Solid Starts Reviews 151

TrustScore 4 out of 5

3.8

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Looking at 151 reviews, reviewers had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently highlight the helpfulness of the information provided, especially regarding how to prepare various foods safely for different ages, often accompanied by useful videos and clear instructions. Many users appreciate the comprehensive food database, meal ideas, and guidance on introducing allergens, which helps them feel confident and less stressed about starting solids with their babies. The app is often described as a great source of information and a necessity for parents. However, some people were dissatisfied with the app's user experience and navigation. Reviewers mentioned issues with the app being glitchy, having latency problems, and content not loading correctly. Specific complaints include difficulties with logging foods, tracking allergens, and editing entries, with some finding the meal planning feature unintuitive and not personalized enough. The video learning experience was also noted as not being optimized, lacking full-screen options and not tracking progress.

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Really awesome except the video learning experience...it's not optimized, can't make it full screen, couldn't pause, it didn't keep track of where I was so I had to restart from the beginning several... See more

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great information but found it difficult to navigate. I saw an option to “make a list” and option to add “foods to try later” and “favorites” but I don’t know what difference in use is, and I can no l... See more

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Love this app! Super helpful and makes starting solids so much less stressful. My son turned 1 yesterday and, looking back, I can definitely tell that it helped me lots. The only tiny downside is that... See more

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

It's impossible to navigate the app reliably. I'd like to get some suggestions on the next steps for a particular plan. The app coerces me to get all foods from that one section. Trying to meal pla... See more

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Solid Starts is the world’s first comprehensive platform for how to introduce real food to babies. Led by a team of pediatric feeding therapists, board-certified pediatricians, registered dietitians and pediatric allergists, the platform features their award-winning First Foods® database and app, step-by-step instructions and how-to videos for introducing solid food to babies.


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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

My love hate relationship with solid starts

The app was amazing for starting out. I love how the directions for each individual food are laid out. Also love that I can search for recipes.

What I hate about this app:
1. How you progress through allergens: I’d like to be able to select the allergen we want to introduce next.
2. How the recipes for progressing through allergens are held hostage until you mark the step before it as completed. I’d like to be able to review the recommended recipes and ways to prepare the food ahead of time so when I’m meal planning and grocery shopping for the week I can prepare accordingly.

29 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Julia! Thanks so much for your positive feedback about our first foods database and recipes. In case you missed it, we recently released a new version of the app that will help with some of the things you've mentioned here. Try updating to that new version and feel free to reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact if you still have questions. 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Really awesome except the video…

Really awesome except the video learning experience...it's not optimized, can't make it full screen, couldn't pause, it didn't keep track of where I was so I had to restart from the beginning several times since I was trying to learn while breastfeeding. At least I got help and now I can pause them, but I only had 2 videos left...at the price we pay, it should be functioning from the get go.

28 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Totally hear you, Johanie, and appreciate this! Glad we were able to help with your video issue, even though you were close to finishing them all. We've passed this feedback along to our dev team - grateful for your support. 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

-The introduction of allergens is…

-The introduction of allergens is glitchy
-The app isn’t very intuitive at times and can be annoying to use
- would be nice to have suggestions on how to make what I’m already eating suitable for baby rather than providing separate recipes that I have to make separately

27 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi there, thanks for your feedback and so sorry for the experience. We hear you on all of this! We are always working to improve the app experience and user feedback is so valuable in helping to inform our roadmap of updates. We have passed all of this onto our dev team - thank you again!

To address your issues with introducing allergens, please reach out to our team here:
solidstarts.com/contact so we can assist in troubleshooting and answering any questions you may have. Also if you find that the problem gets resolved, we’d love if you can update your review - as a small business, it means a lot 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I love the app

I love the app, but it expensive. I won’t be able to have the full app for long.

