Bullet Baby — A Tactical Guide for New Dads

What you get

A briefing every week, and six tools for the rest

Half the app is the baby. The other half is what she is going through, and what you can do that is actually useful. Weeks 1–6 are free, and so is the week you're in right now. $4.99 opens everything else, including the six tools.

Every screen is below, in full. The line under each name says whether it's free or part of the unlock.

Free In the $4.99 unlock

The week you're in, every week

Weeks 1–6 and your current week are free

Open the app and you're in the war room. This week's briefing, the days left, and what's changed since the last one. The sizes themselves come from clinical growth charts. The ordnance is just how they get reported.

The HQ screen: the DADCON trimester gauge, the day countdown, today's actions and this week's report — **Headquarters**The countdown, the trimester, and the day's briefing.

The week 23 report: the M112 C4 demolition block at 1 lb 4 oz, shown for scale beside the baby, with sections for baby, mom and you — **The sit-rep**The week's briefing, down to the history of the ordnance. Send it to the group chat as a card.

The drum: every week of the pregnancy on one dial, with the current week lit and later weeks sealed — **The drum**Every week on one dial. Spin back to any you have reached. The ones ahead stay sealed.

The field kit

Six tools for the jobs that land on you

Counting, timing, packing, asking. The work starts around week 30 and doesn't let up until you're driving home with a car seat in the back.

Kick counter

In the $4.99 unlock

Tap the bag every time you feel a kick. The app holds the running count, the session, and your best. Movement becomes something you're asked to keep track of around week 28, and this beats the notes app.

Start a session when you want it on the record
Your best session is kept, and waiting to be beaten

The kick counter: a punching bag with current, record and all-time counts

Contraction timer

In the $4.99 unlock

One button. Press when it starts, press again when it stops. Nobody does arithmetic at 3 a.m., so the app does it: how long they last, how far apart they are, how many in the last hour.

Works one-handed, in the dark
Export the log and send it to your provider

The contraction timer: one large start button above a live log

The go bag

In the $4.99 unlock

Fifty items across three bags. Yours, hers, the baby's. Pack it at week 32 and leaving takes five minutes instead of forty.

Every item is there because somebody wished they had it
Add your own. Strike what you don't need.
Send the packing list to whoever is doing the packing

The go bag: the armory, with a fifty-item hospital bag checklist

Anchors Aweigh

In the $4.99 unlock

Everything that isn't a bag. Fifty-three jobs, in the order they actually matter. Install the car seat and get it inspected. Drive the hospital route once, at night. File the paperwork before anybody asks you for it.

Tick them off as they get done
The ones with deadlines tell you the deadline

Anchors Aweigh: a fifty-three item advance preparation checklist

Appointments

In the $4.99 unlock

Every scan and checkup in one place, each with the questions worth asking while you're still in the room. Write down what they said before you forget it in the parking lot.

Plan the visits by week, not by date
Add the schedule to your phone's calendar
Reminders are local alarms, set on your device

Appointments: the office scene, with visits and the questions to ask at each

Callsigns

In the $4.99 unlock

Two thousand names, each one issued a callsign. Deal a roster, keep what survives, and stop losing the good ones between conversations.

Boy, girl, or any. Deal as many rosters as you like.
Shortlisted names are saved for good
Email her the shortlist as a spreadsheet, straight from the app

Callsigns: name suggestions with assigned military callsigns

For the person who isn't him

Gift the whole app

Most fathers don't go looking for a pregnancy app. Someone hands it to them. Buy it for $4.99, get a one-time code, and send it however you like.

Neither of you needs an account. You hand over nothing about him, and the code doesn't expire.

Buy a gift Coming soon Common questions

Buy the gift in the app and get a one-time code.

Send him the code however you want.

He enters it, and the whole app unlocks.

Who made this

Two dads who were tired of being an afterthought

Baby Daddy Games is two new dads. We went looking for a pregnancy app and found three kinds: ones written only for mothers, ones that treat the father as comic relief, and ones that never get around to telling you what to actually do.

We aren't deadbeats. We're partners — and partners need a plan: what to ask at the appointment, what to pack, when to be there, and how to be useful once you are. That gap is the whole reason this app exists.

One of us is an active-duty officer in the Navy who wanted something his military friends would actually open. The other builds software. Between them, that's where the war room came from.

Serious advice, not taken too seriously.

Questions reach a person, not a ticket queue: support@bulletbaby.com.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the developers and do not represent or imply any Department of War position or endorsement.

Before you ask

The usual questions

Is this a subscription?: No. One payment of $4.99 and the app is yours. Nothing recurs and there's nothing to cancel.
Do I have to make an account?: No. No sign-up, no password, no email. Open the app, put in a due date, and you're going.
We're already halfway through. Is it too late?: Not at all. Put in your due date and you get this week's briefing straight away, plus weeks 1 through 6. The weeks in between are part of the unlock, and so are the six tools.
Is the information any good?: Every briefing is checked against clinical growth charts and medical guidance, and the sources are listed in the app. It's educational. It isn't medical advice and it doesn't replace your provider.
What if the pregnancy ends?: You can stop tracking whenever you want, from settings. It's quiet, nothing asks you why, and the notifications stop.

The deal

One payment. That's the arrangement.

$4.99

Weeks 1–6 and your current week free · Everything else, unlocked for good

Some apps in this category bill you monthly for the same nine months. This one charges once. No advertising, and nothing to cancel later.

App Store Coming soon Google Play Coming soon

Loose lips sink ships

Your business stays yours

No account, no sign-up, no password.
No analytics, no advertising, no trackers.
Your due date and every note stay on your phone.
Nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it. The share sheet is the only way out.
Apple and Google take the payment. We never see a card number.

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