Comparison

HiCoffee vs Smash

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

Smash

Features
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Smash turns your Apple Watch into a padel coach. Start a match on your wrist and play. Smash reads the motion of every swing and gives you back the match you just played: how many shots you hit, how fast, which ones, and where you moved on court. NO PHONE ON COURT Everything is recorded on Apple Watch. Your iPhone stays in the bag. Heart rate, calories and duration land in Apple Health like any other workout. EVERY SHOT, COUNTED Forehands, backhands, volleys, serves, bandejas, lobs and smashes, separated automatically. See your shot mix change as your game changes. HOW HARD YOU HIT Smash measures the speed of every shot and remembers your fastest. Chase your own record, match after match. YOUR PADEL SCORE One number out of 100, built from four things that decide padel matches: power, movement, consistency and endurance. It moves when your game moves, and it tells you which one is holding you back. THE MATCH, AFTER THE MATCH Open any match for the score, the shot mix, your best shot, and how you compared to your own average. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Follow other players, share matches, and see what the people you play with have been doing. EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED No subscription and no cap on matches. Nothing is held back: - Every shot in a match, with the swing path of each one - Court heatmap showing where you moved and what you never covered - Winning Formula: what your wins have in common - Your edge: why you won or lost, read from your own sensors - Head-to-Head comparisons against any player you follow Requires Apple Watch Series 6 or later, watchOS 10 or later. Smash is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any padel federation or tournament organiser.

Screenshots

HiCoffee4 screens
Smash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smash at none against HiCoffee's 3. HiCoffee's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HiCoffee sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Smash asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HiCoffee versus Smash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCoffeeSmash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (843 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings843 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer弓 张Hedgehog Solutions SIA

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

Smash

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
None

Smash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HiCoffee free?
HiCoffee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smash free?
Smash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HiCoffee or Smash have ads?
Neither HiCoffee nor Smash shows ads.

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