Project Power vs HydraCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Power
This program helps adults and youth identify and lower their risk for type 2 diabetes or manage the disease. It offers education, support, and digital tools to promote healthy lifestyle changes, including diet, exercise, and stress reduction.
- Diabetes risk assessment
- Healthy lifestyle education
- Weight management support
- Food diary
- Activity tracker connectivity
- Secure discussion forum
- Animated educational videos
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Project Power by the American Diabetes Association in partnership with CVS Health is an innovative type 2 diabetes risk reduction program. The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization fighting to bend the curve on the diabetes epidemic and help people living with diabetes thrive. The American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Project Power in partnership with CVS Health is an initiative with the aim to help adults and youth identify and lower their risk for diabetes or manage the disease. Offered in-person or virtually by HabitNu, Project Power is an innovative program from the ADA that raises diabetes awareness and provides diabetes risk reduction education and services to people with diabetes and prediabetes nationwide. Project Power program promotes making healthy food choices, increasing physical activity, and building family and peer support. Participants will focus on reducing weight through a highly interactive environment that incorporates positive lifestyle modification support, including stress reduction. Health coaches will work closely with participants in small groups to help them break old habits, create new ones, set attainable goals, and keep them motivated. Project Power participants will access highly engaging digital tools such as the Project Power app to monitor their progress and help them stay on track. The app includes an easy-to-use food diary, weight and activity tracker connectivity, a secure discussion forum, short animated educational videos, coach/participant communication, and automated alerts and notifications. Project Power is here to help make living healthy second nature for those living with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. The Project Power App is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have seen or heard on the Project Power App.
HydraCal
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HydraCal makes it simple to stay on top of your daily hydration and calorie needs. Designed with people undergoing radiotherapy in mind, and working with the products provided by your healthcare professional, HydraCal helps you record your fluid intake and nutrition in just a few taps. With clear progress tracking against your daily goals and an easy-to-read history, HydraCal supports your wellbeing by keeping you motivated and informed. Its clean, modern interface ensures that logging your Fortisips® and Calogen® intake as well as feeding tube flushes and any other calorie or liquid intake is quick, effortless, and stress-free.
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Verdict
Project Power and HydraCal are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Power | HydraCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (58 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Diabetes Association | Daniel Mitchell |
Bugs and requests
Project Power
Reported bugs
13 issues- Cannot log in after update
- Videos are AI computer generated and difficult to decipher
- Captions blend into graphics and cannot be seen
- Computer generated voice is hard to decipher
- App has extreme focus on weight
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- Cannot hide relevant factors like smoking
- Latest update is awful
- Non weight based gains/milestones no longer matter
- Giant 'winners circle' focused solely on weight loss
- Tedious meal logging and weigh-ins required
- Garbled indecipherable inaccessible cartoon videos
- Cannot click links in notifications
- In app help requests don't get answered
Requested features
10 requests- Improve accessibility of videos and captions
- Make AI-generated voice clearer
- Reduce overemphasis on weight as the sole health indicator
- Address issues caused by recent app updates
- Fix non-clickable links in notifications
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- Ensure timely responses to help requests
- Re-evaluate the 'winners circle' and 'stop light' system for motivation
- Add dark mode option
- Allow easier modification of goals
- Enable adding frequent foods all at once
HydraCal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Project Power
No in-app purchases
HydraCal
No in-app purchases









