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About Araia

Who builds this app, where the guidance in it comes from, and what we will and won't do with your baby's data.

Last updated 19 August 2026

What Araia is

Araia is a baby tracking app for the first few years: feeds, nappies, sleep, medicines, growth, vaccinations, appointments, reports and memories, in one place — with an AI assistant that reads your own baby's logged history before it answers a question.

It was built because the existing options fell into two groups. Some were fast to log but stopped being useful once nappies stopped mattering. Others covered everything but took so many taps that nobody kept using them past the first month. We wanted one that survived both tests.

Who builds it

Araia is made by a small independent team in India — parents and engineers, not a large company. We are not funded by advertising, we do not sell data, and there is no third party paying for access to what you log.

If you want to reach an actual person, write to hello@araia.me. It goes to us.

Where our guidance comes from

The guides we publish are written from published paediatric guidance, principally:

  • Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) — the immunisation timetable and India-specific growth references
  • World Health Organization — child growth standards, infant feeding guidance
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India — the Universal Immunization Programme schedule
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) — safe sleep and developmental milestone guidance

Where sources disagree, or where Indian and international practice differ, we say so in the article rather than picking one silently. The IAP and UIP vaccination schedules are the clearest example of this and we cover both.

Our editorial policy

  • We write ranges, not deadlines. Most of what worries parents is normal variation, and presenting a median as a target causes real anxiety.
  • We say when to call a doctor, specifically. Every health guide ends with the signs that need medical attention, because "consult your paediatrician" without criteria is not useful advice.
  • We do not diagnose. Nothing we publish, and nothing the app's AI says, is a diagnosis or a substitute for examining your baby.
  • We date every article and update it when guidance changes.
  • We flag our own limits. Where the evidence is weak — colic treatments, for instance — we say the evidence is weak rather than recommending something confidently.
An honest note about AI

Araia's assistant is built on a large language model. It reads your baby's logged data before answering, which makes it far more useful than a general chatbot for questions about your baby specifically. It can still be wrong. It is not a doctor, it cannot examine your baby, and it should never be the thing standing between you and a phone call you were going to make.

What we do with your data

The short version: your baby's data is yours. We do not sell it, we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not use it to train models. You can export it and you can delete it.

The long version is in the privacy policy, which we have tried to write in language a tired person can read.

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