Many mamas who pump, even just during the work day, want to keep track of the milk they have pumped and the milk they have stored in the fridge or freezer. Fortunately, there are a few breast pumping tracker apps that can make this process easy!
What Do You Want In An App?
There are a lot of different tracking features available in each breast pumping tracker app. Deciding what sort of features are important to you can help you narrow down the apps you wish to try.
Common features include:
- Tracking the amount of milk produced by your left and right side separately v. together
- How much milk you have stored in a freezer
- How much milk your baby has consumed in a day
- Alarms or alerts to remind you to pump
- Timers to track how long it takes to feed your baby (helpful when practicing paced bottle feeding in the beginning!)
Breast Pumping Apps Reviewed:
Below is a little more information on 10 of the most common or popular apps that include an ability to track breast pumping. Some apps are tailored to pumping or tracking your stored milk, while others track many aspects of a newborn’s development.
Hatch Baby
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Pump: Allows you to time your pump session and input the total amount pumped on both sides OR the amount pumped from one side. You can manually add the amount pumped on the other side but it will display the two sides as separate sessions and will not provide you a total for the single pump session. Does not track storage of milk. Provides charts showing pumping time and amount of milk pumped
Tracks: Height and weight (and provides charts), diapers, sleep, and feedings (ability to differentiate between breastmilk and formula)
Extra: Provides an “at-a-glance” daily summary and ability to upload a photo a day (it will play a slideshow on command or you can view all photos in one place)
Share: Ability to share the account across multiple devices and notifications let you know when another user has input data
Comments: The user interface is streamlined and easy to work with but its tracking abilities are a bit more limited
Baby Tracker – Sprout
Platform: iOS only
Cost: Free ($14.99 a year gives you access to more features such as charts and adding a second child)
Pump: Allows you to time your pump session, records how much milk is pumped on each side, provides a total amount pumped for the session and for the day. Ability to add a pump session manually, ability to email your pump log, and set alerts.
Tracks: Height, weight, diapers, baby’s mood, sleep, feeding, and personalized activities (such as tummy time)
Extra: Dedicated area for medical tracking (including a place to record questions for a pediatrician, symptom tracker, growth tracker, log for immunizations, developmental tracking), space to add a memory of the day, ability to export a file with height and weight and memories
Share: Ability to share data across multiple devices and compatible with Apple watch
Comments: A comprehensive user interface but many useful features are only accessible with a subscription
Baby Tracker – Newborn Log
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free (unlock full version for $4.99 – includes no adds, a watch app, and siri shortcuts)
Pump: Allows you to time your pump session (and to start each breast at different times), records how much milk is pumped on each side, provides a total amount pumped for the session, tracks the amount of milk in inventory (and subtracts when you input an expressed milk feeding entry), provides a weekly and monthly chart to see output trends
Tracks: Height, weight, sleep, diapers, feeding (ability to differentiate between nursing, expressed milk, formula, and supplement) predetermined activities, temperature, medications, vaccines
Extra: Allows you to take photos and add a note and to copy photos to your camera roll all at once
Share: Ability to share the account across multiple devices
Comments: The user interface is less intuitive than I would like
Pumping Work
Platform: iOS only
Cost: Free ($1.99 for 6 months to remove ads and export and print logs)
Pump: Ability to time your pump session using a timer or a countdown clock, option to add a pump session manually, tracks amount pumped from each side and provides a combined total, ability to select where milk is stored (fridge, freezer, room temp) and whether it was already consumed (it appears you can only add consumed milk when entering pumped milk and it cannot be an amount greater than the amount pumped)
Tracks: Only tracks pumped milk and consumed milk
Extra: provides reports detailing the amount of milk pumped per session and day for the last 7 days, last 30 days, and lifetime. The reports show your max amount, average amount, and minimum amount pumped and the duration for the same. There are also charts with the same information and the amount in your stash. Ability to set your baby’s daily consumption and your end date pumping goal, which works with the data provided during your pump sessions to calculate how much milk your baby will need, what you have left in your freezer, and how much formula will be needed to supplement. Ability to set reminders to pump based on a fixed time or your last pump time.
