Drylendar User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience66.1% of reviews
Neutral5.1% of reviews
Negative experience28.8% of reviews

~ Based on 59 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Drylendar Safe?

Drylendar: Drinking Calendar appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Drylendar is 85/100.

This assessment is based on 151 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

82.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 151 App Store ratings for Drylendar.

Is Drylendar Legit?

Drylendar: Drinking Calendar appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Drylendar is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Sober sorta

This app is good for helping you string days in a row. One yellow or red day doesn’t look bad but when you start seeing them pile up this app helps you get back on track and in the green.

정말 좋은 앱

디자인도 괜찮고, 술 기록하는 과정이 재밌습니다.

Best drink tracking app available!!

This is one of the best apps I’ve used for tracking my poor drinking habits. The good news is that this app keeps me honest and have seen a massive improvement over all!

They got greedy and ruined it!

This app USED to be amazing. It genuinely helped me cut back on my drinking quite a bit. However, they’ve made it so you need to pay 5 dollars a month just to be able to see the dates on the calendar and to be able to go back and edit if you forgot to log a day.

5 dollars a month for that is insanity. It’s always such a shame when a small company that puts out a decent product goes onto ruin it in an effort to get more money. The apps practically useless now and it also looks horrific. There’s no numbers on the calendar anymore, just a bunch of lock symbols.
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Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for your message and sorry for the inconvenience. Can you send me a message so I can unlock you? Thanks!

Overly simplistic - room for improvement

I was intrigued when I ran across this but very quickly decided that it’s not what I wanted. In my opinion it has room to grow. Here’s why. What’s your definition of “drink”? Typically a drink is determined based on the number of shots in it. Different drinks are given different weights based on the amount of alcohol. My typical “drink” is 4oz of whiskey over a single ice cube. While I classify that as 1 “drink” it’s technically 4! If I have 2-3 then you can see where we get very quickly. This app needs the ability to put in drink recipes (or have pre-loaded drink types) so that the user has the opportunity to reliably enter an honest record. The whole basis of this app is for the user to be honest with themselves about their consumption, but knowing what their actual count is starts with understanding the ACTUAL numbers. ESPECIALLY if that number is going into Apple Health!!!
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Response from developer

Hello Eric, Thank you very much for your feedback. This was actually a deliberate design choice: we wanted to keep drink logging simple rather than making it overly sophisticated. I completely understand your concern, but I’d like to clarify the Apple Health point. Drylendar saves data using Apple Health’s numberOfAlcoholicBeverages record, which Apple defines as “a quantity sample type that measures the number of standard alcoholic drinks that the user has consumed.” Because of that, there is no approximation or custom interpretation on Drylendar’s side ; the value is stored exactly in the format provided by Apple Health.

Great for visual people

Love this app

Cool app

Responsive admin that will help you if the price is too much.

Clear and simple

Great app! Clean and pretty design, very informative. I like the simplicity of it. It adds some fun and challenge to invite friends and try to beat someone’s dry streak

Response from developer

Thank you so much! Happy you like the design and the simplicity. Glad you're using Drylendar!

Great App

For those complaining about the black-and-white boxes despite paying for the subscription, the issue is in iPhone’s accessibility settings. Great app overall - so simple and effective.

Response from developer

So nice to read your comment, simple and effective are words I like to read about Drylendar! Thank you for using it!

Paywall

App was good until paywall was added to edit days from before. $5 per month is too much to justify for a basic feature like that.

Great app

I’ve been using this app daily for the last 5 months and I love it. It’s so simple yet helpful. I always look forward to logging every day and it’s satisfying to see all the green boxes. I initially just wanted to cut back on drinking (which I did!) but now trying to keep my streak going for sober days. On day 39 so far without any alcohol and excited to see how far I go. This app gives me something to look forward to. To log an accomplishment every day really makes you feel good about yourself. I would just recommend a dark mode for this app :)
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Response from developer

So nice to read this comment, and congratulations for reducing and stopping alcohol! That's a great accomplishment! So happy that Drylendar can help!

Easy to use

Easy to use and exactly what I was looking for in this type of app

Color coded feature got removed

I have been using this app since two months, but suddenly with an update the app turned colorful months into black and white. I thought maybe free users have this, so i bought free trial, to confirm this, but still it is black and white, which is very annoying and makes it hard to see the streak. Actively looking to switch to any other app, because bills can’t be that high.
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Response from developer

Hello there! Sorry for this bad experience, it’s because an accessibility option is enabled on your phone. Can you contact me so I can help you to get the colors back?

:-( paywall

Used to really love this app but recently important features were locked behind a paywall and it’s hard to justify $30 a year for it. Alas!

Paywall

I agree with other reviewers, adding a paywall without any notice or meaningful improvements feels frustrating. It seems like functionality was reduced just to push users toward paying.

Premium Features

This was a great app that I got a bunch of my friends on and we liked the features, the UI, and how easy it was to use. However, more and more features are now behind a paywall, to the point that there is nothing I can record other than that day’s count, recorded ON THAT DAY ONLY. I also cannot add notes anymore because that’s behind a paywall as well. This is not helpful. Very disappointed. I understand the app needs to make money but I’d prefer ads over this.
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Premium

Premium account allows previous days to be updated and viewed

Response from developer

Good morning and thank you for your feedback! I’m sorry to hear it was a bad choice from me. Can you please send me an email so I can unlock your account? Thank you! Best, François

Visually appealing and easy to use!

Downloaded on a whim, used it for several weeks on the free plan before buying a year subscription. It’s very easy to track your habits and it syncs directly with Apple Health. The colors are pleasing, the ability to write a note is a nice touch. The animation with balloons is my favorite part! Overall very strong UI design and a clear single purpose without extraneous clutter or trying to be a ‘lifestyle’ app. Thank you for a great app.
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Response from developer

So nice to read this comment! I'm happy you like the new design and that Drylendar helps you to track your habits. Thanks for the 5 stars!

app is useless now

Found this app a couple months ago and was loving it. Now we can’t do anything without having to pay. Checking or logging previous days. App doesn’t even show what you get for paying. $5 a month is insane. Real bummer

Response from developer

Thank you very much for your feedback! Can you send me an email so I can upgrade your account as gift for being user for a long time? Thank you!

paywall added with no warning

really liked this app until a paywall was added without warning, making it so you can’t see previous data of the amount you drank. not helpful for people who are trying to limit themselves to a number of drinks every week/month. i am someone who is tracking drinks casually and am not going to pay $5/month for something i could track in my notes app. i like the visual of this app but unfortunately will be looking for something else.
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Response from developer

Thank you very much for your feedback. I understand this is a disappointing update, but the app is currently profitable at all, and I had to change business model to make it possible to continue working on it. Could you please send me an email so I can upgrade your account as a gift for being user for a long time? Thanks!