The 3 Best Wearable Breast Pumps of 2026

Top pick

Lightweight, effective, easy to use, and made from higher-quality components, the Elvie Pump is a wearable model that most people are likely to love.

The Elvie Pump delivers on a wearable breast pump’s promises: It’s reasonably compact, quiet, discreet, and convenient to use. The lightest and most low-profile wearable model we tested, this pump comes with two individual pumps, and each one fits seamlessly inside the cup of a standard bra — no pumping bra necessary. (You can also buy a single Elvie Pump, if you’re looking to save money and don’t mind doubling your pumping time.)

The corresponding smartphone app gives you a decent idea of how much you’ve pumped, and the pump is a cinch to assemble and disassemble, with just five small parts to remove and clean.

Of all the wearable pumps we tested, we reached for the Elvie Pump more than any other. When you have a few children to care for, it can be hard to sit in one location for more than 10 minutes to pump. With the Elvie Pump, you can cram in pumping as you cook, commute, or work on your feet. Cait felt like a superhero as she triple-tasked with this pump, in one instance eating breakfast while simultaneously reading a story to her then-5-year-old.

It has a gentle but effective pull. Like all of our wearable picks, the Elvie Pump has a gentle-feeling suction pattern compared with a traditional electric pump. And while this pump’s pull feels especially gentle — almost like a light buzz, rather than a tug — you should be able to extract a good amount of milk, once your body adjusts. The Evie Pump has the standard two modes, stimulation and expression, and seven intensity levels. (The pump stores your preferences, so you don’t have to cycle through them every time.)

This pump expressed Coco’s milk the most efficiently: She extracted 3 to 4 ounces almost right away. Caitlin, on the other hand, took a little longer to adjust to the suction. But when she did, she got output comparable to that of the Spectra S1 Plus, our top-pick double electric pump. As with all of the wearable pumps in our test group, with this one you can control the suction level of each side independently.

The learning curve is modest. Once you get the hang of it, positioning the pump around your nipple is easy. First, you must carefully place and line up a green circular seal perfectly inside the pump base (using the black markings on the pump as guides); otherwise the pump won’t have full suction. Once you know how to do that, this pump is simple to operate. Generally, we found the Elvie Pump straightforward and fast to assemble and disassemble — all of the pieces click into one another easily, and there are only five parts to wash per pump.

The app tracks how much milk you’ve pumped. Each Elvie Pump has a milk receptacle capable of holding about 5 ounces; with the associated app, you can track how much milk you’ve pumped on each side. We didn’t find the app to be 100% accurate in its estimates of milk volume, but it did give us a general sense of how things were going and whether the pump was seated well enough to draw milk. The app also measures how long you’ve pumped. And even if you don’t have the app open, the pumps will automatically shut down when the containers are full. You can stop, start, and control the intensity of the pump via the app or on the unit itself. (After you get a handle on using the pump, you may choose to stop using the app; as Coco found, it may feel like an unnecessary addition to an already laborious process.)

It’s quiet. The Elvie Pump had a noise level of just 37 decibels from 3 feet away — it’s the quietest pump we tested.

Transferring milk was easiest with this pump, compared with all of the models we tested. Once you’re done, the milk receptacles are simple to pop off the pump and pour out without spilling. We were able to transfer milk from the pumps to a bottle from the passenger seat of a moving car — without losing any of it. The pumps come with two seals (you can purchase extras), which you can pop on to store the milk in the receptacles; this was handy when we were pumping at work and didn’t want to mess with bags. We simply threw them back in a cooler and went about our day.

Elvie offers great customer support across all channels. Online reviewers and our own editors who’ve had issues with the Elvie Pump and reached out via email have found that the company expediently addressed the problem, with very few questions asked. Also, when Coco was initially gathering information on which model to test, she sent a direct message via her personal Instagram to Elvie’s Instagram account asking about its products. A real person wrote back within the hour with a detailed and helpful response. As a new parent, this kind of interaction makes all the difference when you’re trying to shop with a newborn in one hand and a toddler clinging to your leg.

The company also makes a Haakaa-like suction pump called the Elvie Curve, which is shaped like the Elvie Pump and has the same profile inside a bra. We haven’t tested that model, but it’s an add-on option for those who choose to buy a single Elvie Pump.

Once the pump was charged, we found that it held power for about two to two-and-a-half hours, which is comparable to the battery life of other wearable pumps.

The Elvie Pump comes with two flanges, measuring 24 mm and 28 mm; the company also offers 21-mm flanges.

A limited warranty covers the original purchaser for two years for the main unit and 90 days for the components and any accessories.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The Elvie Pump’s biggest drawback is its cost. The price of a pair of pumps is more than double the cost of many traditional electric pumps. (Most of the Elvie Pump owners we surveyed used insurance benefits to order their pumps and bring the cost down.)

It has an especially gentle suction pattern. Some people find its suction to be less efficient than that of a standard electric pump, even when turned up to its highest level. As a result, few daily pumpers use this model as their only pump — most have it as a supplement to a standard electric pump.

Some online reviews report that the pump can leak at its central connection point. We didn’t encounter this issue, but we did find a number of online videos, like this one, that can help you troubleshoot.