What parents ask before they commit to an app. If you want a walk through moppet itself, that is the guide. For account, subscription, and refund questions, see support.
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Three things, and they are why it exists.
There is also a difference in who pays. Many apps in this category are free because they carry ads or disclose that they share data for advertising. moppet is paid, so you are the customer.
No, and moppet assumes you will not. There is no streak, no completeness score, and nothing that scolds you for a gap. Log what is useful now: usually feeds and diapers early on, maybe solids and sleep later. You can hide the entry types you never use so the logging sheet only shows what you actually tap.
No charts, and not by accident. What moppet has instead is the Rhythm tab, which reads your child's days back in plain sentences: what is different about today, a typical day as a schedule, and what is coming next, with the full record underneath. The screen you open first still shows what happened last, what is happening now, and what is likely next, which is what you need when someone is crying. If we ever add charts they will be somewhere you choose to go, rather than the first thing you see.
It gives you a likely window rather than a promise. moppet starts from the cadence published for your child's age by the health body where they are: the AAP in the US, the NHS in the UK, the WHO elsewhere. Then it learns your own child's rhythm from what you log, the typical gaps between feeds and naps, days kept separate from nights.
Naps work differently from feeds. They are counted from when your child last woke up plus the wake window for their age, which widens from under an hour for a newborn to several hours by the time they are two.
When logging is patchy it leans on the published cadence rather than guessing from the gaps it can see. So the window stays sensible on a chaotic day, and gets sharper as your own pattern becomes clearer. Treat it as a nudge, never as a schedule to hold your child to.
How “Next” works goes through the whole thing if you want it.
You can record weight, height, and head measurements, and read them back at an appointment. moppet does not plot percentile curves. Your pediatrician does that, with a properly calibrated scale.
No. Export a CSV from your old app and moppet will read it in, keeping the times, the notes, and who logged what. If it does not recognize the file's layout it will work out the columns and show you a preview before anything is added. Running it twice will not duplicate entries.
One subscription covers the whole household, every caregiver, and every child. It is not charged per person. Reading your history, downloading a copy, and deleting your account are always free, whether you are paying or not. Billing questions are on the support page.
moppet runs on an iPhone and on an Android phone, and it runs in a browser at mymoppet.com/app. The iPhone app is on the App Store and the Android app is on Google Play. Write to support@mymoppet.com if you get stuck installing it.
Yes, and it is the same moppet either way. Same screens, same record, so it does not matter which phone anyone in your household carries. Reminders, timers, photographing a medicine label, and downloading a copy of your record all work on both.
A running timer shows up on the lock screen on both, so you can stop a nap without unlocking the phone either way, and that includes a timer another caregiver started. Signing in with Apple is the one thing that is iPhone and browser only, so on Android you sign in with an email address and a password.
There is no moppet app for Apple Watch. A running nursing or sleep timer does appear on your iPhone's lock screen, where you can pause or stop it without unlocking the phone. Starting one still means opening the app, because the lock-screen card only exists once a timer is running.
Yes. Each child has their own record and their own settings, and you switch between them by tapping a name at the top of the screen. One subscription covers all of them.
Yes. Pump sessions have their own timer and are recorded separately from bottles, so what you expressed and what your child drank stay distinct. Bottles can be marked as breastmilk or formula, so a household doing a mix of both is not fighting the app.
Yes, and it is the thing two caregivers most often lose track of. Type the instruction from the label or your pediatrician, or photograph the label, and moppet lays out every dose time in the course and shares it with the household. Everyone with reminders on is told when one is due, and each dose is marked given, skipped, or snoozed. A dose marked given lands on the timeline with whoever gave it, so nobody has to text to find out whether it has been done.
moppet organizes what you enter and quotes the published chart row where there is one. It never works out a dose of its own. The guide walks through setting one up.
The app changes with them. What it suggests logging shifts as your child gets older, and the entry types you no longer need can be hidden. Feeds and diapers matter in the early weeks. Solids, sleep, and the occasional medicine matter later.
You share an invite code from Settings. They install moppet, choose "Join with a code", and land in the same household. The code changes each time someone joins or is removed, so an old one cannot be reused.
No. One subscription covers the household, and only one person pays for it. If the subscription lapses, whoever opens the app next is shown how to restart it.
Yes. Caregivers have a role. A viewer can read the record but not change it, which is the usual choice for a grandparent who wants to follow along. A caregiver can log and edit, which is right for a nanny or a night nurse. A parent can also manage people.
Yes. When your partner logs a bottle it appears on your screen, and a timer they start shows as running on yours. That is the point of the app: you should not have to text someone to find out whether your child has eaten.
You will see both entries, and you tap one and delete it. moppet does not silently merge them, because guessing which of two real entries was a mistake is not something an app should do behind your back.
Remove them and their access ends immediately, on every device they were signed in on. What they logged stays in the record, because it is your child's history, not theirs.
That is the case it was designed around. From 7pm to 6am moppet switches by itself to a stripped-back screen: one line telling you where things stand, and a few large buttons for the things you actually do at night. The switch is on the clock, not on the light outside, so a bright evening in June still gets the night screen. Less light, less to read, and less chance of tapping the wrong thing while holding a baby.
A reminder arrives when something looks genuinely overdue for your child, not on a fixed timer, and you get at most three spaced nudges per event rather than a stream. Overnight you get one. You pick which kinds you want: feeds, naps, diapers, medication. Those are your settings, not the household's. If you change the diapers and your partner does the feeds, you each get the ones you are responsible for. You can also turn them all off and the app still works.
