# Getting your data out

> Everything your household has logged is a single file, and you can download the whole of it whenever you like.

Last updated 18 August 2026

**Settings** → **Export**. Three formats, the whole record, whenever you want. Export is never behind a subscription and nothing is held back from it.

![The Take your data screen: the size of the household file, then buttons to download the database, JSON and CSV.](https://baybay.baby/assets/img/docs/export.png?v=6a84bb3b)
*Settings, then Export.*

## Which format

- **SQLite** — the actual file your household lives in. Not a rendering of your data, the record itself. Opens in any SQLite browser, and it is what you would move to another baybay.
- **CSV** — feeds and sleeps in one spreadsheet, with times already converted to your timezone. This is the one to pick for Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, or to send to a health visitor.
- **JSON** — for keeping your own backup, or moving the data into something else.

## Everything you have logged is one file

That is the whole design. Your household is a single SQLite file, and the export hands it over intact — every feed, every sleep, every child, the settings and the schedule. There is no second copy somewhere with the interesting parts in it.

## Nothing is held back and nothing is soft-deleted

Deleting a household unlinks the file. There is no hidden flag quietly keeping a copy, and export is not restricted on any plan — including after you cancel.

> **Hosted plan**
>
> If you cancel, your data stays exportable for **30 days** before it is deleted, so cancelling in a hurry never costs you the record.
>
> We also take daily backups while you are subscribed, which is a different thing from your export and not a substitute for it. Taking your own copy occasionally is still worth the ten seconds.

## Taking it somewhere else

baybay is open source, so "somewhere else" can be your own server running the same application. Export the SQLite file, drop it into a self-hosted install, and you are exactly where you left off. [More about self-hosting](https://baybay.baby/docs/is-baybay-right-for-us.md).

---

From [How to use baybay](https://baybay.baby/docs.md). baybay — Feed and sleep tracking for the first year, logged in two taps. Hosted for $7 a month, or self-hosted free on PHP and SQLite with no Docker and no build step. Everything one family logs lives in a single SQLite file they can export or delete.

Canonical: https://baybay.baby/docs/getting-your-data-out