How NidoLoop works
Every feed. Every nap. Every note. Nothing lost in translation.
NidoLoop is the app for families and caregivers who don't share a language, and for every family who's tired of the paper schedule on the fridge. Everyone writes in their own language; everyone reads in their own language; and the whole of a child's day lives in one shared record. It was built by a real family, for their real nanny, and it's been running a real household every day since.
Your first five minutes
A parent downloads NidoLoop, creates the family, and adds each child (name and birthday, and the app keeps their age current from then on). The app hands you an invite code. Your caregiver, your partner, the grandparents: anyone caring for your child downloads the app, taps "I'm joining a family," enters the code, and picks their language: English, Spanish, Nepali, or Russian. That's the whole setup. From this moment, what one person writes, everyone else reads in their own language.
The invite code is a key. Anyone who has it can join your family and see your family's records, so share it like you'd share a house key. Parents can remove members anytime, and the code changes automatically whenever someone is removed.
A day with NidoLoop
Morning: the handoff
The day's plan is already there when your caregiver arrives: the daily routine (the fridge timeline, digitized, with a marker showing what's happening now), today's tasks and meals, and the weekly schedule. She taps "Arrived", a one-tap check-in that tells you she's there. Check-ins are statuses a person chooses to send, like "stepped out" or "ended shift." NidoLoop never tracks location: there's no GPS in the app at all.
Through the day: the log
- Bottles & feeds: log the amount and time in two taps. NidoLoop does the math and shows everyone "next one around 3:40."
- Naps & sleep: start a timer when they drift off, tap when they wake, or fix the times afterward, because nobody logs the moment eyes close.
- Diapers, solids & tummy time: quick taps, running counts.
- First foods: mark a food as a first, and the other side sees "first time, watch for a reaction", in their language. The small sentence that matters most.
- Photos: the lunch victory, the park nap: shared in chat, saved to the day.
- Every time is editable. Logged the 8:20 nap at 8:56? Tap it and fix it. Real life is retroactive; the app knows.
And it all works offline: entries save on the phone at the park or in the basement and sync when signal returns.
Any moment: the conversation
The chat is where NidoLoop stops being a tracker and becomes a translator. You type in English; she reads it in Spanish. She replies in Spanish; you read it in English. Instantly, both directions, for every message. Prefer talking? Voice input turns speech into a message. And when you're in the same room, Live Translate listens, transcribes, and speaks the translation aloud: a real conversation between two people who don't share a language, with a phone on the counter between them.
One honest note: translations are automatic and very good, but not perfect. For anything safety-critical (allergies, medication instructions), confirm with each other directly. NidoLoop makes that easy; it shouldn't replace it.
Health moments: the record that matters at 2am
A warm forehead, a dose of Tylenol, a vaccination, three days of a cold: log temperatures, medications with doses, vaccinations, and illnesses as they happen, each with notes, each translated. Add growth (height and weight over time), and the Trends view turns it all into patterns you can actually see: feeding, sleep, and diapers across days and weeks. When the pediatrician asks "how's eating been?", you'll have an answer better than a guess.
Evening: nothing left behind
Before the handoff, the end-of-day reminder nudges with anything still open, like the unfinished task or the note not yet sent, so the day closes clean. She taps "ended shift," and her hours are logged, and her record stays hers (more on that just below).
Those shifts add up into a week both sides can read: a row for each one, who worked it, how long, and a total. Nobody keeps a second tally on paper, and nobody has to remember last Tuesday.
And when nobody checks out. It happens, and the app cannot know when she left. So it stops counting at sixteen hours rather than running on overnight, marks that shift not confirmed, and leaves it out of the week's total. A number nobody believes should not be quietly added to one somebody is meant to act on.
Putting it right is deliberately lopsided, because the timesheet is hers. She sets the real time on her own shift, and the app asks her that same evening rather than letting it wait for payday. A parent can suggest a time, with a reason if they like, and it counts only once she accepts it — she can also decline, and then the two of them talk, which is what happens over a real timesheet anyway.
