Baby Buddy
Babyzone is a UK registered charity built around a simple idea: confident, knowledgeable parents and practitioners raise thriving children. It runs a growing network of local hubs across England, Wales and Scotland, delivering free, evidence-informed classes and support alongside NHS teams, councils and other charity partners. In 2025, Babyzone took on Baby Buddy, an iOS and Android app originally built by the charity Best Beginnings. Baby Buddy gives expecting and new parents personalised, evidence-based daily guidance from pregnancy through a child's first birthday, alongside a video library covering infant care, feeding and mental health. Babyzone's plan is to combine the app with its own community-based hubs, so families get the same guidance whether they are online or in person.
Sector: Healthcare
Type: Mobile App
Tech stack: React Native, Xamarin
Team: Kateryna V., Karolina K., Andrii H., Sofiya P.,

TGA’s work on Baby Buddy began at the end of 2023, when the app’s technical home was still Best Beginnings. The existing app was built in Xamarin, a cross-platform framework nearing the end of its supported life, and Best Beginnings wanted off it entirely and onto React Native, a platform with a far larger developer community behind it. There was no technical documentation for the existing app, so the first job was reverse-engineering it: working out how the app actually behaved before a single line of the rebuild could be written. TGA then rewrote the front end in React Native, matching and preserving the functionality parents and carers already relied on. Among the more demanding pieces of that rebuild were the app’s personalised notifications, which took real problem-solving to get right.

When Babyzone took over Baby Buddy’s operation in March 2025, TGA’s relationship carried over with it. TGA’s work has since settled into ongoing maintenance with occasional new features as Babyzone’s needs develop.

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