MyPreemie app vs Breast Beginnings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyPreemie app
This app provides a comprehensive toolkit for parents of premature babies, offering practical information, emotional support, and tools to track development. It includes a guide to prematurity issues, suggested questions for doctors, a diary for documenting milestones, and trackers for growth measurements.
- Pocket Guide to Preemies
- Suggested Questions for Doctors
- Illustrated Baby Diary
- Growth Trackers (Weight, Length, Head Size)
- Remember to Ask/Do Lists
- Share Progress via Email/Facebook
- Treasured Mementos Checklist
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In English or Spanish, depending on your phone’s setting. MyPreemie is a complete toolkit for the unique practical and emotional needs of families of premature babies. “I love this app.... it’s an invaluable tool for the NICU parent.” - Twinstuff.com “I would strongly urge neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners to suggest MyPreemie to any family ...to help them navigate the turbulent waters of the NICU experience.” - Alan Spitzer, MD. “Great looking app with tons of information and advice to ask doctors....I already feel better about having a premature baby with this app. I highly recommend. ” - customer review (by Airlinejoe) “Those questions you meant to ask the doctor, but forgot—the answers are in here and they’re easy to find. The layout is beautiful, and once you see the diary you want to start using it. But the most important part is that all the information you need is easy to get hold of. Totally recommended! - customer review (by PreemieDad) “My preemie app is the best tool to jot down all the little milestones that happen. ... then at the end of the day I send my diary by email through the app to the grandparents to know all about their new grandson’s progress. Highly recommend this app!” - customer review (by grbnvcdnc) “This app is beautifully made, and has made tracking my preemies’ progress easy. I love all the features....Thank you so much for creating this app!” - customer review (by MMLFamily) FEATURES: - Pocket Guide to Preemies—information on over a hundred health, developmental, and parenting issues of prematurity - Suggested Questions—to help you ask doctors and nurses about your baby - Our Diary—a beautifully illustrated Baby Book with prompts focusing on the experience of prematurity, to make it easy for you to document daily events, your feelings, and photos - Trackers—records your baby’s daily weight, length, and head size and shows where your baby’s growth falls on preemie growth charts - Remember to Ask List—automatically logs the Suggested Questions you tag, with space to add your own, so they’re handy when the doctor comes around. - Remember to Do List—keeps your tasks organized - Treasured Mementos—a checklist of objects for you to gather as precious keepsakes - Share—Easily update family and friends by sharing any page of MyPreemie by email or Facebook. You can also print pages as PDF to save - Contents by the authors of the acclaimed book, PREEMIES: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies.
Breast Beginnings
This app offers resources and support for mothers to learn about breastfeeding. It covers preparation for a new baby and common challenges faced during the first two months of a baby's life.
- Breastfeeding preparation resources
- Support for new mothers
- Information on common challenges
- Guidance for baby's second month
- Maternal health support
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The BreastBeginnings app was created to help mothers be successful in breastfeeding. It provides resources and support in learning about breastfeeding in preparation in preparation for a new baby, as well as the most common challenges that mothers face when breastfeeding throughout a baby's second month of life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Breast Beginnings at 4.5 against MyPreemie app's 3.5. Breast Beginnings also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). MyPreemie app's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (60 vs 13). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Breast Beginnings holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of MyPreemie app's written reviews are positive against 100% of Breast Beginnings's.
MyPreemie app ships an update every 5 months, Breast Beginnings every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyPreemie app | Breast Beginnings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (60 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Graham's Foundation | University of Kentucky |
Customer experience
MyPreemie app
Breast Beginnings
Bugs and requests
MyPreemie app
Reported bugs
7 issues- Weight graph counting down incorrectly
- Data deleted/lost after update
- Cannot input past birth dates (defaults to current date or January 1, 2020)
- Weekly chart tab causes app crash
- Scrolling bug preventing input of name
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- Guide feature shuts down the app
- Headings in tips section not visible without clicking
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to link accounts across multiple phones
- Save as PDFs for printing
- Export journal pages as images
- Extend growth charts beyond one year
- Change time span for graphs
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- Ability to log in to access babies' data from multiple devices
- Change appearance/remove artwork
- Make journal exportable into a book
Breast Beginnings
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MyPreemie app
No in-app purchases
Breast Beginnings
No in-app purchases







