📱 Smarter Mummies: Free Apps & AI Tools for Family Life
💛 Supporting you with smart solutions for sleep, routines, health & connection.
Modern motherhood comes with its challenges — but in 2025, it also comes with smart help. This curated collection of free and freemium apps is designed to make life as a new mum simpler, calmer, and better connected.
Whether you’re tracking feeds, finding local mum friends, or improving sleep with AI, this is your go-to hub for tools that actually work — no fluff, no overwhelm.
🍼 Baby Care & Tracking Apps
Stay on top of nappies, naps, and feeds with these easy-to-use apps built to simplify the baby care basics.
Talli Baby Tracker
Easily log nappies, sleep, feeds, and milestones with one-tap buttons — perfect for tired hands and shared caregiving.
Glow Baby
Track feeding, pumping, sleep, and development, plus connect with a community of new parents for support.
Baby Connect
A comprehensive baby tracker with graphs, reminders, and shared access for partners and carers.
The Wonder Weeks
Helps parents understand their baby's mental "leaps" or developmental milestones, explaining fussy periods and what new skills to expect.
Huckleberry
AI-powered sleep predictions and nap scheduling based on your baby’s unique rhythms — no more guesswork.
Babycentre
A massive resource for pregnancy and parenting information, articles, videos, and a thriving community forum. It provides daily updates tailored to your baby's age.
🤱 Breastfeeding Support
Navigating feeding can be overwhelming—these smart apps offer reassurance, tracking, and expert tips to support every step of your breastfeeding journey.
Baby Feed Time
Specifically designed for tracking breastfeeding (which breast was last used, duration), bottle feeds, and pump sessions. Simple and highly effective for establishing routines.
Anya
A breastfeeding support app offering expert guidance, real-time help, and encouragement for new mums.
LactApp: Breastfeeding expert
Offers personalised advice and solutions for breastfeeding and maternity doubts, covering various stages and special cases. It also has tracking features for feeds.
Baby Tracker Newborn Log
Simple tracking tool to log feeds, sleep, nappies, and milestones for your baby.
NHS Start for Life Breastfeeding Friend
A digital tool from the NHS providing practical, evidence-based information and advice on breastfeeding, available 24/7. It's essentially a chatbot.
Wachanga Baby Care
Personalised parenting app with daily tips, reminders, and activity ideas for your baby’s growth.
🛡️ Child Care & Safety
Keep peace of mind in your pocket—these intuitive apps help you stay connected, track routines, and ensure your little one’s safety wherever you are.
British Red Cross Baby & Child First Aid
Essential knowledge for every parent. This app provides clear, step-by-step first aid advice for common baby and child emergencies, with videos and quizzes.
Qustodio
Simple parental controls to manage screen time and keep children safe online.
NCT Baby Change
A lifesaver when you're out and about. Helps you quickly locate the nearest baby changing facilities in the UK.
Safety for Kids
Fun games that teach children essential everyday safety skills.
Baby Monitor 3G
Turns your devices into a secure, real-time baby monitor with video, noise alerts, and even lullaby playback.
🧘♀️ Mental Health & Mum Support
You don’t have to do this alone — these apps offer emotional support, guided calm, and a safe space to connect with other mums.
Peanut
A supportive community app connecting you with other mums in your area — like Tinder meets Mumsnet.
Calm
Well-known for meditation and sleep stories — includes motherhood and anxiety-specific sessions (freemium).
Mush (UK)
Find local mum friends, join chat groups, and attend community events, all via a simple app made by UK mums.
Mind (Mental Health App)
While not specifically for mums, Mind is a leading mental health charity in the UK. Their website and resources (including app recommendations) are invaluable. Look for apps they recommend for mindfulness, anxiety, or sleep, many of which are free.
Insight Timer
Free meditations and music specifically designed for postpartum stress, anxiety, and sleep support.
