Nara Baby alternatives while its pricing is unclear

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 Nara’s FAQ said

If you have used Nara for a while, you may remember it as free. Its FAQ, read on 29 September 2026, described a different arrangement: a seven-day trial with full access, then a choice between a monthly subscription and a lifetime plan (a one-off payment). Both included the same things, with no further premium tier: unlimited tracking across children, unlimited caregivers, Apple Watch and Siri, trends and history, pregnancy and postpartum tracking, no ads.

Caveat: that FAQ page is no longer online, and Nara’s current App Store listing says Free with in-app purchases without naming a trial, a read-only mode or a price. The arrangement above may still apply or may have changed, so check the app’s own purchase screen before relying on it. If you chose Nara because it was free, that is the first thing to confirm.

Your log, if you do not subscribe

Nothing was described as deleted. Nara’s FAQ said that if you did not subscribe, you could still view and export your existing data in the app, but not 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

Two rows deserve a second look. Sofi states it has no paid tier at all, and its site lists sleep predictions, caregiver sync, offline logging and data export as free. Pixy is the only app here that keeps going past the baby years, to age twelve, and its free sleep prediction is fitted to your own child’s wake windows rather than an age chart.

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. Its FAQ described a lifetime plan, a one-off payment nobody else here offers, with unlimited caregivers; confirm in the app that it still exists.

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.