FAQ

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Everything we get asked about sharing, pricing, privacy and what the app does. Still stuck? We answer email like humans.

Sharing & caregivers

Yes. Every plan includes both parents at no extra cost, from the first day of the trial. You each get your own login and see the same baby's log update in real time. Want a nanny, daycare or grandparents too? The Family plan covers up to five caregivers.

When anyone on the care team logs a feed, nap, change or temperature, it appears on every other caregiver's phone within moments, with their name attached. No more "did you already feed her?" The answer is on the screen.

Yes. Every caregiver on the log gets the same reminders and the same "Anne logged a feed" pings, on their own phone, in their own language. Quiet hours keep them silent at night.

Yes. Twins and siblings each keep their own clean log, and you switch between them in a tap. Standard covers up to two babies; Family and Advanced go up to ten on one account.

Pricing & plans

Three plans. Standard is $35 a year or $5.99 a month, for both parents and up to 2 babies. Family is $50 a year or $7.99 a month, for up to 5 caregivers and 10 babies. Advanced is everything in Family plus First Foods and 25 Ask Little Bean conversations a month, for $99.99 a year or $12.99 a month. Prices show in your local currency. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.

Little Bean is a paid app. Standard and Family start with a free trial for new subscribers, covering every feature: logging, caregiver sync, reminders, stats, the health log, milk stock and Ask Little Bean. Your App Store or Google Play account decides whether you are eligible and for how long. After the trial you pick a plan to keep logging; reading your history stays free.

Three things: Room, the baby monitor made from two phones; First Foods, the guide to starting solids; and a bigger Ask Little Bean allowance, 25 conversations a month instead of 3. Everything else, including the tracker, the health log, milk stock, Apple Watch and reminders, is in every plan. Advanced has no trial.

Yes, in your App Store or Google Play settings. No email, no retention call. You keep access until the period you have paid for ends, and you can export everything before you go.

Privacy & data

No. We do not sell your data, we do not train on it, and there are no third-party ad trackers in the app. We built Little Bean for our own baby first, and we treat your child's record the way we wanted ours treated.

In the European Union. The full detail, including the few services we use to run the app and send email, is in the privacy policy.

Any time. Export a designed PDF or a full CSV of feeds, sleep, diapers and growth from inside the app, and request real deletion whenever you like. No support ticket, no waiting. Health log export is not built yet; it is on the list.

Two parents in Amsterdam, not a data company. It started as the tracker we wanted for our own son, and it is still built and answered by the same family. Email goes to a human.

The app

Feeding (breast timers, bottle volume, pumping, solids), sleep (naps and nights, with a live timer), diapers, growth on WHO percentile curves, a health log (temperature, medicine, symptoms), milk stock, skills by age, teething and moments. Plus day-pattern stats and weekly, age-based guides. See it all on the product page.

A question box inside the app, powered by Claude, the AI model made by Anthropic. Ask what is typical for a baby your baby's age, or how your own week is going. Every answer is drawn from Little Bean's clinically reviewed guides, with the passage quoted underneath so you can see where it came from. Nothing is sent until you switch it on, your names are never sent, and it is not medical advice.

Standard and Family include 3 conversations a month, each up to 10 questions long. Advanced includes 25 conversations a month, also up to 10 questions each. During the trial you get 3 conversations of 5 questions. A conversation is one topic; follow-up questions inside it do not count against the allowance.

No, by design. The health log records what you measured and shows it on a timeline; it never interprets. No thresholds, no colour changes, no alerts, no diagnosis. Whether a reading matters is a question for your pediatrician, and the log makes that call easier to have.

Log what you pump into the fridge or the freezer. The app keeps the totals, shows the oldest batch first, and lets you log a bottle straight from stock so the count stays right.

Skills lists what babies often start doing at each age; tick one off when you spot it and keep a photo. Teething is a chart of all twenty teeth, tapped as each comes in. Moments is the album of firsts, sorted by age.

A guide to starting solids, one food at a time: how to prepare it at each age, what it should look like on the tray, and its choking risk. The food lists are localized for 16 markets, so what a Dutch and a Japanese parent see differs on purpose. First Foods is part of the Advanced plan.

A baby monitor, or babyphone, made from two phones. Point a spare phone at the cot and start Room; from your own phone you see and hear the nursery. Starting the room starts the sleep timer, so the nap is logged by itself. Every caregiver on the family can look in on the owner's plan. Room is part of Advanced.

No. Picture and sound go from one phone to the other over an encrypted connection and are never stored, by us or by anyone else. When nobody is looking in, the camera is off and only the sound level is measured, on the phone itself.

You are told when the room gets loud. The phone measures volume and cannot tell a cry from a cough or a door, so the alert never claims to know why. It goes to everyone who has looked in during that session, and to anyone who chose in Settings to be told whenever a room is running. A loud alert ignores quiet hours; if the room phone stops sending, you are told that too.

Yes, and this is where a hardware baby monitor usually fails. Hotel wifi asks for a room number and a name on a login page, which a monitor cannot fill in, and once on the network devices are often walled off from each other. A phone signs in the way you do, and the two phones talk through an encrypted relay on the same route as ordinary web traffic, not to each other over the hotel network. If the wifi is poor, either phone can use its own mobile data. Pack the spare phone and a charger, nothing else.

Any phone that runs Little Bean: iPhone (iOS 16+) or Android (11+), and an old one is fine. The room phone should be plugged in; its screen goes dark on its own and it keeps sending. On Android the picture keeps sending with the phone locked; a locked iPhone sends sound only.

Yes. The week-by-week guides are clinically reviewed by local experts and localized for 16 markets. They are the same guides Ask Little Bean quotes from.

Both, natively, on the same version. One parent on an iPhone and the other on a Pixel share the exact same log, and either phone can be the room for the other. Apple Watch and Lock Screen live timers are iPhone features. iOS 16+ and Android 11+.

Yes, on every plan. Start feed and sleep timers, log diapers and growth and see what happened last, right from your wrist. The complication shows the time since the last feed, sleep or diaper, and a running timer counts live on your face. Needs watchOS 10 or later; it installs from the iPhone's Watch app. Step-by-step guide.

Yes. Metric or imperial, ml or oz, 24-hour or AM/PM, your date format and your language: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Korean, Japanese and Russian. Set it once and the whole app speaks the way you do.

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