaper changes and milestones, especially loving that dad can have his own login to access the app, but the app desperately needs a dark mode for users that can’t use the bright white background (not to mention even on the lowest brightness setting on my phone, it’s still too bright for logging a nursing session while trying to get baby to sleep. It would also be helpful to fix it so that if one person logs that baby fell asleep at a certain time, the other user can also see that it was logged before the sleep end time is input.

My wife and I started using Ovia apps with our first child a couple years ago, and transitioned to the Parenting app after they were born. 2 years later, still no dark/night mode and the interface is littered with ads. I put up with the ads because this is a free app and it is GREAT for keeping track of feedings and poops/pees. But why on earth there isn’t a dark mode for middle of the night feedings is beyond me; especially during that newborn phase. We just had our second and I figured that’s a feature that would’ve been added by now. Here we are, in the year 2024, and a simple addition like that can’t be added to help parents not get blinded by the literal light!? C’mon guys

I enjoy the app. Nice info given in bite sized chunks. I do have an issue with the user interface being a bit busy with the advertisements. It’s free so I know we have to get them I just wish they were more integrated with the info so it’s not as busy. Also the baby tracker doesn’t auto save so I lost a lot not realizing that.

I used the Ovia pregnancy app and loved it so I downloaded this one. I have tried to sign in multiple times but when I put in my daughters birthday it says it’s an invalid date. I have checked the format and it is correct. I would love to be able to sign in because I’m sure the app is great once I can make an account.