Is MyBabyPool Free? Free vs Plus, Explained

Short answer: yes, you can run a baby pool on MyBabyPool for free, and so can every guest. There is also an optional one-time upgrade called Plus. Before you share your link with the whole family group chat, here is exactly what you get with each, so nothing comes as a surprise.

What the free version includes

• Create a pool in about a minute, with your due date and a deadline for guesses.
• Pick the categories: birth date, birth time, sex, weight, length, hair color, eye color and the baby's name. Switch off whatever you don't want.
• Share one link. Guests open it on their phone, enter their name and email, and guess. No account, no app to install.
• Anyone can join. There is no limit on how many people guess.
• The first five guesses are visible to everyone, and every guest can always see their own guess.
• Automatic scoring after the birth: enter the real details and the pool works out the scores and the ranking for you.

It costs nothing, for you or your guests, and there is no trial that runs out.

What Plus adds

Plus is for when your pool gets bigger than a handful of people, which happens fast once grandparents start forwarding the link.

• Every guess visible, for you and for everyone who joins. On the free version, guesses after the first five are there but hidden.
• Results emailed to everyone after the birth, with their own score and place, so the people far away hear who won without forty separate messages.
• A keepsake PDF booklet of the whole pool: every guess, every personal note and the winners. Print it, or keep it with the first photos.
• Full statistics across all predictions: how many people picked each date, weight and name, and how the boy or girl vote split. On the free version these only count the visible guesses.

What Plus costs

Plus is a single payment per pool. No subscription, no renewal.

Where you are	Price
United States	$14.99
United Kingdom	£9.99
Euro countries	€12.95
Canada	CA$19.95
Australia	AU$19.95

On the website you pay securely through Stripe. In the iOS and Android apps you pay through the App Store or Google Play at the price shown there.

Two details worth knowing:

• Plus belongs to one pool. If you delete that pool, the upgrade goes with it; it does not move to a new one. Want to change the questions or the due date? You can edit everything in the existing pool without losing a single guess.
• You can upgrade at any time, also after the birth. Guesses that were hidden become visible straight away; nobody has to guess again.

Plus as a gift

Friends and grandparents can give Plus as a gift. The giver pays, the parents get a code by email (or handed over at the shower), and entering it on their pool upgrades it straight away. It is a sweet extra next to a baby shower present, and it means the parents don't have to think about it.

Do I need Plus?

A simple rule of thumb:

• Five or fewer guesses expected (just the two of you, the grandparents and a sister): the free version does everything you need.
• A bigger family, a group of friends or an office baby pool: you will pass five guesses in the first evening, and Plus lets everyone see all of them.
• You want a keepsake: the booklet is only in Plus.

There is no rush to decide. Start free, share the link, and see how many people join. You can upgrade the moment you want to see every guess.

Compared with other baby pools

Some baby pool sites are fully free; others charge more. BabyHunch is 100% free, and Guess the Baby charges a one-time $19.99 after a three-player demo. We compare them in 7 BabyHunch alternatives and in MyBabyPool vs BabyHunch.

Ready to start? Create your baby pool and see how it works step by step.