Medela Family - Breast Feeding 4+

Amazing App

I had lots of other apps downloaded even before my baby was born but no doubt this one was the best of all of them, very easy to use, very easy to go back and check past feeds. The only suggestion I would do is the notes...it’s no point to have notes on feeds when you’ll have to open every single feed to check them...I think it should be separate and should be easily opened on a calendar or something like that...maybe sounds like a strange suggestion but for babies like mine which I had to take notes of times and if he was sick every single feed, that would be amazingly helpful. Thanks again for such brilliant app and will defo recommend.

Review gets deleted and latest update deletes history

Very disappointed with how medela handles criticism on their app. I wrote a negative review on the App Store about how the update significantly degraded the app, and within an hour medela deleted the criticism. That’s not appropriate at all. My problems with the app update (per 23 June 2021), are as follows: 1) gui changed, making it harder to find your information and functions. 2) last update removed all entries from today 3) “standard” should be “metric”, not “imperial”, as 80% of the world uses metric and metric is considered the international standard, not imperial. 4) manual time entry was previously easy to enter. Now hours and minutes need clicking on different field, which is less convenient. 5) the time bar on the daily stat tracker goes from later on the left, to early on the right, which is counterintuitive. Every graph plots time going from low on the left to high on the right, but not on this app. 6) when looking at the daily graph bar, it doesn’t show all entries, and you cannot scroll to the right to see more of that day. The only way to see earlier entries is by going to the list display. All in all the app has significantly degraded functions that previously worked perfectly fine. Overall the update made me change apps.

Developer Response ,

Hi ksporry
sorry to hear you are having a bad experience. We will release updates regularly to improve our app.

Upgrade? More like a downgrade - please fix sleep bug, not saving sleeps for a day and a half now

Ugh. Really loved the prior version, would have been a 5 star. The new version isn’t as user friendly and wasn’t as intuitive to get used to. The clock is a nightmare to change anything on, too small/not sensitive enough so have to keep trying to hit the bit you want to make a change, which usually takes you to the wrong bit (hours, minutes or seconds, or the wrong digit) then comes out the clock when you tap it again. Which is regularly, as if you come out of the app to do anything else or even change tabs in the app, it does things like double the clock time. I now have to note the time I started feeding and manually put the time in, which as previously mentioned is difficult. Suggestions: fix the clock timing issues, change the timer so you can use the space bar to move easily between the numbers (iPhone let’s you use the space at to move around text if you hold it down). Fix these things and I’ll happily put it to a 4 or maybe even 5 star review. Thank you, and I do value being able to track all the baby stuff which is why I haven’t deleted the app.

Developer Response ,

Hi Elle, we are very sorry you had a bad experience with our Medela Family app. We will take your feedback into account for future updates, please give us more specific feedback at intappsupport@medela.com with a screenshot or video of your issue. Your Medela Family