AlcoGrip vs Consume
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlcoGrip
Track your alcohol intake with this straightforward iOS application. Log drinks manually or via presets, and gain insights into your consumption patterns over various timeframes. It offers Apple Health and Shortcuts integration, with Apple Watch support for convenient logging.
- Alcohol consumption tracking
- Manual and preset drink logging
- Apple Health integration
- Apple Watch companion app
- Consumption insights and limits
- Automatic reminders
- Data export functionality
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AlcoGrip is the no-nonsense alcohol tracker for iOS. Using AlcoGrip, you can keep track of your alcohol consumption via your phone, directly via your Apple Watch, or straight from your home screen or lock screen. Add your own drink presets or add consumptions manually, and gain insights in your alcohol usage. AlcoGrip automatically groups your consumptions in sessions, and you can see the consumptions you logged in the past 24 hours, week, month, or since the start of the year. AlcoGrip will also remind you to keep logging your consumptions, since thinking about an app is the last thing you want to do when you're enjoying some beverages. AlcoGrip can also integrate with Apple Health and Shortcuts, and provide data about your consumptions. AlcoGrip does not require any subscription or in-app purchases to work, once you got the app - it's yours forever. AlcoGrip includes: - iPhone widget for your home screen, lock screen, and smart stack - track your session, last 7 or 30 days, or year-to-date at a glance - Apple Watch complication in circular, rectangular, and corner styles - Edit any logged consumption to fix its time, drink, or notes - Swipe a logged drink in your history to log it again with the current time - Favourite your most-used drinks and search by name to keep your collection manageable - Smarter reminders that mention which drink you logged and let you log again in one tap - Integration with Apple Health - Integration with Shortcuts - iCloud sync to store your data on all your devices - Automatic grouping of consumptions in sessions - Manual consumption entry - Consumption entry based on manageable drink presets, based on a single alcoholic component or multiple alcoholic components - Insights into your alcohol consumptions - Set limits on your consumption (consumptions, standard units or grams of alcohol) per day, 7, or 30 days - See your consumption in standard drinks (definitions for multiple countries are available, as well as a custom option) - Companion app for Apple Watch to log consumptions from your wrist - Automatic reminders to help you keep logging your consumptions - Export functionality - Scan labels to automaticallly fill in consumption details
Consume
Monitor your alcohol consumption, including drinks, calories, and expenses. Make informed choices to foster a healthier relationship with alcohol.
- Track drinks consumed
- Monitor calorie intake
- Log alcohol spending
- Metric-based decision making
- Improve relationship with alcohol
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Track your drinks, calories, and spending to improve your relationship with alcohol through metric-based decision making.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Consume at Free against AlcoGrip's $2.99. Consume also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). AlcoGrip's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 2). On 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
Consume is free to download; AlcoGrip costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Consume holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlcoGrip has 63 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | AlcoGrip | Consume |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David van Erkelens | Alexander Watts |
Customer experience
AlcoGrip
Consume
In-app purchases
AlcoGrip
No in-app purchases
Consume
No in-app purchases







