Every feature we refuse is a feature you do not have to ignore.
That sentence is the whole position. The rest of this post is the long form.
The shape of most baby apps
Open the App Store. Search "baby." You will find apps that track feeds, diapers, milestones, vaccinations, weight, head circumference, tummy time, mood. Even the colour of what came out of the diaper.
Some of those things matter. Some of them matter a lot. None of them matter to napmath.
We are not building a database of your baby's day. We are building a planner for one specific problem.
The problem napmath solves
You are doing arithmetic in your head, all day, about when the next nap should start. You are good at it. You are also tired.
That is the problem. The whole product is the answer to that problem. Everything else is somebody else's app.
What "comprehensive" actually feels like
A comprehensive baby tracker promises peace of mind. What it delivers is a 2 AM notification reminding you to log the last feed.
Then a screen full of empty fields. Then a guilt nudge a week later because your "log streak" is broken. Then a paywall in front of the chart you actually wanted to see.
The promise was peace of mind. The product was a part-time job.
napmath is not that. napmath will never be that.
The cost of one more field
Every input field in an app costs the user something. You have to look at it. You have to decide whether to fill it in. You have to feel slightly bad if you do not.
A diaper tracker is not free, even if you never tap it. It sits there. It takes up screen space. It tells you, quietly, that someone thinks you should be logging this.
We removed it. Not because diapers do not matter. Because the parent we are building for has enough running through their head already.
What we kept
napmath only tracks two things: when your baby is asleep and when your baby is awake.
That is not a limitation. It is the entire architecture. Sleep state drives the timeline. The timeline drives the widget. The widget gives you one-handed control. The control updates the timeline. There is no second loop.
Adding diapers would mean adding a second loop. Adding feeds would mean adding a third. Each one drags the centre of gravity away from the one job the app is supposed to do.
If you need a tracker, get a tracker
This is not a war. There are good trackers out there. Some parents need them. Pediatricians ask for the data. Newborns demand the spreadsheet.
Run a tracker alongside napmath if that is your situation. We will not be offended. We will be quietly relieved. We did not have to build a worse version of something that already exists.
napmath does naps. The other apps do the other things. Pick the right tool for the right job.
The promise
napmath will never track diapers. It will never track feeds. It will never track milestones, weight, percentiles, mood, or what came out of the baby.
It will plan your day. It will recalculate when reality breaks the plan. It will fit on a home screen widget. It will answer one tap from one finger while your other arm holds a sleeping baby.
That is the deal. We refuse the rest so you do not have to ignore it.