Awake time at a glance
How long the baby has been awake sits at the top of Today, next to the time since the last feed and the last diaper.
A baby sleep tracker for naps, nights and awake time
Tap Sleep when the baby dozes off and again when they wake. Ella keeps the timer running for the whole family and shows how long the baby has been awake.
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Try it: tap like you would at 3 a.m.
Awake forTap Sleep when your baby dozes off
This demo stays on this page. In Ella, the same taps go straight to your family's shared journal, from your home screen.
Quick answer
How much should a newborn sleep?
- Newborns sleep about 14-17 hours in 24 hours, often only 1-2 hours at a time. Every baby is different.
- Waking at night to feed is normal. In the first weeks, wake a breastfed baby who sleeps longer than 4 hours, or a formula-fed baby after 4-5 hours if they miss feeds.
- Every sleep, naps too: on the back, alone, in an empty crib or bassinet.
- Share a room, not a bed, for at least the first 6 months.
Sources: National Sleep Foundation, AAP, NHS · November 8, 2026
Read the full guideBaby sleep tracker: what it does
The rhythm of the day
A 24-hour view lines up sleep, feeds and diapers, so patterns across the newborn weeks are easy to see without adding anything up.
A timer that keeps running
Start a sleep timer and it keeps running on your lock screen on Android, and for everyone in the family, until someone stops it.
Forgot to start it?
Log a nap after the fact with its real start and end time, or fix a timer that ran too long. Every change is kept in the entry history.
Calm at night
Night mode keeps the screen dark and warm from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m., so checking the time does not wake anyone up.
Daily sleep totals
Charts show total sleep per day, split into night and daytime sleep, so you can see how the days are changing week by week.
Newborn questions this helps with
Naps, night sleep and the awake window
Every sleep entry has a start and an end, so Ella can show both the sleep itself and the time the baby has been awake since. That awake time is often the most useful number of the day, because it is the one you check before deciding whether to start the wind-down.
Logging naps and nights
Tap Sleep on Today or on the Android home-screen widget when the baby dozes off, and again when they wake. At night, logging when the baby falls asleep and when they wake for a feed is enough: Ella draws each stretch on the 24-hour view and adds it to the day total. On Android, a running timer also shows on the lock screen.
Fixing a timer or a missed nap
If the baby woke before you stopped the timer, do not stop it now: the time since the baby woke would count as sleep. Instead, open the running sleep entry, choose It ended at…, enter when the baby woke, check the duration and save. You can also edit the start time, or add a missed nap later with its real start and end.
Reading the 24-hour view and sleep chart
The 24-hour view lines up each day as a row, with sleep, feeds and diapers in place, so a longer stretch, a new first nap or a nap that moved the next feed shows up by itself. The sleep chart adds up sleep per day and splits it into night sleep (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.) and daytime sleep. Read it week to week, since single days jump around, and switch to 14 or 30 days to watch longer night stretches appear.
Handing over bedtime
If a partner, grandparent or nanny puts the baby down, they start the sleep timer on their own phone or browser and you see it running at once, without a phone call. A timer one person starts, another can stop, and each entry shows who added it.
How to track baby sleep with Ella
Start a journal and invite whoever puts the baby down: a partner, a grandparent or a nanny.
Tap Sleep when the baby falls asleep (the first time, find it under More activities). On Android, the widget and lock screen show the running timer.
Tap again when the baby wakes. The awake time starts counting at the top of Today.
Open Charts to see daily sleep totals and the 24-hour rhythm.
Other ways to track
Questions parents ask
Does Ella make a sleep schedule?
No. Ella records the sleep you log and shows it back as charts. It does not recommend schedules or give medical advice.
Can grandparents or a nanny log a nap?
Yes. Anyone you invite with permission to add entries can start and stop a sleep timer, and everyone sees it.
Can I add a nap I forgot to log?
Yes. Add it with the time it started and ended, or edit a timer after you stop it.
Does the timer keep running if I close the app?
Yes. The timer lives in the shared journal, so it keeps running on every phone, and on Android it also shows on the lock screen.
Is there white noise?
On Android, Ella has white noise and a flashlight built in, one tap from the widget. When you play white noise, put the phone as far from the baby as you can, never in or on the crib. Keep the volume low, and set the timer so the sound stops after a short time. That is what a 2014 study in Pediatrics recommends for infant sleep sound machines.
How much does it cost?
You can start free, with no ads. We may add optional premium features later, and we will always show the price before you pay anything.
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