Why Babylore

Most baby trackers feel like spreadsheets with cartoon graphics. They want you to fill in rows. They show you charts. They sell you a subscription to compare your baby against an "average" baby — usually a baby raised in California.

Babylore started from a different question: what do babies eat in other parts of the world? Why do French toddlers sit at the family table at nine months old while American baby-led weaning books treat that like a milestone? Why do Japanese families start with okayu while Italian families start with pastina? There's no "right" answer — and an honest tracker should reflect that.

So Babylore tracks the things every parent needs to log — feeds, sleep, diapers — and surrounds them with something most trackers don't offer: 350+ first-food recipes from 62 countries, with cultural notes about how each tradition approaches weaning, salt, family meals, and outdoor time. Compiled from public health and ethnographic sources, not social media — plus recipes uploaded by parents around the world, each safety-reviewed before it appears.

Everything is built for parents, not data brokers. No ads. No social graph mining. No selling tracker data to formula companies. Babylore is currently fully free — no subscription, no in-app purchases. Tracker data stays on your device by default, and cloud sync between your own devices and any co-parent you invite is opt-in and included.

Who's behind this

Babylore is built by Andy Su, a software engineer and parent based in Montreal, Canada.

The app came out of two specific frustrations.

The first was practical: at 3am, half-asleep with the baby in my arm, every tracker I tried wanted six taps to record one bottle. I needed something I could log without fully waking up — which is why so much of babylore is built around one-tap widgets, Live Activities, and smart defaults that remember what you logged last time.

The second was bigger. I'd taken a prenatal course before our baby arrived, and most of what we were taught — feeding schedules, first foods, sleep training — was presented as universal. But growing up in a Chinese family, I knew there were other ways. Congee at six months. Warm food, never cold. Herbs my mother used that nobody in the course had mentioned. The course wasn't wrong; it just wasn't the whole story.

Babylore started as the answer to a question I couldn't stop asking: how do parents in other countries actually do this?

If you want to say hi, send a feature request, or tell me what recipe your country is missing from the catalog, email help@suyu.ca. Every message gets a real reply.

How it's built

Babylore is a native iOS app written in Swift and SwiftUI, with a Supabase backend for community features (recipes, comments, likes, shared babies). The cultural data is curated from published health and ethnographic sources cited in each country's profile inside the app. Translations are reviewed by native speakers wherever possible.

If you'd like to contribute a recipe, a translation correction, or a citation for your culture's feeding tradition, the easiest way is to submit through the app's "Share with the community" flow on any recipe screen. Every submission goes through human review before publication.

Press & press kit

For press inquiries, screenshots, or brand assets, email help@suyu.ca. A downloadable press kit is in the works.