27 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

We appreciate your feedback, Kayla! Please reach out to us at www.solidstarts.com/contact/ and we'll see what we can do to help 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This app has helped me feel confident…

This app has helped me feel confident with starting solids with my baby. I’m an anxious person but the information on the app makes me feel confident and capable. I love being able to look up how to prepare different foods safely (especially with all of the pictures and videos). I love being guided through introducing allergens.
My only feedback is that sometimes the feature to log foods and reactions can be a little buggy.

27 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Super appreciate this, Ashley! Glad the app has helped you feel confident with feeding solids to your baby. It's why we do what we do.🤍 Feel free to reach out to our team at solidstarts.com/contact if you are having trouble logging foods - always happy to help!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Easy intro to BLW

This app has helped me take the guessing out of starting BLW with my little one. So many easy ideas of ways to serve foods to our baby girl. Love that it will even make you a shopping list.

26 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Thanks so much for this, Elizabeth! Truly appreciate your support! 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

I'm having issues with logging food and…

I'm having issues with logging food and tracking allergens. I paid $75 and navigating this should be easier.

The recipes are helpful.

25 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Oh goodness, so sorry to hear you are having some tech trouble, Marianne! Please reach out to our team at solidstarts.com/contact so we can help get the app working properly for you. 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

A big reassurance for anxious parents with a huge, helpful database of foods and meals

The content in this app is amazing. I am learning so much and as first time parents who were terrified of our baby choking, the app and content has been so helpful in easing our worries. I love that every food item has information on how they can safely be served by age, and shows videos of kids of different ages eating them. It eases your worries when you see that loads of kids gag and cough and they're absolutely happy and fine.

So yeah, content wise it's fantastic and I'm so happy with the pro version.

I'm deducting one star because i find the app unintuitive to navigate and logging foods quite burdensome, so I don't really use it for that. I love the recipes, blogs and food database, but I don't find it user friendly enough to be able to use all the features. Thankfully I don't really see the point in logging food anyway, so I don't mind.

25 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Ava! Glad you are loving the app content and that it's helped you feel more confident with starting solids! We super appreciate the feedback on the app and we've taken this back to our developers. We are continuously having internal discussions on improving the app experience for our users, and we really value having our community weigh in--thanks for being here 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The app is a little glitchy and records…

The app is a little glitchy and records some foods/allergens we have introduced in one place but then it won’t show up in another area. The information is great and super helpful though for how to serve at each age.

24 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Greta, thanks for taking the time to write! So sorry that you are experiencing some glitching/tech issues. As a first step, please try deleting the app and then reinstalling it from your app store. This helps "reset" things a bit. If that doesn't work, please reach out to our team at solidstarts.com/contact so we can sort this out for you - thanks for being here! 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Love the guide itself but

Love the guide itself. Won’t let me track the food I give. Says error. But overall a great app.

21 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Anna! Apologies for the tracking trouble! Your app may just need a quick reset. When you have a moment, please log out of the app from your profile page, delete the app from your phone and then reinstall it from your app store. If you are still seeing the error when you log back in, please reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact for additional support. However, if you find this solves the problem, we’d so appreciate it if you can update your review - as a small business, it means the world. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great for baby-led weaning!

This app is awesome. I love that it breaks down how to safely serve food to your baby by age. I also love how it gives you recipe ideas and the videos and pictures are so helpful!

14 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Thank you so much for this, Michelle. So grateful to have you here with us! 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It’s amazing

It’s amazing! Anytime I want to serve something I quickly check the app to see how I need to cut it for her age. So much help with knowing if the meal I’m offering is iron rich.

14 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

This means so much, Ranchana! Thanks for being a part of our community 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It’s a game changer

As a first time mom - Not only having access to the food database , the introduction to allergens and access to articles (choking v gagging was a game changer for me) gives me peace of mind to help my baby explore and learn about something we both love - food

13 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

This means the world Kali! Thanks for this! 💕

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My favorite feature by far is being…to see how to serve by age and track for food allergies

My favorite feature by far is being able to look up any item and see how to serve it. It’s much more interactive than it used to be when I used it with my son. I love all the guides and resources. My daughter has food allergies and this has been very helpful in tracking what we have tried and her reactions to it. It is also helpful in knowing what I need to introduce and ideas on how to do it.

