Comparison

Hatch Grow vs Early Days

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hatch Grow

This app helps parents track essential baby data like feedings, sleep, and diaper changes. It provides visual charts and summaries to understand your baby's patterns and development. Optional integration with smart hardware offers advanced tracking capabilities.

Highlights
  • Track feedings (breastfeeding, bottle, pumping)
  • Monitor sleep patterns and naps
  • Log diaper changes
  • Record growth metrics (weight, length)
  • Share data with caregivers and professionals
  • View daily, weekly, and monthly summaries
  • Optional integration with smart scale changing pad
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Hatch Baby--recipient of the prestigious Mom’s Choice Award--helps you track of all your baby’s most important growth and health data, including feedings, diaper changes, sleep, and much more. Get insight into your baby’s development with visual charts and understand your baby’s patterns with a convenient activity summary. Use the app on its own, or connect it with our award-winning Hatch Baby Grow or Smart Changing Pad--changing pad with built-in, wireless smart scale. Grow measures how much breast milk your baby is drinking at each feeding and automatically syncs to the Hatch Baby app. FEEDINGS - Track breastfeeding or bottle sessions with an easy-to-use, one-tap timer, which allows you to adjust the start time if you forget to start the timer. - Conveniently pause the timer during nursing sessions to switch breasts and record the time for both sides. - Connect to Grow or the Smart Changing Pad (optional) to measure exactly how much your baby is eating at each breastfeeding session. - Capture feeding session notes, like your baby’s formula preference. - View daily, weekly, or monthly summary charts to gain insight into your baby’s eating patterns. DIAPERS - Easily keep track of changes to ensure your baby is drinking enough throughout the day. - Record notes that can be shared with your pediatrician or other caregivers. - Connect to Grow or the Smart Changing Pad (optional) and automatically record diaper changes. - View daily, weekly, or monthly summary charts to gain insight into your baby’s diaper patterns. SLEEP - Track naps and nighttime sleep with an easy-to-use sleep timer, which allows you to adjust the start time if you forget to start the timer. - Discover your baby's sleeping patterns to help her get the best rest. - View daily, weekly, or monthly summary charts to gain insight into your baby’s sleep patterns. GROWTH METRICS - Track your baby’s weight and length gain, and compare his growth percentile to worldwide (WHO) data. - See how your baby grows week-to-week. - Weigh your baby anytime or before and after feedings with Grow or the Smart Changing Pad (optional) and automatically send weights to the app. SHARE WITH CAREGIVERS + PROFESSIONALS - Invite your partner or caregiver to share your baby’s account and record activity. - Receive updates from your baby’s caregiver while you are away, including when your baby last ate or slept. - Export and share your baby's data with your pediatrician or lactation consultant. - Access your baby’s information across multiple devices. PUMPING - Track pumping sessions with an easy-to-use, one-tap timer. - Record amount, duration, and side(s) pumped. DAILY SUMMARY - View a convenient summary of your baby’s diaper count, feeding amount, and total sleep for the day, as well as Hatch Handbook articles providing parenting insights. - Scroll through a log of your baby’s recent activity. - Customize your dashboard to display the activities (i.e. feedings, diapers, and sleep) you track or view most frequently. PHOTOS - Take a photo of your baby every day, play the slideshow, and watch how your baby has grown! - Share photos with family and friends. GROW AND SMART CHANGING PAD (optional) - Use the app on its own, or connect it with Hatch Baby Grow and Smart Changing Pad -- where changing pad meets connected smart scale to help track your baby’s weight gain and feeding amounts. - The Bluetooth-enabled scale measures and records how much your baby eats at each nursing session and syncs automatically with the Hatch Baby app. We love hearing from our customers so please drop us a note at support@hatchbaby.com. Also, check out Hatch Baby’s other app-enabled smart products at www.hatchbaby.com. Instagram - @hatchnursery Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hatchnursery

About

Early Days

Effortlessly track your newborn's feeding, sleep, and diaper changes with a simple one-tap logging system. Features include a built-in white noise generator, baby monitor, and shared access for two parents. Understand your baby's patterns with clear charts and smart nudges.

Highlights
  • One-tap logging for feeds, diapers, and medicine
  • Sleep timer and wake window tracking
  • Built-in white noise and baby monitor
  • Shared tracking for two parents
  • Pattern analysis with charts and nudges
  • Data export (PDF, CSV) and AI prompt generation
Features
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The first weeks with a newborn are a blur of feeds, naps, and diapers at 3 AM. Early Days is built for exactly that moment: one tap logs what just happened, and the screen always tells you the truth about what's saved. Free. No ads, no subscription, no paywalled features — everything below is included, including the white noise and the baby monitor. Log in one tap. Feeds, diapers, pumping, medicine — tap once and it's recorded with your usual amounts. Adjust anything afterward; you're always editing that same entry, never accidentally creating a second one. Sleep is the hero. The sleep card sits at the top, always ready: start a nap timer in one tap, see the wake window at a glance, and end the nap right from your Lock Screen with Live Activities. Built-in white noise & baby monitor. Ten synthesized sounds that auto-resume when a nap starts. Turn a spare phone into an audio or video baby monitor over your home Wi-Fi — no extra hardware, and the stream never leaves your network. Two parents, one baby, zero double-logging. Pair with your partner by scanning a QR code. Everything syncs instantly, and gentle nudges can tell you when your partner logs — so nobody feeds the baby twice. Understand the patterns. Clear charts for feeds, sleep, diapers, and growth. Smart nudges learn your baby's rhythm and remind you before the next feed or nap window — quiet hours respected. Your data is yours. Export everything as PDF or CSV, or copy a ready-made AI prompt (with all your data attached) to ask your AI assistant about sleep, feeding, or growth patterns. Delete your account and every trace of your data anytime, right from Settings. Designed meticulously for busy families, by Huhu.

Screenshots

Hatch Grow4 screens
Early Days4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Early Days at 100% against Hatch Grow's 33%. Early Days also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Hatch Grow's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 15). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Early Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hatch Grow has 13K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Hatch Grow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Early Days's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hatch Grow ships an update every 2 months, Early Days every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hatch Grow versus Early Days: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHatch GrowEarly Days
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (13K ratings)5.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K — better15
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB181 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHatch Baby, Inc.Huhu LLC

Customer experience

Hatch Grow

All ratings13,439 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews156 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral19.9%
Negative46.8%

Early Days

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Hatch Grow

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when deleting or editing entries
  • Inconsistent data sync between devices
  • Disappearing or lost data
  • Issues with logging feeds/sleeps that span midnight

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a dark mode option
  • Improve syncing between devices
  • Add ability to track baby's temperature, medications, and appointments
  • Provide better data export options (e.g. PDF reports)
  • Add Apple Watch app

Early Days

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hatch Grow

No in-app purchases

None

Early Days

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hatch Grow free?
Hatch Grow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Early Days free?
Early Days is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hatch Grow or Early Days?
Early Days is rated higher. Hatch Grow averages 4.8 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Early Days averages 5.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Hatch Grow or Early Days have ads?
Neither Hatch Grow nor Early Days shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hatch Grow or Early Days?
Hatch Grow ships an update every 2 months, and Early Days every 3 days. Most recently, Hatch Grow was updated on November 12, 2026 and Early Days on November 10, 2026.

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