LittleStems
A gentle way to remember how they grew. Milestones, moments, and the funny things they say - saved in one calm place, and yours to keep.
Researched milestones and answers, drawn from NHS, WHO, CDC, and AAP guidance - wide typical ranges, not deadlines.
Home, at a glance
A growth stem that fills in
A little stem, not a progress bar. It grows, sprouts leaves and eventually blooms in 4 categories as you log. Something to look at to see progress in every area without reducing childhood to a single percentage.
What's next, gently. Home also shows what's coming, with tips for the moments ahead.
Home screen for a child named Isla, aged 2 years 11 months, with 72 milestones logged. A growth stem with leaves and flowers in four colours represents Physical, Communication, Social, and Cognitive progress. Below, an Up next list shows skills such as pedalling a tricycle and talking clearly enough for others to understand, each with a wide typical age range.
The milestone tracker
Milestones, paced to your child
108 milestones, four areas. No red flags, no scores - just what tends to come next.
Room when it's needed. Optional pacing preferences widen the windows for prematurity, developmental delay, physical or motor disability, vision or hearing differences, or simply wanting extra room. Never a diagnosis - just more space.
A nudge, if you want one. Optional reminders when a milestone window opens, so you can log it or read a tip.
Milestone tracker with filters open for ages 24 to 36 months. Physical, Communication, Social, and Cognitive show progress counts. Cognitive is expanded, showing logged milestones with photo thumbnails and one still to log with its typical age window. No scores or red flags.
Follow each stem
Track your child across four scientifically backed categories - Physical, Communication, Social, and Cognitive. Physical and Communication each split further in the app, so you can follow gross and fine motor, or receptive and expressive language, on their own.
Physical
37 milestones
Gross and fine motor together - rolling, sitting, and first steps, plus early pincer grips and scribbles.
Communication
28 milestones
Receptive and expressive - turning to a voice, babbling in turn, first words, then two together.
Social
22 milestones
Smiling back, playing alongside others, and reading how people feel.
Cognitive
21 milestones
Hidden things still exist, actions cause effects, and early problem solving.
Physical
37 milestones
Gross and fine motor together - rolling, sitting, and first steps, plus early pincer grips and scribbles.
Communication
28 milestones
Receptive and expressive - turning to a voice, babbling in turn, first words, then two together.
Social
22 milestones
Smiling back, playing alongside others, and reading how people feel.
Cognitive
21 milestones
Hidden things still exist, actions cause effects, and early problem solving.
The growth timeline
A timeline that tells the story
One story, newest first. Everything you log lands in one place. Milestones, moments, and sayings together, so a year of small moments reads as the year it actually was.
Customizable themes. Choose a look that suits you, including a gentle night mode for quiet updates after bedtime.
The top of the growth timeline, newest first. A green stem runs down the left past entries such as asking why questions, the saying My want to do it with a playable sound clip, avoiding known hazards, and a first of finding a crab in a rock pool with a photo. Milestones, firsts, and sayings appear together.
Memories
Little adventures, memories and the funny things they say
The moments no milestone list has ever covered. Add a photo, a video, or a recording of that voice before it changes. First bath, first day at nursery, and all the funny toddlerisms - kept with the rest of their story on the timeline.
75 little adventures before they're five. Catch raindrops on a palm, crunch through dry leaves, bring a bare branch indoors and watch it think it's spring. One idea a day, chosen for their age and the season, kept as memories. Swap any you can't do where you live.
Memories screen on the Moments tab. A Something to try card suggests one little adventure for today, chosen for the child's age and the season, with buttons to mark it done or see all 75. Below, filter chips for All and Firsts, then a list of moments such as finding a crab in a rock pool and first cloud spotting, with photos, the firsts marked with a butterfly.
Start with today
LittleStems makes it easy to backfill past milestones. Log one thing they did this week, and let the rest build itself.
Everything in one calm place
- Growth stem
- Timeline
- Milestones
- Pacing
- Reminders
- Up next
- Tips
- Memories
- Little adventures
- Ask
Ask LittleStems
Ask when worry pops up
Sourced, never made up. Every answer comes from the LittleStems Corpus - development guidance we've reviewed, drawn from WHO, CDC, and NHS materials - with its source shown. If we don't have a sourced answer, Ask says so instead of inventing one.
Plain language, at the moment you're wondering. General development guidance matched to your child's age - in the middle of the night, if that's when the worry arrives.
Knows its limits. Never a diagnosis, and never a substitute for your health visitor or GP - and if a question sounds urgent, Ask points you to real help straight away.
Ask LittleStems bottom sheet over the home screen. The question field reads: Strangers can't always understand Isla - when should her speech be clear? Suggested questions and an Ask button sit below, with a note that Ask is educational only and not an emergency service.
Get LittleStems
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.