Sparrow: Baby & Tube Tracker
Ryan Lubbers Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Sparrow: Baby & Tube Tracker is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Ryan Lubbers. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 35 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 1
- 2026 · v1.1.1
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About Sparrow: Baby & Tube Tracker
Most baby trackers assume a typical baby. Sparrow tracks that baby too — and the one who comes home with a feeding pump, six medications and a bag of supplies. Built by a parent, for the 3am version of yourself: one hand free, holding a baby, trying to remember whether that dose already happened. ONE DAY, ONE TIMELINE Home is the day itself, not a grid of buttons. It shows everything that's already happened, a marker for right now, and what's still coming — so you can hand the phone to the other caregiver and they're caught up in a second. LOGGING THAT TAKES ONE HAND Feeds — nursing, expressed, formula, supplement or water Tube feeds — bolus or pump, with a built-in rate calculator Medications — dose, route and schedule, logged in a single tap Diapers, sleep, pumping, solid food and symptoms Every entry can be backdated when you log it late, because you will Turn off what you don't use. A child with no G-tube never sees a tube feed screen, and a child who's never had formula won't find it in the picker. A FEED THAT IS STILL RUNNING Start a pump or gravity feed and it counts down on the home screen — how much has gone in, how long is left, and at what rate. Pause it for venting or retching, and pick up exactly where you left off. If a feed ends short, it's recorded as short — 140 ml of 200 planned, not a 140 ml feed that went as planned. That's the number worth flagging for your dietitian. FOR TUBE-FED KIDS A pump rate calculator that shows its working Feeds and water flushes are tracked separately, so a flush counts as hydration and doesn't reset your feeding reminder Supplies and equipment — change intervals, how many are left, expiry dates, cleaning checklists and condition photos. Logging a change takes one off the count Reminders per content type: milk every 12 hours and water every 3, at the same time REMINDERS YOU SET, NOT A CARE PLAN Sparrow doesn't invent a schedule — it reminds you of what you told it, on the interval you set, and shows what's due on the home screen. MORE THAN ONE CAREGIVER Invite a partner, a grandparent or a night nurse with a code. Everyone sees the same day, and every entry records who logged it. Switch between children from any screen. FOR APPOINTMENTS Keep a running list of questions so you stop losing them between visits. Share a visit summary as a PDF — recent intake, sleep, diapers, doses and your open questions — or export 90 days as a CSV. Or share a day-by-day table of the last 7 or 30 days — intake by mouth and by tube, water, diapers, doses, sleep and weight, with totals and daily averages. It prints. GROWTH AND MILESTONES Weight, height and head circumference over time, in your units. Milestones with the date you actually noticed them. PRIVACY Your child's records belong to you and your household. Nothing you log is ever passed to advertisers. Sign in with Apple only, so there's no password to lose. Everything is stored under your account and readable only by the caregivers you invite. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. UNITS THAT MATCH YOUR CLINIC Millilitres or ounces, grams or pounds, Celsius or Fahrenheit. Change it once and every screen follows. Sparrow is free, supported by a single banner ad on browsing screens. There are never ads on the medication screen or on any logging sheet. Sparrow is a tracking tool, not a medical device. It doesn't diagnose, advise or check dosing. Always confirm doses, rates and feeding plans with your care team.
What’s new
Version 1.1.1 · Updated October 1, 2026
• Log a due dose straight from Home with one tap. No more detour through the Meds screen. • Medications can now repeat every few hours, counted from the last dose. Give an every-12-hours medication at 7 AM and the next dose is due at 7 PM. • Medication reminders now follow the latest dose, whichever caregiver's phone it was logged on, and update when Sparrow is opened. • Sparrow now refreshes when you come back to it. • Fixes and improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Ryan Lubbers, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
Used for: Third-Party Advertising
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