Smart Sleep Coach is closing: how to keep your data, and which alternative to pick

Smart Sleep Coach, the Pampers sleep app, has announced that it is shutting down on 30 November 2026. If it has been planning your baby’s naps for months, that’s an uncomfortable thing to read at six in the morning, with the first nap due in an hour and a half.

In short: Smart Sleep Coach by Pampers closes at 11:59pm US Eastern time on 30 November 2026, and you can’t get into the app on your phone from 1 December. Before then, consider downloading your data from the Progress screen, and write down the handful of times that make up your baby’s day. Then decide what you’ll actually miss: the daily schedule, the coaching, or a shared log for both parents. Those point to different replacements, and not all of them are apps.

This article is general information about switching baby sleep apps. It isn’t medical advice. For any concern about your baby’s sleep, feeding or health, talk to your doctor, health nurse or health visitor.

When does Smart Sleep Coach close?

According to its own closure notice, the app stays open until 11:59pm US Eastern time on 30 November 2026, and from 1 December it can’t be opened at all, even if it’s still on your phone. It has already been taken off the app stores, so don’t delete it or move to a new phone before you’ve saved what you need: its notice doesn’t say whether you could get it back.¹

The notice from Pampers says auto-renewals have been stopped, and annual subscribers get a pro-rated refund automatically, but it’s worth checking your subscription wherever you paid for it to be sure: the App Store, Google Play, or on the web through Paddle.¹²

Before 30 November, save your data and write down five lines

The app lets you download your tracked data: go to the Progress screen, open the Patterns view, and download the weekly and monthly data from there. The notice also suggests screenshots of your baby’s schedule and sleep plan.¹ Both take a few minutes, so do them today rather than in the last week.

A download is a record. But what carries your baby’s day into the next app is a few times you can write on a piece of paper:

• Morning wake time: when your baby usually starts the day.
• The naps: how many, roughly when, and roughly how long.
• The gaps: how long your baby has been awake between sleeps, especially before the last nap and before bed.
• Bedtime: when it has been landing, and whether that has been working.
• How you settle: whatever method you had been following, in a sentence, so you, your partner and anyone else who puts your baby down keep doing it the same way.

What do you need from a Smart Sleep Coach alternative?

Smart Sleep Coach does several jobs at once, and few apps do all of them equally well, so the right replacement depends on which one you leaned on.

The daily schedule. Its Smart Sleep Schedule updates as naps are logged, including naps at daycare.² If that’s what you open the app for, you want another app that plans the day from your baby’s age and adjusts as the naps actually happen. That’s the job Tiny Sleeps is built for, on iPhone.

The coaching. Smart Sleep Coach teaches baby sleep topics through short mini-courses and then shapes a sleep-training method around your parenting style.² If the lessons and the method were the point for you, a schedule app won’t replace them. A coaching app, a sleep consultant, or your health nurse or health visitor are the better fit, and Tiny Sleeps doesn’t offer a course or a method.

The shared log. Its FAQ describes partners and other caregivers joining by logging in with the same account details as you.² If what you mostly need is for everyone to see the same day, a shared tracker covers that, and it’s the other half of what Tiny Sleeps is built for. Each of you has your own login on your own iPhone, so there’s no password to share. A nap, feed or nappy one of you logs is on the other’s phone the next time they look, with the same next-nap time, so nobody has to text “when did she wake?”. Both of you can log and correct entries, and logging works without signal and catches up later. When more people help, the circle grows the same way: send the grandparents and the nanny a link or a short code, and each joins with a login of their own while you stay in charge of who’s on the list. Our guides to a baby sleep tracker for two parents and a baby tracker for grandparents and nannies go into more detail.

Nothing much. If your baby’s day has settled into a pattern you know by heart, if a short nap rarely knocks the rest of it off course, and if nobody else who looks after your baby needs to know the times, you may not need a new app at all. The five lines above and a clock will do.

Is Tiny Sleeps a good Smart Sleep Coach alternative? Here’s how they compare

Tiny Sleeps isn’t the right switch for everyone

We think Tiny Sleeps is a good fit if:

• you mainly used Smart Sleep Coach to know when the next nap and bedtime are;
• you want a shared log with a partner or other caregivers, and you’re tired of asking “when did she wake?”;
• you’d like the schedule to adjust to short naps or other daily hiccups rather than stay fixed to yesterday’s times;
• you want feeds, nappies (diapers), supplements and notes in the same log as sleep.

It’s the wrong choice if:

• you or your partner use Android;
• the coaching and a sleep-training plan were what you valued most.

Switching from Smart Sleep Coach to Tiny Sleeps takes one evening

1. Save your Smart Sleep Coach data and your five lines (see above).
2. Install Tiny Sleeps, create an account, and answer a few questions about your baby, including the birth date and the due date if they came early.
3. From tomorrow, log each sleep as it happens in Tiny Sleeps: one tap when your baby falls asleep, one when they wake. The plan starts from your baby’s age, then follows the naps that actually happen, so it doesn’t need your old history from Smart Sleep Coach to be accurate.
4. Invite your partner from within the app. They install it on their own iPhone and see the same schedule and log as you.
5. Compare the first few days with the times you saved. A small difference is normal; a big one is worth a look at our wake windows by age guide.

Know tomorrow’s naps before Smart Sleep Coach goes dark

Tiny Sleeps works out the next nap from when your baby actually woke and moves bedtime with the day, so a short nap or other hiccup doesn’t wreck the plan. You and your partner each see the same log on your own iPhone, and logging works offline once you’re set up. One tap when your baby falls asleep, one when they wake.

Smart Sleep Coach and Pampers are trademarks of their owners. Tiny Sleeps is independent: it is not affiliated with them, and it is not sponsored or endorsed by them. What this page says about Smart Sleep Coach comes from its own public pages as of 10 October 2026; check them before you rely on it.

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