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Getting the most from Blooming Baby

A walk through every part of the app, in the order you’re likely to meet it. Read it start to finish, or jump straight to the bit you need.

How to use the app

Step by step, at your own pace

Everything is labelled Free or Premium so you always know what you’re looking at. The everyday log is free, and it stays free.

1Getting started

Install and sign in

Free
  1. Download Blooming Baby from Google Play on your Android phone.
  2. Open it and choose Continue with Google, or Create account with your email and a password.
  3. Forgot your password? Tap Forgot password on the sign-in screen and we’ll email you a reset link.

Add your little one

Free
  1. On the welcome screens, enter your baby’s name and birthday. That’s all we need to start.
  2. Allow notifications when asked if you’d like gentle reminders. You can skip this and turn them on later.
  3. Tap Start tracking and you’re on the Home screen.
Twins, or a big sibling? Tap Add Baby on Home to add another child. Each baby gets their own colour and icon, and you switch between them from the top of Home. Tap the pencil next to a baby to change their details, add a birth weight, or remove them.

Find your way around

The bar at the bottom of the screen has four tabs and a big plus button in the middle.

Home
Quick-log buttons, a nudge if a feed is due, today’s recent activity, and shortcuts to Health, Food and Charts.
Diary
Every log in one timeline, newest first, with a calendar view.
Firsts
Your baby’s milestones and the photos that go with them.
Rewards
Your logging streak, badges and level.
Plus button
Log anything from anywhere: feed, sleep, diaper, food, medicine, vitals, a milestone or your own mood.
Settings
The gear at the top of Home, for reminders, family sharing, your plan and your data.

2Everyday logging

Log a feed

Free
  1. Tap Feed on Home, or the plus button and then Feed.
  2. Pick Breast, Bottle or Solids.
  3. For breast, choose Left, Right or Both and add the minutes if you know them. For a bottle, add the amount in ml.
  4. The feed is saved at the time you tap save. Catching up on an earlier one? Write it in the Or describe it box with the time, such as “left side 15 min at 3am”.
  5. Tap Save Feed Log.

Log sleep

Free

There are two ways, depending on whether your baby is asleep right now.

  1. As it happens: tap Sleep, then Start Sleep when they drift off. When they wake, come back and tap End Sleep.
  2. After the fact: set the start and end times yourself.
  3. Choose how it went: Good, Restless or Woke often, then save.
Forgot to stop it? A sleep that’s still running shows as “Still sleeping” in your Diary. Open it, set the real end time, and save.

Log a diaper

Free
  1. Tap Diaper and choose Wet, Dirty or Both.
  2. Add a note if something seemed different.
  3. Add a photo if you’d like to show your pediatrician later, such as a rash. Free includes one photo per diaper; Premium allows a few more.
  4. Tap Save Diaper Log.

Type it, or say it, instead

Free

Hands full? Every log screen has an Or describe it box, and Home has Or just type it. Write something like “bottle 120ml at 6” and the app fills in the form for you to check before saving.

  1. Go to Settings → AI Model and download a model. The app marks the one Recommended for your phone.
  2. Lite is small and fast and reads your notes into forms. Full and Full+ are larger and can also write short summaries and milestone title ideas.
  3. Tap the microphone to dictate instead of typing. Voice typing stays on your phone; if your phone can’t do that, the app asks before using your phone’s online service.
Your words stay on your phone. The models run entirely on your device. You can remove one any time in the same screen to free up space.

Your Diary and calendar

Free
  1. Open the Diary tab to see every feed, sleep, diaper, food, check-in and milestone in one timeline.
  2. Tap any entry to see it in full, change it, or delete it. Nothing is ever write-once.
  3. Tap the calendar to see your logs by Day, Week or Month, with totals for each.
How far back can I look? Free shows the last 7 days. Older days are kept safely and appear locked; Premium opens your full history back to day one.

3Health and food

Sick days

Free, always

When your little one is under the weather, a clear record helps when you call the pediatrician. This part of the app is never behind Premium.

  1. Tap Not feeling well? on Home, then Log a check-in.
  2. Tick any symptoms, add a temperature if you took one, and write a note.
  3. Log again every few hours. The screen shows your readings as a simple trend.
  4. Read When to call your pediatrician, the published points at which doctors ask to hear from you, matched to your baby’s age.
  5. When they’re better, tap Mark as feeling better. Everything you logged stays in your Diary.
You never need a reason to call. The app doesn’t judge whether your baby is ill. If you’re worried, call your pediatrician. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services.

Vitamins, medicine and growth

Premium
  1. Tap Health on Home.
  2. Log a vitamin or medicine with its dose and the time you gave it.
  3. Log a growth measurement: weight, length or head size, from home or from a check-up.
  4. Switch to For mommy to keep your own vitamins, medicines and recovery weight in the same place.

These are your own recorded numbers. Percentiles and anything that concerns you are best talked through with your pediatrician.