Either way the original stays on the record next to the correction: corrected from 16h. An hours log that can be edited invisibly is worth less, to both sides, than one that cannot be edited at all.
The summaries: the part you'll show off
The daily summary writes the day up beautifully: every feed, nap, and note turned into a story you can read in a minute or share with a tap. The pediatric summary goes further: it turns the whole record into a clean, age-aware page you can bring to any checkup. (Both are records of what your household logged, written to be useful, not medical advice; your pediatrician is still the pediatrician.)
Two at once, or two apart
Twins, a toddler and a newborn, or four years between them: every child in the family gets their own profile, and adding one takes about ten seconds. Open More, find Children, tap Add a child, and type a name. There's no limit and no upgrade: children are free on every plan.
From then on, the names sit in a row across the top of Today, and whichever one is highlighted is the child you are logging for. Tap the other name and the whole screen switches: her bottles, her naps, her diapers, her temperatures. Nothing carries across, which is the point. With twins the two records are genuinely different by the end of a week, and that difference is usually what you want to show the pediatrician.
Shared between them is everything that belongs to the household rather than to a child: one conversation, one routine, one weekly schedule, one care team, one set of caregiver hours. You are not running two apps. You are running one household with two records inside it.
The summaries follow the same rule. The daily write-up and the pediatric summary are generated per child, so you can hand the doctor one twin's record without the other's tangled through it.
One habit worth building on day one: glance at which name is lit before you log. Everyone mixes up the twins occasionally, including the app's owner. If it happens, open the entry and delete it, then log it again on the right child. And take the Remove this child button seriously — it erases that child's entire history for everyone in the family, permanently. The first child you set up can't be removed at all; that one goes only when the family account does.
For caregivers
NidoLoop is yours too
The entire app works in your language: every screen, every button, every message. You write in Spanish, Nepali, or Russian; the family reads it in theirs, and you never have to compose in a language that isn't yours. Your profile (your bio, your languages, your experience) belongs to you, and so does your record of hours worked: both travel with you if you ever change families. And the check-in buttons are yours to press; nothing about your location is ever tracked.
If you ever forget to tap "ended shift," you are the one who fixes it. The app will not invent an end time for you: it marks the shift as unconfirmed, keeps it out of the week's total, and asks you when you finished. The family can suggest a time, and nothing on your record changes until you say yes.
What we promise every family: your data is never sold, there are no ads, and nothing tracks you across other apps. Message text is processed only to translate and summarize it, never to train AI models. You can export everything as a file, or delete anything (a photo, a record, your whole account) right in the app. The full details live in our Privacy Policy.
Free and Premium. The heart of NidoLoop is free for every family, forever: translated chat and voice, all the logging, the routine, check-ins, and reminders. The translation is never behind a paywall.
NidoLoop Premium, when it arrives, keeps the deep archive: recaps and pediatric summaries, your full history, every photo forever, and a care team of up to six. Export is free on every plan.
Quick answers
- Does my caregiver pay anything? Never. Family accounts and caregiver accounts are both free; Premium is a family upgrade.
- Does it track location? No. Check-ins are buttons a person taps, not GPS. The app never asks for location permission.
- What languages? English, Spanish, Nepali, and Russian today, built to add more.
- More than one child? Yes, free and unlimited: every child in the family, a tap apart. How it works with twins.
- What if she forgets to check out? The app stops counting at sixteen hours and marks the shift not confirmed rather than guessing. She sets the real time, or a parent suggests one and she accepts it. How that works.
- What if we lose signal? Log anyway. Everything saves on the phone and syncs when you're back.
- What phones? Both — Android on Google Play, iPhone on the App Store.
- Emergencies? Call, don't message. NidoLoop is for the day's record. A delayed message is always possible, and a banner is not a phone call.