Comparison

Hydro Coach vs Chalice Water Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hydro Coach

This app helps you stay hydrated by calculating your personalized daily water intake needs. It sends smart reminders and allows you to track your progress with various drink types and insightful statistics. Achieve hydration goals and unlock fun achievements.

Highlights
  • Personalized intake calculation
  • Smart drink reminders
  • Record daily intake
  • Various drink types
  • Stats & History
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Lifetime Sea Creature Status
Features
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Join over 100,000 happy users in staying healthy and hydrated! The #1 best thing you can do for your health is drink water. Water is a super drug that flushes out toxins, lowers your stress, and boosts your energy. So it may shock you to learn that around 75% of people are chronically dehydrated. Want to take control of your hydration? We got you covered. Our app is simple, elegant, and easy to use. Learn how much you need to drink, get reminded to drink, and drink until you reach the titanic rank of Giant Squid! Really though... Just drink water, silly. It doesn't need to be much more complicated than that. Feature List Personalized intake calculation Get Reminded to drink Record your daily intake Various drink types Quick Drinks Stats & History Widget Apple Watch app & complications Integrates with Apple Health Lifetime Sea Creature Status Get celebrated Feature Details Based on scientific research, our app estimates the amount of water you should drink based on your weight, sex, and lifestyle. Smart reminders nudge you to drink at just the right moments. If you're on top of things, you won't see a reminder. If you're behind, you will see a lot of them. You can always turn them off in the settings. Record what you drink and visually see how you are doing, how much you have drank, and how much you still need to. Record various types of drinks. The app will automatically calculate how much actual water was in the drink. Some drinks such as alcohol, actually dehydrate you. The app learns your favorite drinks and allows you to record these with one tap. Track your hydration right from your wrist with the Apple Watch app. Check your daily progress and log your drinks without ever reaching for your phone. Add watch complications to keep your progress front and center on your watch face, and they even match your chosen theme, so your stats always look right at home. See a variety of insightful stats about your hydration: Streaks, Weekly Performance, Lifetime Water Drank, and an elegant Graph showing your hydration level over the past two weeks. As you drink more and more water, you elevate your status from a bubble all the way up to some of the biggest most powerful creatures in the ocean. Get a unique celebratory message each day you complete your goal. We are always open to feedback and always available to answer your questions. Please use our in-app feedback option to send us feedback. Premium Subscription Choose the length of subscription: 1 Month / 1 Year. The purchase will be charged to your iTunes account. The subscription will be auto-renewed 24 hours prior to it running out. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Manage your subscription from User Settings in iTunes after purchasing. Cancel the auto-renewing subscription from there at anytime. Terms of use: http://www.wiredbetterment.com/water/termsofuse.html Privacy Policy: http://www.wiredbetterment.com/water/privacypolicy.html

About

Chalice Water Tracker

Build healthy hydration habits by competing with friends and achieving your daily water intake goals. This app features a live scoreboard and an archive to track your progress over time.

Highlights
  • Compete with friends
  • Meet daily water goals
  • Live scoreboard
  • Progress archive
  • Healthy habit building
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Get your healthy water habits down by competing with friends and meeting your goals. Now with a live scoreboard, archive, and more!

Screenshots

Hydro Coach4 screens
Chalice Water Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chalice Water Tracker at 100% against Hydro Coach's 65%. Chalice Water Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Hydro Coach's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (988 vs 2). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hydro Coach sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Chalice Water Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chalice Water Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hydro Coach has 988 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Hydro Coach's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chalice Water Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hydro Coach ships an update monthly, Chalice Water Tracker every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Hydro Coach versus Chalice Water Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHydro CoachChalice Water Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (988 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings988 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWired BettermentLuke Drushell

Customer experience

Hydro Coach

All ratings984 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral11.7%
Negative23.3%

Chalice Water Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Hydro Coach

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Premium subscription issues (not recognized)
  • Syncing problems with other devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add custom drink options
  • Allow setting custom reminder times
  • Integrate with fitness trackers
  • Provide more detailed hydration analytics
  • Add Apple Watch app support

Chalice Water Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Hydro Coach

Subscriptions6
  • Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Premium (Monthly)3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly)2 variants$9.991 Year
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  • Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Premium (Yearly)$19.991 Year
  • Premium (Yearly)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium (Lifetime)$8.99
  • Premium (Lifetime)$24.99
None

Chalice Water Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hydro Coach free?
Hydro Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chalice Water Tracker free?
Chalice Water Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hydro Coach or Chalice Water Tracker?
Chalice Water Tracker is rated higher. Hydro Coach averages 4.7 out of 5 from 988 ratings, while Chalice Water Tracker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Hydro Coach or Chalice Water Tracker have ads?
Neither Hydro Coach nor Chalice Water Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hydro Coach or Chalice Water Tracker?
Hydro Coach ships an update monthly, and Chalice Water Tracker every 5 months. Most recently, Hydro Coach was updated on November 6, 2026 and Chalice Water Tracker on November 4, 2026.

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