Tiptoe — one-tap baby tracking that works at 3am

Baby Tracker

Role: Solo — design, build and release
Period: 2026 — awaiting App Store release
Status: In development

Tiptoe is a baby tracker built around a single idea: at 3am, logging a feed should take one tap and no unlocking. Widgets and Live Activities are free, the data never leaves the phone, and there is no account to create.

Highlights

Idea to App Store submission in under a week
Zero network calls — no account, no server, no analytics
Widgets free, not paywalled

Expo
React Native
SQLite
WidgetKit
Live Activities

The problem

Every baby tracker I tried put home-screen widgets behind a subscription. That is exactly backwards: the widget is the product. A parent holding a baby at 3am should not have to unlock a phone, open an app and dig through a menu to record a feed.

What I built

Feeds, diapers and sleep log in one tap — from inside the app, from a free home-screen widget, or straight from the lock screen. An ongoing sleep session runs as a Live Activity so the elapsed time is visible without opening anything.

Privacy by construction

There is no backend. Everything lives in a local SQLite database on the device, so there is no account, no sync, no analytics and nothing to leak. That also means the app works on a plane, in a hospital basement, and at 3am on bad hotel wifi.

Stack

Expo + TypeScript, React Native
Local SQLite as the only datastore
iOS WidgetKit widgets and Live Activities via a native module
EAS build and App Store submission

Status

Built and submitted to the App Store. Not publicly listed yet.