iPhone first, then Android
Five years of your child's life, on your phone and nowhere else.
Every milestone, photograph, immunisation and measurement from birth to five, kept in one record that never touches a server — and that ends as a finished book you can open in twenty years without this app, or any app.
Notify me at launch What's inside
One email when it ships — that's the whole mailing list. Or write to firstalmanac@fiskllc.com.
The claim, checkable
Most baby apps say “private.” This one has nowhere to send it.
There is no server, no account and no analytics, so there is no path for your child's photographs to leave the device. The immunisation schedule, the dosing charts and the whole guide are compiled into the app — nothing is fetched, so nothing is logged.
Not a promise. A consequence of the architecture. Read the two-minute privacy policy.
Itemized
Everything a first five years should carry.
| 1 × | Timeline from birth to five — moments, milestones, letters and photographs on a single measured spine, with the age at every entry |
| 36 × | Guide pages on feeding, safe sleep, fever, tantrums, sleep, play, screens and safety — each one naming the published guidance it was written from |
| 8 × | Immunisation series tracked against the AAP schedule, with the brand-dependent dose counts handled properly |
| 2 × | Full-screen dosing charts — acetaminophen and ibuprofen — with interval timing so two tired people cannot double-dose |
| 12 × | Holidays computed for any birth date, including Easter, so “first Christmas” lands on the right one |
| 20 × | Primary teeth, tapped in as they appear |
| 8 × | Animal breathing exercises, timed, for the calm after the storm rather than during it |
| 2 × | Things the app makes for you: a keepsake book that opens without any app, and a one-page summary for the pediatrician |
| 0 × | Accounts, subscriptions, adverts, or bytes sent anywhere |
| 1 × | Payment, ever — $49.99 once, after 30 free days, and never again |
One timeline, not four apps.
A vaccination date and a first-steps photograph are the same kind of thing — something that happened, on a day, to your child. They sit on one spine, in order, with the age worked out for you. Feeds, nappies and sleep are logged separately and deliberately kept off it: nobody wants the 3am nappy of 14 March in the book they hand over at eighteen.
The book already exists.
Every month and every year with anything in it is a finished book, assembled as you go. Export one and you get a single self-contained page — photographs, letters and all — that opens in any browser, forever, with no app and no internet. That is the thing that survives the phone.
A record the pediatrician can actually read.
One page: birth details, every immunisation you recorded, growth with the birth measurement as its first row, and the last fortnight of feeds, nappies and sleep rolled up by day. Printable, and clearly marked as a parent's own record rather than a vaccination certificate.
It tells you when it doesn't know.
There is no dose calculator, because the right amount depends on the concentration of the bottle in your house and a number generated by an app is a number nobody checked. There are no percentile curves, because reading a growth chart is a clinical act. There is no calendar of difficult weeks, because a date telling you your child should be hard today makes an ordinary week feel like evidence.
What you get instead: the published chart to read yourself, your pediatrician's own dose stored where you can find it at 3am, and the interval timer that stops the actual accident.
See some of it first
Two of the reference tables, free, right here.
These are in the app exactly as they are here. If they are not useful, the app will not be either.
| Where | Fresh | Thawed |
|---|---|---|
| Countertop, 77°F or colder | Up to 4 hours | 1–2 hours |
| Cooler bag with ice packs | Up to 24 hours | Keep cold, use that day |
| Refrigerator, 40°F | Up to 4 days | Up to 1 day (24 hours) |
| Freezer compartment in a fridge | About 2 weeks | Never refreeze |
| Freezer with its own door | About 6 months | Never refreeze |
| Deep freezer | Up to 12 months | Never refreeze |
The 24 hours is counted from when it finished thawing, not from when you took it out of the freezer. Warmed milk goes within 2 hours. A bottle the baby drank from goes within 2 hours of them finishing.
Source: CDC human milk storage guidance. The three freezer rows come from WIC materials adapted from CDC — the CDC's own single figure is that within 6 months is best and up to 12 months is acceptable at 0°F. Formula keeps to different times entirely.
| Weight | Dose | Liquid |
|---|---|---|
| 6 – 11 lb | 40 mg | 1.25 mL |
| 12 – 17 lb | 80 mg | 2.5 mL |
| 18 – 23 lb | 120 mg | 3.75 mL |
| 24 – 35 lb | 160 mg | 5 mL |
| 36 – 47 lb | 240 mg | 7.5 mL |
Not under 3 months unless your clinician says so — a fever in the first twelve weeks needs assessing in person, not treating at home. Dose by weight, not age, and read the concentration on the bottle in your hand before you read the row.
Source: weight-banded dosing tables from Packard Children's / Stanford Medicine Children's Health, rev. 1/2026, adapted from HealthyChildren.org (AAP). Every millilitre re-derived from the milligram dose and the printed concentration. The app carries ibuprofen too.
What it looks like
Two screens, unretouched.
Taken on a phone, cropped only to remove the clock and the battery. Nothing is mocked up.
What it costs
Free for 30 days, then $49.99 once.
One payment. No subscription, now or later. It covers all five years, and if you buy it on one device you can restore it on another.
| Free | Recording everything — entries, photographs, feeds, nappies, sleep, growth, teeth, immunisations — and saving your record out to a file you keep. This never stops working, whether you buy or not. |
| $49.99 | The guide and its 36 sourced pages, the dosing and milk-storage charts, the keepsake books and PDFs, the pediatrician summary, the WHO growth curves, and more than one child. |
For comparison: the best-known app in this category charges $119.99 a year for its headline feature. Five years of First Almanac costs less than five months of that.
Who wrote it
Written by a surgeon. The guidance pages were written by an AI.
That second sentence is on the guide itself, at the top, in the app — not buried here. Every page names the published guidance it was written from: the AAP for the immunisation schedule and safe sleep, the CDC for solids, choking and milk storage, the National Weather Service formulas for the outdoor-conditions tool. None of those organisations has reviewed this app or contributed to it.
The record itself — the timeline, the export, the charts, the whole architecture — is one pair of hands.
not medical advicenot specific to your childyour pediatrician outranks it
Why this exists
I'm a surgeon, and I kept the wrong record. The wristband numbers went in a drawer. The immunisation card went to one appointment and came back to a different bag. The photographs are on a phone, in a cloud, belonging to a company, sorted by an algorithm that thinks a screenshot of a parking ticket is as important as the day she walked.
Every app I tried wanted an account, wanted a subscription, and wanted the photographs on their server. The keepsake ones don't hold the health record. The health ones don't hold the keepsake. And none of them produce anything you could actually hand over at eighteen.
So I built the one I wanted: everything in one place, kept on the phone, and finished — a book that already exists rather than one you keep meaning to make.
— the founder, Fisk LLC
Launching soon
iPhone first, then Android.
One email when it ships. That's the whole mailing list.