earlybird software, llc

My latest app, Baby Kick Counter, is available in the App Store. My wife is pregnant with our second child and wanted something to keep track of fetal kicks. So I thought I'd build her an app, and then I thought others might like it too. It lets you count up to 10 kicks, count the number of kicks in an hour, or just track individual kicks as you like throughout the day. The history is fully viewable and editable, and you can email your list of kicks to yourself or your doctor.

See the app web page, or go grab it in the app store.

My three apps which run on the iPad (Baby Timer, Contraction Timer, and Milk Maid) have been updated to include new high resolution graphics for the new "Retina" iPad. Enjoy!

Baby Timer was featured in the February 2012 issue of Babytalk Magazine! It's item 30 on a list of "100 innovations making modern motherhood easier, cooler, and way more fun". I hope Baby Timer does all three! From the magazine, page 38:

Baby Timer: Perfect for Type A moms to track every diaper, nap, and feeding.

Thank you, Babytalk Magazine.

I released a minor update to the Milk Maid app this week. It fixes a few bugs, the biggest of which is that editing a feeding could occasionally set its time back to the distant past. (If you've ever edited a feeding to add notes or adjust the volume and then had the feeding seem to dissappear, this might be why.)

Find the free update in the App Store. Thanks!

I've been meaning to do some more Android work recently, and I had some time in October and November to update the Android Contraction Timer. It now has a similar look to the new iOS version, and some additional features as well.

In particular, it now allows you to copy the data off to an sdcard, and it counts up from the start of the last contraction even when you're not in a contraction. (So you can have an idea of when the next one is coming.)

Go get it in the Android Market! And let me know what you think of the app and what else you'd like to see.

I'm pleased to announce my first Windows Phone App. The Contraction Timer is available for download now in the App Hub.

This is a fairly simple app as I'm still getting used to the platform. It requires Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). Let me know what you like and don't like and I'll be releasing updates for it over the coming months. This is a free app for now, but I will be working on a pro version as well.