apps?

virginiaunicorn11

what are your favorite apps for:

1) baby stuff (am thinking of what I'll need to track for my newborn)

2) photos and related products

3) non-baby, general life

virginiaunicorn11

No idea for 1) baby tracking. Have been googling it.

For 2) photos, I love Postagram. It sends keepsake postcards in the mail for 99 cents, and synchs with your photo album and contacts list.

Am seeking an app that to create a photo book at the end of baby's first year, uploading iPhone photos.

3) TripIt is a great travel app. It synchs with your email and stores all your flight and hotel, etc. info. You can also share your itinerary with others.

alcrimmins

Life cake is a great photo app! You can invite people to join and only they can seethe photos you post. Kind of like a very private Instagram. It also tells you how many days old you child is and such. Keeps me organized.

karaelaine1991

Photos - we're using tinybeans. It'll let us share pictures and videos with family and friends but is only accessible through email invite sent by me or DH which is exactly what I wanted. Haven't looked into the others yet!

megtyrrell

@karaelaine1991 Thank you for recommending tinybeans! I just downloaded it. I've been really nervous about how to conveniently share photos of baby with close family and friends, so this will be a huge help! The thought of putting photos of her on Facebook was making me so nervous because my SO's father is running for political office in our city... I don't want my baby's picture being shared with everyone! Thank you again and I hope that you are doing well and enjoying your baby girl!

karaelaine1991

megtyrrell said:

@karaelaine1991 Thank you for recommending tinybeans! I just downloaded it. I've been really nervous about how to conveniently share photos of baby with close family and friends, so this will be a huge help! The thought of putting photos of her on Facebook was making me so nervous because my SO's father is running for political office in our city... I don't want my baby's picture being shared with everyone! Thank you again and I hope that you are doing well and enjoying your baby girl!

Facebook makes me nervous too - I don't mind putting every photo ever of me on there, but I'm trying not to put any of the baby up! Glad I could help! And thank you!

esampson1983

1. I have been using Baby Log to track data. There is a free version that you can use for a certain number of data points before you have to use the app. I really like it. Very user friendly and it displays data in different ways.

2. Honestly I have just been taking pictures on my phone and texting them to friends/family and will probably upload them to a hard drive on my computer to save them.

3. Netflix plus Chromecast. I can stream Netflix to my tv from my phone if I can't find the Xbox controller

karaelaine1991

@megtyrrell and anyone else considering using tinybeans to share photos - after exploring the app a bit, I discovered that you have to pay $8/month to access most of the features on it! So frustrating! Not worth it, in my opinion. I did some research and found another one that's an offshoot of Shutterfly called thislife which does essentially all of the same stuff but for free, plus it links up to Shutterfly so people can easily get prints, make photo books, etc. I'm very happy with it so far! Hope that is helpful!

esampson1983

Also If any of you are Amazon prime members, you get access to prime music for free. You can download the prime music app for free. Access to this has been a lifesaver when baby boy is fussy. Happiest Baby on the Block CD is part of the free prime music. The blow dryer track will calm baby boy and put him to sleep on fussy nights. It has been a sanity saver for us!

laurendutch

karaelaine1991 said:

@megtyrrell and anyone else considering using tinybeans to share photos - after exploring the app a bit, I discovered that you have to pay $8/month to access most of the features on it! So frustrating! Not worth it, in my opinion. I did some research and found another one that's an offshoot of Shutterfly called thislife which does essentially all of the same stuff but for free, plus it links up to Shutterfly so people can easily get prints, make photo books, etc. I'm very happy with it so far! Hope that is helpful!

I use Snapseed for photo editing

afwifey2014

1) my friend recommended Wonder Weeks (to track the baby's developmental stages).

2) Shutterfly and thislife. Although a friend recommended locking down an instagram account and sharing photos that way..

britneythebridexo

Similac Baby Journal ready on my phone but nothing else for after LO is here.

virginiaunicorn11

afwifey2014 said:

1) my friend recommended Wonder Weeks (to track the baby's developmental stages).

2) Shutterfly and thislife. Although a friend recommended locking down an instagram account and sharing photos that way..

Wonder Weeks looks pretty neat! It's $1.99, though... I dropped $200 once on leather yoga pants, but have a mental block on paying for apps. WTF is wrong with me?! Ok, will just pay the $2. Thanks for the suggestion!

tiffanyclark87

I am using feedbaby app to keep track of nursing sessions, diapers, etc. It has been great! Free but has an inapp purchase of 2.99 or 3.99 if you want it to sync to another phone. I think everything else is free. Has charts, alerts, pumping timers, sleep, bottle feeds, journal, developmental facts and apple watch compatible if you have one or are in the market to get one.
Thanks for all the photo app recommendations!

dancegurl1118

DH and I are using BabyConnect. It makes it so that you can sync with other phones so he can put in feedings/changes etc and we can both see it. Our daycare also uses it. It will definitely be a huge help when I go back to work at night. We started using it the minute we got back so that it'll become second nature to us...only downside is it was $5 per phone so $10 total. I like it though.

vanproos

We are going to try Baby Daybook to record our twins' info. It's free, seems to have what we want in a clear layout, allows profiles for multiple babies, and has free syncing. Haven't used it really yet to give any feedback. If anyone else has used this one and has any helpful feedback, let us know!

seesea

1. To keep track of baby stuff I used First Year for DS1. It's pretty comprehensive. You could track milestones, diaper changes, formula/breast feeding and pumping sessions and add pictures. There's even graphs to show weekly/monthly averages. Not sure how much it cost ($2.99 I think) but there's a free version without all the bells and whistles. I liked how you can have the app on multiple devices like your iPad or phone.

This time around I opted for tiny beans since I don't have to keep track of diapers and feedings. I started using it before they were charging and since I committed and am too lazy to switch, I'll just keep using the free version. I don't have a Facebook anyway so I'm using it for my own record keeping.

2. I'm into doing photography so I have a bunch of photo apps. The ones I like are camera plus, vscocam, and PS express for editing. I also used photo365 as a journal for daily pictures.

3. For general apps I like...hmmm I guess it depends. I do a lot of shopping so I'm always on my shopping apps. I'm also on Trulia a lot to look at houses ( wishful thinking for now since I live in an apartment but I will one day buy a home). For music, I'm all about Spotify and pacemaker. Pacemaker lets me pretend I'm a DJ.