Drip vs Bipolar Bear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drip
This app helps you build healthier hydration habits with a free, ad-free experience. Track your daily intake with a vast drink catalog, customizable reminders, and insightful progress visualizations. It even syncs with HealthKit and offers widgets for easy access.
- Free and ad-free experience
- Expansive drink catalog
- Customizable reminder notifications
- Daily hydration snapshot
- Interactive history and trends
- HealthKit sync
- Homescreen widgets
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Stay perfectly hydrated with Drip, your personal companion for healthier hydration habits – entirely free to use! Why Choose Drip? • A completely free app, with no premium-only features or hidden costs. • Enjoy an ad-free experience to focus entirely on your hydration journey. • Daily Hydration Snapshot: Instantly review your water intake for the day. • An expansive catalogue of drinks to ensure accurate hydration tracking. • Customizable reminder notifications, so you never miss a sip. • Drink Coefficients: Precisely calculate your water intake, focusing only on hydration value. • Interactive History: Visualize your hydration progress and spot patterns. • Rewards & Awards: Get recognized for achieving your hydration goals! • Trends: Analyze your 7-day, 30-day, and all-time hydration trends. • Health Kit Sync: Seamlessly record your water intake data (can be disabled at any time). • Homescreen Widgets: Access your hydration stats in a glance, anytime, anywhere. • Watch Companion App: Keep your hydration data handy on your wrist. Need help? Want to suggest a feature? Drop us a line at contact@dripmobile.app -- Drip integrates with HealthKit to automatically record your water intake data. With your permission, drink entries are added to the nutrition section of the Health app. This feature is off by default and can be enabled in your app settings. Drip only requests access to your Water data for precise hydration tracking. -- Attributions: Beverage & Education Icons made by Freepik
Bipolar Bear
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Bipolar Bear is a free, private mood journal built for people living with bipolar disorder. Track your moods, energy, and sleep day to day, spot the patterns that matter, and build a survival kit of coping tools you can reach for on the hard days. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Journal entries are end-to-end encrypted. Only you can read them — not us, not anyone else. Your notes, moods and everything you log are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. WHAT'S INSIDE • Daily mood journal — log mood, energy, sleep and free-text notes in seconds • Patterns & stats — see trends over time so you and your care team can spot early warning signs • Survival kit — save coping resources, goals, medications and meaningful memories in one place • Focused mode — strip the app back to just what you need on overwhelming days • PDF export — share a clean summary with your doctor or psychiatrist • Anonymous community — an optional, anonymous peer board to talk to others who get it • Streaks & gentle reminders — stay in the habit without the pressure Bipolar Bear is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. It's a tool to help you notice, reflect, and stay connected — alongside the care of your health professionals. Free to use. No ads. No selling your data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bipolar Bear at every 9 days against Drip's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drip ships an update every 4 weeks, Bipolar Bear every 9 days. Both last shipped on September 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Drip | Bipolar Bear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kaiman Mehmet | James Markey |
Bugs and requests
Drip
Reported bugs
2 issues- Random resets when traveling abroad
- Calendar date doesn't auto-change at midnight
Requested features
15 requests- Ability to edit past entries more easily
- Calendar date to change automatically at midnight
- Add dynamic reminders based on inactivity
- Display drink history by clicking the % complete circle
- Add favourites directly to the home view
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- Sync with iCloud to prevent data loss
- Expand goal limit beyond 4 liters
- Add statistics section with graphs showing trends
- Option to change notification sound
- Include more coffee drink types (Mocha, flat white, cappuccino)
- Add widgets and badge notifications
- Allow customization of pre-programmed drinks
- Add wine to drink coefficient list
- Allow entering amounts in 5ml intervals
- Add a watch counterpart
Bipolar Bear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drip
No in-app purchases
Bipolar Bear
No in-app purchases
Questions
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