Comparison

Smart Foal vs Latchly

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

Head to head
About

Smart Foal

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Be there when it matters. Smart Foal is a full-time monitoring and foaling alarm, reducing mare and foal mortality and giving breeders peace of mind. Smart Foal records and displays the mares movement 24/7. Set alarms, control your hardware and monitor your mare all from the Smart Foal app. Features: Live activity monitor 1 month of recorded activity (up to 12 months is available) Configurable alarm settings Sleep timer Lying down alarm Loss of data alarm Battery level monitoring and low battery alarm Notification log

About

Latchly

This app helps parents track baby's feeding, sleep, and diaper changes, while also monitoring mom's mood, hydration, and breast health. It offers weekly tips, weekly summaries, and partner sharing for synchronized tracking. Gentle notifications and night mode are included for convenience.

Highlights
  • Breastfeeding and pump timer
  • Diaper and sleep logging
  • Mom's mood and hydration tracking
  • Cycle and breast health monitoring
  • Weekly personalized tips
  • Partner sharing and syncing
  • Night mode and widgets
Features
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For baby. And for you. Latchly is a breastfeeding tracker built by a mom who got tired of apps that only cared about the baby. Track feeds, pumps, diapers, and sleep on one side. Track your mood, hydration, cycle, and breast health on the other. You're half of this. You deserve tools that know it. — FEED TIMER — Tap to start. Tap to switch sides. The timer remembers which breast you fed from last and suggests the next side. Pause when baby unlatches, resume when she's back on. Saves automatically. — THE FULL DAY — Bottles, pumping sessions, diapers (color, consistency, leaks), sleep with location and how she fell asleep, weight checks. Photos on every entry. Capture the rash you want to show the pediatrician, or the smile after a long feed. — FOR YOU — Mood check-ins. Hydration with quick chips for your usual cup sizes. Cycle tracking that predicts your next period. Breast health logs for clogged ducts, soreness, supply changes. Medication and supplement tracking. The "You" tab is yours alone. Your partner doesn't see it. — WEEKLY TIPS WRITTEN FOR YOU — A new tip every week, from week 0 through 24 months. Real talk about cluster feeds, sleep regressions, and the days you can't tell what went wrong. Plus tips that react to what you're actually logging, like a new longest night stretch or a side that's getting twice as much time as the other. — SUNDAY LETTER — Every Sunday evening, Latchly writes you a real summary of your week. Total feeds, longest sleep stretch, the day that was hardest, what's coming up next. Saved under Memories so you can scroll back through past weeks. — PARTNER SHARING — Generate a 6-character code in Settings. Your partner installs Latchly, taps "Have an invite code?" on the welcome screen, and types it in once. From then on, both phones stay in sync in real time. They can log bottle feeds while you're sleeping. They never see your mood, hydration, cycle, or private notes. — GENTLE NOTIFICATIONS — Feed reminders if your baby hasn't eaten in a while. A morning check-in. Hydration nudges. A nightly recap. Your Sunday letter every Sunday evening. Pediatrician visit reminders so you don't forget your appointments. — BUILT FOR LATE NIGHTS — Night mode dims everything for 2am feeds. Home and lock screen widgets show the live timer, the last feed, and which side is next. Tap Pause, Resume, or Switch sides right from the widget. — THE STASH — Track pumped milk by location (freezer, fridge, room temp), days of cover, and which bag to use first. — EXPORT FOR YOUR PEDIATRICIAN — Generate a PDF report with feed counts, diaper counts, weight gain, longest sleep — for any date range. — PRIVATE BY DEFAULT — Your personal data lives in your private iCloud account. When you turn on Partner Mode, the activity log shared between the two phones syncs through Firebase so both sides stay in sync. Either way, we don't read it. No account to create, no email harvest, no ads. — PRO — Free forever: feed timer, basic logs, today's view. Pro unlocks night mode, unlimited history, full insights, the "You" tab, advanced notifications, partner sharing, and PDF/CSV export.

Screenshots

Smart Foal4 screens
Latchly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart Foal at none against Latchly's 3. Smart Foal also leads on iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.0). Latchly's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months). On price, ads 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. Latchly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Smart Foal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Foal ships an update every 6 months, Latchly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smart Foal versus Latchly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart FoalLatchly
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmart Foal Pty LtdTrendsy LLC

In-app purchases

None

Smart Foal

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Latchly

Subscriptions2
  • Latchly Pro$8.991 Month
  • Latchly Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.001 Year
One-time1
  • Latchly Pro$79.99

Questions

Is Smart Foal free?
Smart Foal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Latchly free?
Latchly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smart Foal or Latchly have ads?
Neither Smart Foal nor Latchly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Foal or Latchly?
Smart Foal ships an update every 6 months, and Latchly every 3 days. Most recently, Smart Foal was updated on October 13, 2026 and Latchly on October 15, 2026.

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