Moving from Nara Baby? We have you covered.

00:00 — Nara Baby alternative: introduction

If you’re looking for an alternative to Nara Baby, but you’re concerned about starting over from scratch and losing all your data, ParentLove has you covered. My name is Anthony and together with my wife Donatella, we have created the ParentLove Baby Tracker app. We’ve been helping parents since 2012 and we have free daily activity tracking and free sharing and customizable reminders and much more. But what we wanted to do was just take a moment, show you about the app, show you how easy it is to take your data from Nara, put it directly into ParentLove within seconds.

00:43 — Export your Nara Baby CSV

So the first thing we could do is just getting overview of How do you get your data out of Nara? Well, the first thing you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to open up the Nara Baby app. And at that point you can tap on the avatar that’s in the upper left-hand corner of your baby’s name. Then you want to scroll down to the bottom of the settings and you want to choose Export Data.

And from there, save that exported file to your device, your phone’s drive. After you do that, then what you can do is you can go to the app store, you can download ParentLove and I’ll show you exactly what happens in there.

01:17 — Import into ParentLove

Welcome to ParentLove. In here, you’ll see your favorites, which you can customize to suit your needs. So you only see the activities you want to track. And the first thing you would do is you go into menu, you go to Tools & Learning. Then you want to click on Import Data. And from here, you go into the Import Wizard. This is going to walk you through the steps of what you need to do to take your Nara Baby data and put it directly into ParentLove and pick up where you left off.

So after the instructions, you’ll see that you have where you can select your child. Our ParentLove supports multiple children that you can set up in there. And you’re going to click on “Select Nara CSV”. This is going to open up your phone’s drive where you can select the file you just exported from Nara. And at that point, ParentLove is going to go and process them. And you can see that already processed it.

That was 500+ activities processed, done like that. And you’re going to see a list of all the activities you have. And you can decide if you want to import an activity or not. At that point, you can click on “Begin Import”, and 605 activities already migrated directly into ParentLove. This is going to give you a little overview of what you need to do next and give you a list of everything that was imported so you can see that everything’s fine.

At that point, you just tap “All Done”. And that’s it. You’re all done. That’s how fast you can literally go from using Nara into ParentLove. At that point, you can go to the main page. And I think I’m going to pass it on to Donatella so she can show a little bit more.

02:46 — Favorites and getting comfortable

So right now, I want to just give you a brief overview of how ParentLove looks and works. Because obviously, Nara, ParentLove, two very different apps. And let’s face it, changes are not fun most of the time. We don’t like it. But there is a good news. Change doesn’t always mean having to giving something up. Sometimes it means finding something new and maybe better. So let me show you what is the flow of ParentLove and what you can see.

As mentioned, I show you already Favorites is the tab, that will open when you open your ParentLove app. This has been already customized during your onboarding. But this doesn’t mean that you cannot do anything in here. You can at any point change and customize this page by tapping on the “Edit Favorites” tile, the little star. And here you can select or deselect any activity that you want to change. You can actually even sort and show the activity that you use the most at the top of the page.

You can do this also for the Glance Tab and the Stats Tab that I will show you in a minute.

04:07 — Log activities and view saved history

So when you’re in here, super easy. The purpose, the goal of the Favorites Tab screen was to make saving activity fast, quick. You open the page and you say, OK, I want to record a diaper change. You tap the Diaper Change tile and here we go. You’ll notice every time you open an activity page, we have two tabs in there. One is “Add New” and the other one is “History”. History shows up every time you have saved that specific activity from the most recent one till the first activity recorded.

There is no paywall, you can see everything for the first one. So going back to Add New, saving activity is very easy and it can be super fast, as fast as two taps. In this case, every time you open the activity, date and time default to now. If you need to change it, easy tap, you change the time, whatever you want it to be. And at that point, for example, we select “Wet” and we tap on “Save”.

That’s all.

05:16 — Glance: activity overview and reminders

When you save an activity, the app normally opens up in the Glance Tab. Glance is a very particular Tab. It’s a unique tab that just ParentLove has and basically summarizes in a snapshot the 24 hours of your baby’s life. This is super handy, especially at the beginning when we need to track how many diapers the baby had or how many times the baby breastfed or the ounces. You get everything that you need in one page.

This tab also allows you to see if you have set a reminder, what is the time due for the activity or if for by any reason you had a past due. Every time you tap on any tile, you have basically a shortcut of going to “Add New”. So just add a new activity in that specific spot, “View History” of the activity or “Add Reminder”.

