Solid Starts: Baby First Foods
Description
App of the Day – Apple Best Apps for Parents – Apple Trusted by 6M+ around the world Solid Starts provides you everything you need to know about introducing solid foods to babies with baby led weaning, BLW, or transitioning from spoon feeding or purées to finger foods. Built by a team of board-certified pediatricians, infant feeding therapists, swallowing specialists, allergist and dietitian to guide your child’s food journey. This is your trusted tool to feel confident when starting solids and creating joyful mealtimes. THE #1 TRUSTED BABY FOOD DATABASE IN THE WORLD Learn how to safely introduce 400+ foods to baby in our First Foods® Database. Each food has detailed nutrition information, choking & allergen guidance, instructions on how to cut and serve the food based on baby's age, and videos of real babies eating. Updated by our team of pediatric professionals so you have the latest evidence-backed information. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START BABY LED WEANING Easy introduction of baby’s first 100 foods with simple meals for each food to take the guesswork out of meal planning. Learn with access to our library of articles and guides about infant CPR, recognizing signs of readiness for eating, fantastic first foods, introducing allergens, cup drinking, and more.. PERSONALIZED FOR YOUR BABY’S UNIQUE JOURNEY Get our guided introduction to 100 first foods—complete with tailored meal plans that include recommended foods and recipes by our pediatric team of experts. We suggest new foods to try that gradually build your baby’s ability to bite and chew a variety of textures—and explain exactly how to serve them to make the most of mealtime. Common food allergens are introduced along the way, with step-by-step guidance to help you build confidence with each taste. A PEDIATRIC PRO IN YOUR POCKET Developed by a team of pediatricians, infant feeding therapists, swallowing specialists, allergist and dietitian to bring you the latest expert guidance for feeding your baby. BABY FOOD TRACKER Record baby's progress with a digital food log, log foods tried, track baby's favorite foods, make a list of foods you'd like to try later, and track reactions or sensitivities which you can download to share with doctors and caregivers BLW MEALS AND RECIPES 300+ BLW ideas and easy baby recipes, toddler recipes and family recipes. Explore categories including baby’s first meals, iron-rich ideas, and quick breakfasts ideas. WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING “It’s really the only app one NEEDS to have for a baby.” - Stephanie “Every new parent needs this app! As a first time mom, I had zero idea of how to start solids. The content provided by Solid Starts gave me the confidence to start solids when my baby was ready shortly after 6 months!” - Shelley “The Solid Starts app is one of the most used on my phone, as I’m constantly checking to make sure I’m preparing food for my daughter safely and to keep an eye out for what to watch for.” - Phoebe “You gave me the confidence to do baby led weaning, and also stand my ground with grandparents/child care of how I want my child to be fed and food served.” - Laura SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS The Solid Starts First Foods® Database is free to download and use. Upgrade to unlock all the features that make starting solids even easier with our All Access monthly or yearly plan, which you can try with a free trial. All subscriptions can be canceled anytime. Payment will be charged at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled or turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions by visiting your account settings in the App Store. Prices may vary per country and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Have feedback or questions? Please send contact us at www.solidstarts.com/contact Terms of Service: https://solidstarts.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://solidstarts.com/privacy-policy-2/
What's New
We made some improvements and bug fixes. Thanks for being part of our community! If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at solidstarts.com/contact.
Details
- Developer
- SolidStarts LLC
- Main Category
- Education
- Version
- 5.6.0
- Version Release
- 2026-07-15
- Initial Release
- 2021-05-10
- Size
- 126 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- Free
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.digitas.solidstarts
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.90 (41,399)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
Rank History
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User Reviews
This has been such a reliable resource in helping both my kids safely try new foods and given us many ideas on how to serve and challenge them.
This app gave us the confidence to jump right into baby led weaning. It's super user friendly and simply tells you how to serve foods at every age. There are recipes and videos that really helped us through our journey. Our son is such a confident and great eater. We have this app to thank !!
Overall, Solid Starts has a wealth of helpful information about baby led weaning. I especially like the visuals for how the foods can safely be served at each age. My only struggle with the app is tracking. I try to use the meal plan part, but sometimes, I just ended up serving a food, not a meal and wish there was a way to input that. Also, when introducing allergens, I wish it would count on the badges as soon as I introduced it, but it only counts when it gets served at the time it gets suggested as a meal, which is only once a week. If I went at that pace, it would take forever to introduce all the allergens and the upkeep for them. I wish the tracking was more condensed, simplified, or at least offer more flexibility. The calendar tracking is unfortunately not easy to check what food was served at a glance too.
I’ve been using this app since April and I’ve really enjoyed it. However, today I tried opening the app and all of my data got erased. I’m hoping someone can restore this.
We bought this app when my son turned 6 months and it has been SO helpful introducing him to solid. I appreciate the ability to see a food at the store and search the app in real time to see if it’s something he can have. I definitely recommend it to anyone considering the app!
I don’t recommend buying the subscription. It’s literally $100 for information that I could easily find by googling, asking my pediatrician, or buying an $8 baby-led weaning book. I forgot to cancel after the free trial and so was charged for a year’s subscription, but I figured it might be worth it. Unfortunately, I can’t say that it was. The app is also kind of slow and clunky. I did not find the plans, etc., particularly easy to navigate, for instance, if I wanted to skip over something I’d already introduced. I’m not sure if the free version of the app allows you to look up how to serve the different foods by age, but that was the only feature I really used and again could have looked that info up for free (and used my instinct after a couple months). I actually wish they would at least make the subscription monthly because by about 3 months into solids, I had absolutely no need of it.
So helpful for mom's first second or third!
I found transitioning to solid food to be SO stressful (esp with a baby with food allergies). This app was a lifeline for me. Keeping track of the foods we tried, any reactions, and checking to see how to prepare each new food kept me sane. Will use this again for any future babies!
Starting solids with our little guy was the most intimidating journey. Our pediatrician recommended solid starts and it was a game changer! I loved being able to easily look up a food and see how to present it to my child. Tracking allergies was amazingly easy on the app too. For a little guy who refused purées, we would be lost without this app. Also we loved the recipes!
If you’re looking for a free source this would not be totally it. Yes there is some good info in this app but a GIANT portion of it is hidden by pay walls and I’m not paying $20 a month for an app as IMO that’s pretty expensive. *RESPONSE* I’m well aware of X-ing out and navigating the database, you’re not understanding that in order to gain access to MANY other things in this app, including being able to click options under “meals with this ingredient”, being able to watch a video of preparation or how to feed to a baby - that it’s behind a paywall and the paywall isn’t super reasonably priced. $100 for the year or $20 a month is crazy. I don’t even spend $20 a month for any of my subscription apps including streaming apps. If the app was tiered better, and the monthly cost was so high I’d actually consider subscribing. You’re not listening to everyone when they are making you aware of the out of touch price point. All you do is tell them the food database is free and to just ignore when the app is telling you “hey you have to pay to access this”……
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I have had this app for almost 5 years, downloaded it with my first. I now have my 3rd almost 7 months and I use it daily! Gives me piece of mind and good ideas for meals as well!
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