BabyLodeStarYour baby's day,drawn as one shape.
BabyLodeStar logs sleep in one tap and draws the 24 hours as a single ribbon — with tonight's predicted sleep sitting right on top of what already happened.
One line holds the
whole day and the night
It runs 6 AM to 6 AM. A night's sleep stays one shape instead of being cut in half at midnight — so the thing you actually care about is the thing you can see.
Dashed blocks are the plan. The nap that hasn't happened yet and tonight's bedtime are drawn on the same line as the sleep already logged. Tap any block to fix a time.
A list of identical rows
is not a picture of the day.
Every other tracker hands you a reverse-chronological feed. Five rows that look the same, and you are the one who has to hold the shape of the day in your head — at 3 AM, with one arm free.
Draw the same day as one ribbon and the answer is immediate: the gap is too long, the third nap is late, bedtime is going to slip again.
Four rules the whole
app is built on
Logging costs one tap
One button on Today toggles asleep and awake. Type, times and notes are all editable after the fact. Correction beats precision at 3 AM.
Guidance is ambient
Recommended total, nap count and wake window sit on Today as a comparison against what actually happened — not behind a lookup.
The plan is the schedule
The nightly brief writes tomorrow's course straight into the timeline as ghost blocks. Accepting is passive; you only step in to shift or drop something.
Chat edits the plan
“Push bedtime 30 minutes earlier” rewrites today's course on the spot, with an undo toast. No confirm dialogs.
Nothing you do is final. Every edit — a shifted nap, a dropped one, a bedtime the coach moved — lands with an undo toast instead of a confirm dialog. Correction beats precision at 3 AM.
Four choices you can
feel on the first night
A day ribbon, not a feed
Other trackers show a reverse-chronological list of identical rows. We draw the 24 hours as one shape, so a bad day is visible in a glance.
Prediction sits on top of reality
Predicted sleep is drawn as ghost blocks in the same ribbon as what already happened — not in a separate, paywalled tab.
The free tier keeps the core loop
Logging, the ribbon and the recommended ranges stay free forever. The nightly brief, the coach and the weekly report are what you pay for.
Warm, not neon
Cream and clay by day, amber on near-black for the 3 AM feed. Auto night mode dims the app between 7 PM and 7 AM.
Today
The big timer, the wake-window bar and the ribbon. One button switches state; every block opens an edit sheet.
Today's course
Drafted overnight from the last seven days. Shift a nap by 15 minutes, drop it, and watch the projected total move.
Coach
Knows the last 34 nights, edits today only. Ask in plain words; the plan changes and an undo toast appears.
Trends
Seven days of sleep against the recommended band, plus the pattern it found — “bedtime has slid 12 minutes later every day”.
Warm, not neon.
Amber on near-black.
Between 7 PM and 7 AM the app dims itself to amber on near-black — no saturated purple burning your eyes while you hold a baby in the dark. One hand reaches everything.
- Wake-window nudgeA quiet push when the window is 15 minutes from closing
- Bedtime reminderAt the time on today's course
- Weekly reportSunday evening summary
- Auto night modeDims the app between 7 PM and 7 AM
Every one of them is a switch in Settings. The wake-window nudge is the only push we send by default.
Questions parents ask first
What does the free tier actually include?
Sleep logging, the day ribbon and the recommended totals, nap count and wake window — free forever, with every record you have logged. What lapses after the trial is the nightly brief, the coach and the weekly report.
How much work is logging?
One tap. The button on Today toggles asleep and awake, and everything else — nap or night, exact times, a split record — is editable afterwards from the ribbon. You are never asked to be accurate in the moment.
What does the coach actually change?
Today, and only today. Ask it in plain words — “push bedtime 30 minutes earlier” — and today's course is rewritten immediately, with an undo toast. Ask about a record from last week and it will say so, then point you at Records.
Where does the plan come from?
Your own baby's last seven days, redrafted overnight and delivered at a time you pick. The recommended ranges behind it follow AASM-style age bands — a 5-month-old gets a 1h 50m wake window and a 12–15h daily total.
Can my partner use it too?
Yes — two caregivers, one subscription, no extra cost. Both see the same ribbon in real time and either of you can log or edit. Two is the hard cap.
Is this sleep training, or medical advice?
Neither. Lodestar is about timing — when sleep is likely to work, and what today looks like against it. How you settle your baby stays your call, and nothing here replaces your pediatrician.
What ages does it cover?
0–36 months. Sleep only — feeds and diapers are deliberately out.
Two answers and
tonight has a shape
A name and a birthday is the whole setup. Lodestar learns the rest from your first week — 3 days unlimited, then logging stays free.