A stash tracker has one job, and it is not logging pumps. It has to answer the question you actually ask standing in front of an open freezer at 6am: what is in there, how old is it, and how many days will it cover? Almost every baby app will record that you pumped 140 ml. Very few can tell you that you are eleven days from empty.
The four questions a stash tracker has to answer
This is the whole test, and it is worth applying before you look at a single screenshot. An app that cannot answer all four is a pump log with a running total, which is a different and perfectly good product — it just is not this one.
- What do I have? A total, broken down by where it is — deep freezer, kitchen freezer, fridge, the chest freezer at your mother's house.
- How old is each bag? Dated at the level of the individual bag or batch, not a single number that goes up and down.
- What should I use next? The oldest bag that is still in its window, surfaced without you having to sort anything.
- How long will it last? Days of cover at your baby's actual intake — the number that tells you whether you can stop pumping.
The fourth is the one that separates the field, because days-of-cover requires the app to know both your stash and your baby's daily intake and to keep the two in the same place. The fifth question is not about features at all: does the person who feeds your baby when you are out have the app on their phone? That one quietly eliminates more options than any of the others.
The shortlist
Eight apps that either manage a freezer inventory or are commonly recommended as though they do. Prices are from each app's US App Store listing on 4 September 2026 and are linked at the foot of this page; platform availability was checked separately on Google Play, because no App Store listing tells you what the other half of your household can install.
| App | Storage locations | Platforms | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalo Milk Stash | 100+, with the Digital Pitcher and FIFO expiry alerts | iOS + Android | Free tier; $19.99/year |
| DairyBar | Up to 10, plus freeze-dried and twins | iOS + Android | Free; $1.99/mo or $17.99/year |
| Pump Log | One stash figure, monitored alongside the pump log | iOS only | Free; $19.99 once |
| ParentLove | Milk Bank inventory with expiry alerts, sold as an add-on | iOS + Android | Free with ads; Milk Bank $11.99 |
| MilkBar | Fridge, freezer and deep freeze, in a much newer app | iOS | Free; $19.99/year |
| Lacti | Fridge, freezer, deep freezer, stored on-device with no account | iOS | Free; no purchases listed |
| Medela Family | A virtual milk store inside a full pregnancy and baby tracker | iOS + Android | Free; no purchases listed |
| Nara Baby | None. Logs pumped volumes, does not manage a freezer | iOS + Android | Free; no purchases listed |
What we would pick, and when
The most complete inventory: Dalo Milk Stash
This is our app, and we are ranking it first, so here is the basis. On the four questions above it is the only one that answers all four at depth: over 100 storage locations against DairyBar's stated limit of ten and Pump Log's single stash figure; bags dated individually with FIFO expiry alerts; a dedicated Digital Pitcher for pooled 24-hour batches, which no other app on this list offers; and the Freedom Number, which reads your stash against your baby's real intake and returns the date you can stop pumping. Full guest access means the person doing the 4pm bottle can see the stash. It runs on both platforms. What it is not is established — 42 ratings against Pump Log's 5,804 — and it is the only pick here that is a subscription.
The simplest, if inventory is all you need: DairyBar
If you want a freezer inventory and nothing else, DairyBar is the cleanest expression of that idea and it has years of goodwill behind it. Ten storage locations, freeze-dried milk as a storage type, multiple children including twins, grouping into freezer bricks, unlimited caregivers with view or edit rights, and expiry notifications. It is on both platforms. Note that it is now subscription-only at $1.99 a month or $17.99 a year — the one-time lifetime purchase it was known for has been withdrawn, though the tier still shows on its App Store page. The limit is scope: by its own description it is an inventory app, so there is no session logging, no output trends and no pitcher support, and users report the graphs do not give usable numbers. If you already have a pump log you are happy with, that limit costs you nothing.
