Napper alternatives: four baby sleep apps compared

Napper and four alternatives, side by side

Napper's US listing shows two current plans: Napper Sleep at $14.99 a month or $89.99 a year, and Napper Complete at $19.99 a month or $129.99 a year. Its website offers a 7-day free trial. The listing does not say which features stay free without a plan.

For Huckleberry, the App Store lists the amounts without saying which is monthly and which is yearly. The pattern is a lower monthly price and a higher annual one. Huckleberry and Napper both show the price for your country inside the app, so confirm it there before you subscribe.

Who wrote this. We make Nova Baby, so read this page as our view and check anything that matters to you. Prices and features for the other apps come from their US App Store listings and their own websites, read on 10 November 2026. Prices are in US dollars and differ by country. We did not test every feature of the other apps. "Not stated" means the maker's listing and site do not say, not that the feature is missing. If something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@getnovababy.com and we will correct it.

The alternatives in brief

Nova Baby

A free iPhone tracker built to tell you when the next sleep is likely. Log a wake-up and Nova shows the next sleep window with a confidence level, a countdown and the reason. Predictions, logging, charts, widgets, sleep sounds, partner sharing and the Huckleberry import are free. Nova Plus ($7.99 a month or $49.99 a year) adds the Ask Nova assistant and AI Patterns. How the predictions work.

Choose it if you use an iPhone, track one baby and want predictions without a subscription. Look elsewhere if you need Android, an Apple Watch app or several children in one app.

Huckleberry

The tracker most parents have heard of. Logging for every activity, reminders, several children and syncing between caregivers are free. SweetSpot, which predicts sleep times for babies from 2 months, is part of Plus along with a schedule creator and AI logging by text, voice or photo. Premium adds an AI chat and custom sleep plans.

Choose it if you want one app across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, or you track more than one child. Look elsewhere if the reason you came is predictions and you would rather not pay for them.

Baby Daybook

A full tracker with real-time syncing between caregivers, profiles for twins and siblings, printable reports and, per its listing, personalised sleep predictions. Premium comes as monthly, yearly or lifetime purchases, so you can pay once.

Choose it if you want a lifetime purchase or need an iPad app.

Nara Baby

A broad family tracker: feeds, nappies, sleep, growth, milestones and medical records for the baby, plus pregnancy and postpartum tracking for the parent. It handles twins and siblings and shares across caregivers. Its listing mentions nap routines based on wake windows but not predictions.

Choose it if you want one record for the whole family rather than a sleep forecast.

What Napper still does better

Compared with Nova Baby today:

• A sleep course is built in. Nova has sleep sounds but no course.
• It runs on Android and Apple Watch. Nova Baby is iPhone only.
• It is available in 20 languages. Nova is in seven.
• It plans the whole day's naps and bedtime. Nova shows the next window and updates after each wake-up.

Where Nova Baby is different

• Predictions are free, with no trial clock.
• Every window explains itself: a confidence level and the reason, for example 150 minutes after the last wake.
• No account to start. The log lives on your iPhone and the prediction is worked out there.
• Your data is portable. Export the full history as a CSV at any time, free.

Moving your data from Napper

Napper's website and App Store listing do not describe a data export, so ask their support at the address in the app before you plan around one. Nova Baby's import reads Huckleberry's CSV format. Without a file to import you start a fresh log, and Nova gives a first sleep window after one finished sleep.

Questions

Is Napper free?

Napper is free to download with in-app purchases. Its US App Store listing shows Napper Sleep at $14.99 a month or $89.99 a year and Napper Complete at $19.99 a month or $129.99 a year, and its website offers a 7-day free trial. The listing does not say which features remain free.

What is the best free alternative to Napper?

On iPhone, Nova Baby: it predicts the next sleep window free, with a confidence level and the reason, and needs no account. It has sleep sounds too, but not a sleep course like Napper's.

Which is cheaper, Napper or Huckleberry?

On the US App Store, Huckleberry Plus is listed at $11.99, and at $58.99 and $68.99. Napper Sleep is listed at $14.99 a month or $89.99 a year. Both show local prices in the app.

Does Nova Baby have sleep sounds?

Yes. The Sounds tab has white, pink and brown noise, rain, ocean and night sounds, and four lullabies. They are free, have a sleep timer and keep playing with your phone locked.

Is there an app like Napper for Android?

Napper and Huckleberry both have Android apps. Nova Baby is iPhone only for now and is coming to Google Play.

Does Napper predict naps better than Nova Baby?

We have not run a fair test and nobody publishes comparable accuracy figures, so we will not claim either way. Nova shows a confidence level and the reason for each window so you can judge it against your own baby.