Soft Signal
Gentle sleep tracking for gentle parents
Your baby's sleep patterns, tracked with care and complete privacy. No cloud syncing, no data sharing, no judgment. Just a simple tool to help you understand your little one's rhythms during those precious, exhausting early months.
Why Soft Signal Exists
Being a new parent is overwhelming. You're operating on minimal sleep, drowning in advice from every direction, and constantly questioning whether you're doing it "right." The last thing you need is an app that makes you feel tracked, judged, or like you're failing some arbitrary metric.
I built Soft Signal for parents who want to notice patterns without obsessing over them. To understand their baby's sleep without comparing it to standardized charts. To have a gentle record of this fleeting time without turning parenthood into a data dashboard.
This isn't about optimization. It's about awareness. Your baby isn't a problem to solve. They're a person learning to exist in the world. Soft Signal helps you witness their journey without turning it into performance metrics.
What Soft Signal Does
Simple tools designed to help without overwhelming.
One-Tap Sleep Logging
Record when your baby falls asleep and wakes up with a single tap. No complicated forms, no required fields, no pressure to track everything perfectly.
- •Simple tap to start and stop
- •No complicated forms
- •Add sessions manually anytime
- •Edit or delete any session
Pattern Recognition
See your baby's sleep patterns emerge over days and weeks. Visual timelines help you notice rhythms without reducing your child to numbers and graphs.
- •Visual timeline view
- •Pattern recognition over time
- •See natural rhythms emerge
- •No comparison to averages
Your Data, Your Device
Everything stays on your phone. No cloud syncing, no account creation, no corporate servers storing intimate details about your family. Export your data anytime in standard formats.
- •100% local storage
- •Export to CSV anytime
- •No account required
- •Complete data ownership
Offline Forever
Works completely offline because 3am feeding sessions often happen in places with spotty wifi. Your parenting tools should work everywhere, always.
- •No internet required
- •Works anywhere, anytime
- •Perfect for late night sessions
- •No wifi dependency
No Judgment Zone
No 'sleep training' advice. No comparison to other babies. No pressure to achieve specific sleep goals. Just a neutral tool that lets you track what works for your unique family.
- •No sleep training advice
- •No baby comparisons
- •No pressure or goals
- •Respects your parenting choices
What Soft Signal Doesn't Do
Intentionally simple. Deliberately private.
No Social Features
Your baby's sleep schedule isn't content for others to consume
No Expert Advice
Every baby is different, and algorithmic parenting tips often cause more anxiety than help
No Push Notifications
You're already being woken up enough. Your app won't add to it
No Analytics or Tracking
Your parenting data doesn't belong to a corporation
No Premium Tiers
All features are free, forever, because exhausted parents shouldn't be paywalled from basic tools
The Privacy Promise
Your baby's sleep data is deeply personal. It reveals when you're home, your daily routines, and intimate details about your family life. That information should never leave your device.
- All data stored locally on your device
- Never connects to the internet
- No account or login required
- Zero analytics or tracking code
- Collects zero information about you or your baby
- Export your data anytime in CSV format
You can export your data anytime in CSV format, delete everything whenever you want, or keep it forever. It's yours. Completely.
Built by Someone Who Gets It
I built Soft Signal because it needed to be. Seeing my friends who are parents struggle with this, I wanted to create a tool that would help them track sleep patterns without downloading apps that felt like surveillance tools or productivity dashboards. I wanted something that respected their exhaustion, their privacy, and their parenting choices.
This app won't make your baby sleep through the night. It won't solve your sleep challenges or tell you what you're doing wrong. But it will give you a gentle, private way to witness and remember this incredibly difficult, incredibly precious time.