What an era to be pregnant! Other than your regular check-ups at the doctor’s office, mums today can also have the time of their lives with digital tools that provide a myriad of info and service to them throughout their pregnancy. Yes, pregnancy apps are so popular among pregnant women that it’s almost uncool to go without one! The apps listed here are all based on their potential to help people celebrate and track their pregnancies in a number of ways. Additional factors considered in selecting these apps included user ratings, affordability, accessibility, format, functionality, and relevance to the needs of pregnant couples. Let’s see what we have and if any of these strike your fancy!

Menstruation and Ovulation Calendar

Hopeful parents-to-be will find this app useful to help make accurate notes to track your most fertile times of the month. Sharp, uncomplicated screens quickly move you through these tasks. The developers of this app have kept things simple so you can get the ovulation data you need. Fussy users will be glad to know that you can even change the colors of the interface with a couple of taps. Recording the necessary information you need and reading your stats couldn’t be more easy. So now, you can just pay attention to your baby-making action!

Sprout Pregnancy Lite

This user-friendly app won’t complicate things or waste one’s time with confusing icons. A clear list of options guides you to the functions you want, from pictures of your “sprout” to weight tracker, kick counter, and more. You will also find useful aspects, like the baby journal and daily medical notes from Parents Magazine. The vivid images of baby development enhances the app and keep you inspired to know more! Sprout Pregnancy Lite has also been known to help educate elder siblings-to-be about the baby’s development and mum’s health.

Pregnancy ++

Here’s an app for mums-to-be that manages to include all the important categories of information in a light, hearty way! It compares the size of the fetus during each stage of growth to a similarly sized food. It also keeps important icons at your fingertips. You’ll have no problem moving from your daily and weekly schedules to notes about doctor visits.

Pregnancy Due Date Calculator

Straightforward screens help you calculate your baby’s birthday and other important milestones. Expectant parents and also medical staff have given it rave reviews. That’s because it’s so simple to figure out the due date information with a couple of taps, which is a usability feature that comes in handy in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms too! Also informs you when your trimesters began and will end and how many weeks pregnant you are.

Baby Bump Pregnancy Pro

With useful screens that are easily accessible via drop-down menus and readable tabs, the interface of this app actually reads as easily as a magazine in your doctor’s waiting room. The design is informative but friendly and it does not go overboard with the baby pink and blue color scheme either. It’s an app that has it all, from due-date calculator to journal. The pregnancy community forum is especially helpful – ask questions and get help from a global community of parents-to-be!

Prenatal Pilateby Blue Sparrow

Is keeping in the best shape important to you during your pregnancy? If it is, then Prenatal Pilates by Blue Sparrow is the perfect app for you! It helps keep you inspired to stay fit and keep the best posture too. The most important thing here is to be able to see Pilates poses so you can do them yourself. Prenatal Pilates has crystal clear images of practitioners that make it easy to follow. Exercise apps have to be easy to use while you’re moving through your workout. It’s an app that simplifies things for you with simple, large, readable buttons moving you from one pose to the next.

mPregnancy

For Men and Pregnant Women

NOT your regular pregnancy app, judging from the first images comparing the size of a developing fetus to a beer bottle cap! Nevertheless, it does contain lots of helpful information on growing embryos and pregnancy health! Equipped with useful info and facts for male partners of pregnant women, this app’s so easy to use that even a first-time dad can tell which end is up. Just make sure you use it with your sense of humor intact, for you’ll be needing plenty of it anyway once you become a father!

Baby Names!!

Want some inspiration for your unborn baby’s name? Get Baby Names!! Thousands of baby names can be viewed in baby pink, blue, and yellow (for unisex names) in easy to read listings. An uncomplicated and easy app to use, it helps you search by most popular, your own favorites, and by origin with one touch.

My Baby’s Beat

The deep red screens of this app remind you it has one purpose: track your precious one’s heart sounds, beat for beat. A unique app which requires you to be lying on your back to use while holding it over your tummy. The app provides very easy navigation with large tapable buttons to listen to heart sounds and record. Sample mother and baby sounds help you distinguish whose heartbeat you’re picking up. My Baby’s Beat also lets you save recordings throughout your pregnancy. Especially useful if you’ve past your due date and want assurance that your baby’s heartbeat is healthy.

Pregnancy Assistant

Upon your first time using the app, you will be prompted to put in the first day of your last menstrual cycle (this is considered the true start of your pregnancy, not your missed cycle). For your convenience and safekeeping, you can keep detailed weekly notes to share with your doctor under the Pregnancy Tab. You can even keep tabs on how your baby is growing under the Your Child tab by recording developmental info, such as length and width. An excellent app to have to help you track your pregnancy week by week right from the beginning! A clean interface makes it easy to navigate around the app to get the information you need fast, right at your fingertips.