Share: No apparent ability to share app with other users
Comments: The ads are extremely annoying—they take over the app temporarily every so often and you have to wait to continue your task. For now, you can choose to watch an ad to remove ads for 48 hours. Although it appears to keep track of freezer milk, there is no real way to subtract from the freezer stash in this app.
DairyBar
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: $1.99
Pump: Does not track actual pumping
Tracks: Allows user to input the total amount of breast milk pumped with the date and time pumped and whether it was stored or used immediately, ability to change the labels (what you call the location) and type (Fridge, Freezer, Deep Freeze) of the three storage locations but no ability to have more than three storage locations, ability to adjust measurement units between ounces and milliliters and date format, ability to mass transfer milk to a different stash, or mass date, delete, add notes, among other options
Extra: Contains a pumping calculator that allows you to set a goal of feeding your baby breast milk until a particular date, and it tracks what the average consumed per day and stashed per day, and provides you how long your stashed milk will last
Share: Ability invite users to view and edit your stash
Comments: Although not an actual pumping tracking app, the simplicity of this app is soothing and can be a useful counterpart for tracking stored milk in tandem with another app that does track pumping
Milk Stash
Platform: iOS only
Cost: Free
Pump: Ability to time your pump session, tracks amount pumped from each side and provides a combined total, ability to select whether you are storing the breast milk from each side together and where milk is stored (any of the stash locations you provide—these are adjustable), allows you to transfer ounces between your stash locations to any of your other stash locations, ability to change the storage container term and max fluid amount (bag or bottle—but each stash location can only use one term type at a time), ability to input when bottles/bags are consumed
Tracks: N/a
Extra: Provides limited tracking statistics (ex. amount pumped over time and the volume of your stash)
Share: Ability to invite users to view and edit your stash
Comments: This is a nice simple app to track your pumping sessions and your stash. If you do not want to have an app that is bogged down by other tracking features, this may be the app for you!
Pump Log
Platform: iOS only
Cost: Free for the first 48 entries ($14.99 one time payment for additional entries)
Pump: ability to time your pump session using a timer, option to add a pump session manually, tracks amount pumped from each side and provides a combined total, ability to select whether milk is stashed (but does not provide locations), ability to add or subtract ounces from stash without needing to log a pump session, provides statistics on daily or weekly amounts pumps (averages, high, low)
Tracks: N/a
Extra: Ability to set a notification reminder to pump, countdown feature that allows you to input how much your baby drinks and how long long you want to feed your baby breast milk and provides the data in relation to your set terms, ability to track in either ounces or milliliters, Apple watch compatible
Share: No apparent ability to share app with other users
Comments: Similar to Milk Stash, this app only tracks your pumping sessions and your stash. If you are choosing between the two, I think the tiebreaker would be whether you need to be able to share the app with another user who will remove milk from your stash and which app aesthetic you prefer.
Milk Maid
Platform: iOS only
Cost: $2.99
Pump: Allows you to time your pump session (and to start each breast at different times), records how much milk is pumped on each side, provides a total amount pumped for the session, ability to choose whether your container is a bottle or bag and where you have stored the milk (these locations are editable), tracks the amount of milk in inventory in your various locations (and provides the option to move containers between locations or combine them), ability to “prep” a bottle or “dump” milk (which will subtract the amount of milk entered from the location you select), provides statistics (a daily history, weekly averages, pumping volume on both sides and total, the amount of pumping sessions a day, feeding volumes, and more)
Tracks: N/a
Extra: Ability to set alarms (notifications must be enabled), option to change separate breast timers to a single timer (option found under milk maid preferences), notifies user that a stash has gone bad in its location with the use of a red bar, and provides an estimate of milk usage (option found under milk maid preferences)
Share: Ability to export data, no apparent ability to share with other users
Comments: The user interface is very clean (and reminiscent of the apple notes application!) but I just don’t love it. I think I want to be zoomed out just a bit more—the size of everything seems a bit too big in a way that makes me feel disorganized.