If you are iPhone-only and mostly want the pumping side: Pump Log
Pump Log is the most established app in this space by an order of magnitude, and its stash monitoring will tell you what you have banked and roughly how long it lasts. It is a genuinely excellent pump log with a decade of refinement behind it. Two things decide it, though, and both are hard facts rather than opinions: it is iOS only, so an Android partner or a nanny with a Pixel is locked out entirely, and there is no caregiver access even on iOS. Its stash is one figure rather than an inventory — no per-location breakdown, no pitcher, no FIFO rotation. For a solo iPhone household that pumps and wants one payment, it is still an easy recommendation.
If you want one app for the whole baby: ParentLove
ParentLove is an all-in-one tracker designed with an IBCLC, with WHO growth charts, PDF and CSV export for the paediatrician, and real-time sharing with partners and grandparents. Its Milk Bank gives you inventory with expiry alerts. Two caveats. The stash side is basic — no FIFO rotation and no pitcher tracking — and the Milk Bank is a separate $11.99 purchase, so buying it alongside stats and ad-free costs more than the $24.99 Pro tier. It was also last updated in March 2025, which is a long time in this category. Look it up as *Breastfeeding + Baby Tracker*.
If you already use a general tracker: probably nothing new
Nara Baby and Medela Family are free with no in-app purchases listed, and both are good at what they do — Nara for caregiver sharing across a household, Medela for a manufacturer-backed tracker with a virtual milk store attached. Neither manages a freezer the way the first four do. If your stash is small and turning over weekly, that is fine and you should not buy anything. Add a dedicated app when you cannot answer the days-of-cover question off the top of your head.
The gap is largest in the fridge. The CDC gives four days for freshly expressed milk at 4°C.[1] The NHS accepts up to eight days at the same temperature.[2] Both are reading the same evidence with different margins, and both are stated as guidance for a healthy full-term baby at home. If you want one number to work from, use the shorter one — and if your app disagrees with your own health service, trust your health service.
4 vs 8 days
What "no subscription" is actually worth
It is the strongest argument the one-time apps have, and it is worth doing the arithmetic rather than accepting the vibe. Pump Log's upgrade is $19.99 once. Our premium tier is $19.99 a year. In year one they cost exactly the same. Pump Log is cheaper from month thirteen, and cheaper again for a second baby; DairyBar used to be the third answer here with a $24.99 lifetime tier, and it has withdrawn it — so Pump Log is now the only genuine pay-once option on this page. The honest framing is that a one-time price wins on a long pumping run and a subscription wins on the first year — and that most exclusive pumping runs do not reach a second year. Anyone telling you the subscription is obviously worse has not run the numbers, and neither had we in the first version of this page.
Why some well-reviewed apps are not ranked
Three of the apps we looked at manage a stash competently and still could not be recommended yet, because they have almost no users. MilkBar had no ratings at all on its US listing, Lacti had one, and Pumping Schedule: Milk Log had three. A five-star average across three ratings is not a signal. We have listed the first two above because their feature sets are genuinely relevant, with the rating counts attached so you can weigh them yourself.
One naming trap worth knowing about: the app that calls itself Piaora in all of its own copy is listed on the App Store as *Breast Milk – Pumping Tracker+*. Searching the name it uses will not find it. It is a pump-interval tracker rather than an inventory app, so it belongs in the exclusive pumping tracker comparison rather than here.
How to choose in one minute
- If anyone who feeds your baby uses Android, that rules out Pump Log before you compare anything else.
- If you want the deepest inventory, the pitcher method and days-of-cover in one place: Dalo Milk Stash.
- If you want a freezer inventory and nothing else, at the lowest monthly price: DairyBar.
- If you are iPhone-only, pump a lot and already have your stash under control: Pump Log.
- If a free general tracker already answers your days-of-cover question: stay where you are.
Whichever you pick, the app is the easy half. A stash that never gets rotated expires whatever software is watching it — first in, first out covers the physical system, and building a stash without causing oversupply covers how much you actually need in there. Most people need far less than they think.[3]
