Best Pregnancy Apps in 2026: What to Expect, Flo, BabyCenter, The Bump, Pregnancy+ and Avo Compared

There are more pregnancy apps than weeks of pregnancy, and five names come up more than any others: What to Expect, Flo, BabyCenter, The Bump and Pregnancy+. The sixth app here, Avo Pregnancy, is ours and is a different kind of thing: a food checker with a week-by-week attached. This roundup puts all six in the same table, built strictly from each app's own US App Store listing on 3 November 2026, with our own weaknesses in the same rows as everyone else's.

The short version: the big five are better pregnancy apps and Avo is the better food checker. Which one of the big five depends on whether you want 3D views, a community, a registry or your cycle tracker to carry on, and we have written a head-to-head for each: What to Expect, Flo, Pregnancy+, The Bump and BabyCenter.

What each pregnancy app does, from their own App Store listings on 3 November 2026.

What should a pregnancy app do?

Across nine months a pregnant person gives an app six jobs:

1. Tell them what is happening this week, and ideally show it.
2. Answer "can I eat this?" about the specific food in front of them, with the rule behind the answer.
3. Count the nutrients that matter in pregnancy: iron, folate, calcium, DHA and protein, not just weight.
4. Log the body: symptoms, mood, weight, kicks, and later contractions.
5. Put them in touch with people at the same stage.
6. Help plan the arrival: the registry, the names, the hospital bag, the birth plan.

No app does all six well. The big five do jobs 1, 4, 5 and 6 and treat job 2 as reading. Avo does jobs 2 and 3, adds 500 recipes to cook from, and treats job 1 as text. That is the whole comparison, and the table shows it row by row.

The comparison table

Ratings measure age and audience as much as quality. Flo has two million ratings and years as a cycle tracker behind it. Avo has two because it launched this year.

What to Expect: the all-rounder

What to Expect is free, has no in-app purchases listed, and does more things than any other app here: weekly 3D development videos, themed size comparisons, a community, a registry, a journal, symptom and weight logging, twin mode, due date and ovulation calculators, and a newborn log that carries on after the birth. Its listing says the app is "trusted by more than 15 million parents". Its answer to a food question is an article. English only. Our head-to-head with What to Expect goes row by row.

Flo: the one you already have

Flo tracks the cycle, the conception and then, in Pregnancy Mode, the pregnancy, so nobody has to leave it when the test is positive. It logs more than 70 symptoms and moods, offers an Anonymous Mode with no personal identifiers linked to health data, and lists 21 languages. Premium adds a "24/7 virtual Health Assistant" for "your body and cycle trends" and expert-led videos; Flo Premium is listed at prices from $1.99 to $59.99 by plan, with a separate Flo Pregnancy Tracker purchase at $49.99. The listing does not describe food safety or nutrient tracking. Our head-to-head with Flo has the detail.

Pregnancy+: the 3D baby

Philips' Pregnancy+ is the app people download to turn the baby around on the screen. Interactive 3D models, daily articles, a kick counter, contraction timer, weight log, an exportable birth plan, a hospital bag list split for mother, partner and baby, and thousands of baby names. Fourteen languages. Food is covered in its guides. Premium is $34.99 a year, $5.99 a month or $3.59 a week, and the listing claims more than 80 million downloads. Our head-to-head with Pregnancy+ compares the tools.

The Bump: the registry

The Bump is free with no purchases listed, and its strength is the planning: a registry that gathers "the top registry products across Amazon, Target, Walmart" and tracks several registries at once, curated baby name lists by length, style, origin and meaning, and a 3D interactive view of the baby's weekly growth. Tools include a countdown, a journal, a kick counter, a weight gain tracker and a contraction counter. Its listing cites awards from Forbes and the TODAY Show; it does not describe food safety. English only. Our head-to-head with The Bump is here.

BabyCenter: the Birth Club

BabyCenter, from the same company as What to Expect, is free and built around its Birth Clubs: "meet people with due dates in the same month". Daily highlights, a Baby Name Generator, a kick counter and a contraction timer round it out. Four languages: English, German, Portuguese and Spanish. A food question is answered by an article or by the club. Our head-to-head with BabyCenter goes further.

Avo Pregnancy: the food checker (our app)

Avo Pregnancy does the job the other five leave to articles. It rates 365 foods Safe, Caution or Avoid with the reason, from brie to bubble tea, and publishes the same list free in our pregnancy food library. Snap a plate or a product and it rates what is on it; point Scan Menu at a restaurant menu and it sorts the dishes into "Best Picks for You" and "Better to Skip". Every verdict links to the guidance behind it, and where the FDA, the NHS and the European agencies disagree, our foods to avoid during pregnancy guide shows the difference. Nutrient rings for iron, folate, calcium, DHA, protein and water fill against trimester targets from what you log or scan, and 500 pregnancy recipes are filtered by trimester with every ingredient rated.

Its limits are plain. It is the newest app here, with two ratings. Its week-by-week is text and illustration, not 3D, and it leaves the community and the registry to the other five. Its store listing is English, though the app runs in 19 languages. Free to download with a limited number of free scans; premium is $29.99 a year or $3.99 a week. For a comparison with the other food scanners, see our pregnancy food apps roundup.

Which pregnancy app should you choose?

• You want one free app that does the most: What to Expect.
• You already track your cycle in Flo: stay in Flo.
• You want to see the baby in 3D every week: Pregnancy+ or The Bump.
• You want the registry inside the app: The Bump.
• You want people due the same month to talk to: BabyCenter.
• You want to know whether you can eat the thing in front of you: Avo Pregnancy, alongside one of the above.

Whichever you choose, the food rules underneath are the same ones every app is applying. Our cheese, listeria and eating out guides are those rules in plain words.

Prices, features and ratings are from the US App Store on 3 November 2026 and will change. Avo Pregnancy is made by Avo Parenting, the publisher of this site. What to Expect, Flo, Pregnancy+, The Bump and BabyCenter are trademarks of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Avo Parenting and have not reviewed or endorsed this comparison.