Parenting & Family · head to head
Glow Baby vs Tiny Beans
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Glow Baby glow Premium is $59.99 a year after a 7 day free trial and is required for the GlowGPT health assistant, advanced analytics, comparative health insights and an ad free experience; Tiny Beans the free Tinybeans plan is capped at 20 uploads per month and 5GB of storage
- They diverge on capability: Glow Baby covers Nursing & bottle tracking, Tiny Beans covers Private photo sharing.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Glow Baby and Tiny Beans actually diverge.
| Attribute | Glow Baby | Tiny Beans |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Ios, Android | Ios, Android, Web |
| Founded | 2013 | 2012 |
Identical on both: starting price (Free), pricing model (freemium), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Parenting & Family).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Glow Baby
- Nursing & bottle tracking
- Pumping log
- Diaper tracking
- Sleep tracking
- Growth tracking
- Multiple caregivers
- Breast pump sync
- Apple Health
Only in Tiny Beans
- Private photo sharing
- Video sharing
- Daily email digests
- Child timelines
- Comments & reactions
- Print products
- Memory search
- Apple Photos
Both cover
- Milestone tracking
- Data encryption
- Cloud deployment
- Ios support
- Android support
- English language support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Glow Baby
- Tracking ovulation, pregnancy and newborn care across linked appsnot Tiny Beans
- Building a baby registry and logging feeding and sleep for a newbornnot Tiny Beans
Tiny Beans
- Keeping a private family photo and video journal organised by datenot Glow Baby
- Sharing baby photos with invited grandparents and relatives onlynot Glow Baby
- Turning saved moments into printed photo booksnot Glow Baby
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Glow Baby
- Glow Premium is $59.99 a year after a 7 day free trial and is required for the GlowGPT health assistant, advanced analytics, comparative health insights and an ad free experience
- The free trial has no stated cancel-anytime disclaimer beyond a general cancel anytime note, and converts to the paid annual charge unless cancelled first
Tiny Beans
- The free Tinybeans plan is capped at 20 uploads per month and 5GB of storage
- The free plan shows ads; an ad-free experience requires Tinybeans+
- A second user account to share the journal is a Tinybeans+ feature
- High-quality video uploads are limited to 5 minutes and require Tinybeans+
- Tinybeans+ storage is capped at 200GB rather than unlimited
- Priority support is restricted to Tinybeans+
- Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the period ends
Pricing, plan by plan
Glow Baby
Free- FreeFree
- Basic tracking
- Feeding log
- Diaper log
- Premium$47.99/year
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited data history
- Advanced insights
Tiny Beans
Free- FreeFree
- Photo & video sharing
- Daily email updates
- Milestone tracking
- Premium$4.99/month
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited storage
- Video longer than 1 min
Which should you pick?
Choose Glow Baby if
- You need nursing & bottle tracking.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Ios, Android.
- You also want pumping log.
Choose Tiny Beans if
- You need private photo sharing.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Ios, Android, Web.
- You also want video sharing.
Questions people ask
- Is Glow Baby or Tiny Beans better?
- Neither clearly leads. Glow Baby starts at Free and Tiny Beans at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Glow Baby or Tiny Beans?
- Glow Baby starts at Free and Tiny Beans at Free.
- Does Glow Baby or Tiny Beans run on more platforms?
- Glow Baby runs on Ios, Android. Tiny Beans runs on Ios, Android, Web.
- Can I use Glow Baby for free?
- Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
- What is Glow Baby best used for?
- Glow Baby is most often used for tracking ovulation, pregnancy and newborn care across linked apps, building a baby registry and logging feeding and sleep for a newborn. Of those, tracking ovulation, pregnancy and newborn care across linked apps and building a baby registry and logging feeding and sleep for a newborn are not what Tiny Beans is typically brought in for.
- What can Glow Baby do that Tiny Beans cannot?
- Glow Baby covers Nursing & bottle tracking, Pumping log, Diaper tracking, Sleep tracking. Tiny Beans covers Private photo sharing, Video sharing, Daily email digests, Child timelines. Both handle Milestone tracking, Data encryption, Cloud deployment, Ios support.