Feed Baby – Breastfeeding App
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free ($5.99 one-time purchase to unlock full app: unlimited syncing across devices and access to customer service)
Pump: allows you to time your pump session (picking left, right, or both but does not allow more than one timer to run at once) or make a manual entry, records how much milk is pumped total (unless you selected to pump only one side), charts the quantity of milk pumped, time spent pumping, and the number of pumps per day over the last 21 days, provides averages of amount pumped per day over the last week
Tracks: Ability to record teeth, height, weight, head circumference, temperatures, vaccinations, and to log bath time, diapers, sleep, solid food, milk (and whether it is milk, pumped milk, formula, water, or other) activities, moods, symptoms, medicine, and journal notes
Extra: Allows the user to set alarms for many different tasks, provides averages and trends for many categories
Share: Ability to sync account across multiple devices
Comments: My app kept glitching after using the timer—the timer would turn the screen orientation to landscape and even once I ended the timer, the screen orientation reminded landscape. I had to close the app to fix the issue each time.
Nara Baby Tracker
Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Pump: Allows you to input the start time of your pump session and the duration (but no timer feature), ability to record the amount of milk pumped on your left and right or the total pumped, provides a summary of the amount pumped for the day or the last 24 hours (shows left, right, and total), charts the number of pump sessions, amount pumped, and total pump hours (via calendar, graph, or entries)
Tracks: Feedings (breastfed, bottle, and solids), diapers, sleep, height, weight, head size, vaccines, medicines, baths, tummy time, or any other activity you wish to add
Extra: Provides statistics and graphs for most categories listed above
Share: Ability to share the account across multiple devices
Comments: This app user interface is uncluttered and straightforward, which may be valuable when you are very tired!
Pump Specific Apps:
Some breast pumps are designed to work with a specific app to track pumping sessions. Breast pumps such as the Willow, Elvie Double Pump, Elvie Stride, BabyBuddha, Lansinoh Smartpump, Medela Sonata, Medela Freestyle Flex, and Medela Swing Maxi.
Although these apps may track milk pumped during a session, they often do not have extra features like tracking how much milk you have stored or how much milk your baby has consumed in a day, and you may wish to use them in tandem with one of the apps discussed above!
The EP&Me Picks:
I personally love Sprout, DairyBar, and FeedBaby, and Milk Stash.
Honestly, I only used a few features on Sprout but the features I did us were great. I used all of the pump tracking features and all of the medical features. I found the pump tracking easy to use and visually it had the streamlined look I wanted. As for the medical features, I liked the growth tracker well enough, but it was the M.D. Visit Planner that I found especially useful. The M.D. Visit Planner allowed me to input the date of the next pediatrician appointment, and gave me a place to jot down questions to ask the doctor. Each question has a bubble next to it that you can hit once you’ve gotten the answer to your question. You can even view the questions you have gotten answers to, just in case you need to reference them again. What I did was ask the question, type the answer next to the question, and then click the bubble. Then when I got home later and discussed the appointment with my Husband, I used the answered questions section to update him on what I had happened at the appointment.
I love DairyBar because I can easily keep track of the pumped milk in my fridge, but when I take batches out to the deep freezer, I like the ability to add milk and the date it was pumped at the time I’m actually moving the milk. I also like that I can note if the milk should only be used for a bath in the note section. It does not bother me to have one app tracking my pump sessions and another tracking my stash. This is also an excellent choice because it is available on both iOS and Android.
I love the simplicity of Milk Stash and that it tracks both pumping and your stashed milk. The fact that it also has the ability to share the app with another user might make it the perfect app for iPhone users!
Lastly, if you want to track everything about your little one’s first months, I think Feed Baby gives you the best all-around user interface. I mean, you can track your baby’s teeth! I did not use Feed Baby with my first little one like I did with some of my other favorite apps, so I have only been exploring the app for a few weeks. As mentioned above, I had a little bit of an issue with glitching while using the timer. I’m hoping this is a short-term issue and will update this post either way!
I hope one of these tracking apps makes your life easier! Good luck mama!
