Tell it where you live and how you are covered. It tells you which tasks actually apply to your family, when each window closes, what documents to bring, and which office issues it.
iPhone · Works with no signal · No account needed
Available on the App StoreMost of the list has no deadline at all. Knowing which is which is the entire job.
A job-based plan must allow at least 30 days after a birth. The Marketplace is generally 60. The app knows which one you are.
Hospitals usually request the number on the registration form. The request is easy to miss, and nothing tells you it failed.
Records are issued by state or county offices with their own forms and fees. You get sent to the right one, not to a generic form.
Every task carries its own list, so you find out about the certified copy before you are standing at the counter.
Each rule links to the government page it came from, with the date that page was last read. No date is asserted without one.
Confirmation and tracking numbers live on the task they belong to, so you never have to find the email again.
The two deadlines that legally close are announced for everybody, free, and nothing else speaks unless you ask it to. An app that pings you about everything gets muted.
The plan as an order rather than a pile: what to start now, what is next, and what is simply waiting on a certificate to arrive.
Everything is on your phone, so the plan opens at the counter with one bar of signal. There is no server for it to wait on.
Baby Docs tracks whether the number has been requested and whether the card has arrived. It has no field for the number itself, and neither the one-page summary nor the employer packet ever prints one. There is no household-data account and no household-data server: everything you enter, and every document you photograph, stays on your iPhone unless you choose to send a plan. The plan link carries the answers needed to rebuild that plan. Photographs are held unreadable while the phone is locked and are excluded from every backup. Purchases are handled by Apple and RevenueCat, and those services receive no household data. No advertising SDK and no behavioural advertising.
Privacy Policy →How it is built and why it works that way.
The problem with newborn paperwork is not that it is hard. It is that nobody tells you what applies to you, and the two items with real deadlines look exactly like the eighteen that do not.
Generic checklists make this worse. They list a passport next to a health plan enrollment window as though the two are comparable, and they cannot tell you which vital records office issues your child's birth certificate, because they do not know where you are.
Baby Docs asks a short set of questions, and every answer changes the list. Married or not. Job-based plan or Marketplace. Born in one state, living in another. Then it gives you the tasks that apply, ordered by when they close, each one with the documents you will be asked for and a link to the office that handles it.
It does not file anything. Filing a parentage form, an IRS election or an insurance enrollment on someone's behalf is a promise no app should make. It takes you to the official page and gets out of the way.
Every task, every deadline, every document checklist and every official link is free, for every child, on one device, and so are the reminders for the two deadlines that legally close. Nothing with a date on it is ever behind a paywall: a deadline you cannot see is a deadline the app caused you to miss.
Plus is the timing and the order: reminders for the dates the app suggests as well as the two the law sets, one Sunday message naming what the week holds, the plan shown as a sequence including what is still waiting on something else, and the dates exported to your own calendar. It also keeps a place for photographs of the documents themselves, tracking for the things you have sent and are waiting on, the packet your employer asks for and the printable one-pager. It is priced weekly, which is unusual and deliberate. The need is intense for six to thirteen weeks and then genuinely over, so a weekly price is the honest one for something that ends. There is a one-time option for people who want to keep the document vault for good.
| Platform | iPhone, iOS 17 and later |
| Language | Swift 6, strict concurrency |
| Framework | SwiftUI |
| Data | SwiftData, on one device. No backend. |
| Storage | Local first, encrypted at rest by iOS |
| Account | None. There is nothing to sign in to. |
Only two deadlines are hard. The 30-day job-based enrollment window and the 60-day Marketplace one are the only things the app will send a notification about. Everything else is a suggestion and is drawn as one. An app that treats a passport like an insurance window teaches you to ignore both.
Every sourced rule cites its source. Each sourced task carries the government URL its rule came from and the date someone last read that page, on the task itself rather than behind an info button. Rules without an honest citation explain the limit. A rules app whose rules quietly go stale is worse than no app.
A verified state beats fifty guessed ones. Where we have read a state's own vital records page, the task links straight there and says so. Everywhere else it links to the federal directory, which has a state picker and is maintained by someone else. General and correct beats specific and wrong.
Changing an answer never destroys your work. Move from a job-based plan to the Marketplace and the plan rebuilds, but a task you have already completed, assigned or gathered documents for stays exactly as you left it.
Free for every child. No account needed to start.
Available on the App Store