Comparison

DrinkDay vs Next Set

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

Head to head
About

DrinkDay

Easily monitor your water intake and receive helpful reminders to stay hydrated. Visualize your daily progress and identify areas for improvement to achieve your health goals.

Highlights
  • Hydration tracking
  • Drinking goal setting
  • Customizable reminders
  • Daily progress visualization
  • Improvement insights
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Make drinking water feel like a game. DrinkDay turns your daily water goal into a playful, interactive experience. Double-tap or press and hold a ball to log a drink, watch the balls disappear as you make progress, and enjoy a celebration when you reach your goal. EVERY SIP COUNTS Set your daily goal and see how much you’ve drunk—and how much remains. Choose milliliters or fluid ounces to track your way. CONNECTED WITH APPLE HEALTH Enable HealthKit integration to save logged water to Apple Health and include water recorded by other apps in today’s progress. You choose whether to connect. A HABIT THAT FITS YOUR DAY Set optional drinking reminders and look back through your history to keep your routine on track. MAKE IT YOURS WITH DRINKDAY PLUS Choose colorful themes and animated ball styles, save the sizes of your favorite cups and bottles, and explore weekly insights, averages, and streaks. Water tracking, goals, basic reminders, history, and Apple Health integration are free. DrinkDay Plus is an optional one-time purchase. No subscription. Drink. Tap. Celebrate. Repeat.

About

Next Set

Easily plan and log your fitness routines to achieve your goals. Create custom workout templates, organize them into programs, and visualize your progress with detailed stats. Enjoy a completely ad-free and purchase-free experience with local data storage.

Highlights
  • Create workout templates and programs
  • Log workouts on the fly
  • Visualize progress with graphs
  • Support for circuits and random exercises
  • Light and dark mode support
  • Local data storage and backups
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Next Set is a workout planning and tracking app that makes it easy for you to log and track your workouts and reach your fitness goals. No ads. No in-app purchases. Once you have Next Set you can use all it's features. Features: - Add exercises and create workout templates, or just log a workout on the fly. - Organize your templates into programs to follow and let the app keep track of which workout is up next. - Visualize your progress over time through graphs on the Stats page, including workout volumes, rep counts, distance, pace, and more. - Create templates with more complex setups than just a series of exercises. Add circuits for repeated sets of exercises. Add randomly selected exercises to give some variety to your workouts. - Both light mode and dark mode fully supported. Your data is your own. - All data is stored locally on your phone and automatically backed up with your iPhone backups. - I the developer do not have access to your data. Your data is never uploaded or sent anywhere. - You can also manually backup your data to a storage location of your choice.

Screenshots

DrinkDay4 screens
Next Set4 screens

Verdict

The call

DrinkDay and Next Set are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DrinkDay against 5.0 for Next Set. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrinkDay ships an update every 5 days, Next Set every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DrinkDay versus Next Set: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrinkDayNext Set
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTigerfish Productions LLCKyle Measner

Customer experience

DrinkDay

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Next Set

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DrinkDay

No in-app purchases

None

Next Set

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DrinkDay free?
DrinkDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Next Set free?
Next Set is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DrinkDay or Next Set?
DrinkDay and Next Set are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do DrinkDay or Next Set have ads?
Neither DrinkDay nor Next Set shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrinkDay or Next Set?
DrinkDay ships an update every 5 days, and Next Set every 4 days. Most recently, DrinkDay was updated on October 24, 2026 and Next Set on October 14, 2026.

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