Beer Active vs Beerwatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beer Active
This app tracks your daily activity, including calories burned and steps taken, by reading data from your Apple Health app. It notifies you when you've earned a virtual beer based on your activity levels. You can view your stats anytime by opening the app.
- Reads Apple Health data
- Tracks active calories burned
- Tracks resting calories
- Tracks steps taken
- Background activity monitoring
- Earn virtual beer rewards
- Activity stats viewing
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Beer Active reads your Apple Health app data, specifically active calories burned, resting calories and steps taken, throughout the day. The app works by background tasks, which are goverened by your device operating system. The more often you use an app, the more often the operating system will allow background tasks to run. Beer Active notifies you through notifications when it detects that you have earned a beer. If you disable Beer Active notifications, you are still able to open the app to view your stats.
Beerwatch
Log your beer experiences and discover new brews. Connect with friends to see what they're drinking and find top spots in unfamiliar cities.
- Log beer consumption
- Discover bars and breweries
- Follow friends' beer activity
- Find local recommendations
- Track beer experiences
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Post your beers. That's it. And if you happen to be traveling and want to find the right spot in a city you don't know — or follow a local's trail through the best bars in town — Beerwatch does that too. Your friend in Tokyo just posted. Someone in Vienna found something good. The guy you met last summer is apparently in Copenhagen now. Post your beer. Watch theirs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Beerwatch at every 3 days against Beer Active's every 9 months. Beerwatch also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beer Active against 5.0 for Beerwatch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Beer Active ships an update every 9 months, Beerwatch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Active | Beerwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michele Acuna | Paul Henke |
Customer experience
Beer Active
Beerwatch
In-app purchases
Beer Active
No in-app purchases
Beerwatch
No in-app purchases
