Comparison

DrinkDay vs Gentled

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

Gentled

Features
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Gentled helps people with chronic illness make movement, fitness, and exercise fit changing capacity, then learn what was actually tolerated later. Built for chronic illness, pain, fatigue, PEM risk, dysautonomia, hypermobility, flare days, and changing capacity, Gentled supports bed-based movement, mobility, strength, balance, stamina, walking or wheeling, physio, classes, and everyday activity. It starts with today's body rather than a generic workout plan. What Gentled helps with: - Check today's readiness before movement. - Choose restorative, light, or steady options. - Build a flexible weekly rhythm around mobility, strength, balance, stamina, or recovery goals. - Choose a weekly exercise focus with harder-day, everyday, and stronger-day options. - Add optional movement invitations on days you choose, without creating missed workouts. - Check in and control a session from Apple Watch, with optional session-only live heart rate that is treated as context rather than a safety score. - Keep the next useful action visible with iPhone, Lock Screen, Smart Stack, and Apple Watch widgets. - Bring movement from outside Gentled into the same week and recovery loop. - Save movement instructions you already use, open them again from Today, and run them as a text-led session without Gentled rewriting them. - See recorded active time and exercise goals represented in your week without rings, streaks, or a minutes target. - Filter suggestions by position, body area, equipment, and stop signals. - Rest, stop early, make easier, or switch position during a session. - Log immediate response and delayed recovery 12 to 48 hours later. - See which movement was tolerated, pending, or needs caution. - Export CSV history or create optional Gentled+ PDF reports. - Use the app without accounts, analytics, ads, or tracking. Gentled is wellness self-management support. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, physiotherapy, rehabilitation prescriptions, or guarantees that movement is safe. Your symptoms and judgement always outrank the app. Terms of Use: https://www.cocoacorn.com/gentled/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/gentled/privacy

Screenshots

DrinkDay4 screens
Gentled4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrinkDay at none against Gentled's 1. DrinkDay also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). Gentled's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gentled sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DrinkDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DrinkDay ships an update every 5 days, Gentled every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
DrinkDay versus Gentled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrinkDayGentled
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB90 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTigerfish Productions LLCGeoff Davis

In-app purchases

None

DrinkDay

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gentled

One-time1
  • Gentled+$24.99

Questions

Is DrinkDay free?
DrinkDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gentled free?
Gentled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DrinkDay or Gentled have ads?
Neither DrinkDay nor Gentled shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrinkDay or Gentled?
DrinkDay ships an update every 5 days, and Gentled every 2 days. Most recently, DrinkDay was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gentled on October 16, 2026.

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