Frequently asked questions

The practical stuff about how YummyYucky works. Questions about feeding and allergens live in our guides.

Is YummyYucky free?

Yes. The whole daily loop is always free: feeds, pumping, sleep, diapers, activities like tummy time and baths, and solids with a yummy or yucky verdict, the allergen tracker and reaction logging, medication and vitamin reminders, the vaccine record, and bringing your history over from another tracker. Plus is an optional subscription for making sense of it all: the monthly write-up, the memory book and Journey, video clips, the meal planner, the full checkup report, and the family feed. Everything you log stays yours on the free plan.

Is there a nursing timer?

Yes, and it is free. On the Feeds sheet, tap Left or Right to start, tap the other side to switch, and tap the side that is running to pause for a burp. It keeps time with the screen locked or the app closed, and it marks the side to start on next. The other parent sees the same timer on their phone and can switch, pause or stop it there, and the feed is only ever logged once. Gave a top-up bottle after? Add it before you tap Done and it saves as one feed with the nursing. Forgot to stop it? Set when it ended.

Do I need to download it from an app store?

You do not have to. YummyYucky is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android. You can also install it straight from your browser on any device (iPhone, Android, or desktop): it adds to your home screen in a couple of taps and behaves like a normal app. However you get it, it is the same YummyYucky.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Log a feed or a diaper with no connection and it saves on your device at the time you logged it, then syncs automatically once you are back online. Handy in the baby-aisle dead zone or a basement nap room.

Do you sell my data?

No. YummyYucky is funded by parents, not their data. Your baby’s logs, photos, and reactions belong to you, and we don’t sell them.

Can my partner, grandparent, or nanny use it too?

Yes. Share a baby with other caretakers and everyone logs to the same record: whoever feeds the baby logs it, and it all shows up in one place. The free plan covers 2 caretakers per baby, you and one other, which is most households; Plus raises that for a bigger team.

Can I track more than one baby?

Yes. You can add more than one and switch between them. The free plan covers one birth, and multiples count as one, so twins or triplets are free as long as each birthday is within 30 days of the first sibling you add. A separate birth, or a baby with no birthday to check, is where Plus comes in, which also raises the caretaker limit and unlocks video.

Does YummyYucky work outside the US?

Yes. It works anywhere, and the feeding guidance is general and drawn from sources like the AAP, CDC, and NHS. Plus diaper price tracking covers United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and France, showing prices in your local currency from local stores.

What is the allergen tracker?

It is where YummyYucky keeps track of allergens, free on every plan. Log a first try of a common allergen and it opens a watch window, counts down the days until the window closes, and reminds you to keep the ones that go fine in regular rotation. When you introduce a common allergen, offer it on its own and keep an eye out for a reaction over about 3 days (most reactions are quick, but a few are delayed). Introduce one new allergen at a time and let its window close before starting the next brand-new one, so any reaction can be traced to a specific food. If two allergens are being watched at once and a reaction shows up, it is much harder to tell which one was responsible. The one thing not to do is put off introducing allergens; early and steady is the goal.

What can I actually track?

Feeds: nursing with a left and right timer, bottles, and nursing plus a top-up bottle saved as one feed. Pumping, sleep, and diapers, with the color, the consistency or a blowout filled in whenever your hands are free. Medicines and temperatures. Activities: tummy time, baths, toothbrushing, time outside, story time, play time and nail trims. And solids, with a yummy or yucky verdict, an optional photo or video, and allergen introductions. There is also a food library, feeding, sleep, and diaper trends, and evidence-informed guides.

Can I track my child's helmet, eye patch, hearing aid or brace wear time?

Yes, and it is free. If your child wears a helmet, eye patch, hearing aid or brace, turn on the wear tracker from Care extras in your child's settings (the Health tab points to it). Tap when it comes off and when it goes on, or say it, and Today shows the hours worn against the daily goal from your orthotist, eye team, audiologist or orthopedic team. You can start from a published schedule, one that builds up over the first days or steps down over months, or enter the one you were given. You can add a time you forgot, log care and skin checks with a photo if you want one, and go back through the history day by day. It works offline, syncs to every caregiver's phone, and stays out of sight until you turn it on. It keeps the count, and whether a day was enough is a question for your child's care team.

Can I get a monthly summary by email?

On Plus, yes. When a month brings a first taste, a milestone or a busy month of feeds and changes, a letter about it comes on the 1st by email, as a notification, or both, your choice in Settings. It ends with the month in numbers: hours of nursing, sleep with naps and nights apart, bottles, pumping, diaper changes and blowouts, doses and activities, added up from what you logged and never estimated. Photos and videos stay in the app, behind your sign-in, and the email links to the whole letter.

Does YummyYucky give medical advice?

No. It is a tracker and a source of general, evidence-informed information, not a substitute for your pediatrician. Always talk to your doctor about your baby’s diet, introducing allergens, and any reaction. In an emergency, contact emergency services.

Does it work on iPhone and Android?

Yes. The iPhone app is on the App Store and the Android app is on Google Play. You can also install it straight from your browser on iPhone, Android, or desktop, where it adds to the home screen like a normal app.

Can I export or delete my data?

Both, from Settings inside the app. You can download a copy of your data whenever you like, and you can delete your account and everything in it just as easily. Your data is yours.

Can I bring my history from another app?

Yes, and it is free. Export a CSV from the app you are leaving (Nara Baby, Huckleberry, or one we have not heard of: we read the columns, not the name), upload it on the Bring your history over page, and you see exactly what we found before anything is saved. From any app, feeds, sleep, diapers, solids and activities like tummy time and baths come across. From Nara Baby, so do temperatures, medicines with each dose’s exact amount, pumping, growth, shots, combo feeds and blowouts. Recorded firsts wait for Plus, where the memory book lives. We deliberately leave behind reactions and any other app’s idea of which allergens count as introduced, because those drive the allergen tracker here. So the import asks instead: for each of the nine major allergens that appears only in your old app’s history, you choose No reaction, Had a reaction or Not sure. No reaction puts it in the rotation like anything logged here. Had a reaction stops it being suggested and notes it on your allergen tracker. One left unanswered or marked Not sure gets no rotation reminders and no food suggestions until you answer there or log it here, and the sitter page tells a sitter to ask a parent before offering it. Uploading the same file twice never doubles anything, and there is an Undo.

I found a bug or have an idea. How do I tell you?

Please do. There is a feedback form linked in the app and in the footer, and a real person reads every note.

Still stuck?

Send us a note and a real person will read it. You can also see what Plus includes or why we built this.