Comparison

HiCoffee vs Caffeine Tracker

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

Head to head
About

HiCoffee

Track your daily caffeine intake with this app, which offers data for many beverages and a calculator for homemade drinks. It personalizes your daily limit based on sensitivity, helping you boost productivity and improve sleep. It also analyzes heart rate and sleep data to reveal caffeine's health impact.

Highlights
  • Log daily caffeine intake
  • Caffeine Calculator for homemade drinks
  • Personalized daily caffeine limits
  • Analyze heart rate and sleep data
  • Interactive widgets and Apple Watch app
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Offline functionality
Features
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HiCoffee is a powerful caffeine tracker that makes it easy to record your daily caffeine intake. It includes data for more than 2,500 branded coffee products, and its Caffeine Calculator can estimate the caffeine in homemade drinks such as espresso and pour-over coffee. HiCoffee can set a caffeine limit based on your sensitivity and give you personalized suggestions. It helps you enjoy coffee when you need focus, while reducing the chance that too much caffeine gets in the way of your sleep at night. HiCoffee can also look at your long-term resting heart rate and sleep duration, helping you understand how caffeine may be affecting your health. HiCoffee works beautifully across the Apple ecosystem, with rich widgets, excellent Apple Watch support, Shortcuts, Health data sync, and more. Reliable iCloud sync lets you use HiCoffee with confidence on multiple devices. HiCoffee also supports Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and other accessibility features for a comfortable, smooth experience. --- ** Recognition ** - Featured by the App Store multiple times, including App of the Day, Fresh Apps, Interactive Widgets, and accessibility-focused collections. - Mentioned during Tim Cook's 2023 visit to China and covered by several media outlets. - Appeared in the WWDC 2023 and WWDC 2024 keynotes. - Featured by well-known coffee creator James Hoffmann on his channel. - Recommended multiple times by creator Nikias Molina. - Reviewed by German tech publication t3n. - Recommended by SSPAI as a dynamic caffeine monitoring tool worth watching. --- ** Premium Membership and Subscription ** HiCoffee's premium features can be unlocked in the app through a one-time purchase or a subscription. You can find the purchase options in the app's Settings page. If you choose to unlock premium features with a subscription, payment will be charged automatically to your App Store account within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. After subscribing, you can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in HiCoffee's Settings page or in your App Store account settings. To cancel, please do so at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period, otherwise the App Store will renew the subscription automatically. ** A Note from the Developer ** I'm Gong Zhang, the developer of HiCoffee. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me from Settings > Contact and Support > Email in the app, or email me directly at hicoffee@gongzhang.zendesk.com. If you enjoy using HiCoffee, a rating or review on the App Store would help me improve it faster. Privacy Policy: https://gongzhang.io/app/hicoffee/en/privacy Terms of Use: https://gongzhang.io/app/hicoffee/en/terms

About

Caffeine Tracker

Track your caffeine intake and understand its impact on your sleep and health. Get personalized insights, set 'Last Call' reminders, and visualize your consumption trends with detailed charts and widgets.

Highlights
  • Log various caffeine sources
  • Predict caffeine elimination time
  • Set 'Last Call' caffeine reminders
  • Analyze caffeine's impact on sleep
  • Visualize caffeine decline over time
  • Customizable drinks with AI
  • Siri Shortcuts and widgets
Features
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Alyx is a silly way to track caffeine. Quickly log espresso, lattes or anything else and see how it affects your health, sleep or view other interesting stuff! It uses Apple Health to store your data privately, which means it also syncs with iCloud. Of course, you can log caffeine here. Aside from being a coffee, espresso, energy drink, or general caffeine tracker and journal, there are some interesting things it can do: - Figure out when your body will be caffeine free. - Discover how much caffeine will be in your body at bedtime. - Get your customized "Last Call" for caffeine every day, and set an alarm for it! - See how caffeine consumption impacts the amount of sleep you get. - View how caffeine will decline in your body over the next 12 hours. - See if your caffeine consumption has been trending up or down lately. - Tons of Siri Shortcuts. - Tons of widgets! - Create your own custom drinks, and have AI figure out the caffeine contents! - A Hall of Fame for...caffeine consumption? - Um, what else? Oh, tons of charts! So yeah, you can see how caffeine affects your sleep, overall health, see how much sleep you'll lose, and more. I don't know, it's just a fun app. Download it or don't. Love, Alyx -- SUBSCRIPTION & PREMIUM FEATURES -- Most of Alyx is completely free to use. There are premium features if you upgrade to The Caffeine Club, which includes every widget, adding your own custom drinks, several charts, and sleep forecast features. -- LEGAL -- · View our terms of service here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · View our privacy policy here: https://alyxcaffeinetracker.com/privacy/ Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase.

Screenshots

HiCoffee4 screens
Caffeine Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: HiCoffee at 846 against Caffeine Tracker's 40. HiCoffee also leads on device support (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. HiCoffee sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Caffeine Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for HiCoffee against 4.9 for Caffeine Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HiCoffee has 846 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of HiCoffee's written reviews are positive against 79% of Caffeine Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiCoffee ships an update every 9 days, Caffeine Tracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HiCoffee versus Caffeine Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCoffeeCaffeine Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (846 ratings)4.9 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better78.9% of reviews
Number of ratings846 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer弓 张Day Well Spent LLC

Customer experience

HiCoffee

All ratings844 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews161 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral7.5%
Negative10.6%

Caffeine Tracker

All ratings40 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative15.8%

Bugs and requests

HiCoffee

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widgets not updating
  • Watch app not syncing properly
  • Caffeine data truncation when adding custom drinks

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add more beverage options (energy drinks, regional brands, etc.)
  • Ability to track caffeine from non-beverage sources (pills, chocolate, etc.)
  • More customization options for homemade coffee
  • Easier way to add custom drinks
  • Extend sleep time range beyond current limits
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  • Add caffeine calculator for AeroPress method
  • Include caffeine content for different coffee roast levels

Caffeine Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

HiCoffee

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Permanent Unlock$8.99
4 purchases

Caffeine Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Caffeine Club$1.991 Month
  • Caffeine Club Annual$9.991 Year
  • Caffeine Club Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Caffeine Club: Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is HiCoffee free?
HiCoffee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caffeine Tracker free?
Caffeine Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HiCoffee or Caffeine Tracker?
Caffeine Tracker is rated higher. HiCoffee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 846 ratings, while Caffeine Tracker averages 4.9 from 40 ratings.
Do HiCoffee or Caffeine Tracker have ads?
Neither HiCoffee nor Caffeine Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiCoffee or Caffeine Tracker?
HiCoffee ships an update every 9 days, and Caffeine Tracker every 5 days. Most recently, HiCoffee was updated on October 29, 2026 and Caffeine Tracker on October 27, 2026.

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