Starting solids: frequently asked questions

A free baby food tracker for the first year of eating. It logs foods, textures, reactions and nappies on one timeline, turns the log into the 100 Foods Challenge, holds a library of 300+ first foods with age and allergen guidance, 500+ recipes, a 30-day first-tastes plan and Avo AI, which checks a plate or a product for your baby's age.

Yes. Logging foods, reactions and nappies, the 100 Foods Challenge and the food library are free. Premium, at $24.99 a year in the US store, unlocks nutrition insights and the full recipe features.

iPhone and Android. Download it here.

The app runs in 21 languages. The food library on this site is in 19, and the English page is the canonical version of each.

Solid Starts is a clinician-built reference library with a paid tracker; Avo is a free tracker with a reference library. Avo also logs nappies, which Solid Starts does not. We compare them row by row in Avo vs Solid Starts, and have done the same for BLW Meals and 101 Before One.

Around six months, and not before four, according to the AAP, the NHS and the WHO, once your baby can sit with support, hold their head steady, and bring things to their mouth. Our guide to the signs of readiness lists what to look for.

Either, or both. The evidence does not favour one over the other for growth or allergies, and many families mix them. Avo logs purées, mashes and finger foods the same way. Our guide to purées vs. baby-led weaning sets out the trade-offs.

Iron-rich foods early, such as meat, lentils, beans, tofu and iron-fortified cereal, with vegetables and fruit alongside. Our foods at 6 months page lists the library's starting set, and the 100 first foods checklist gives you a path.

One at the start, moving to two and then three by around nine months, with milk still the main source of nutrition until twelve months. Our 6 month old feeding schedule has a sample day.

Gagging is loud, red-faced and normal; choking is silent and needs help. Read our gagging vs. choking guide before the first finger food.

Honey, whole nuts and other choking shapes, added salt and sugar, cow's milk as a drink, and a few more. Our foods to avoid for babies under 1 lists them with the US, UK and EU reasons.

More than 300, each with the age it suits, allergen and choking flags, nutrition and how to serve it at six, nine and twelve months. Browse the library.

Yes. The whole library is on this site, free, in 19 languages, grouped by category, age and allergen.

Choking risk marks foods that need a specific shape or texture for the age, such as grapes, cherry tomatoes and nuts. Common allergen marks foods carrying one of the nine common allergens or an EU-listed one. Both are explained on the food's page.

Yes. The allergen tracker ticks off the nine common allergens as they are logged, records reactions with symptoms and severity against the food, and shows gaps in the stats.

From around six months, once solids have started, one at a time, and then keep offering them. If your baby has eczema or an existing allergy, ask your doctor first. Allergens 101 goes through it.

As smooth peanut butter thinned with water or breast milk, or peanut puffs, never whole nuts, in a small amount on a calm morning when you can watch for two hours. See the peanut page and Allergens 101.

Stop the food. For hives, a rash or vomiting alone, call your doctor and log it. For trouble breathing, swelling of the face or lips, or a floppy, pale baby, call emergency services immediately. The app's reaction screen says the same.

Foods with texture and time, reactions with symptoms and severity, and nappies with form and colour. The food tracker and poop tracker pages show each.

Because the nappy is where new foods show up first, and a doctor's first question about constipation or diarrhoea is what the baby ate before. Nappies sit on the same timeline as foods. Our baby poop after starting solids guide explains what is normal.

Yes, on the 100 First Foods screen, by category, with a suggestion for what to try next.

Yes. Family sharing lets another adult log into the same record, and the log can be exported for a doctor.

Your account details, the baby profile and the feeding logs you enter, plus crash and usage data. Our privacy policy lists everything by app and why.

From the app's settings, or by following the steps on our delete account page. Deletion removes your logs and profile.

Through the contact form. We read everything, and feature requests shape what we build next.