Tinybeans is a free iPhone app to create baby journal by adding photos, videos, and text notes. The app provides you with a calendar format journal in which you can add precious moments (photos, video, text notes) of your baby each day. The app even supports editing of photos, including options to add stickers, etc.. You can also choose to add multiple moments of your baby for any particular day. You can choose to share your journal with others for them to cherish your baby’s moments.
Other than just adding moments, you can even add milestones of your baby, like when he/she spoke for the first time, started learning and solving problems, started moving fingers/pick objects, and any of the milestone or special moment you can think of. You can also keep a track your baby’s weight and height.
Using This iPhone App to Create Baby Journal By Adding Photos, Videos:
Before you can start creating your baby journal, you have to signup with the Tinybeans, using either your Facebook account, or simply any email address. After registration, next step is to enter a few details about your baby: Name, A photo, Gender, and Date of Birth.
On entering these details, you are taken to app’s home screen. At the top of the home screen, you can see the name of your baby’s journal. Just below the journal name, there is current month’s name. Then, there are 3 main options to create and maintain an awesome journal: Treasure, Shape, and Share.
Treasure:
This is the option from where you can add different moments of your baby using photos, videos and adding text. You can see that it has a calendar view. You can swipe up/down to switch between months of a calendar year. For adding moments to journal, you have to tap on the date for which you want to add it. You can also use New option at bottom, but it lets you add moments to the current date only.
On tapping the date, you will see the interface shown in the screenshot below. You can swipe left/right to switch between dates. For adding moment, tap on the big box with text Add A New Moment.
It will open your iPhone’s camera roll for selecting photos and videos. You can choose only one photo/video in one go. The options for adding text note, click a new photo from the camera are at the bottom. Choose option as per your choice and tap on Next option.
You will see the editing area. If you want to edit, tap on Edit Image option, otherwise tap on tick mark icon at top right to add photo/video to journal. If you choose the editing option, then you will see options like Enhance, Effects, Frames, Stickers, Sharpness, Crop, Adjust, etc.. to make it look more beautiful.
This way, you can add as many moments as you like to the journal.
Shape:
From here, you can check current age of your baby, add weight, height, milestones, and moments. The height and weight can be added by simply tapping on them.
On tapping Milestones, you will see a list of different milestones like Cognitive, Speech & Language, Fine Motor, etc.. Each of the milestones also has a description, so that you can decide which category suits your baby’s milestone.
On choosing category, you will see a list of all milestones categorized under it on the basis of age group. Tap on the milestone to read about and add photos to it.
This way, you can add all the milestone of your baby to the app easily.
Share:
This option is for sharing journal and moments of your baby with others, like friends and family members. You can choose to share journal and moments with them via email address.
While inviting, you can grant access permissions to them as per your preference. The app invites them via email by sending them password as well. They can login to Tinybeans website to access your journal and check updates.
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Final Verdict:
Tinybeans is a free iPhone app to create baby journal by adding photos, journals, and text notes. The app is very easy to use and really helps you in creating a beautiful baby journal. The feature to add milestones and share with others makes it one of the must have apps for parents. Its definitely worth a try.
