What is the best pregnancy app in Ireland? Free, with IVF tools

A declaration of interest first: we make Lullagram, in Ireland, so we are not a neutral party, and we have put it first on purpose. Everything we say about it below is what the app does today. The other apps on this page are good ones that Irish parents use and like, and we have kept what we say about them fair.

We built Lullagram because the apps most of us downloaded were made for everywhere, and the Irish parts were left to us: which scans you get, when the whooping cough vaccine is offered, when to apply for Maternity Benefit, how to get referred for free IVF. Lullagram puts those in the app for you, from the day you start trying to the day your baby arrives and beyond.

Why is Lullagram our pick for the best pregnancy app in Ireland?

In our view, because it is built around the Irish system rather than adapted to it, and the parts you need before the birth are free, with no trial and no card. Lullagram follows HSE guidance, works out your Irish dates and covers trying for a baby, IVF, pregnancy and your baby in one app.

• Free where it counts. The pregnancy tracker and the trying for a baby and IVF section are free, with no trial and no card. There are no ads either.
• Your Irish dates, worked out for you. From your due date, the app lays out the Irish dates for your stage: the free Maternity and Infant Care Scheme, your scans, the whooping cough vaccine and Maternity Benefit, ticked off as you go.
• HSE guidance, not American advice. The health guidance in the app comes from the HSE, from folic acid before you conceive to when to ring your maternity unit about baby's movements or contractions.
• Trying, IVF, pregnancy and baby in one app. The sections sit alongside each other. A positive test starts your pregnancy tracker in the same app, and the baby tracker is ready the day your baby arrives.
• Your maternity unit, built in. Choose from all 19 Irish maternity units, each linked to its HSE page and maternity emergency service.
• Made for two. Share your cycle with your partner if you choose, pick baby names together from the CSO list of Irish names and get a daily tip for your partner.
• Private by design. Your data is stored in an EU data centre in Ireland, the app asks for your agreement before it stores pregnancy or cycle details and your data is never sold.
• Made in Ireland by a parent. Christopher O'Callaghan built Lullagram after the night feeds with his own newborn, a story covered by Cork Beo, and parents rate it 5.0 on Google Play and Google.

Is there a free pregnancy app in Ireland?

Yes. Lullagram is a free pregnancy tracker app made in Ireland, with no trial and no card. It follows your pregnancy week by week from 4 to 42 weeks, works out your due date and the Irish dates that matter and includes a contraction timer, a bump diary and HSE guidance.

Here is what the free Lullagram pregnancy tracker includes:

• Week by week, 4 to 42. Your baby's size in cm and grams, compared with fruit and veg, Irish animals or sweets and treats, and what changes for you this week.
• Your due date. Worked out from your last period, conception, IVF transfer or dating scan. Twins too. You can also try the free due date calculator on this site.
• In Ireland, coming up. The Irish dates for your stage, from the free Maternity and Infant Care Scheme to your scans, the whooping cough vaccine and Maternity Benefit.
• Timeline and appointments. Scans, vaccines and leave laid out for your whole pregnancy, and your GP, midwife and scan dates in one place.
• Baby's movements. Get to know your baby's pattern, with the HSE advice on when to ring your maternity unit.
• Contraction timer. Tells you when the HSE says it is time to ring your maternity unit.
• Symptoms and mood. Log how you feel. If you log feeling low a few times, the app gently points you to perinatal support.
• Bump diary. A photo a week, shared with family as a picture card ready for WhatsApp.
• Hospital bag, birth plan and lists. An Irish hospital bag list, a birth plan, questions for your midwife and shared to do and shopping lists.
• Baby name match. Pick favourites with your partner from the CSO's list of Irish baby names and see which ones you both love.

You can read the same week by week guide on the website too: your pregnancy week by week, with the Irish dates for each week.

Is there an IVF and fertility app in Ireland?

Yes. Lullagram has a free trying for a baby and IVF section, made in Ireland, with no trial and no card. It tracks your cycle, likely fertile days and predicted ovulation, and explains how free IVF works in Ireland, from your GP referral to the HSE regional fertility hubs.

Here is what the free trying for a baby and IVF section includes:

• Your cycle at a glance. The day of your cycle, when your next period is due and the day to take a test if it doesn't come.
• Fertile days and ovulation. Your likely fertile days and predicted ovulation, worked out from your own cycle, on a calendar you can flick through month by month.
• Log today. Period flow, how you feel, cervical fluid, ovulation tests, temperature on waking and pregnancy tests. Only you can see it.
• Folic acid tick. The HSE advises 400 micrograms every day, starting at least 3 months before you get pregnant. Tick it off each day.
• HSE guidance, built in. Your fertile days, how long it can take, healthy habits, when to see your GP (sooner if you're 36 or over), early signs of pregnancy and pregnancy tests.
• Fertility help and free IVF. How your GP refers you to a regional fertility hub and who qualifies for free IVF, ICSI or IUI, with links to the HSE.
• Share with your partner, if you choose. They see your period days, test results and fertile window. Symptoms, temperature and notes stay private.
• Miscarriage and loss. Gentle HSE guidance and support, there if you ever need it.
• Positive test? Your pregnancy tracker starts in the same app, and if you conceived through IVF it can work out your due date from your transfer date.

Going through treatment now? Our guide Is there an IVF app in Ireland? covers the Lullagram IVF tools in detail: treatment dates, injections with reminders, supplies and appointments.

For the full picture of the HSE scheme, read who qualifies for free IVF in Ireland and how to get it, or use the fertile days calculator in our trying for a baby guide.

What app do I use once the baby is born?

If you used Lullagram through your pregnancy, you keep using Lullagram: the baby tracker is already in the same app. One tap when your baby arrives and it is ready for feeds, sleep, nappies, weight, the HSE vaccine schedule and PHN visit reports, shared between both parents in one household.

