Pine vs Hey! Hydrate!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pine
This app offers guided deep breathing exercises and ambient sounds to help you relax and manage stress. It includes a personal journal with an emotions log and integrates with Apple Health to track your mindfulness minutes and mood over time. Customizable sessions and challenges help build consistent habits.
- Guided deep breathing exercises
- Ambient soundscapes
- Personal journal with emotion logging
- Apple Health integration
- Customizable session duration
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Habit-building challenges
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Pine lets you find a moment to relax with deep breathing exercises, ambient sounds, and a personal Journal. Pine guides you through deep breathing exercises and meditation on your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, and now with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access. Pine features different breathing exercises, each designed to target different types of stress, anxiety, fatigue, and depression. Pine lets you build your own sessions to structure your practice exactly how you like it. Pine has a personal journal built right in, so you can record the daily events throughout your day. The journal also features an emotions log and Apple's State of Mind tracking, so you can record your mood, the thoughts or events behind it, and see how you're really doing over time, right alongside the rest of your data in the Health app. Challenges give you a simple way to build a lasting breathing and meditation habit, one session at a time. Complete Feature List: • A range of deep breathing exercises. • A customizable breathing exercises. • Ability to change the duration of your breathing exercise between 1 minute and 10 minutes. • A great design that helps you relax. • Various ambient sounds to play during your breathing exercises. • Import songs or playlists from Apple Music. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick access to your favorite exercises. • Challenges to help you build a consistent breathing and meditation habit. • Reminders to take a minute to relax every day. • Works with Apple Health: Sync Mindfulness Minutes and State of Mind entries with the Health App. • iCloud syncing between your devices so all of your breathing exercises, journal entries, and mood logs stay in sync. Thank you for considering Pine, I hope it helps you improve your life and allows you to take a minute to appreciate the day, Casey
Hey! Hydrate!
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A simple app to track your water consumption. Set custom goals and make sure you're drinking enough water. Integrates with Apple Health and has an Apple Watch companion app. Hey! Hydrate!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pine at Free against Hey! Hydrate!'s $0.99. Pine also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Hey! Hydrate!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence, 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
Pine is free to download; Hey! Hydrate! costs $0.99 up front. Pine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Hey! Hydrate! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pine ships an update fortnightly, Hey! Hydrate! every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pine | Hey! Hydrate! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (28 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bean's Bytes, LLC | Nifty Tree Studios |
In-app purchases
Pine
- Pine Premium Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Pine Premium Yearly3 Months trial$29.991 Year
- Pine Premium Lifetime$49.99
Hey! Hydrate!
No in-app purchases