First foods and allergens

Food log free Allergen tracker Premium
  1. Tap Food on Home, then Log a food.
  2. Write what they ate, pick a category and amount, and note any reaction.
  3. If the food may contain a common allergen, the app gives you a gentle heads-up so you can keep an eye out.
  4. Open Allergens to record how each of the common allergens has gone so far, with your own reaction notes.

Charts and insights

Premium
  1. Tap Charts & insights on Home.
  2. See feeds, sleep hours, diapers and solid foods per day across the last week, and growth over time.
  3. With the Full model downloaded, tap Summarise my week for a short written summary, made on your phone.

4Milestones and you

Milestones and photos

Free
  1. Open the Firsts tab and tap the plus.
  2. Give it a name, like “First smile”, and the date it happened.
  3. Add a note about the moment and attach photos. With the Full model, tap Suggest a title for ideas based on your note.
  4. Tap Save Milestone. Open it later to edit it, or tap Read this milestone to hear it read aloud.
The memory always saves. Milestones themselves are unlimited. Free includes photos on up to 20 milestones, and video comes with Premium. Past that, a milestone still saves with its name, date and note.

A check-in for you

Free

A quiet moment just for you. It’s a personal note, not a screening or an assessment.

  1. Tap the plus and choose My mood.
  2. Set your mood and energy, and add a note if you like.
  3. Tap Check In. Premium keeps your past check-ins so you can look back over time.
Support is always there. If a day feels too heavy, the check-in screen shows where to find support. That help is never behind Premium.

Streaks and badges

Free
  1. Open the Rewards tab to see your day streak, your longest streak and your level.
  2. Badges arrive as you go, for things like a first feed logged or a week of check-ins.
  3. Tap Share my progress to save a card to share, if you’d like to.

5Family, reminders and sharing

Share with your partner or a caregiver

Free

A family is the group of grown-ups who can see a child’s record. Everyone in it sees the same feeds, sleeps, milestones and photos.

  1. Go to Settings → Family & sharing and open your family.
  2. Tap Invite someone, enter their email address, and choose what they can do.
  3. They’ll get an email with a code. They sign in with that same email, then go to Settings → Family & sharing → Join a family with a code.
Owner
Manages the family, the children, and who else can see them.
Co-parent
Can log, edit and delete everything, and add a child. Can’t invite or remove people.
Caregiver
Can see everything and log anything. Can only delete what they logged themselves.

A free family has room for three people. Your own mood check-ins, vitamins and medicines are never shared; a family shares your child’s record, not yours.

Reminders

Free
  1. Go to Settings → Reminders.
  2. Turn on the ones that help: feed reminders, a daily check-in, milestone moments, sick-day check-backs, or vitamin and medicine nudges.
  3. Set Quiet hours so the app doesn’t wake you overnight.
  4. Tap Save reminders, then Send a test reminder to check they arrive.
  5. Under My own reminders, write your own, such as vitamin drops at 9am. Free includes three at set times; Premium adds “every few hours” and “a few hours after the last feed”.
No reminder came through? Check that notifications are switched on for Blooming Baby in your phone’s Settings. The Reminders screen will tell you if they’re off.

Share with your pediatrician

Premium
  1. On Home, scroll to Share with pediatrician.
  2. Tap PDF summary for a readable one-pager to bring to a visit, or CSV data for every log in a spreadsheet for your own records.
  3. Share it from your phone however you like: email, messages, or print.

6Settings and Premium

Settings worth knowing

Appearance
Choose System, Light or Dark. System follows your phone, including its night schedule.
Profile and password
Update your name, or change your password if you signed up with email.
Data & consent
Review what you agreed to and change the optional choices.
AI Model
Download, switch or remove the on-device models, and manage voice typing.
Delete account
At the bottom of Settings. Type DELETE to confirm, and everything is removed.

Premium, if and when you want it

Premium

The everyday log never needs Premium. It’s there for when you’d like to see the bigger picture.

  • Your full history, not just the last 7 days
  • Growth charts and weekly trends
  • Vitamins, medicine, growth and the allergen tracker
  • Your mood check-ins saved to look back on
  • PDF and CSV export for your pediatrician
  • Reminders that re-time themselves from your last feed
  • Video on milestones, and more photos per diaper
  1. Tap any Premium feature, or go to Settings → Subscription, to see the plans for your country in Google Play.
  2. The yearly plan starts with a free trial if your Google Play account is eligible.
  3. Got a code from us? Enter it in Settings → Redeem a code.
  4. New phone? Tap Restore purchase on the Premium screen.
FAQs

Questions parents ask

Can’t find yours? Write to hello@bloomingbaby.app and a real person will reply.

Getting the app

Is Blooming Baby free?

Yes. Logging feeds, sleep and diapers, recording milestones with photos, first foods, sick-day check-ins, reminders and family sharing are all free, and they stay free. Premium is optional and adds things like longer history, charts, health tracking and PDF export.

Is it available on iPhone?

Not yet. Blooming Baby is on Google Play for Android today. The iPhone app is on its way, and you can join the waitlist to hear the moment it is ready.

Which phones does it work on?

