The Bump: Baby & Pregnancy App

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1. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

   Annoying. I got this app and thought it was helpful to have while tracking my pregnancy. Until I clicked on an article that discussed learning about the gender of the baby. Within the article it had a whole paragraph describing how gender and sex are different terms. Which, is not biologically true nor was this ever true. This type of agenda should not be pushed within articles on pregnancy tracking apps. The sex of your baby is male or female and that is also the gender of your baby as well. Nobody should be writing articles pushing false information to other people. Thank goodness I have my head screwed on right and know that if my baby is born a boy, he's always a boy. And if it's a girl, she's always a girl. Will be contacting the app to express concerns about the articles they feature on their app.

2. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

   Another couple’s info populated in my account. I just downloaded this app a few days ago and didn’t spend too much time looking around until today. I noticed that the initial in the top right corner that indicates the user’s name didn’t match my first name, so I went into the account details. Another person’s full name (not in any way related to my own) is in the “My Account” fields, and another full name (also in no way similar to my name) is shown under “My Significant Other.” The address in the account is my address from 10+ years ago. I searched for the couples’ names and they are in fact a real couple who live in the same state as the address shown in the account. It’s possible they lived in the house at one point but is unlikely because I am the third owner (still own it), and I don’t think any of the previous owners rented it out. I am THOROUGHLY creeped out and want to know how this happened. Is my information now showing up in someone else’s account? This seems like a MASSIVE breach of privacy.

3. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Glitches & Inaccuracy. It will glitch often and you’ll be stuck at the Home Screen. Also refers to breast feeding as “chest feeding” and calls us women “pregnant people”

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Need to fix. The app keeps logging me out, which is really frustrating. Also all the journals disappeared when it upgraded automatically and no where to be found.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Pregnant Person. I encourage you to use biologically accurate language. Women experience pregnancy, and I can’t continue to support a platform that overlooks that truth. We are not pregnant “people”.

6. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

   Deleted all of my data from feeds, pumping and diaper changes. Logged me out for no reason and when I logged back in all my data from the first two weeks of my child’s life was erased. So frustrating.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Freezes all the time. App is constantly freezing, not wanting to open.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Frustrating. App worked great in the beginning now everyday for 2 weeks ive been opening the app and it doesnt want to load at all .

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Glitch. Usually love this app and am using it for baby #3. Last week it glitched and from week 17-18 I switched from a pomegranate to an avocado and went from like 5 inches to over 8 inches. My other kiddos ask every week what size the baby is and I have to keep telling them it’s not working 😔 please fix it!

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Baby names list. Always give an error 500 code. Spend more time reloading the app than anything else.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not user-friendly. I was hoping to love this app, but it started pissing me off first with the journal section. I would love to be able to utilize that to have something to look back to, but it doesn’t let me voice to speak nor use the AutoCorrect on my phone so the typing it out and if there’s any spelling or grammar errors, I have to manually fix it, and I didn’t realize how frustrating that is but after trying to do a couple journal entries, I just can’t do it anymore. Plus, I feel like this app has a lot of unnecessary junk that takes up space from the clear picture. I was really hoping to love this and I was really giving it a go, but I’m sorry. I just have to say no to this app. It’s not user-friendly.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Hospital birth bias. Fine if you don't read the articles!Seeing a silly size comparison to your baby each week with some growth facts is fun. They are a bit ridiculous. The daily facts get kinda redundant. Heads up if you read the articles this app doesn't support all birthing options. It's all about hospital births with a lot of fear mongering and misinformation. It doesn't help you with informed consent it just pushes hospital procedure norms. Doesn't discuss women's rights or other very viable options available. It's had a lot of negative views on more natural leaning practices without really discussing the entire topic for anyone to get a reasonable understanding. I don't think I ever even saw home birth mentioned in a single article. So definitely disgusted on this front.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Fine until logged out. Used this app for all 3 of my kids and all of a sudden it logged me out and when I tried to log back in, it said invalid password or email. So I clicked on “forgot password” to change it and it said it couldn’t find an account with my email, when I literally just got two emails yesterday from the app.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Sucked. Literally downloaded this app for one thing the contraction calculator and it absolutely sucked. It’s like the least user-friendly app.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    So helpful. I have loved using this app throughout my pregnancy. This is my first and I have learned so much week by week and also feel normal with all the changes happening to my body. Highly recommend for anyone who is or is around someone who is pregnant.