Overnight is different, and this is the part that answers the first half of the question. Diaper and nap reminders do not arrive at night at all, and feed reminders no longer arrive on the daytime rhythm either. A hungry child wakes and says so, so a nudge on the usual cadence tells you nothing you were not about to learn. What moppet watches for overnight is the case your child is not raising: a gap much longer than is normal at their age. An evening gap of that size gets one nudge. Deeper into the night moppet waits for morning instead, except for a gap so long it would be worrying at any age; for as long as your child is young enough to get overnight reminders at all, that one still comes through, because it should. If the night passes without a feed that should have happened, the reminder is waiting in the morning. Where NHS guidance applies, and in the United States where moppet follows it because no American body publishes the figure, feed reminders stop arriving overnight once your child is about a year old. Medicine is the deliberate exception: a dose is a dose, so those arrive whenever one is due, at any hour.
moppet also goes quiet by itself. It stops nudging when nobody has logged anything for a day, and it stops each kind of reminder at the age it stops making sense: feeds around 18 months to 2 years depending on the guidance where you are, naps around 5, and diapers around 3.5, or 4 in the UK.
Both are normal and both are fixable. You can back-date the start of a timer, log a feed or a nap that already finished, and open Rhythm, open the record, and tap any entry to correct its time, its details or its note. An approximate log you fix later beats one you never made.
You can keep logging with no signal. Entries are held on your phone and sent the next time you are connected, and the app tells you how many are waiting. Seeing what another caregiver just logged does need a connection.
moppet speaks 21 languages, and each caregiver chooses their own. Your choice follows you across devices and changes nothing for anyone else in the household.
Tell us if something reads wrong in yours.
That is the case moppet was built for. Everyone reads the app in their own language, including the reminders, which arrive in the language and clock format of whoever receives them.
The notes caregivers write are translated between them too: a note written in Spanish is offered to an English reader in English, with the original one tap away. Same note, same timeline. Note translation covers all 21: English, Spanish, German, Danish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Slovenian, Indonesian, Turkish, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Romanian, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Swahili, Yoruba, and Igbo. It runs on demand and the result is cached, so a note is translated once and never again. What it will not do is translate a note as you type it: you write in your own language, and the reading is what gets translated.
Yes. Units (oz and °F, or ml and °C) and the clock (12 or 24 hour) are per person, not per household. A nanny on a 24-hour clock and parents on a 12-hour one each read the same entries their own way, reminders included.
The caregivers you invited, and nobody else. It is enforced on our servers, not just hidden in the app, and it ends the moment you remove someone.
In Europe. Your household's records live on servers in Frankfurt, under European data-protection law, whichever country you are in. We chose that deliberately for a product holding this kind of information about a child.
No ads, ever. We never sell your data, and we do not let outside companies track you inside moppet. You pay for the app, which is exactly why your family does not have to be the product.
No. Three features send something out when you use them, and only then: translating a caregiver's note, reading a medication instruction you typed or a photo of a label you took, and working out the columns if you import a file from an app moppet does not recognize. None of it is used to train anyone's models. What you log is never sent anywhere to make a prediction: the “Next” line is worked out where your record already lives.
Five more things leave the app, and none of them is care data you typed. A reminder has to travel through Expo and then your phone's notification service, which is Apple on an iPhone and Google on an Android phone, so it carries your child's first name, or for a medication reminder the medicine and the dose. The alert that another caregiver stopped a timer goes the same route, carrying their name and the times the timer covered, and Settings has a switch for that one. A running timer that another caregiver puts on your lock screen carries the kind of timer and the time it started and no name at all, and it stays off until you switch it on. On an iPhone it takes a shorter route, to Apple alone rather than through Expo. On an Android phone it travels the same way the reminders do, through Expo and then Google. If the app hits a fault it sends us a crash report, which carries no care data, no name, and nothing tied to your account. And if you subscribe, the store you bought from takes the payment, which is Apple on an iPhone and Google on an Android phone, and RevenueCat records whether your subscription is active, none of them ever seeing your child's record. The privacy policy names every company involved and what each one receives.
No, and nothing is ever deleted because a subscription ended. Your household keeps full read access to everything already logged, plus the CSV download, and only adding new entries pauses.
Yes, and it is always free. Export gives you a spreadsheet of every entry for the child you are looking at, which opens in Excel or Numbers. No lock-in: it is the same kind of file you would use to move to another app, and we are not going to make that hard for you.
From Settings › Account › Delete account. If you are the only member of your household, it and every entry in it are permanently deleted. If others share it, your account goes and the shared record stays with them. Export first if you want a copy.
No. moppet is a shared record of your child's care. moppet is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, not a monitor, and not an emergency service. For any medical question, ask your pediatrician. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
One thing comes close enough to be worth naming. For acetaminophen and ibuprofen, moppet can show you the row from the published chart for your child's weight, so you are not squinting at the box in the dark. It copies out a printed row and works nothing out for itself. You still have to confirm it. When the chart has no row for your child it says so and stops.
It stops for two different reasons once your child is old enough, and they mean different things. Below the label's own age floor it sends you to your pediatrician, which is what the label says there too. Where the chart simply prints no row at your child's weight it points you back at your own bottle's label, or at the dose your pediatrician already gave you, because a caregiver writing down a dose their own doctor prescribed has already asked.
Which chart you get needs your child's time zone and your own Units setting to agree, and in most of the world there is no chart at all, so moppet defers to your bottle. The guide sets out exactly when it answers and when it does not.
No. It shows you your child's own rhythm and tells you when something looks overdue. It has no opinion about how you should be parenting, and there is no course to buy.
No, and it does not try to. It notices a few practical things, like a long stretch with no wet diaper logged, and says so plainly: what it noticed, then what to do, which is to ask your pediatrician, and to log the change if a diaper was changed but not logged. That is a nudge about your record, not an assessment of your child.