10 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Super appreciate this, Alex! Your support means the world to us 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

You can’t put that a baby has an…

You can’t put that a baby has an allergy on his profile to stop recommending recipes with that allergen

10 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi there! Sorry for the confusion here! In order to mark a food as allergic and have the app stop recommending recipes with that food, you need to mark the ingredient as allergic via the allergen introduction recipes on the "Today" tab. If you run into any trouble with that, our team is happy to help: solidstarts.com/contact 🤍

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Not worth the $99 in my opinion

Not worth the $99 in my opinion. I should have signed up for monthly payment. Wish I could get a refund….

10 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Madelyn! Sorry to hear the app is not meeting your expectations. We take all feedback from our community straight to our dev team and we would love to hear more! If you have a moment, could you reach out to us at the following link? We will also do our best to help make things right. 🤍 solidstarts.com/contact

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Great recipes and feeding tips, food logging could be more user-friendly

It’s really easy to find new foods I’d like to try with my baby and see how I should best prepare them for her. There are great meal ideas and I appreciate the safety tips with the individual food. There are several recipes she loves. I like the tips as well. I think the food-logging could use some improvements. When I look at a recipe, make it, and go to log it, if I modified it at all, there no way to document that in the app. I also found it challenging to go back and edit foods she tried (if the food(s) weren’t quite right or to change a date) after logging.

7 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Appreciate this feedback, Hayley! We are always working to improve the app experience and user feedback is so valuable in helping to inform our roadmap of updates. We have passed all of this onto our dev team - thank you again! If you have any other questions/feedback/suggestions, please reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact - we’re always happy to help 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The app is very difficult to navigate…

The app is very difficult to navigate and log food. Oftentimes I will log my child’s entire meal, hit next, and it only saveds one ingredient.
Articles are difficult to find as well. I can find Solid Starts online, but when I search in the app, they do not appear.
The app does include great information on how to serve a variety of foods to your little one, but needs a bit of work on the interface.

5 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi there! So sorry to hear you are finding the app difficult to use and are experiencing issues with saving food. As a first troubleshooting step, be sure that you have the latest version of the app installed. You can check your app store to see if an update is available, or simply delete/reinstall the app to ensure you have the latest version. Also, check out our Help Center at solidstarts.com/faq for answers to common Q's & A's on how to use and navigate the app. If you are still running into issues or have questions, please reach out to our team at solidstarts.com/contact for additional support. Thanks for being here! 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Sarah! Thanks for your feedback. Our small team is doing its best to load as many foods as possible into the database and we appreciate your patience. In the meantime, you can use "Other" to log any food not yet in our database if you are a paid subscriber. While on your Tracker tab, click the blue “+” button and select “Foods,” and then the date you wish to log the food. Click “Add other food” at the top and type the name of the food in the text box. Thanks for being with us! 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Not sure what I'd do without this app

This app is great. I was really nervous about starting solids but I knew I wanted to do BLW because so much data shows that it is best for kids. Solid Starts is so clear, detailed, and encouraging that I felt so much more confident! It's tough being a first time parent these days with no moms and grandmas around daily to help show young parents what to do and what to expect. Solid Starts helps fill that gap. The detailed meal recipes, photos and videos of how to prepare foods for baby, and nutrient info is so helpful! The safety information is thorough and clear without feeling panic-inducing. My baby had a big gag with vomiting, which was scary, but because of the videos and descriptions in the app it felt familiar and I knew she was safe and that I would know if she needed my help.

5 October 2025
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Reply from Solid Starts

Thank you very much, Jill! This is all amazing to hear! Our hearts are so full 🤍

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