Nara Baby alternatives after the subscription change

This page is written by the people who make one of the apps on it. Pixy is ours, so read the rest knowing that. It is also why every claim about another app below comes from that app’s own page, linked at the foot, read on 29 September 2026.

What changed at Nara

If you have used Nara for a while, you may remember it as free. Its FAQ now describes a different arrangement: a seven-day trial with full access, then a choice between a monthly subscription and a one-off lifetime plan. Both include the same things, and Nara lists no further premium tier: unlimited tracking across children, unlimited caregivers, Apple Watch and Siri, trends and history, pregnancy and postpartum tracking, no ads.

That is a fair product. It is just no longer a free one, and if you chose it because it was free, the question is where to go.

Your log, if you do not subscribe

Nothing is deleted. Nara says that if you do not subscribe, you can still view and export your existing data in the app, but you cannot add new tracking. So the first thing to do, whatever you choose next, is export it. Almost no tracker can import another app’s history, so a switch usually means starting a fresh log, and it helps to have the old one saved for the paediatrician.

Free alternatives, and what each charges for

One row deserves a second look. Sofi is the strongest free offer on paper: its site lists sleep predictions, caregiver sync, offline logging, WHO growth charts, an Apple Watch app and data export, all free, with no paid tier at all. We have not audited it, but that is what its publisher states, and a page that left it out would be an advert.

Which one, and for whom

• Pixy, if you want the record to keep going. Logging across six quick-log modules, sleep prediction from your own child’s wake windows, daily routines, reports, widgets, growth, offline logging and a JSON export are all free, with no trial clock. You can type a log the way you would say it, “fed 120ml, back down at 3:40”, and it lands in the right place. And it runs to age twelve, changing what it shows by stage, where every other app here is built around babies. The subscription is about scale: the whole history, the rest of the family on the account, more AI and the PDF health file. What a free account gets sets out the whole split.
• Sofi, if two of you log and neither wants to pay. Caregiver sync is on its free list, and on Pixy it is a subscription.
• Pippy, if typing is the thing you hate. Logging by voice is its argument, and it lists real-time sync between caregivers.
• Huckleberry, if sleep help is what you are after. Its free tier covers tracking and reports; the prediction and the expert sleep plans are paid.
• Stay with Nara, if you like it and will track for a while. A one-off lifetime plan is something nobody else here offers, and it includes unlimited caregivers.

Moving without losing a week

Export from Nara first. Then install your two likeliest replacements and log one real day in both, the 4am feed included. By the evening you will know which one you reached for without thinking. The trackers without a subscription page goes wider than Nara, and the full comparison sets seven apps side by side.