Comparison

HiCoffee vs Caff Conscious

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

Caff Conscious

Track your caffeine intake and understand its effects on your body. This app estimates your current caffeine levels, predicts when it will clear your system, and helps you manage your intake to improve sleep.

Highlights
  • Log all types of caffeinated beverages
  • Estimate current caffeine levels
  • Predict caffeine clearance time
  • Integrate with Apple Health
  • Home Screen widgets for quick logging
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Finished your coffee? Its caffeine isn't done yet. Caff Conscious uses the drinks you log to estimate how much caffeine could still be active at bedtime. Before your next cup, see what's still with you. Today shows your estimated active caffeine now and at the bedtime you set. The estimate uses a caffeine half-life model. It is a planning aid, not a measurement, medical advice, or a promise about sleep. Each log shows the drink, serving, caffeine amount and its source, the time, and whether you drank it at once or sipped it over time. When exact data is missing, the estimate is labeled. Your usual drinks, manual entry, saving a drink for later, edit, undo, recovery when a log needs attention, and basic Apple Watch logging are free. Pro is optional. It adds Weekly Insights, longer history, comparisons with health patterns, taper planning, and report export. Logging is not behind the paywall. APPLE WATCH Caff Conscious includes an Apple Watch companion: - Quick Log from your wrist - Caffeine complication showing active caffeine - Sleep cutoff complication for Pro users Your caffeine log and health information are stored on your device. Search terms or barcodes are sent when you look up a drink in the catalog. Purchases use an app-scoped identifier and receipt data. Optional diagnostics and general product analytics follow your in-app setting. Telemetry about logging reliability is turned off in released versions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

HiCoffee4 screens
Caff Conscious4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: HiCoffee at 849 against Caff Conscious's 14. HiCoffee also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Caff Conscious's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Caff Conscious sells 3 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

Caff Conscious holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HiCoffee has 849 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of HiCoffee's written reviews are positive against 100% of Caff Conscious's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiCoffee ships an update every 9 days, Caff Conscious every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HiCoffee versus Caff Conscious: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCoffeeCaff Conscious
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (849 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings849 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer弓 张Stewart Boling

Customer experience

HiCoffee

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

Caff Conscious

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Caff Conscious

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
3 purchases

Caff Conscious

Subscriptions2
  • Caff Conscious Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Caff Conscious Pro - Yearly1 Month trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Caff Conscious Pro - Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is HiCoffee free?
HiCoffee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caff Conscious free?
Caff Conscious is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HiCoffee or Caff Conscious?
Caff Conscious is rated higher. HiCoffee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 849 ratings, while Caff Conscious averages 5.0 from 14 ratings.
Do HiCoffee or Caff Conscious have ads?
Neither HiCoffee nor Caff Conscious shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiCoffee or Caff Conscious?
HiCoffee ships an update every 9 days, and Caff Conscious every 6 days. Most recently, HiCoffee was updated on November 7, 2026 and Caff Conscious on October 30, 2026.

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