Handing your kids to a nanny, sitter, or grandparent, without handing over your app

From the app, you create a share for the person watching your kids. You choose exactly what it shows, and how long it lasts: six hours for a date night, a day or two for a work trip, up to seven days for a grandparent week. It travels like any link, and it opens in the browser. The person on the other end signs into nothing and installs nothing.

Everything on the link is opt-in, and when you build one the app shows you both columns: what is shared, and what stays hidden. A caregiver can see, if you choose: your child’s name, age, and photo; the routines you pick, step by step, like the nap wind-down or bedtime; the contacts that matter, shared as name, role, and phone number only; your notes for the caregiver; and an emergency contact line.

Just as important is what the link never carries. Your family’s care history is not part of it: the link is a briefing for the day, not a window into your log. Anything you have flagged as medical stays with the parents, and that boundary is enforced in the database itself, not just hidden in the interface. And nothing about the adults is ever shareable: private notes and anything between you and your partner stay yours.

Viewing is the default. Logging is a separate, deliberate step that you switch on when you create the link. The caregiver then signs in with a code sent to their email, which does create an account for them, and can log care for your kids: feeds, naps, diapers, moments. That is the whole grant. It reaches the care log and nothing else, and it ends when the link ends.

Every entry they make carries their name, the same way entries show which parent logged them. When you get home, the afternoon is already written down, and you can see exactly who wrote it.

Links expire at the time you set, and expiry takes any logging access with it. You can revoke a link early from inside the app at any time, and you can see that it has been opened. Nothing lingers because you forgot to clean it up.

The day the caregiver logged sits in the same family record, next to your own entries, attributed. Both parents see it. And when a checkup comes around, the doctor view turns the last two weeks of feeding, diapers, and sleep into a summary you can print and hand over. If you are still choosing an app, our honest guide to baby tracker apps and the side-by-side with Huckleberry cover the rest of the field.