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 2 out of 5 stars

Excellent free resource - a bit too buggy to pay for

Great information, but I'm paying to record the foods for my infant and it carried over all the foods from my firstborn and I don't know how to reset it.

19 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Kaitlyn, so sorry about this!! When you have a moment, please reach out to our team so that they can help resolve this for you: solidstarts.com/contact 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Not worth $199.00 I’m sorry

Not worth $199.00 I’m sorry. I’m not getting a ton of info about baby-led weaning. The whole experience of adding foods hasn’t been intuitive. Every time it says something like “… Keep going you have 2 More foods to try…” I tap it, select foods, and then it doesn’t register the food. Anyway, I’m keeping it solely to keep track of what our baby has tried. No meal planning or shopping lists.

19 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Jules! Appreciate you reaching out with this feedback and sorry you are finding the app a bit difficult to navigate. We do have a Help Center (solidstarts.com/FAQ) with answers to many common questions, and we are always happy to walk you through anything you are having difficulty with if you reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact. 🤍

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not as user friendly

Not as user friendly

17 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Valerie! Thanks so much for reaching out with this feedback and sorry you are finding the app a bit difficult to navigate. We do have a Help Center (solidstarts.com/FAQ) with answers to many common questions, and we are always happy to walk you through anything you are having difficulty with if you reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact. In any case, we'd love to hear more specific feedback on the parts of the experience that are a struggle, as it really helps our dev team when mapping out future updates. We truly value our community's input - thanks for being here! 🤍

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Glitches

So many glitches mostly with the stats and different categories. For example, the allergen tab shows I tried 2, but in reality I have tried 7. It is the same with the foods tried tab, I have tried 41, but it only displays 3 things. Very dissapointing condiering you have to pay for this app.

13 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi France, Appreciate you reaching out with this feedback and wanted to share that we have a Help Center (solidstarts.com/FAQ) that provides clarity on how to log allergens in the app. We are always happy to walk you through anything you are having difficulty with if you reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact. Looking forward to hearing from you! 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Made life easy with a food allergy baby

The recording of allergens for my food allergy baby made the transition onto solids so much easier and was an absolute relief when I could write her reactions to foods too. Made starting solids feel like a breeze.

13 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Nikkari! Yay! We are so grateful to hear that our app served you well along your starting solids journey. Thank you for sharing. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

So glad that I paid for the app

So glad that I paid for the app. Totally worth the money. There’s some amazing guidance that helped our BLW journey. I’ve used the app daily for meal recommendations and tracking for the last 6 months. Videos definitely help in making foods safer for my baby.

13 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Divya! We can't tell you how much we appreciate you taking the time to share your experience! So glad you're here. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

This app is extremely thorough and…

This app is extremely thorough and authoritative. It’s given me a lot of guidance.

11 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Love to hear this, Sarah! Thanks for being a part of our community. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The app is fantastic

The app is fantastic! Highly recommend. I recommend it to everyone. I love the food database, the meal prep ideas, the serving size suggestions, and the ability to track tried foods, allergens, etc.

10 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

We can't tell you how much we appreciate you spreading the word, Clara! So grateful our app is serving you well and wishing you all the best along your solids journey! 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

very informative

very informative, helps with the anxiety of starting solids through baby-led weaning.

10 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Your review means SO much to us, Hannah! Always here for you. 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Love the app but subscription not worth it

I love all of the ideas in the app and how it walks you through how to cut up babies foods for BLW. I find the app itself difficult to navigate. I often am told that I need to view information in the paid app even though I pay for the app. Highly recommend the app but not the subscription for it.

6 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Melissa, we are still very much in the process of improving the app experience and truly value your feedback. So sorry for the trouble with accessing our paid features! Please reach out to our team at solidstarts.com/contact so we can help you access your paid subscription and answer any questions you may have about navigating the app. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Love this app!

Love this app!! I reference it all of the time when preparing food for our little one and love the access to additional resources!

5 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

SO happy to hear this, Caroline! Grateful for you. 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Expensive

I like the app but I do think the cost is a bit ridiculous. I also don't like how many of the articles I read have written in them to download the app. There shouldn't be references to download the app or pay for the app when I've already done so.

3 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Heather! Appreciate this feedback and will be sure to pass along to the team. Grateful to have you in our community. 🤍

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

App Functionality

I have many problems getting things to log properly and the allergen badges to show up on my account. I can’t find my answer in the FAQs and can’t find an email or anything to contact customer service to get help. For this expensive of an app, I’d hope it would work better and have a better customer service option.

2 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Alex! Our contact form can be found at the bottom of our Contact Us page (solidstarts.com/contact) so please send us an email so we can get your app working properly. Hope to hear from you soon! 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’ve followed solid starts for the past 5 years

I’ve followed solid starts for the past 5 years and was very excited to use the updated app with my second son. This time around there is the option for a paid subscription for full use, the list of features is extensive and great at helping me start solids with my little one from the existing meals i’m making for my family.

1 February 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

So, so grateful for your long-term support, Marilla, and thrilled to hear how much the app has helped in your solids journey. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Take the stress away from starting solids

Solid starts helps take the extra stress out of starting solids. I love that I am able to enter a food in the search bar and it’s tells me from which age it’s safe and how to serve it to my baby. Also love the recipes for different meal ideas. I recommend solid starts to all my mom friends who ask🙂

12 January 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Amazing! Thank you so much for this! Grateful for your support. 🤍

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Takes the fear and anxiety out of weaning!

Really helps to understand what’s appropriate at different ages and how to serve different foods safely

16 January 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Claire, so happy to hear our app is serving you well and appreciate you taking the time to share your experience! Happy eating! 🤍

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Not easy to use

Love how easy it is to figure out how to serve foods. I absolutely hate the UX. Nothing seems to make sense. You can’t get back to pages you were previously on. The tracker is confusing. Not user friendly. I regret paying for it.

15 January 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Lucy, we super appreciate this feedback. Our app team is working tirelessly in an effort to not only improve the functionality of our app, but the overall user experience as well. We do have a Help Center (solidstarts.com/FAQ) with answers to many common questions, and we are always happy to walk you through anything you are having difficulty with if you reach out to us at solidstarts.com/contact. In any case, we'd love to hear more specific feedback on the parts of the experience that are a struggle, as it really helps our dev team when mapping out future updates. We truly value our community's input - thanks for being here! 🤍

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Excellent content

Appreciate: Huge library of simple meal ideas; the amount of baby feeding specific info, guidance and reassurance included; guidance for introducing allergens and other aspects of solids; meal and food type planning, tracking and logging.
Navigation between features (and finding them) in the app is not fully developed so a little frustrating and confusing. It would also be great if they add a feature to be able to create and add your own meals (just available in your account, not globally).
App is exxy but 50% off 12 month subscription in boxing day sale is decent value.
This app is really helping me feel more confident and capable in learning to make food for and feed my LO 😊❤️

3 January 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Mel! Thanks so much for your review and love that our app is helping you approach feeding with confidence - truly why we do what we do! We appreciate your ideas for improvement, as we are still very much in the process of refining the app experience and user feedback is so valuable! I have passed this along to our app team. Super appreciate you taking the time to get in touch and if we can help in any other way, please contact us at this link: solidstarts.com/contact

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great resource!

The app has everything you need to know about starting solids with your baby plus extra content like recipes and helpful tips! I think it is definitely worth the subscription price.

12 January 2026
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Reply from Solid Starts

Hi Leslie! Love to hear that you're enjoying the app.😍 Thank you for taking the time to share your experience - means so much!

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