Comparison

BottleMate vs Milk Bottle

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

Head to head
About

BottleMate

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MilkMate helps new parents easily track their baby’s daily feeding and diaper routines in one simple, beautifully designed app. Stay organized, reduce stress, and gain clarity on your baby’s patterns with quick logging and helpful summaries.

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Milk Bottle

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Milk Bottle is a simple, private routine tracker for parents and caregivers. Download it free and use every feature for 15 days. After the trial, a one-time $0.99 purchase unlocks Milk Bottle for continued use. There is no subscription. Log a feeding with one tap, then record direct nursing, breast milk, ready-to-feed formula, powdered formula, or any combination in the same entry. See today's total milk and a separate breakdown for each measured feeding type. Milk Bottle also helps you: • See the next feeding time based on the latest feeding • Customize the next-feeding interval • Optionally schedule a local night-feeding reminder • Log poop and pee diaper changes • Select a date to see total milk, breast milk, poop count, and pee count • Filter history by date and entry type • Edit or delete any entry • Add your baby's name and photo • Optionally sync with your private iCloud across your Apple devices • Switch between English, Simplified Chinese, and Mexican Spanish • Use an adaptive layout on iPhone and iPad Your entries, baby name, settings, and selected photo stay inside the app on your device unless you choose to enable iCloud sync. When enabled, Milk Bottle uses your private CloudKit database to sync across devices signed in to the same Apple Account. The developer cannot view that private data. Milk Bottle has no developer account, advertising, analytics, tracking, developer server, or third-party data SDKs. Payment and purchase restoration are processed by Apple through StoreKit. Routine data is never included with a purchase. Milk Bottle is a routine-recording tool and does not provide medical advice.

Screenshots

BottleMate4 screens
Milk Bottle1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BottleMate at daily against Milk Bottle's every 2 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. BottleMate sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Milk Bottle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BottleMate ships an update daily, Milk Bottle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
BottleMate versus Milk Bottle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBottleMateMilk Bottle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph ValleYUANLIN DENG

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BottleMate

Subscriptions1
  • MilkMate Pro7 Days trial$0.997 Days
1 purchases

Milk Bottle

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$0.99

Questions

Is BottleMate free?
BottleMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Milk Bottle free?
Milk Bottle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BottleMate or Milk Bottle have ads?
Neither BottleMate nor Milk Bottle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BottleMate or Milk Bottle?
BottleMate ships an update daily, and Milk Bottle every 2 days. Most recently, BottleMate was updated on September 8, 2026 and Milk Bottle on August 11, 2026.

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