New Features in v1.5!
- Support for iOS4!
- Optimized artwork and charts for retina display.
- Fixed bug where adding new events in Calendar would sometimes crash the app.
- Corrected Facebook appID error.
- Other UI improvements and bug fixes.
Main Features
- Minimalistic design with many useful features in a simple and balanced interface.
- Quick Look function to access summarized information about your baby.
- Complete growth charts and a percentile calculator (based on WHO data) useful up to 5 years of age.
- Editable calendar with typical events already preloaded and photo journal capabilities.
- Multiple babies in growth charts and calendar.
- Preset vaccination schedules for different countries.
- Milestone graph representing typical developmental milestones up to 3 years of age.
- Geo-tag and share any event and milestone with parents worldwide and learn about their experiences through the Babymate Community!
- Post your updates to Facebook, Twitter and upload photos to Flickr.
- Export/import your babies' info via email for sharing or backup.
- Handles unlimited number of babies.
- More than 140 short and concise Knowledge articles that require no more than 30 seconds to read, giving you the essential facts.
- Best suited for new parents with babies from newborn up to the age of 5 years.
Join the babymate Community!
- Geo-tag and share your babies' events, milestones or measures.
- Get connected and share experiences with other babymate parents worldwide!
- Find out on a map what other parents are doing around you. Learn from other’s experiences!
- Check out other people's comments on similar baby development aspects.
- Integrate with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.
babymate´s features are divided into five tabs:
Tracker Tab
The Tracker tab provides instant access to key information about your baby.
- "Quick Look" summarizes all the information you have entered. It updates you on key facts and figures about your baby, such as age, height and weight, upcoming events and developmental milestones.
- "What's Cooking" is a fun way of comparing your baby's height against that of an average baby.
- "Events" provides a shortcut to the events list in the Calendar tab.
- "Milestones" provides a graphical representation of your baby’s development, and lets you set the date when each milestone is reached.
- “Community” is a social and location-aware environment where you can share baby events and milestones with other parents worldwide. Post your updates to Facebook, Twitter and upload photos to Flickr.
- "Images" lets you take pictures of your baby, which are stored both in babymate and in your iPhone’s Photo Library.
Measures Tab
The Measures tab lets you visualize and update your baby’s growth data, such as height, weight, head circumference, body mass index (BMI) and growth percentiles. The scrollable graphs show your baby’s growth curve based on the data you enter month by month. The BMI values are derived from your baby’s height and weight, so make sure you enter values for both (with dates that match) if you want babymate to calculate your baby’s BMI.
The graphs’ trend lines and growth percentiles are based on data from the World Health Organization (www.who.org). The black line indicates the mean value, the grey lines indicate one and two standard deviations, and the red lines indicate three standard deviations in each direction.
You can add/delete values and view the graph data as a list by pressing List. You can also change the measurement units in the Settings tab. Geo-tag and share any measures taken with parents worldwide in the babymate Community using the heart-shaped button!
If you have more than one baby, no problem! Go to the Settings tab, add as many babies as you like and then set which one is currently active.
The Calendar tab provides an easy way to keep your baby’s appointments in mind. Just like the iPhone Calendar app, you can easily move from one month to the next and get more detail by accessing the event list. You can browse the events for each day, move from one month to another and even jump to any date by pressing Go To and selecting the desired month.
You can also assign an image to every event, allowing you to use babymate as a photo journal of your babies activities. Geo-tag and share any event with parents worldwide and learn about their experiences through the babymate Community using the heart-shaped button!
babymate comes with a preloaded set of events that are considered typical during the first two years of your baby’s life, including vaccines, medical appointments and anniversaries. You can modify or delete these events at any time, and add new ones. The preloaded vaccine events are based on the Vaccine Schedule selected in Settings. You can change this base schedule at any time.
Disclaimer: the preloaded events and vaccines schedule is provided purely for reference and babymate is not liable for its misinterpretation or misuse. Please consult your doctor or pediatrician for advice on when to book vaccinations and regular check-ups.
Knowledge Tab
The Knowledge tab provides essential information on the main issues and concerns related to your baby’s care and development. Each section contains a series of short articles, based on multiple sources, which are designed to provide you with the key facts you need to know about your baby’s health. These include the most common illnesses affecting babies, vaccines and their side effects, and top tips on issues such as sleep and breast feeding.
babymate will expand its collection of articles with each new update.
