Caffeine App vs Skipper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Caffeine App
Track your caffeine intake from various beverages and monitor your hydration levels. Visualize your caffeine curve over 24 hours and receive notifications for your optimal sleep time. Integrates with Apple Health and Apple Watch for seamless logging and data syncing.
- Log caffeine from coffee, tea, and energy drinks
- Visualize 24-hour caffeine curve
- Calculate optimal sleep time
- Track daily water intake
- Apple Watch logging and complications
- Apple Health integration
- iCloud sync
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How much caffeine is still in your body? When can you fall asleep? Are you drinking enough water? Caffeine App gives you the answers — at a glance. Caffeine Tracking • Log every coffee, tea, espresso, energy drink, or mate • Scrollable 24-hour timeline shows your caffeine curve • See how much caffeine is currently in your system • Create custom drinks with individual caffeine amounts Optimal Sleep Time • Caffeine App calculates when you're ready to sleep • Get notified when your sleep time is reached • Set your personal caffeine limit and desired sleep time Water Tracking • Track your daily water intake with personalized goals • Customizable reminders to stay hydrated • Beautiful charts for caffeine and water consumption Apple Watch • Log caffeine and water right from your wrist • Daily charts for caffeine and water • Complication shows your optimal sleep time More Features • Apple Health integration — caffeine and water entries stay in sync • iCloud sync across all your devices • Dynamic Type for optimal readability • URL scheme support
Skipper
This app allows you to send messages to your future self, which are delivered as notifications days later. It's designed to help with self-reflection, emotional processing, and personal motivation. The app prioritizes user privacy with no data collection.
- Send messages to future self
- Timed notification delivery
- Emotional and thought exploration
- Personal motivation tool
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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Explore your emotions and thoughts with the buffer of time. Write yourself a message, and Skipper will deliver it to you as a notification 3-8 days later at a random time during the day. Skipper lends a hand to whatever you’re working on: - grounding yourself in the present moment - moving through whatever emotions arise - speaking more kindly to yourself - inspiring yourself for a creative project - motivating yourself to take action - reminding yourself to be playfully absurd - whatever your heart desires No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No data collected. By downloading Skipper, you agree to our terms of use (https://tryskipper.app/terms) and privacy policy (https://tryskipper.app/privacy).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Caffeine App at Free against Skipper's $1.99. Caffeine App also leads on ratings volume (340 vs 8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Skipper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads and iOS requirement 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
Caffeine App is free to download; Skipper costs $1.99 up front. Caffeine App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Skipper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Skipper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Caffeine App has 340 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Caffeine App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skipper's.
Caffeine App ships an update monthly, Skipper every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and June 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Caffeine App | Skipper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (340 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 340 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #195 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleg Mueller | Katherine Apone |
Customer experience
Caffeine App
Skipper
Bugs and requests
Caffeine App
Reported bugs
10 issues- Sleep ready time displays current time instead of predicted sleep time
- Cannot rename custom amounts until after adding them
- Newly added custom amounts appear at bottom of list
- Health app data from third-party apps not syncing
- All presets missing in some versions
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- HealthKit integration broken in certain versions
- Shift work time differential not processed correctly
- Outdated caffeine data for Dunkin Donuts beverages
- Graphics update delays causing app unresponsiveness
- Watch app loading issues on initial launch
Requested features
20 requests- Toggle option to disable bar chart visualization
- Taller graph display area with scrolling capability
- Personalization based on body weight and metabolism
- Ounce-based measurement options for drinks
- Multi-day and historical trend analysis
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- Siri Shortcuts integration for automated logging
- Today widget for quick access
- Mood and energy level tracking
- More granular unit adjustments (fractions of shots)
- Expanded beverage library (Monster Java, Sheetz coffee, K-cups, etc.)
- Custom coffee group creation without preset requirements
- Apple Watch complications showing current caffeine levels
- Watch app graph visualization
- Headache threshold level tracking
- Future-looking graph projections
- Water consumption tracking integration
- Ability to rename custom amounts before adding
- Custom amounts appearing at top of list instead of bottom
- Shift work schedule support
- Average daily caffeine statistics
Skipper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Caffeine App
- Unlock Pro$4.99
Skipper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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