Here is the thing nobody mentions in the app store descriptions: most pregnancy apps wind down at the birth. The countdown reaches zero, the fruit comparisons run out and the app that walked you through nine months quietly retires, right at the moment the real logging starts. From day one it is feeds, sleep, nappies, weight, vaccines and PHN visits, and suddenly a midwife is asking how many wet nappies you have had since yesterday while you try to remember what day it is.

That after-the-birth job is what Lullagram was first built for. It follows the HSE vaccine schedule, prints a report you can hand to your public health nurse and both parents share one household, so whoever did the 4am feed has already logged it. Every baby tracker feature is free for 7 days, then it is €4.99 a month for the whole household, and you can cancel anytime. The pregnancy tracker and the trying for a baby and IVF section stay free.

How does Lullagram compare with other pregnancy apps?

Lullagram is built for Ireland: free pregnancy tracking and free trying for a baby and IVF support, with HSE guidance, your Irish dates and a baby tracker in the same app. Since October it also shows a 3D picture of your baby for every week from 4 to 42 and has the HSE pregnancy guides inside the app, in our own words. The international apps are good at what they focus on, whether that is community, charts or cycle tracking.

App	Best for
Lullagram	parents in Ireland: free pregnancy, trying for a baby and IVF, with HSE guidance, Irish dates and a baby tracker for after
Flo	cycle tracking that flows into pregnancy
Pregnancy+	3D models and practical birth tools
BabyCenter	a free all-rounder with a huge community
What to Expect	week by week guidance with personality
Emma's Diary	freebies and simple tracking
Peanut	community and talking to other mums
Natural Cycles	temperature-based cycle tracking

Plenty of parents use two: one of the international apps for the community, and Lullagram for the Irish side of things. If you would rather have one app from trying to toddler, with the Irish system built in, that is what we built Lullagram for.

What other pregnancy apps do Irish parents use?

Besides Lullagram, the names that come up again and again are Flo, Pregnancy+, BabyCenter, What to Expect, Emma's Diary, Peanut and Natural Cycles. Each one does its job well; the differences are mostly about whether you want charts, community, freebies or a 3D baby.

Flo

Flo is one of the most downloaded women's health apps in the world. It tracks periods, ovulation and pregnancy week by week, so if you were already using it before the two lines appeared, it carries you straight through. Partner sharing means the other half can follow along too.

Pregnancy+

Pregnancy+ is the pretty one, with 3D interactive models of the baby's development that you will find yourself showing to relatives. It is also practical: a due date calculator, kick counter, contraction timer, hospital bag checklist and birth planning tools all live inside it.

BabyCenter

BabyCenter is free, which is not nothing when the buggy alone costs a fortune. You get a due date countdown, development videos, a kick counter and an enormous community, plus week by week emails.

What to Expect

Built on the well-known book, with a clean interface, 3D renderings and the famous baby-size-as-fruit comparisons. This week your baby is a butternut squash, apparently. It is week by week guidance with a bit of personality.

Emma's Diary

Emma's Diary keeps things simple: a week by week tracker, baby name tools and a free welcome pack of goodies when you register. Irish parents have a long tradition of never turning down free stuff, and Emma's Diary respects that tradition.

Peanut

Peanut is less a tracker and more a community. It connects women through fertility, pregnancy and motherhood. If what you want is people rather than charts, this is the one.

Natural Cycles

Natural Cycles is temperature-based cycle and fertility tracking that can switch into a pregnancy and postpartum mode once you get there. If temperature charting is your thing at the trying stage, it is worth a look.

Are free pregnancy apps good enough?

Yes. Lullagram's pregnancy tracker and its trying for a baby and IVF section are free, with no trial and no card, and BabyCenter and Emma's Diary are free too. Flo, Pregnancy+ and What to Expect cover week by week tracking and a due date countdown without paying. Paid tiers only add extras, so start free and upgrade only if you miss something specific.

Nobody needs a paid app to have a well-tracked pregnancy. What makes the difference in Ireland is having the Irish dates and HSE guidance in front of you, rather than looking them up each time.

Is there a pregnancy app for dads and partners?

Yes. In Lullagram your partner is part of it from the start: you can share your cycle with them if you choose, pick baby names together with baby name match and there is a daily tip for your partner in the pregnancy tracker. After the birth, both parents log feeds, sleep and nappies into one household on their own phones.

Flo and Pregnancy+ also have partner modes that share the week by week updates, and plenty of dads just install the same app and follow along. The partner's big app moment really arrives after the birth, when night feeds and nappies become a two-person job.

Does Lullagram work on iPhone?

Yes. Lullagram is on Android from Google Play, and on iPhone it runs straight from Safari at lullagram.ie/app. Sign up free, add it to your home screen and it works like a normal app. It also works in any modern browser on a laptop or tablet.

Is my pregnancy and fertility data private in Lullagram?

Yes. Your data is stored in an EU data centre in Ireland and encrypted in transit and at rest. Pregnancy and cycle details are health data, so Lullagram asks for your agreement before it stores them. There are no ads, your data is never sold and you can export or delete it from inside the app.

If you share your cycle with your partner, they see your period days, test results and fertile window, while your symptoms, temperature and notes stay private. The full details are in our privacy policy.

How can I get ready before the birth?

Lullagram runs a free 5-week email course for expecting parents in Ireland at lullagram.ie/prepare. It covers what to pack, what the PHN visits look like, feeding options and what to track in week one. One email a week, no charge, unsubscribe anytime.

It is written for the Irish system rather than translated from somewhere else, and by the time the bag is packed you will know what a heel prick test is before someone does one on your baby. The Lullagram pregnancy tracker has an Irish hospital bag list and a birth plan built in too.