About this app
What Firstyear does
Firstyear is the offline baby milestone tracker that survives your next phone. The CDC's free Milestone Tracker is excellent — but its top App Store complaint, year after year, is the same one: you get a new phone, you open the app, and your baby's tracked data is gone. Firstyear is the version where the data lives in a place you control and exports as a real document you can keep. What ships in v1: — CDC-aligned milestone checklist by age (2/4/6/9/12/15/18/24/30 months). Each milestone has its plain-language description ("copies sounds you make," "holds head steady without support"). — Tap to mark achieved with a date. Add a note or photo of the moment. — "When to act early" gentle flags. The CDC's published warning signs surfaced when a child is past the typical age — informational, never diagnostic. — Growth log. Weight, length, head circumference at each well-visit. Swift Charts of percentile trajectories using bundled WHO/CDC curves. — First-year keepsake PDF. One-tap export — every achieved milestone with date + photo, growth curves, your notes — formatted as a printable keepsake. — Multi-child support, on one device. — iCloud backup via your own Apple ID (optional). Never our server. — No account, no ads, no subscription. For the 3.4M new US parents each year — and especially the ones who got burned by their previous app and want a record they can keep forever.
Features
Built to be useful, not noisy.
Children
Multi-child profiles with DOB
Milestones
Age-grouped checklist; tap to mark + add photo/note
Growth
Weight/length/head log + percentile curves (Swift Charts)
Act-early flags
Gentle reminders if past typical age — informational only
Keepsake PDF
One-tap printable first-year book via share sheet
Why it exists
The problem
Parents want to track baby milestones and growth, but the CDC's free Milestone Tracker — the most-recommended option — has a documented data-loss bug: new phone = lost history. Other apps require cloud accounts or subscriptions.
What's different
How Firstyear stands out
Firstyear is the only iOS baby milestone tracker that combines the CDC-aligned checklist + bundled WHO/CDC growth percentile curves + photo notes per milestone + a one-tap keepsake PDF + optional iCloud backup via the user's own Apple ID — all offline, no account, no subscription — CDC's app loses data on phone change…
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FAQ
Questions about Firstyear
How much does Firstyear cost?▾
Firstyear is free. All features are included from day one — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this listing works the moment you install it.
Where does Firstyear store my data?▾
On your device. Firstyear is built privacy-first: no account is required, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Nothing is uploaded to a server we control — the app works without one.
What platforms does Firstyear support?▾
iOS, on iPhone and iPad. You can find the latest availability on this page.
How do I get support for Firstyear?▾
Use the Support link on this page, or email support@allthingsn.com. We answer every message and keep responses on the same thread.
The story
Meet Firstyear — Milestones, kept. Phone changes, fine
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