06:18 — Journal and editing entries

The other tab that I want to show you in the main page is “Journal”. Journal is, as you can imagine, the diary, the journal of any activities that you have recorded for your baby from the most recent one all the way back, up to 14 days. This is not paywall, it’s just because we don’t want you to scroll over and over. If you want to go back to an older activity, older than 14 days, you just go quickly in the History of the activity and you can see everything.

In here, as well as in the history, every time you tap in one specific activity, you can go in a “View/Edit” mode and if you notice that you made a mistake, like in this case there is no session length or whatever, you can just give more information and here we go. “Done”. OK. “Apply Changes” and it’s all set. So you can very easily add old activities, modify the activities that you’ve saved very, very quick.

07:19 — Stats & Trends: free and paid options

The last area that I want to show you in the main screen is “Stats” tab. In here, you’re going to see all the kind of stats and trends of the activity that you’re looking for and what’s interesting about it is like when you tap in any activity, it will open up the Stats & Trends area. In here, it’s really when you’re going to learn your baby’s trend and patterns. In this specific case, you’re going to see that “Daily Averages” are in the data range of the last seven days.

This is because what we are showing to you today, also the layout of the app, is the Free version of ParentLove. Everything that you are seeing comes with what you are right now having in with you with the ParentLove Basic. If you want to expand the trends and the stats, that’s an upgrade. Activity, in this case, is Sleeping but you can quickly toggle between activity just tapping on the activity area and selecting the one that you want to analyze.

First part is very numeric, so it’s averages, but gives you a good understanding also on how your baby is doing in regards to amount of sleep, about ounces per day, and count of breastfeeding session, and so on and so forth.

08:40 — Sleep learning and reminders

In this specific case, sleeping also shows something interesting that is a banner in regards to what we try to monitor for “Awake Window” and “Total Sleep Time”. I am a Certified Pediatric Sleep Trainer and you will see also in the activity “Sleeping” a third tab. So you have “Add New”, you have “History”, but you’re gonna also add a “Learning” tab. Same thing is for Breastfeeding. In there, I try to give you some information, some guidelines in this specific case regarding sleeping and what we are trying to monitor in order to help our baby in their physiological needs.

So these areas have banners that are obviously related to your baby’s age where we want to see the awake window be more or less coming, right? We want to have the awake window showing what is the baby’s needs to go back to sleep. Something interesting about it is that ParentLove also allows you to set reminders that are directly connected to the awake window, so you will be able to stay more in sync with your baby needs.

And you can set the reminder, for example, of 1 hour and 15 minutes baby has to go to sleep within, for example, the four weeks of age. The more you scroll down, the more you see different kind of pattern, including the “Hourly Pattern”.

10:16 — Caregiver sharing and customization

And last thing that I want to mention is in regards to the menu area. In here, you can find all the different activities that you can record in ParentLove, “Reporting”, “Sharing”. This is where you tap and you invite family member care providers to join your baby’s profile so everybody can stay in sync with your baby’s needs. In this case also, the settings area is very interesting. ParentLove is very particular because it allows you to truly make the app yours.

So you can customize the app according to your needs, from the color of your baby’s profile, to the background picture, to something more intense, like even the way the app opens up. You want Favorites, you want the Glance tab, you want the Journal, you can choose it. So you can go over, scroll, see what you like, what you don’t understand. And if you don’t understand something, please feel free to reach out to us.

11:25 — Imported notes and one-time upgrades

Thanks so much, Dony. So obviously your time is precious, but there’s three more things I want to tell you. Number one is that when you import your data from Nara, it will also include all of your notes. Number two, everything we displayed there was all the free version. We do have upgrades, but all of our upgrades are just a one-time fee. We also have a Pro package which includes everything. It’s a one-time fee for lifetime access and NO Subscriptions.

So you don’t have to worry about, I don’t know how much this is going to cost in the future.

11:55 — Privacy: AI features and your baby’s data

And lastly, privacy, something that’s really important to us. ParentLove does not have any AI chatbots or generative AI features that use your baby’s tracking records. And we never sell the data you log about your baby. That’s it.

12:13 — Questions and support

Thank you for your time. And we hope that this information was helpful for you. If you want more information, you can go to our website. You’ll see a banner at the top for importing your data. If you have any questions, like Dony said, you can go to Care@ParentLove.me. We wish you Lots of Love. And if you ever have any questions or anything, we’re here for you. So thank you. Bye bye. Bye.