Baby Nap Tracker

Why nap tracking is different from night sleep

Naps are shorter, more frequent, and easier to forget than overnight sleep. A 12-minute catnap and a 90-minute nap can look the same in memory by evening. Parents also need the gap after a nap — the wake window — more than they need a perfect weekly average.

Little Nap treats naps as timed sessions. The home screen shows awake time after a nap ends, so the next decision is about the current stretch, not a reconstructed schedule. Night sleep uses the same one-tap timer, which keeps the log consistent when a late nap slides into bedtime.

What to log in a baby nap tracker

The useful fields are start time, end time, and whether the sleep was a nap or night sleep. Little Nap captures those with the timer. You can also add a recent nap from History if you remembered the times after the fact.

Diapers and feedings next to naps help when someone asks whether baby last ate before or after the last sleep. That context is often what a partner or grandparent needs, not a clinical chart.

• Start and stop the nap timer from the Nap Window screen
• Watch the Lock Screen timer without unlocking
• Add a missed nap later from History
• Keep twins on separate timers so one nap does not overwrite the other

How Little Nap turns naps into a next-window estimate

Little Nap blends age-based wake ranges with the median wake time from recent personal logs. A short nap can pull the next window earlier. A nap that would finish too close to bedtime can be treated more carefully so the suggestion does not crowd the night.

Confidence rises as more valid sleeps are logged. Early days lean on age. After several sleeps, the personal rhythm carries more of the estimate. Premium shows the window as a time range such as “Start nap between 15:39–15:59,” plus a confidence percentage and a short explanation of why that window opened.

How to use a nap tracker without turning it into homework

Log the sleeps you can. A complete week is better than a perfect week. Little Nap is designed for tired hands: the timer is the main action, and care events are quick adds rather than forms.

If a day is messy, the 7-day graph still shows the shape. That shape is often enough to notice that naps are drifting later, getting shorter, or clustering after feeds. The app will not score your parenting.