Comparison

Water vs CivilDusk

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

Head to head
About

Water

This app helps you monitor your daily water intake and stay hydrated. It allows you to log drinks, set personalized goals, and receive timely reminders to ensure you meet your hydration targets. Visualize your progress with detailed graphs and track various beverage types.

Highlights
  • Record and track water intake
  • Set personalized hydration goals
  • Customizable drink reminders
  • Log various types of drinks
  • Detailed daily history
  • Visual progress graphs
  • Apple Health and Watch support
Features
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Is your body dehydrated? Forget to drink a glass of water on time? Not sure how much water you drink throughout the day? This is easy to fix with Water - Tracking/Reminder!
 Water - Tracking/Reminder is a water tracking app that helps you record, track and analyze your water performance. Water - Tracking/Reminder will help you keep track of your hydration levels and remind you to drink water to reach your goal. Features: – Support Apple Watch, Apple Health, Apple iCloud sync – Simple and user friendly interface – Goal setting
 – Adjust the reminder so as not to forget about water 
– Setting the volume of each glass of water 
– Add 7+ kinds of drinks 
– Control your history in details per day 
– Track different types of drinks
 – All your indicators in the form of a visual graph Subscription Terms and Details - Payment will be charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off in the user's Account Apple Health: The app does not read or analyse health data. It can only add the number of millilitres of water you have drunk and the date when you added it. Term of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://tactmk.github.io/Water-Tracker-Reminder/

About

CivilDusk

Features
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Light in the morning. Wind down at night. CivilDusk times the two habits sleep science agrees on - from your own wake time, with no account, no ads, and no sleep score. YOUR RHYTHM, THREE MOMENTS - Wake: set it once, or let it follow your recent sleep from Apple Health. Everything else is timed from it. - Morning Light: 10 to 30 bright minutes soon after waking anchors your energy and tonight's sleepiness. Get a gentle nudge, or run it hands-off. - Wind-Down: a calm evening window - dim, wind down, bed - built from your target sleep and shown as an estimate, never a measurement. A REAL WAKE-UP SEQUENCE - Sunrise light that ramps up and ends at your wake time. - A real alarm at the top - snooze or slide to stop, like the Clock app. - Edit the order and degree: ramp length, peak brightness, alarm on or off. WORKS WITH YOUR LIGHTS - Wi-Fi bulbs, including older bulbs that never worked with a smart-home hub - scan your network and control them directly. No bulb account, no cloud. - HomeKit and Matter lights run the schedule automatically on your home hub while you sleep, no app open. - Manual control too: on and off, brightness, color - with recommended morning and evening colors. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN - Timers run as Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with a stop button right there. - Start Morning Light or Wind-Down with Siri and Shortcuts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account. No ads. No sleep score. - Nothing about you leaves your phone. Health sleep data is read-only and optional. - The only networking is local control of your own lights. CivilDusk is free. It shows estimates based on your schedule - it does not measure or diagnose anything, and it is not a medical device.

Screenshots

Water4 screens
CivilDusk3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CivilDusk at none against Water's 5. CivilDusk also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). Water's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Water sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CivilDusk asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Water ships an update every 3 weeks, CivilDusk every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Water versus CivilDusk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaterCivilDusk
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews39.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIlya Klimenkocraig merry

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Water

Subscriptions3
  • Water (Month)$0.991 Month
  • Water (Year/Offer)$8.991 Year
  • Water (Year)3 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time2
  • Billed once$0.99
  • Access to drink varieties$1.99
None

CivilDusk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Water free?
Water is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CivilDusk free?
CivilDusk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Water or CivilDusk have ads?
Neither Water nor CivilDusk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Water or CivilDusk?
Water ships an update every 3 weeks, and CivilDusk every 10 days. Most recently, Water was updated on November 3, 2026 and CivilDusk on October 31, 2026.

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