🏥 Health, Fitness & Wellbeing
From NHS tracking to postpartum fitness, these apps help you care for both your body and your baby’s health in one place.
Juno
Track NHS appointments, prescriptions, and vaccinations for both mum and baby — easy, secure and mobile-first.
MummaFit
Fitness plans tailored to each stage of motherhood, with short workouts designed for nap-time windows.
MyGP (NHS App Alternative)
Book GP appointments, manage health records, and receive reminders all in one app.
MyFitnessPal
Track postpartum nutrition, hydration and movement goals with custom settings for breastfeeding mums.
The Postnatal App
Safe, structured postnatal exercise programmes designed by physiotherapists and midwives.
NHS Couch to 5K
Perfect for mums looking to get active postpartum. This app provides a guided running programme, helping you gradually build up to running 5km in just 9 weeks.
🍽️ Meal Planning & Household Help
Simplify family mealtimes and household chaos with smart planners, recipe tools, and all-in-one family organisers.
Whisk App
Plan meals, save recipes, and generate smart grocery lists based on your baby-safe preferences.
Mealime
Quick meal plans and easy recipes designed to fit your lifestyle.
Yummly
AI-curated recipes based on your taste and dietary needs — even suggests meals based on what's in your fridge.
Eat This Much
Automatic meal planning that builds menus around your budget and nutrition goals.
Cozi Family Organizer
All-in-one shared family calendar, meal planner, to-do lists and reminders — perfect for busy new parents.
Tesco Meal Planner
Simple meal ideas linked directly to your Tesco shopping list.
📸 Photos, Journals & Memory Tools
Capture the magic of motherhood with apps that help you store, organise, and share your baby’s memories safely and beautifully.
Google Photos
Uses facial recognition and smart search to sort and find all your baby pics with ease.
Family Album
Private, secure photo sharing for family members to cherish every moment.
Tinybeans
A private photo sharing and baby milestone app for families — like a secure digital baby book.
23 Snaps
Capture, store, and share your child’s milestones with loved ones safely.
Otter.ai
Turn voice notes into written memories, journal entries, or even baby milestone logs using AI transcription.
Happy Feed
A simple gratitude journal app to record daily memories and special family moments.
📚 Learning & Play Apps (for Baby & Toddler)
Support your little one’s development with fun, screen-light learning tools and interactive storytelling apps designed just for them.
CBeebies Storytime
Interactive, read-along stories designed by early years specialists and voiced by friendly narrators.
Lingokids
Award-winning app teaching English, numbers, and social-emotional skills through fun, gamified activities tailored to each age group.
Aiko & Egor
Developmentally supportive video app with slower-paced animations for babies and children on the spectrum (but great for all).
Teach Your Monster to Read
A phonics-based reading app developed in collaboration with UK teachers and literacy experts – fun, silly, and very effective.
Yoto App (Companion to Yoto Player)
Download, control and browse audio cards for screen-free stories, music and mindfulness.
Busy Things
Used by many UK schools, this educational app covers maths, phonics, art, and coding, all in one colourful and quirky package.
🤖 AI Support & Smart Routines
Let artificial intelligence take the mental load with tools that help you manage routines, ask questions, and stay organised effortlessly.
ParentPal
A digital parenting coach powered by AI — get personalised tips for milestones, development, and learning play.
ChatGPT
Use this AI assistant to write routines, create baby sleep stories, manage schedules, or brainstorm meal plans (yes, really!).
Mindtales
An AI-based mental wellness journal with mood tracking and guided reflections to help mums stay emotionally supported.
🌐 Smart Tech Integration (The Bit For Dad to sort!)
Link your smart home devices and create voice-controlled routines to make daily parenting tasks smoother and hands-free.
Amazon Alexa App
Control nursery lights, set routines, and integrate baby monitors.
Google Home App
Link all smart home devices and create voice routines like “Feeding Time Mode”.
TP-Link Kasa App
Manage smart plugs for bottle warmers, white noise machines and baby lights.
