Comparison

Pumping Work vs Milk Monster

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pumping Work

Track breast milk pumping sessions, including time, duration, and volume. Monitor your freezer stash, estimate when you can reach your pumping goals, and receive custom reminders. This app helps new mothers manage their breast milk supply with ease.

Highlights
  • Time pumping sessions
  • Log pumping manually
  • Track volume and duration
  • Monitor freezer stash
  • Estimate pumping goals
  • Custom reminders
  • Export logs
Features
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This app is for pumping mummies who insist on breast milk feedings for babies. You can time the pumping, track the time, duration and amount of each pump, monitor the freezer stash and estimate the days to reach your goal. It’s easy and effective to help you stress relief on ‘When did I pump last time?’, ‘When should I pump next time?’, ‘How much did I produce recent days?’ and ‘When can I stop pumping?’ these staffs. Key Features: ⁃ Time the pumping. ⁃ Add pumping log manually. ⁃ Track how much produced and how long pumped for each log. ⁃ Track pumping times and total volume for each day. ⁃ Track time and duration of each pump. ⁃ Monitor current freeze stash. ⁃ Custom baby’s consumption in different age group and weaning time. ⁃ Estimate days and date that you can drop pumping. ⁃ Custom reminders to alert pumping. ⁃ Report for daily freezer stash. ⁃ Report for daily pumping volume. ⁃ Export logs by email in format of PDF, CSV or HTML. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.

About

Milk Monster

This app offers a beautiful and simple way to track your baby's daily activities, including feeding, sleep, and diaper changes. It facilitates seamless sharing of this information between caregivers in real-time, ensuring everyone is up-to-date. The app also provides valuable insights and summaries for doctor's visits.

Highlights
  • Breastfeeding and bottle tracking
  • Sleep and diaper logging
  • Medicine and temperature recording
  • Growth measurements
  • Caregiver sharing
  • Lock Screen timers
  • Pediatrician visit summaries
Features
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Milk Monster is a calm, beautiful way to track your baby's day — built around sharing between caregivers from the ground up, not as an afterthought. Log a feed in two taps. Start a nursing timer that lives on your Lock Screen. See at a glance when the last diaper was, how long baby slept, and what the whole day looked like — in a quiet, uncluttered design that doesn't shout at you at 3 a.m. IT FOLLOWS YOU ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Log it on iPhone. See the whole day on iPad. Glance at the running timer in your Apple Watch Smart Stack. And when your hands are full, Milk Monster works with Siri — say "Log 4 ounces of formula in Milk Monster," or log a diaper without picking up your phone at all. • iPhone — two taps, one-handed, in the dark • iPad — the whole day at once, in a two-pane view built for the bigger screen • Apple Watch — your live feed or sleep timer in the Smart Stack • Lock Screen & Dynamic Island — timers that count while you hold the baby • Home Screen widgets — last feed, and what's happening right now • Control Center — start or end sleep without opening the app • Siri — log a feed or a diaper hands-free EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE • Breastfeeding with left/right tracking and live timers • Bottles, with expressed milk and formula kept separate • Pumping sessions, left and right • Diapers — wet, dirty, or both • Sleep, with running timers and settling time • Care — baths, skincare, nail trims, tummy time and activities • Medicine and temperature • Growth: weight, length, and head measurements • Milestones and first moments SHARED, THE RIGHT WAY Invite your partner, a grandparent, or a newborn care specialist. Everyone signs in as themselves and logs to the same baby in real time, so you always know what's already been done — no "did you feed her?" texts. Every entry carries the name of whoever logged it, and nothing can be quietly rewritten. FOR CARE PROFESSIONALS Working with more than one family? Keep them all under one login and switch between them. Mute the families you're not with tonight. Lock each baby's home time zone so everyone reads the same clock. At the end of a shift, send the parents the whole day — every entry in order, with totals. THE BIG PICTURE See every range of your baby's days, beautifully charted — sleep, feeds, nursing with left/right totals, diapers, pumping, and a rhythm view that shows whether the days are starting to look alike. It lives in its own tab, and on the web: sign in at my.milkmonster.app from any laptop. READY FOR CHECKUPS Keep a shared "questions for the doctor" list with your partner, follow growth on WHO percentile charts, and export a clear PDF — every feed, sleep, diaper, temperature and medicine for any day or date range — to hand to your pediatrician. FREE TO START Track as a single caregiver with the last 30 days of your log, free. Milk Monster Premium unlocks caregiver sharing, your full history, and trends — monthly or yearly. MADE BY TWO NEW PARENTS Made by two new parents, for the bleary-eyed, beautiful chaos of a newborn. We built it for our own daughter and we still use it every night. Alyssa uses it more than I do, and she still tells me what is wrong with it. A good part of what is in here did not start with us. Care logging came from a newborn care specialist who uses Milk Monster nightly with client families. Other things started as a message from a parent who needed one small thing to work differently. They are here because someone asked. So if you need it to do something it does not do yet, tell us at https://milkmonster.app/support/. It is usually how the next version gets decided. Privacy Policy: https://milkmonster.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://milkmonster.app/terms/

Screenshots

Pumping Work4 screens
Milk Monster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Milk Monster at none against Pumping Work's shown. Milk Monster also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 13 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Pumping Work's advantage is ratings volume (764 vs 27). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pumping Work sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months and Milk Monster sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Milk Monster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pumping Work has 764 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Pumping Work's written reviews are positive against 100% of Milk Monster's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pumping Work ships an update every 13 months, Milk Monster every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pumping Work versus Milk Monster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPumping WorkMilk Monster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (764 ratings)5.0 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings764 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB52 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTDERICK GREGORY JOHNSON

Customer experience

Pumping Work

All ratings764 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews243 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.9%

Milk Monster

All ratings27 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pumping Work

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App corrupting or deleting data
  • Inconsistent behavior with time changes
  • Notification issues with pump reminders

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to track time spent pumping
  • Option to switch between ml and oz easily
  • Reminder alarms instead of just notifications
  • Better data export and analysis options

Milk Monster

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pumping Work

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months7 Days trial$1.996 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$19.99
2 purchases

Milk Monster

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$9.991 Month
  • Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Pumping Work free?
Pumping Work is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Milk Monster free?
Milk Monster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pumping Work or Milk Monster?
Milk Monster is rated higher. Pumping Work averages 4.6 out of 5 from 764 ratings, while Milk Monster averages 5.0 from 27 ratings.
Do Pumping Work or Milk Monster have ads?
Pumping Work shows ads; Milk Monster does not.
Which is updated more often, Pumping Work or Milk Monster?
Pumping Work ships an update every 13 months, and Milk Monster every 6 days. Most recently, Pumping Work was updated on October 13, 2026 and Milk Monster on October 19, 2026.

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