BabyBuddy vs Meshtastic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BabyBuddy
Easily monitor your child's sleep, feeding, and crying patterns. Track nursing sessions and food intake with simple start/stop functionality. Visualize your baby's data daily or monthly, with iCloud syncing and sharing options.
- Track sleep, feeding, and crying
- Monitor nursing and food intake
- Unlimited baby profiles
- Daily and monthly data visualization
- Automatic iCloud syncing
- Share data with partners
- PDF export
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BabyBuddy will help you track your child’s falling asleep, sleeping, eating and crying time. You can also track which breast side was used when it was suckled and what was fed. Features: - add unlimited babys - start/stop tracking with a simple tap (up to 30 entries are free) - add events to track fundamental changes (new bed, moved to antoher location, etc.) - see how long your baby is awake and how long your baby was sleeping, eating, crying and falling asleep - see tracked data in a list or visually per day - see daily sleep frequencies per month - automatic iCloud syncing to all your devices - you can share your baby inlcuding all data with your partner (or more people), so both of you can track your baby sleep (via In-App-Purchase) - PDF-Export (via In-App-Purchase)
Meshtastic
This app enables off-grid, decentralized communication via a low-power mesh network. Send text messages in areas lacking cellular or WiFi service.
- Off-grid communication
- Decentralized mesh network
- Low-power LoRa radio support
- Text messaging
- No cellular/WiFi required
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Meshtastic® is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on low-power Lora radios letting you send text messages in areas without reliable cellular or WiFi service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meshtastic at 44% against BabyBuddy's 0%. Meshtastic also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). BabyBuddy's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. BabyBuddy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Meshtastic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Meshtastic holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meshtastic has 832 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of BabyBuddy's written reviews are positive against 44% of Meshtastic's.
BabyBuddy ships an update every 2 months, Meshtastic every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | BabyBuddy | Meshtastic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.1 (832 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 44.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 832 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Oleg Mueller | Meshtastic LLC |
Customer experience
BabyBuddy
Meshtastic
Bugs and requests
BabyBuddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Meshtastic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Canned messages configuration issues
- Location sharing and traceroute functions not working
- Settings screen bugs and crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline maps support
- Ability to customize notifications
- More sorting and filtering options for nodes
- Apple Watch and Shortcuts integration
- Improved documentation and user guidance
In-app purchases
BabyBuddy
- Unlock Sharing$1.99
- Unlock PDF-Export$1.99
- Unlock Pro$2.99
Meshtastic
No in-app purchases
