Best Dad
Year one, one week at a time.
A first-time father's co-pilot through the first year. Week-by-week guidance drawn from paediatric bodies, a plan that adapts to your baby, and an SOS section for the nights when something is wrong and you need an answer in ten seconds.
- Platform
- iOS
- Requires
- iOS 26
- Devices
- iPhone
- Pricing
- The weekly guide and your personalised focus are free. A premium tier is planned but nothing is purchasable today.
In development. No App Store record yet.
What it does
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This week, specifically
Not a generic month-by-month chart. Eight questions at the start, then a focus and a plan for the week your baby is actually in.
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Do and know
Each stage splits into a checklist of things to actually do and the knowledge behind it — including the red flags that mean stop reading and call someone.
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03
SOS
Crying, fever, choking, feeding. Reachable in one tap, written for someone holding a baby in one arm at four in the morning.
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A coach that stays in the room
Ask a question in your own words and get an answer from Apple's on-device model. Photograph a formula tin or a medicine label and the text is read on your phone. Nothing is uploaded.
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On the home screen
A widget with the day's one thing, and a morning card. Small enough to be read between other obligations.
Privacy, in full
Nothing leaves your device. Everything you tell the app about your baby stays on the phone.
Everything that leaves your device
Nothing. This app makes no network requests.
- Information about your baby's feeding, sleep and development is health information, and it is treated as such: it is never transmitted, and there is nowhere for us to receive it even if we wanted to.
- The AI coach runs on Apple's on-device model. On devices that cannot run it, the app falls back to the written guidance rather than sending anything away.
- Notifications are scheduled locally by the app. There is no push server.
- Best Dad is guidance, not medical advice. It does not diagnose, and every serious section points you to a clinician.
Where your content lives
Your baby's details, your answers and your progress are stored on the device. There is no account, no cloud sync and no server-side copy.
Analytics
None. No usage statistics, crash reports or telemetry are collected.
Permissions it asks for
- Photos
- Attaching a picture of a label so the Coach can read it. The text is extracted on your device and the image is never uploaded.
AI disclosure
The coach generates text with a language model. It can be wrong. It is not a doctor, a midwife or a nurse, and it is not a substitute for one. Nothing you type is used to train any model.
Models
- Apple Foundation Models (on-device)
Licensing
Apple's on-device model is provided by the operating system and governed by Apple's terms.