Settings Tab
The Settings tab lets you manage your preferences. You can add, edit and delete babies, and set which one is currently active for the application. You can also define if Quick Look automatically opens when the app starts, set the measurement units (Imperial or Metric) and change the vaccination schedule. You can easily export and import your babies data via email as a backup or for sharing, activate multiple mode for Measures and Events, and set the way you share in the babymate Community.
Features Already in v1.4.2
- New "+" button in Calendar and Measures tab makes entering new values even faster.
- New "notes" field in events lets you add any comment or additional info relevant to the event.
- Fixed bug where vaccine events would be cleared after every version upgrade. Sorry about that!
- Fixed bug where adding existing photos from Photo Library would duplicate them.
- Fixed check of duplicate events when importing.
Features Already in v1.4.1
- Improved growth charts date range calculation.
- Improved import duplicate data check.
- Tweaked baby age calculation in Quick Look and reports.
- New "Community" feature lets parents get connected and share experiences with other babymate parents worldwide.
- Geo-tag and share your babies' events, milestones or measures. Find out on a map what other parents are doing around you. Check out other people's comments on similar baby development aspects. Integrate with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.
- Added new option in Settings to control if babymate automatically shares new events, milestones and measures with the Community.
- Added new event types (Illness, Activity and Tip) allowing you to better categorize the different experiences you live with your baby.
- Fixed bug where new events would always be saved as type "personal".
- Fixed date format in event search results.
- Improved quality of icons.
Features Already in v1.3.1
- Updated "Import" feature to check for duplicate data and import only new values.
- Added baby's initial to Measures detail list when in Multiple mode. List will now include measures for all babies but new values added will still correspond to the active baby.
- Added warning popup in Settings to alert of a Vaccination Schedule change, since this impacts existing vaccine events.
- Improved percentile calculation now reflects more accurate values, still based on WHO data.
- Fixed important bug in "Import" feature where measures would be mixed up between babies in report.
- Fixed bug where preloaded Calendar events would disappear when no babies were loaded in babymate and multiple mode was set.
- UI tweaks in "Import".
Features Already in v1.3
- New "Import" feature in Settings lets you import data from backup reports generated using the "Export" function. Just copy the entire text, exactly as it was sent from babymate, and paste it into the "Import" screen.
- New "Multiple" feature in Settings lets you view and compare growth information of all your babies at the same time. When multiple mode is set for Measures, babymate plots multiple curves in the growth charts (one for each baby) allowing you to compare your active baby's growth with all the other babies in babymate. The time axis automatically changes to a relative scale and a color legend appears letting you know which curve represents which baby. Note: any growth values that are edited will still correspond to the active baby. When multiple mode is set for Events, babymate lets you view all your babies' events at the same time in Calendar, displaying each baby's initial on the right hand side of the cell in it's corresponding color.
- You can assign a color for each baby in the Settings tab.
- Swipe-to-delete milestones in Milestone List.
- Swipe-to-delete events in Calendar Event List.
- Increased stabiity of Milestones graph.
- Fixed error where milestone "checkmarks" would be incorrectly placed in the Milestones graph.
- Increased render speed of Measures graphs.
- Fixed error where measurement "rulers" would show incorrect values.
- Fixed "Purchase" button issue on free version.
Features Already in v1.2
- Twitter integration! Now you can tweet about events and milestones directly from babymate.
- Included 4 new preset Vaccine Schedules you can select from the Settings tab, allowing you to adjust your vaccination schedule based on typical schedules from US, UK, Canada and Singapore. Selecting these schedules only updates vaccine type events in Calendar.
- New "Export" feature in Settings tab allows you to email a report containing the main information you have entered in babymate.
- Extended Milestones graph to include main developmental milestones up to 3 years of age.
- Updated Knowledge articles in Milestones, Health and Vaccine sections.
- New shortcut from Milestone detail to corresponding article in Knowledge section.
- Imperial units now show as feet/inches and pounds/ounces.
Features Already in v1.1
- Extended age range from 2 to 5 years in growth charts and percentile calculator. You can now keep track of your babies and/or kids growth in the same app.
- Assign images to events, allowing you to use babymate as a photo journal.
- Share your baby’s events and milestones with your friends in Facebook directly from babymate.
- Easier to use (and nicer) data input controls. Just slide your finger through the “measuring tape” to set the height, weight or head circumference values.
- Swipe to delete table values in Measures.