Daily Carb vs Drinx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Carb
Track your daily nutrition, water intake, and vital health metrics like glucose, blood pressure, and weight. Set carb budgets, log meals from a large database, and monitor progress with charts. Share detailed reports with your doctor.
- Carb budget and nutrition tracking
- Food logging with large database
- Water intake monitoring
- Weight and BMI tracking
- Glucose and HbA1c logging
- Blood pressure and heart rate logging
- Data sharing with doctors
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This is the app you are looking for if you are a dieter or who want to control your diabetes or weight! You can set your carb budget and track your daily nutrition intake of the food, carbs, fiber, fat etc, and also track quantity of water intake, readings of your glucose, HbA1c, blood pressure, heart rate, weight, exercise, medications and insulin, you can share the readings with your doctors in form of CSV, HTML or PDF by email. Key Features: Food: ⁃ Create your carb budget and track it. ⁃ Track your food logs includes daily nutrition intake, such as carbs, fiber, calories etc. ⁃ Huge default food database from restaurant, common foods and supermarket. ⁃ Add your custom food or your recipes. ⁃ Add food to Favorites. ⁃ Search food database. ⁃ Report your carbs intake. Weight: ⁃ Track your weight logs. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Calculate BMI of each reading automatically. ⁃ Show weight change compared with last weight. ⁃ Report weight and BMI logs by chart. Water: ⁃ Log your daily quantity of water intake. ⁃ Show your target, actual and average glasses of water intake by chart. ⁃ Show number of glasses of water intake in Water’s icon. ⁃ Report your water intake. Others: ⁃ Calendar overview of your data. ⁃ Password protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID passcode. ⁃ Supports WiFi Backup & Restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup & restore. ⁃ Manage your personal info and set color ranges for your glucose and blood pressure. ⁃ Email your readings to your doctors in form of CSV, HTML or PDF. ⁃ Badges to show your consumed/remaining net carbs and water intake. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. ⁃ Supports universal version. In App Purchase: Exercises: ⁃ Log the date, duration, exercise name, intensity of exercises and add note to it. ⁃ Hundreds of default common exercises for you to chose. ⁃ Customize and save your own exercises. ⁃ Save your favorites exercise. ⁃ Search exercise by name. ⁃ Show your actual exercise time and average exercise duration by chart. Glucose: ⁃ Log your glucose and HbA1c logs. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Analyze glucose level by chart. ⁃ Show the statistics info of four glucose segments. ⁃ Calculate average glucose level of different periods. Blood Pressure: ⁃ Log your blood Pressure and heart rate. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Calculate your MAP of each reading. ⁃ Analyze BP and heart rate level by chart. ⁃ Show Max, Min and Avg number of BP, Heart rate and MAP. ⁃ Show percentage and number of BP in different levels. Lipid Panel: ⁃ Log your Cholesterol, Triglycerides, HDL and LDL. ⁃ Add note to reading. Medications: ⁃ Log your medication intake. ⁃ Log medication intake time, dosage, and add note to it. ⁃ Manage your medications’ route, unit, side effects, icon and other info. Reminders: ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to alert you measure your blood pressure or glucose, drinking water, visiting doctor, doing exercise or anything else you would like. ⁃ Create reminder text of each reminder. ⁃ Set time, repeat frequency, and icon for the reminders. ⁃ Ten default reminder sounds and you can set your own. ⁃ Set if reminder is ON or OFF. Apple Health: Daily Carb is able to write nutrition/weight/glucose/blood pressure data only according to your permissions and preferences. If allowing Daily Carb to write data, you could transfer these data to Health App easily. If you have any questions or suggestion, please mail to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.
Drinx
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Stay hydrated and boost your health with Drinx – the ultimate hydration companion! Track your daily water intake, get personalized reminders, and discover insights to build healthy hydration habits. Whether you’re at home, work, or on the go, Drinx ensures you meet your goals with style. Key Features: Personalized Hydration Goals: Calculate daily water needs based on your weight, activity, and weather. Quick Logging: Log water intake with a single tap and track your progress in real-time. Beautiful Visuals: Choose from stunning light and dark themes, designed to keep you motivated. Powerful Insights: Analyze hydration patterns with detailed charts and a heat map. Custom Reminders: Stay on track with friendly reminders tailored to your schedule. Exportable Data: Easily export your hydration logs for personal use or sharing. With Drinx, hydration isn’t just a goal – it’s a lifestyle. Download now and transform the way you stay hydrated!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drinx at none against Daily Carb's 7. Drinx also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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
Both are free to download. Daily Carb sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Drinx asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Daily Carb | Drinx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (194 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 194 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | App Roots |
Bugs and requests
Daily Carb
Reported bugs
2 issues- Favorites list randomly clearing
- Ads appearing even after in-app purchase
Requested features
5 requests- Barcode scanning for adding foods
- Ability to edit serving sizes and nutritional info
- Improved organization and search for favorites/custom foods
- Sync with other health apps or devices
- More comprehensive international food database
Drinx
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Carb
- Exercises$0.99
- Glucose & Insulin Calculator$0.99
- Blood Pressure$0.99
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- Lipid Panel$0.99
- Medications$0.99
- Reminders$0.99
- Get All$3.99
Drinx
No in-app purchases









