Hatsu-go
Hatsu-go is an app for recording your child's language growth day by day and making it easy to look back later. It is designed to help you build records word by word while organizing changes clearly through charts and summaries.
The app values making it easy to keep everyday observations, such as "when and what kinds of words started increasing" and "what the first word was," without adding unnecessary burden.
Terms and Policies
What This App Aims To Do
A child's language growth is built from small daily changes. However, it is not easy to keep remembering those changes accurately in everyday life.
Hatsu-go aims to preserve those daily observations as records and make the flow of growth easier to review. By continuing to record, you can look back on "I feel like the words have increased somehow" as "these kinds of words began increasing around this period."
Basic Design
Hatsu-go is designed with both easy recording and easy review in mind.
When recording, you can save the date and speech status for each word. You can also add notes and videos when needed, so the situation at that moment can be preserved more concretely. When reviewing, the app makes both individual records and the overall flow easy to see through lists, histories, charts, and summaries.
It is structured not as a simple memo app, but with the idea that "the records you keep should become useful later."
Recording Features
With Hatsu-go, you can organize and record daily speech word by word. Because speech status and date can be saved together, it becomes easier to understand which words began being used and around when.
You can also add optional notes to preserve the situation and impression at the time. Small details such as "they said it in this situation" or "they have started using it often recently" can become meaningful when you look back later.
Review Features
Recorded content can be checked not only in lists and word histories, but also in charts and summaries.
The list view makes recent entries easy to review, and the word detail view makes it easy to follow the history of each word. Charts let you visually check how recorded words have accumulated over time. Summaries help you grasp the overall picture in a compact form.
The design is intended not only to "keep" records, but also to help you "notice changes."
Designed for Developmental Support Contexts
Hatsu-go is centered on home recording, while also being designed to be easy to use for families connected to developmental support.
Basic features such as speech records, charts, and summaries are available for free and without limits, providing a solid foundation for continuing daily records. The app values "continuous records," "easy review," and "visible changes," which are often important for support, while keeping the experience approachable and easy to continue at home rather than overly specialized.
The Joy of Recording
Hatsu-go also values making recording feel less like an obligation. Saving a first word or looking back on vocabulary gradually increasing can become a major joy in everyday parenting.
A casual word can later become an important record of growth. Hatsu-go hopes to support the joy of building up those small "they said it" moments.
Basic and Premium
Hatsu-go clearly separates the roles of Basic and Premium.
With Basic, you can use core recording features such as speech records, charts, and summaries for free and without limits. The app values providing a foundation that is useful enough for those who want to start recording and continue preserving everyday changes.
With Premium, the video storage limit is removed and backup features become available. Premium is an expanded feature set for those who want to preserve not only words, but also the child's speech, interactions, and atmosphere more richly, or manage important records together.
For Peace of Mind
Record data is handled primarily on the device. Backup and sharing features are also designed so that users can use them themselves when needed.
Records about your child are very personal and important. For that reason, Hatsu-go emphasizes a clear, easy-to-handle form that can be continued without unnecessary complexity.
What Hatsu-go Values
What Hatsu-go values is not increasing the number of records for its own sake, but making it easier to look back on growth through those records.
Recording everyday language development gently, continuously, and without strain. And feeling later that "I am glad I kept this." Hatsu-go is a recording app for that purpose.