When Jules brought her first baby home, she did what every new parent does. She reached for her phone and looked for an app to help her keep track of it all.
She couldn't find one she actually liked.
Some were too complicated to use one-handed at 3am. Some logged feeds but not sleep. Some tracked sleep but not nappies. Some were beautiful to look at but slow to open when a baby was crying in your arms. None of them felt like they were built by someone who had actually been there, in the fog of a newborn's first weeks, running on no sleep, trying to remember when they last ate.
So she kept notes in her phone. Then in a notebook. Then in her head. And she thought: someone should just build the thing that actually works.
Her husband John had the same thought. Every night shift handover was the same conversation: "I think she ate around 2? Or maybe 3? I can't remember how long for." They were a team, but they were working from different information. There had to be a better way.
A few years later, pregnant with their second, they decided to stop waiting for someone else to build it.
Cokora was built in Perth, Australia, by two parents, for all parents. Not by a team of engineers who read research papers about what new parents need, but by people who lived it, who are living it again right now, and who built every feature around one question: does this make those early days a little easier?
If the answer wasn't yes, it didn't make the cut.
I was two weeks postpartum and completely lost. My midwife asked how often the baby was feeding and I genuinely didn't know. A friend sent me Cokora and within a day I felt like I had my head above water for the first time. I could see everything. I could show my husband exactly what had happened while he was at work. It sounds small but it changed everything.
Sophie, first-time mum, 6 weeks postpartum
The app is free to download and always will be for the core tracking features. As Cokora grows, we're building expert guides on breastfeeding, sleep, starting solids, and more, rooted in the patterns your own baby's data reveals. Because the best support isn't generic. It's specific to your baby, your family, and where you are right now.
Cokora is for the parent who:
- Is home from the hospital and doesn't know where to start
- Wants their partner to always know what's happened without a lengthy handover
- Is heading to a six-week check and can't remember how much the baby has been eating
- Is in the thick of a sleep regression and just needs to see the patterns clearly
- Wants to remember this time, not just survive it
We're at the beginning of this journey, and we'd love you to be part of it.
Jules & John, co-founders
Currently doing night shifts with baby number two.