The parenting app that gets to know your child.

meliy is a clinically-informed app for parents and caregivers of children. Instead of just logging what your child did, meliy helps you understand why it keeps happening — so the next thing you try is the right thing.

It's built on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), the same evidence base clinicians use, made warm and simple enough for a busy weekday morning.

Every behaviour has a reason it sticks around, a function. meliy looks at three things: what was going on just before (the trigger), the behaviour itself, and what happened right after. That's the A-B-C pattern from ABA.

Log a few of these and meliy starts to surface the likely reason, for example, that the meltdowns cluster around transitions rather than tiredness. You see the pattern, in plain language, with the working shown.

No. meliy does not diagnose anything and is not a replacement for advice from your GP, health visitor, therapist or behaviour analyst. It is designed to help you understand everyday behaviours and try gentle, evidence-informed approaches. If a situation looks serious, the app will point you towards professional support rather than try to handle it itself.

No. meliy doesn't diagnose anything, and it isn't a replacement for advice from your GP, health visitor, therapist or behaviour analyst. It's designed to help you understand everyday behaviours and try gentle, evidence-informed approaches.

If a situation looks serious, anything where your child or someone else could be hurt, meliy will point you towards proper professional support rather than try to handle it itself. Always your call

It’s designed to be fast. A quick log takes a tap or two, you choose from simple prompts for what was happening before and what happened after. No long typing required in the moment. When you have a calmer minute later, you can add more detail if you want. Logging is unlimited on every plan, including the free tier.

Insights build as you log. In the first few days you’ll see less, because meliy would rather show you nothing than something it isn’t yet confident about. After a handful of entries the patterns become clearer, and the app only names a likely reason once the evidence supports it.

No. Meliy gives you a lens, not a verdict. Any suggestion is framed as an experiment to try, drawn from approaches clinicians and other families use. You stay the expert on your own child; meliy just helps you see the pattern more clearly.

Yes. You can add each of your children and log for them separately. meliy keeps every child's patterns and insights completely separate, what it learns about one child is never mixed into another's. The why you see is always specific to that child.

Yes, this is built into how meliy works. You can invite your partner or co-parent to share a child, so you both log to the same record and both see the same patterns and insights. No more comparing notes from two different apps.

The important part: you share one shared vocabulary. When one of you logs "asked to stop or switch," it means exactly the same thing when the other one logs it, so your observations add up into one clear picture instead of fragmenting into two half-pictures.

Yes. You can invite a partner or co-parent so you both log to the same record and see the same patterns. You can also invite other trusted adults (grandparent, childminder, nursery key worker) with log-only access. Everyone uses the same shared vocabulary, so observations strengthen the picture rather than fragmenting it.

Yes. Your data is stored in the UK. meliy is built to meet UK GDPR and the ICO’s Age Appropriate Design Code (the Children’s Code). Your logs are used to give you insight into your own child, they are not sold on.

See is free with your account: unlimited logging, a 7-day history view, weekly summaries, essential observations, and one free Why reveal on your own data.

Connect (£9.99/mo or yearly) unlocks ongoing Why, correlations, strategy library, plan generation, PDF reports, multi-parent access, and a higher Ask allowance.

Understand (£19.99/mo or yearly) adds deeper reasoning, higher quotas, Opus-depth Ask, and up to three children. Clinic sessions with Dr Hempkin are priced separately when offered.

Direct (Dodo) subscriptions can be managed from account settings in the app when you've linked a billing customer. Apple App Store and Google Play purchases must be managed in those stores.

Refunds follow the platform you paid through. Full detail is in our Subscription & Refund Policy.

No. Behaviour, sleep, feeding, and routine logging stay unlimited on every plan — including when a payment fails or a subscription lapses. Safety prompts also stay on.