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Size depends on paid partnerships. Baby shrinks and grows according to who paid, someone intelligent+knowledgable needs to revise the sizing on here. Tell me how at the beginning of the week baby is a size of a raspberry, then shrunk to the size of a dime, then grew to the size of a penny, then shrunk to the size of a peanut and now we’re on gummy bear. I’d really just like to know an approx size, which is like one of the only reasons I got this app. Two weeks ago it was the size of apple ear bud, but a week before that it was also the size of an apple ear bud. Then M&M, then altoid like come on. I didn’t download this for advertisement I want to track my baby. Y’all bogus.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Average pregnancy app caves to extremists. Why can’t it just be a pregnancy app and celebrate babies? No, some leftist luny is being allowed to report pot abortion propaganda under the guise of scientific research Goodbye

18. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Not good anymore. Feels like the developers and owners abandoned it or something. A bunch of features are buggy or don’t work at all (like the 3D models), I’m regularly logged out and have to find my login info. It doesn’t update unless I force a restart, so I regularly open the app and get the wrong number of weeks which is the #1 thing the app is supposed to do: say how far along we are! Why does it take so long to open? It’s just clunky and feels like developers left the project 3 years ago

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    So Liberal. A “pregnant person” is a woman…. Just say woman.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    SO JANKY. Jeez louise this app almost never works. Constant loading. Maybe a 30 percent chance when I click on it that it will actually work. Get your ish together Bump app!!!!!

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Disappointing. Used it for my first pregnancy and it was great, never had any issues. 2 years later when I tried to add my second pregnancy I’ve had nothing but issues. Won’t properly display baby’s nickname (just blank), logs me out frequently, and error messages saying it can’t load data every other day. Never had a single one of these issues with my last pregnancy and thinking I will just delete the app.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Applications don’t work well. You have to click on some applications, see it not load, back out, and click it again almost every time. Like to see the belly or baby. Also sometimes clicking these will just take you to the most random part of one of the articles they recommend reading.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Could be so good- but doesn’t work. Recently downloaded and was very excited as it seems like the most comprehensive, well-rounded option. However, it absolutely never works. Just keeps saying “try again” every time I open and I can kill my battery trying to refresh so many time. Such a shame and waste

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Keeps logging me out. The app is cool but it keeps logging me out and I have to log back in pretty much every single time. It’s really annoying.

25. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Please fix glitch with weekly updates!!. The weekly updates are off by a week even in the latest version of the app

26. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Buggy. Constant issues with counting weeks and keeping the date straight.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Minimal useful info. The weekly symptom information is good, but it’s hard to parse through between the dozens of trashy articles they recommend you read each week that all read like bad buzzfeed posts. I prefer the apps that stick more with pregnancy information and not with clickbait articles.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Sometimes fun, mostly generic. Most of the information given is generic information you can find on Google or from reading one book. I found talking to my doctor and other mothers in my life more helpful. They try to have articles on relationship advice and navigating changes during pregnancy, but it is too generic to be of much use. However, this makes sense because so many people use the app. The articles also were full of ads for high end baby items and gear that are not necessary for a healthy pregnancy or baby. Seeing the weekly size of my baby compared to different fruits and vegetables was fun and cute.

29. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Everything Gone. I have been using this app since I got pregnant in October of 2023 and I uploaded all of my bump pictures every week, along with weekly pictures of my baby when he was born. I was signed out for some reason today and now all of my pictures and journal entries are gone. I have enjoyed the app up until now, but this is a big disappointment as some of those pictures and all of my journal entries can't be retrieved.

30. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    It’s just ok. I like that it gives daily updates of how big baby is but it gets very confusing. For example, I’m 12 weeks and baby is supposed to be the size of a lime, however on like the daily facts it says that the baby is as long as the diameter of a golf ball. Those are two VERY different sizes. This is my first baby and if I have a second I probably would not download this again.