Features

Every feature, made for memory-keeping.

What DearBaby actually does, explained properly — from the calendar you open every day to the letters that stay sealed for years.

A baby with dark hair, held close Amelia

May 2026

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Saturday 17 May

First paddling pool
A very serious frown
Memory Calendar

A month of your child, at a glance.

Open the calendar and the month is already full of them. Every day you saved something shows the photo itself — not a dot, not a number, not a badge. Scroll back through a year and you watch a face change.

Tap an empty day from the past and you can still add the moment to it. The thing you meant to write down in March goes on the day in March it belongs to, not the day you finally remembered.

From any day, you can jump straight to everything else that happened on it.

Twelve month tiles on a dark board, each holding a photograph of the same child with a voice recording across it, and one month chosen and ready to play
The Voice Year

A face changes slowly. A voice changes fast.

The Voice Year is a twelve-month board for a year of your child's voice. You do not have to remember to feed it: every voice recording you make in a month gathers in that month on its own, including the voice memos you saved to an ordinary moment without thinking about the board at all.

Your job is the part only you can do — choosing. Open a month, listen back through what collected there, and pick the one that is most them. The babble in March, the first word in July, the whole sentence by winter.

Then play the year. The twelve you chose run back to back, and you hear a year of growing up in one sitting. Every clip on the board opens the moment it came from, with the name you gave that moment, so the board is part of the vault rather than a copy of it.

Twelve month frames on a dark board, each a photograph of the same child from one month of the year, with one month chosen and ready to play
The Video Year

The same year, in motion.

The Video Year is the same twelve-month board, for video. Every video you take in a month gathers in that month the moment you save it, in the same way and with the same lack of effort.

Choose one video for each month you want to include, and the year plays as a single short film — with a card announcing each month, so the twelve read as a year rather than a pile of clips.

Nothing is edited, generated or chosen for you. Every clip in the film is one you picked, and tapping any of them opens the moment it belongs to.

A sealed cream envelope with a lavender wax seal, representing a DearBaby letter locked until a future date
Letters Across Time

Some words are meant to be opened later.

Write a letter to your child whenever you have something to say. Leave it open so they can read it now, or seal it until a date you choose — their eighteenth birthday, their wedding morning, the day they become a parent themselves.

A sealed letter cannot be opened early. Not by them, and not by you. That is the whole point of it.

Letters live in the vault alongside everything else, so the one written on a hard night sits next to the photos from that same week.

DearBaby Baby Passport showing a coastline map and keepsakes from family trips
Baby Passport

Every place they've been.

Add the trips as they happen — the first flight, the summer by the sea, the long drive to see grandparents. The passport fills in with the places your child has already been.

It becomes something they will want to see later: a map of a childhood that was bigger than they will remember it being.

DearBaby Family Circle: a parent holding their baby, representing invited family sharing one private vault

Invited by name Owner · Can add · Can view

Family Circle

The people who love them most — and no one else.

Invite grandparents, godparents, the people who actually show up. You invite them by name. There are no public profiles and nothing for a stranger to discover.

Each person gets a role — view, add, or manage — so a grandparent can add the photos from Sunday without being able to change anything else.

Hearts and comments notify the family. They do not notify the internet, because the internet was never in the room.

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Voice & Video

The sounds you'd otherwise lose.

Record a voice memo or a short video straight into the moment it belongs to. The laugh, the wobble, the half-word that was almost a word.

Because it is saved into the moment, it keeps the date and sits with the photos from the same day, rather than disappearing into a folder of untitled audio files.

DearBaby growth tracking and First 50 Words, shown with a height ruler and wooden toys
Growth & First Words

Height, weight, and the first fifty words.

Log height, weight and head circumference and watch the chart fill in over time. Every measurement stays in a log you can scroll back through.

Alongside it, First 50 Words catches each new word the week it arrives, with the date they first said it. They are searchable later, which you will be glad of.

Milestones

The firsts, dated and kept.

First smile, first step, first day of school. Each milestone is recorded with its date and its photo, on the day it actually happened.

Years from now the date is the part you will have lost, and the part you will want.

DearBaby Memory Book, a linen keepsake album with photo corner mounts
Memory Book

Their story, in order.

Everything you have saved, arranged as a book you can read from the beginning — chapter by chapter, in the order it happened.

It is a view inside the app rather than something we print and post to you, and it grows on its own as you keep saving.

Two DearBaby memories from the same date a year apart, one crisp and one warm and faded
On This Day

A year ago today.

Each morning DearBaby brings back the same date from earlier years — on the home screen, and as one quiet daily notification you can switch off.

It is the reason people open the app on days when nothing in particular is happening.

A sweep of DearBaby photo prints in motion, representing a year replayed
Your Year, Replayed

A year, in one scroll.

Every December, DearBaby assembles the year for you: a cover, one moment from every month, the numbers behind what you saved, and the photo you had already forgotten.

Any run of moments can also play back full screen — one photo at a time, with gentle motion and the caption you wrote underneath it — so a year can be watched as easily as it is read.

Monthly Recap

The month, put together for you.

At the end of each month DearBaby assembles a recap of it without being asked — what you saved, and the moments worth seeing again.

It is the smaller version of the yearly look back, and it arrives twelve times as often.

Quick Capture

Saved before the moment passes.

One tap from the home screen opens the camera. Snap, add a caption, saved. No album to choose and no menu to navigate while you are holding a baby in the other arm.

It lands in the timeline on the right date, the same as anything else you save.

Albums & Timeline

Albums when you want them, a timeline always.

Photos can be gathered into albums — the holiday, the first year, the ones for grandparents. Nothing has to be filed for it to be findable.

Underneath all of it runs one chronological timeline of everything in the vault, in the order it happened.

Start their memory vault today.

Begin with a single photo today. In a few years you’ll have the story of a whole childhood — safe, private, and ready to share with the people who love them.

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first steps

Moments

The garden, after lunch Her first steps on the grass, arms up like a tightrope walker.
Wobbling by the sofa Almost — two first steps and a very soft landing.

Milestones

First steps Milestone · 4 May 2026

Letters

The week of your first steps A letter from Mum