DairyBar vs HoopDee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DairyBar
Easily track and manage your pumped breast milk inventory. Monitor milk in various storage locations and types, calculate its shelf life, and receive expiration alerts. This app helps you stay organized and informed about your milk stash.
- Track milk in 10 locations
- Monitor milk by storage type
- Calculate milk shelf life
- Pumping calculator
- Expiration notifications
- Track in mL or oz
- Add caregiver access
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Breastfeeding is hard enough — keeping track of your milk stash shouldn't be. Dairy Bar makes it simple to know exactly what you have, where it is, and how long it will last. Try it free and see for yourself. Features: -Track milk across up to 10 storage locations and multiple children (including twins) -See your total stash at a glance, broken down by location -Pumping calculator helps you figure out when you can stop pumping -Supports cooler, fridge, freezer, deep freeze, and freeze dried storage types -Know exactly how long your stash will last based on your baby's daily consumption -Get notified before milk expires so nothing goes to waste -Stay organized and group milk into freezer bricks -Track in mL or oz — whatever works for you -Add caregivers so partners and family can view and edit the stash too -Back up your stash data remotely for peace of mind Built by a mama, for mamas. I maintain this app myself, so if you run into a bug or have a feature idea, you can email me directly through the app — I genuinely love hearing from you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dairybarapp.com/privacy-policy
HoopDee
Manage breast milk and baby formula efficiently. This app tracks your milk inventory, sends timely reminders for consumption or freezing, and prevents spoilage. It helps maximize your milk supply and ensures safe handling based on CDC guidelines.
- Tracks breast milk and baby formula
- Manages milk expiration dates
- Sends consumption and freezing reminders
- Prevents unsafe milk handling
- Supply calculator
- Family sharing option
- Notifications for action items
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Never waste a drop of your breast milk or baby formula! The HoopDee app does the thinking, remembering, reminding, and managing for you. Maximize your milk supply and avoid spoiling milk with HoopDee’s easy-to-use system. Add bottles or bags of breast milk or baby formula to your inventory. The app will send you reminders when the milk needs to be consumed or moved to the freezer to extend its shelf life. The app will also prevent you from doing things you shouldn't do such as freezing thawed milk or baby formula. The HoopDee app is compatible with HoopDee Hoops to enhance your milk managing experience--coming soon! HoopDee’s expiration times are based on the CDC’s guidelines. Features include: • Tracks breast milk and baby formula • Tracks feedings to accurately recalculate expiration times • Tracks your frozen breast milk stash • Tracks thawing milk and recalculates its expiration • A supply calculator to estimate how long your milk supply will last for your baby • Option to join multiple families (perfect for grandparents and nannies) • Sends notifications on action items and expirations
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HoopDee at none against DairyBar's 4. HoopDee also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). DairyBar's advantage is ratings volume (466 vs 20) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. DairyBar sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. HoopDee asks for nothing beyond the download.
HoopDee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DairyBar has 466 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of DairyBar's written reviews are positive against 100% of HoopDee's.
DairyBar ships an update every 9 days, HoopDee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DairyBar | HoopDee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (466 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 466 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #121 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jennifer Brandes | HoopDee, Inc |
Customer experience
DairyBar
HoopDee
Bugs and requests
DairyBar
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes on stats page
- Can't add more than one bag at a time
- Incorrect total milk amounts shown
- Date changes when adding new milk
- Login/password reset issues
Requested features
5 requests- Add option to move multiple bags at once
- Customize expiration dates for milk
- Add widget or Apple Watch support
- Improve graph/stats display
- Allow sorting used milk by date
HoopDee
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DairyBar
- DairyBar Membership$1.991 Month
- 6 Month Subscription$9.99
- 12 Month Subscription$17.99
- Lifetime Access$24.99
HoopDee
No in-app purchases








