Napper: Baby Sleep Tracker

The app is good, it’s spot on with the timing for naps. It’s not magic, our baby still wakes up many times through the night but is understandable as babies go through many things that will make their sleep challenging. I’m giving two stars not because the sleep tracking but because of the bugs and interface. - I love the graph that shows the day and night ahead but you make the effort of tracking everything and then the nice interface disappear and you can’t see how the night went again with the nice graph and only with the historical one which is awful. The sleep is split in two days and so hard to know what is for what night. - Tracking night wakings and things in general is difficult when you or your partner did it and you’re out of sync. You end up duplicating or missing things. - It’s also a mess using the widgets again keeping them in sync with your partner's. Most of the time they’re not up to date and you know the baby was put to sleep and he has a night waking you use the widget and it is not the waking what you did but another sleep and the app accepts it without complaining. - is not clear what you’ll do when clicking the widget. I’ll give 5 stars when those issues are fixed, but those are pretty big issues for me.

I am still in the trial period and I was hopeful it would be THE ONE for tracking my 3 week old’s sleep and nursing. Unfortunately, I really dislike the editing capabilities for nursing. If I pause a nursing session but don’t unpause right away when we restart, I can’t go back and edit that pause. So then if I try to edit the nursing time on the L or R side to correct the time, it won’t allow me to without completely deleting the pause, which then throws the whole nursing session off. Being able to note the time I restarted and edit the nursing session when my hands are free once again should really be made possible. Moms can’t always hit start immediately or should be able sometimes forget to for a fee minutes while still having the ability to have accurate time kept. That’s my only gripe with this app and since nursing is half of the reason I really use this tracker, it’s a big deal for me. For that reason, I probably won’t even complete the trial period, but I wish I could! The sleep tracking is awesome but if I’m paying for an app I need to be able to track his nursing in the same place. — if the app developers change this I would totally recommend and would purchase it!

I’ve never written a review but my experience using Napper, as well as my customer service experience, have been exceptional. I’d been using two baby sleep apps for comparison, but Napper has out-performed the other (called Baby Naps). Napper allows me to track time spent nursing, diaper changes, medicine, naps, nighttime sleep and even night wakings. The predictive nap & sleep recommendations are extremely helpful, and rather than be prescriptive or static, the recommendations adjust according to when my baby sleeps, and for how long. (I imagine this is based on wake windows for the child’s age). I also really like the “nursing” module which has a stopwatch function and helps you record from which breast you fed from, and for how long. The logs are easy to edit and easy to access when you’re one-handed…When I wrote to their customer service team regarding a bug, Esper replied quickly with excellent feedback and was so helpful (thanks!). My husband and I are first time parents and really recommend trying Napper.