Baby Feed Tracker vs NextSide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baby Feed Tracker
Easily track breastfeeding, nursing, and bottle feeds with a privacy-focused baby feeding log. Understand your baby's patterns and sync with caretakers for seamless shared care. Designed for newborns and infants, it offers quick logging and insights into feeding routines.
- Breastfeeding and bottle feed logging
- Visualize feeding patterns
- Fast overnight feed logging
- Sync with caretakers via iCloud
- Privacy-focused design
- Live Activities for lock screen tracking
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The fastest way to log every feeding, from bottles to breastfeeding, pumping, and solids. No account needed. No subscription. Open the app and start tracking. -- FEEDING, YOUR WAY Time nursing sessions by side, log bottle volumes, track pumping output, and record solids as your baby grows. Live Activities keep your active timer on the Lock Screen so you never lose track mid-feed. EVERYTHING ELSE TOO Diapers, potty training, medicine doses, and baths. All in one place, all in a tap. BUILT FOR 3 AM One-handed logging, big buttons, dark mode, and high contrast. Made for the nights when your brain is running on empty. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data never touches a server. No email required. Sync with your partner through your own iCloud, not ours. SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE A 24-hour timeline, charts, and trends help you spot patterns and answer every question your pediatrician asks. Export to CSV anytime. -- Fully customizable. Works offline. Free to download, unlock everything once and it is yours forever.
NextSide
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Which breast now — and which side is next? It's 3am. You're half asleep, the baby is already crying, and your brain is stuck on one question: which side did I feed from last time? NextSide answers it in under 3 seconds. One tap — Left or Right. Done. No timer to start, no stopwatch to stop, no form to fill in. One-handed. In the dark. Fully offline. THE ANSWER, THE MOMENT YOU LOOK Open the app and the Glance Bar tells you two things: which side is next, and how long it's been since the last feed. Nothing to remember. Nothing to calculate. A NURSING LOG IN 3 SECONDS One tap on Left or Right records a completed feed. That's the whole interaction. BUILT FOR 3AM, NOT FOR A SPREADSHEET Night mode isn't a dark theme with the brightness turned down. It's warm, near-black, zero-blue, with oversized targets you can hit without looking. It won't burn your eyes and it won't wake the baby. NO ACCOUNT TO TRACK. EVER. No sign-up, no waiting, no connection required. Logging, history, reminders and night mode work fully offline — in airplane mode, at the hospital, on a plane. Your feeding history stays on your phone. UNLIMITED FEEDING HISTORY Every feed, which side and when. Unlimited, free. GENTLE REMINDERS A quiet nudge at the interval you choose after the last feed. Optional, never nagging. FOUR LANGUAGES English, Türkçe, Deutsch and Български. PREMIUM — LOG WITHOUT OPENING YOUR PHONE Logging inside the app is free, always. Premium moves those 3 seconds to the surfaces you can reach without opening the phone at all: • Home-screen widget — one glance, one tap, no unlocking • Lock Screen quick log • Apple Watch app and complication — one tap from your wrist • Cloud backup and restore — sign in once with email or Google so a new phone doesn't mean starting over • The Premium breastfeeding guide WHAT NEXTSIDE IS NOT No pumping, bottle, diaper or sleep tracking. No charts, no AI guessing, no ads. Just the one moment, made faster. For every mother feeding a newborn: a breastfeeding tracker shouldn't be forty features. It should be one clear answer. Which breast now, and which side is next? Tap. Done. TERMS OF USE (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: NextSide at 4 against Baby Feed Tracker's 1. NextSide also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Baby Feed Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NextSide sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Baby Feed Tracker | NextSide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daydrift B.V. | Cemal Karabulakli |
In-app purchases
Baby Feed Tracker
- Premium$14.99
NextSide
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual$29.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99






