Baby tracker apps without a subscription

Pixy is ours, and it is on this page, so read the rest knowing that. Every claim about another app below comes from that app’s own page, linked at the foot, read on 29 September 2026.

Free app, free version, free trial

“Without a subscription” means one of three things, and store listings blur them all into the word free:

• A free app has nothing to buy. Rare, and the strongest answer if you can find one that does what you need.
• A free version keeps working without payment, indefinitely, while a subscription sits beside it for people who want more. This is most of the category.
• A free trial opens everything for a few days and then stops. The app goes read-only or locks the feature you came for, usually in the week you have come to rely on it.

Where each app stands

What a good free version covers

A free version is only as good as the wall you hit first. Three things are worth checking, in order of how much they hurt when they turn out to be paid:

• Sleep prediction. It is what most parents install a tracker for, and it is paid at Huckleberry, Baby Tracker and, for the full schedule, Baby Daybook.
• A second adult. Free at Sofi, Pippy and Huckleberry. On Pixy and Baby Daybook it is a subscription.
• Getting your data out. Sofi and Pixy list export as free. It matters the day you want to leave.

Pixy’s free version was built around the first of those. Sleep prediction reads your own child’s wake windows, it is free, and there is no trial clock on it. Around it sit six quick-log modules on one screen, plain-language logging (type “fed 120ml, back down at 3:40” and it lands in the right place), routines that send the reminder, reports, home and lock screen widgets, growth charts, offline logging and a JSON export. It runs to age twelve rather than stopping at the baby years. The paid part is scale: the whole history rather than the recent stretch, the rest of the household, more AI and the PDF health file. What a free account gets lists all of it.

If you would rather pay once

Among the apps here, Nara Baby is the one whose FAQ mentioned a one-off plan. Nara’s FAQ, read on 29 September 2026, described a seven-day trial then a read-only app unless you subscribe, with a monthly or a lifetime option; that page is no longer online and its listing says Free with in-app purchases without naming a trial or price, so check its purchase screen. If a trial is what brought you here, the Nara alternatives page is written for exactly that.

How to check an app in two minutes

Open the app’s own pricing page or FAQ, not the store listing, and search it for “trial”. Then find the feature you actually want and see which column it sits in. If the page does not say, install it and look for a timer. The full comparison does this for seven apps side by side.