An honest comparison
Paige vs Glow Baby
Glow Baby is the closest of the three to Paige in what it logs, and the furthest from it in how it treats the data. It tracks more things than Paige and turns them into charts. It also shows ads on its free tier and shares data with advertisers, which is exactly the trade Paige exists to avoid.
What Glow Baby does well
- Breadth. Feeds, nappies, sleep and pumping, plus growth charts, milestones, temperature, symptoms and medications, with colour-coded charts. Paige deliberately doesn’t do growth charts.
- AI forecasts for the next nap and next feed.
- PDF and CSV export on the paid tier, handy for sharing with a doctor.
- Native iPhone and Android apps, including Apple Watch.
Side by side
| Glow Baby | Paige | |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Required for full functionality. | No account. Your phone gets a key, and recovery words get you back in. |
| Price | Free with ads; Premium is around $60 a year at the time of writing, with a family plan above that. It’s a US product, priced in dollars. | Free. Pay what you can, if you like. |
| Encryption | Not end-to-end encrypted. Encrypted in transit; Mozilla’s reviewers couldn’t verify encryption at rest. | End-to-end encrypted. We can’t read your log. |
| Works offline | Offline use isn’t advertised either way. | Works offline, and syncs when you’re back. |
| Apps | Native iOS and Android apps, plus Apple Watch. | Web app you add to your home screen, on iPhone and Android. |
| Predictions and coaching | AI forecasts for the next nap and feed. | None, on purpose. It’s a log, not a coach. |
Who should pick Glow Baby
Pick Glow Baby if you want to chart everything, growth percentiles included, and export it for appointments, and the ads and data sharing don’t bother you.
Who should pick Paige
Pick Paige if the data staying private is the point. No ads, no advertisers, no account, and encryption that means nobody but your household can read a word of it.
If Paige sounds like your kind of thing, it takes about ten seconds to find out.