Most Android phones from the last several years. The optional on-device AI models need more memory, so the app shows which one is recommended for your phone, and marks any that won’t run well on it.

Does it work without internet?

Your logs are saved to your private account, so you need a connection to save them for now. The AI models and voice typing run on your phone and don’t need one once downloaded.

Your account

I forgot my password.

Tap Forgot password on the sign-in screen and we’ll email you a link to set a new one. If you signed up with Google, just tap Continue with Google instead; there’s no separate password.

I signed in and my baby isn’t there.

You may have signed in with a different method than before, such as email instead of Google, which creates a separate account. Sign out from Settings and sign back in the way you first did. If your baby was shared with you, make sure you’ve joined the family with the code from your invitation.

Can I track more than one baby?

Yes, as many as you need. Tap Add Baby on Home, then switch between them from the top of the screen. Every log is saved to whichever baby is selected.

How do I delete my account?

Go to Settings, scroll to the bottom, tap Delete account and type DELETE to confirm. Your profile, your children’s records and your photos are removed. If you have a subscription, cancel it in Google Play too, since deleting the account does not stop the store from billing.

Logging

I logged something by mistake. Can I fix it?

Of course. Open the Diary, tap the entry, and change it or delete it.

Can I log something that happened earlier?

Yes. For sleep, set the start and end times yourself instead of using the Start Sleep button. For a feed, write it in the Or describe it box with the time, such as “bottle 120ml at 6”, and check the form before saving. That box needs an AI model, which you can download in Settings → AI Model.

Why can I only see the last 7 days?

On the free plan, the Diary and calendar show the last 7 days. Nothing older is deleted. It’s all kept safely, and Premium opens the full history back to day one.

The “Or describe it” box says I need a model.

Typing a sentence instead of tapping uses a small AI model that runs on your phone. Download one in Settings → AI Model; the app marks the one recommended for your phone. The regular buttons and fields always work without it.

My reminders aren’t arriving.

First check that notifications are allowed for Blooming Baby in your phone’s Settings. Then open Settings → Reminders in the app and tap Send a test reminder. If the test arrives, your reminders are set up. Quiet hours may also be holding a reminder until morning.

Family and sharing

Can my partner or a caregiver use it too?

Yes. Go to Settings → Family & sharing and invite them by email as a Co-parent or a Caregiver. They sign in with that address, type the code from the email, and see the same feeds, sleeps, milestones and photos you do.

My invitation code doesn’t work.

The code only works for the email address it was sent to, so sign in with exactly that address. Codes can only be used once. If it still won’t go through, ask the person who invited you to send a fresh invitation.

Will the family see my mood check-ins?

No. A family shares your child’s record: feeds, sleep, diapers, milestones, foods and health logs. Your own mood check-ins, vitamins and medicines stay yours alone.

Privacy and your data

Who can see my baby’s records?

Only you, and anyone you’ve invited into your family. Every record is locked to your account at the database level. We don’t sell or share your information, and there are no ads in the app.

Is my information sent to an AI company?

No. The AI features run entirely on your phone, on a model you download. Your notes and logs aren’t sent anywhere to produce them.

Can I get a copy of my data?

Yes. Premium includes a PDF summary and a CSV file with every log. You can also email hello@bloomingbaby.app to ask for your data at any time. See our Privacy Policy for the full detail.

Premium and billing

What does Premium add?

Your full history, growth charts and weekly trends, vitamin, medicine and allergen tracking, saved mood check-ins, PDF and CSV export, smarter reminders, and video on milestones. The everyday log stays free either way.

Is there a free trial?

The yearly plan starts with a free trial if your Google Play account is eligible. Google Play shows you the trial length and the price for your country before you confirm anything.

How do I cancel?

Subscriptions are managed in Google Play: open the Play Store, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions. You can also get there from Settings → Subscription in the app. Cancelling stops future renewals, and Premium stays on until the end of the time you’ve paid for.

I got a new phone. How do I get Premium back?

Sign in to the same account and the same Google Play account, open the Premium screen, and tap Restore purchase.

What happens to my data if Premium ends?

Nothing is deleted. Your older history and Premium logs are kept safely and come back if you subscribe again. Sick-day check-ins always stay visible.

Health and safety

Does Blooming Baby tell me if something is wrong with my baby?

No. Blooming Baby is a record-keeping tool, not a medical device. It shows the range many babies fall in and the published points at which pediatricians ask to hear from you, and it always points you to your pediatrician. It never diagnoses, scores or labels your child.

My baby hasn’t reached a milestone yet. Should I worry?

Every baby grows at their own pace, and the ranges are wide. The app shows when many babies reach each milestone, never a verdict on yours. If you have a question about your baby’s development, your pediatrician is the right person to ask.

What should I do in an emergency?

Call your local emergency services straight away. The app is not designed for urgent situations. If you’re unsure whether something needs care, call your pediatrician; you never need a reason to call.

Still stuck?

Write to hello@bloomingbaby.app and a real person will get back to you. Tell us your phone model and what you were trying to do, and we’ll take it from there.