10 ABSOLUTE BEST PHOTO APPS YOU NEED TO CHRONICLE YOUR BABY’S GROWING MOMENTS
In today’s tech-dominated time, parents should have no excuse to miss out on capturing all the moments, big and small, of their baby’s life. If you’re living in the 80s, we might understand. But today, it’s high time that you exploit all the incredible photo-related apps you can install in your smartphones. In fact, we implore you to do so.
To get you started, we have run down some of the best and easy to use baby-related smartphone apps you can download. So, without further ado, we present to you the most essential apps you will be needing to chronicle your
Lifecake
System: iOS and Android
Price: Basic – Free
VIP – $64.99/year
Lifecake is a photo-sharing app explicitly developed to share every moment of your baby growing up. From when the little one is still developing inside your belly, to the moment he/she is born, his/her first bath, to the first baby steps he/she takes… whatever moment you think is worth sharing (which, in our opinion, is basically everything), you can share it on Lifecake.
The interface of the app is like a timeline of memories where you can view captured baby moments from photos, videos, and even stories (concise videos meant to share in-the-now and casual instances of your baby’s day). Other family members and relatives can view your timeline so they can also be part of the growing-up experience. What’s good about Lifecake is you can hop on a particular timeline in a matter of seconds and look back at the photos.
Basic subscription is free and lets you have a total of 1 GB of storage. If you feel that 1GB is not enough to chronicle all the experiences of your baby growing up, you could avail of the VIP subscription where you can snap an unlimited amount of photos, videos, and stories all in high-quality resolution.
Do you have tons of baby photos stocked in your phone that you want to share on your social media, but couldn’t because you want them to look professional? Or perhaps you want them to be expertly edited to make them even cuter, but you do not have the chops for the task? Snapseed might just be the app to answer your woes.
With Snapseed, you could quickly turn yourself into a photo editing wizard. Your photos could look as if they are edited professionally, and with minimal effort, you can turn any photo into a work of art. Going through the editing process is pretty straightforward. Editing techniques (i.e., retouching, color balance, adjustments, and straitening) could be done with just a few taps on your smartphone’s screen. Who said you need Photoshop when there is Snapseep to help you with editing, right?
Snapseed
System: iOS and Android
Price: Free
Tiny Prop Wrap Options
Camera ZOOM FX
System: iOS and Android
Price: Basic – Free (only for Android)
Premium – $3.99
Camera ZOOM FX is a full-featured camera application that is sure to level up your photo-capturing experience. It could turn any suboptimal smartphone camera into a seemingly professional DSLR with the help of its add-on features and settings. Basically, this app enables your phone camera to have enhanced functionality, letting you take stunning baby photos you could never imagine possible. Its recent version comes with a full range manual DSLR control.
What’s more, is that it comes with a built-in editing studio where you can directly edit baby images right after you took it. It’s an all-in-one photo capturing and editing app. The app also has a lot of filters to choose from. If you are the type who just adds a custom filter for a quick social media post, you will find this app very useful. To experience the full capacity of this app, we suggest that you get the premium version.
Looking for a crafty and quirky way of chronicling your baby’s milestones? Baby Pics can help you with that. With this app, you can jazz up baby milestone moments by adding crafty artworks and personalized text. The app is prebuilt with 1000+ artworks to choose from. There are also filter options you can use.
This app is not only perfect for already moms, but for moms-to-be as well. You can start capturing moments from the early weeks of your pregnancy, showing how your baby bump develops week on week, all the way to you giving birth and through the baby’s early development stage. You can even continue until the baby has become an energetic and joyful little kid.
Baby Pics - Photo Editor
System: iOS and Android
Price: Free 7-day trial period
Monthly subscription – $5.99
3-month subscription – $13.99
12-month subscription – $34.99
Precious - Baby Photo Art
System: iOS
Price: FREE 7-day trial
$4.99/month premium subscription
What we love about Precious is its intelligent algorithm that finds the absolute best photos of your baby, which it then compiles to create stories that you will absolutely adore. All you need to do is to upload all the baby photos you have, and it will automatically organize them into monthly pictures, a photo calendar journal, or even a time-lapse slideshow. The time-lapse feature is particularly adorable to look at as you can watch your baby grow week on week.
When you upload photos, you can accentuate by putting some photo frames and stickers. You can also make photo collages and mark them with weekly, monthly, or other noteworthy special milestones. You just take all the photos and let Precious handle everything else.
Little Nugget is very similar to Baby pics. It lets you capture and curate with a tad bit of flare those precious moments with your little nugget of joy. It makes every photo “insta-worthy” as you can get creative with over 600 artfully made stickers and artworks. Also, you can add text to each picture to make it more personalized. The font selections, in fact, are some of the cutest you will ever find among similar apps. The interface of the app itself is very user-friendly; all the features and editing steps are very intuitive. With Little Nugget, your baby milestone documentation couldn’t get any better and more fun.
Little Nugget
System: iOS and will soon be available in Android
Price: $2.99
Totsie - Baby Photo Editor
System: iOS and Android
Price: Free 7-day trial period
Monthly subscription – $5.99
3-month subscription – $13.99
12-month subscription – $34.99
As if the options for baby photo apps are not enough, Totsie here can give the others a run for their money. Offering the same services as Baby Pics and Little Nugget, this app can be used to mark every important milestone of your baby. We know that being a parent is an exciting thing, especially for first-time ones, so why don’t you go ahead and create heart-melting moments with your little bundle of joy while you’re at it using Totsie.
Like other similar apps, Totsie offers 1000+ stickers, fun filters, and cool fonts to choose from to customize your every photo. You can also create baby collages where you can put side by side different pictures of your baby at various milestones. Social media sharing is also capable of Totsie with just a few clicks, so you won’t have to worry about transporting the photos from one device to another. One unique thing Totsie, however, is its Time Capsule feature where you can safely save all your baby’s milestones and look at them at a later time for you to cherish and reminisce.
Photos from your phone, Google accounts, Facebook, Instagram, and more can be uploaded to the app. What’s good is the app employs a technology that lets you sort out blurry and dark photos so that you will be left with the best ones for your photo book. The app is straightforward to use; in under 5 minutes, you’ll be ready to order your first photo book. A photo book starts at $10 for a 30-page print with an option to more pages for 20 cents a page.
Chatbooks
System: iOS and Android
Price: Free to download photo
Book: start $10 for a 30-page 6×6 book.
Baby Snaps Pics & Photo Editor
System: iOS
Price: Free limited-time subscription
$23.99 for a 12-month all-access subscription
Baby Snaps is yet another of those pregnancy and baby milestone tracker that’s getting wide popularity in the app store right now. With this app, you can add doodles, texts, artworks, captions, and quotes on your adorable baby photos and share them directly on your social media such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Filters and artworks can also be added to add additional customization. With an app like this, capturing your baby’s milestone, such as the first smile, the first tooth, and the first kick can be done with a few clicks.
Baby Photo Collage
System: iOS
Price: Free
In-app purchases for additional items