Best Pregnancy Apps for 2022

Why We Picked It: The Pregnancy+ app is a solid all-around choice featuring an array of information for every stage of pregnancy. Users are sent daily articles tailored to how far along they are in their pregnancy and have access to guides covering breastfeeding, exercise and more. You can also personalize your pregnancy tracking and allow your partner or other loved ones to follow along by downloading the app themselves.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes 3D model renderings of your baby’s development, allowing you to zoom in to view intricate details
✔ Offers pregnancy-planning tools like hospital bag lists, an exportable birth plan and a calendar to track prenatal appointments
✔ A size guide features your baby’s growth compared to fruits, animals and more
✖ No trying-to-conceive support included

Why We Picked It: What to Expect’s Pregnancy and Baby Tracker app is a standout app for its visually appealing aesthetic and clean interface. Unlike other apps, it compares your baby’s current size not just to produce, but to fun items like movie and TV props and nostalgic items from the 80s and 90s as well.

Like other top apps, it includes 3D renderings of your baby, information on its anatomical development, your own body changes, common symptoms and recommended products. It has an especially robust social network component, with separate groups for users who are having their babies within the same month, international moms-to-be and more.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes robust social network feature
✔ Includes ovulation calendar
✔ Includes due date calculator
✖ Slightly ad-heavy

Why We Picked It: For pregnant people that may have experienced a previous pregnancy loss and need additional support navigating any subsequent pregnancies, the Nurture Pregnancy Week by Week app is a standout option, as it features miscarriage support, including trackers for unusual symptoms and emotional well-being. The app includes social and partner support as well as a feature that allows users to upload a PDF of pregnancy symptoms, weight, medication and other health data.

The Nurture app has additional fun features including a baby registry offering product recommendations and reviews from other parents and a downloadable log to track aspects of your baby’s care once they’re born.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Integrated with MyFitnessPal and Apple’s Health app
✔ Features fetal development images and updates on baby’s size
✔ Includes both a baby kick counter and contraction tracking
✖ Does not feature trying-to-conceive support

Why We Picked It: The Ovia Pregnancy Tracker app contains a robust menu of features, including a personalized timeline of your baby’s anatomical development, 3D renderings of the fetus, symptoms to watch for, informational articles, food and medication safety tools and more.

It also allows for comprehensive data collection: Things like fetal movement, number of kegels you perform, nutrition servings and even the status of your relationship can be tracked and often viewed in graphs, making this app great for someone who thrives on data visualization.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes a calendar to note doctor appointments, recorded data, milestones and more
✔ Includes robust data collection features
✔ Includes a health assessment in partnership with health plan providers within the app
✖ App interface is a little cluttered

Why We Picked It: This app from BabyCenter has it all—3D renderings of your baby’s development in the womb, a social network to connect with fellow expectant people, a library of useful articles and resources and more.

Your personalized pregnancy timeline includes easy-to-digest weekly highlights: your baby’s dimensions, their size compared to produce, anatomical developments and symptoms you can expect. Additionally, the app boasts an impressive number of features for those trying to conceive (like an ovulation calendar), as well as ones to use once the baby is born (like a growth tracker). With an average star rating of 4.9 out of 5 in the iOS app store, this app is certainly worth a download.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes an “Is it safe?” feature for common activities, products and foods
✔ Includes a kick tracker and contraction timer
✔ Includes a birth preferences form for labor and delivery that you can share with your doctor or caregiver
✖ Interface features a lot of ads

Why We Picked It: The Pregnancy and Due Date Tracker is a relatively simple pregnancy app that helps users track blood pressure, weight gain, tummy growth and baby movement, which you can save and show your doctor at future appointments. The app also offers a contraction counter and nutrition and lifestyle advice.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Allows you to convert data on your pregnancy to a PDF to show your doctor at your next visit
✔ Syncs with the Apple Health app
✔ Features checklists for each trimester so you can prepare for childbirth
✖ No social networking or trying-to-conceive support

Why We Picked It: With daily articles on pregnancy and weekly advice from obstetricians, the amma Pregnancy and Baby Tracker is a smart choice to keep track of all aspects of your pregnancy. The app features an event diary to log appointments and weekly updates on your baby’s size and development. There’s also a baby kick counter and ideas for healthy meals during pregnancy.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Uses clinical BMI guidelines to measure weight gain and belly growth
✔ The app’s info is shareable on social media
✔ Ability to track contractions and send results to a medic
✖ No trying-to-conceive support

Why We Picked It: Preglife is a great option for expectant people who want to share their pregnancy journey with their partner. It boasts a clean interface that allows you to view your baby’s anatomical development, as well as information on your own pregnancy symptoms.

This app is especially great for partners, as there’s a “partner” button you can click on each week for useful information and to-do’s. For example, the partner information for week 26 discusses infant car seats and test driving the hospital route.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes information geared toward partners for each week of pregnancy
✔ Includes a wealth of informational articles and videos
✔ Includes a “diary” within the app to record your journey
✖ No social network component
✖ Goes into less detail in terms of week-to-week development than other apps

Why We Picked It: The Sprout Pregnancy app’s score was largely dragged down by the fact that it’s not free. However, this app is certainly worth highlighting, as its 3D video renderings of your baby in the womb are the most engaging of all the apps we considered, allowing you to toggle and view your baby from every angle, rivaling that of medical imaging.

It also includes an in-depth pregnancy timeline, as well as other standard features like informational resources and to-do checklists.

Pros and Cons:

✔Includes compelling 3D imaging of your baby in the womb
✔ Includes information on recommended screening tests and when they should occur
✔ Includes a birth plan feature
✖ No social network component
✖ Costs $7.99

Why We Picked It: If you want a pregnancy tracking app that offers more medically sophisticated updates than fruit comparisons for your baby’s size, the WebMD Pregnancy app is likely your best bet. With highly-detailed 3D renderings of your baby in the womb, as well your own body’s organs with your baby in your womb, you receive an accurate snapshot of your baby’s development and your own body’s changes.

Other features include articles geared toward your partner and questions to ask your doctor during each prenatal visit.

Pros and Cons:

✔ Includes questions to ask your doctor at particular appointments
✔ Visuals of your baby in the womb are more detailed than many other apps
✔ In-depth safety information about different products, foods and activities
✖ Week-by-week information largely consists of diagrams with minimal text
✖ No social network component to connect with other expectant people