Mindful Drinking vs Phyros
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindful Drinking
Monitor your alcohol consumption and its impact on your mood. Accurately log drink sizes and alcohol content to understand your habits, manage calories and expenses, and compare your intake with low-risk guidelines.
- Track drinks and mood
- Accurate alcohol content and serving size logging
- Monitor daily calories and expenses
- Compare consumption with low-risk guidelines
- Plan sober days
- Daily reminders
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Track your drinks and mood with Mindful Drinking! With Mindful Drinking, you can monitor, comprehend, and positively impact your drinking habits and their effect on your mood. We convert various types of beverages, which come in different serving sizes, into units of alcohol, also known as standard drinks. This way, you can stay within the moderate (low-risk) alcohol limits, get motivated, spend less, lose weight, or even quit drinking entirely. Unlike most apps, Mindful Drinking allows you to accurately record the size and alcohol content of your drinks, so you don't have to worry about inaccurate consumption measures. Using Mindful Drinking, you will quickly understand how not all beers and wines are created equally. You can improve your tipsy decision-making skills and enhance your nights out with friends without regretting it the next day. Features: - Easily track your drinks for the current week - Accurately record alcohol content and serving size up to 2 decimal places with ABV helper - Track your mood to see how your alcohol use might be affecting it - Monitor your daily alcohol calories and expenses - Compare your alcohol consumption with the moderate (low-risk) drinking guidelines of different countries - Plan and complete sober days - Observe an annual sober days vs. drinking days chart and important numbers - Receive daily reminders to help you keep consistent records Premium features: - Get Last Call and Hydration reminders to minimize hangovers - Set up future messages from your sober self to your tipsy self - Quickly record drinks and mood logs from Profile tab charts - Record your drinks and daily mood logs for previous time periods without limitations - All-access to previous years for grid chart and numbers Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dosEKZx-QnJUMKiMPHSgW_P1QF0T8cI4AwRXzpQ907M/edit?usp=sharing
Phyros
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Phyros is a focused Apple Watch companion for sauna and cold plunge routines. Start a free session, choose sauna, plunge, or both, and keep the important details visible on your wrist. Track each mode with clear elapsed timers, switch between sauna and plunge with a tap or double tap, and see live heart rate during your session when Health permissions are enabled. Phyros can nudge you to hydrate during sauna time and gives you a simple summary when you finish. Features: Sauna and plunge session tracking Optional sauna-only, plunge-only, or combined sessions Large, glanceable mode timer and total session time Live heart rate from Apple Health during workouts Hydration reminder during sauna exposure Haptic cues for transitions and reminders Session summary with total time, sauna/plunge split, average heart rate, peak heart rate, and heart-rate trend Phyros uses HealthKit only with your permission. It reads heart rate during active sessions and saves workouts so your session can be recorded in Apple Health. Phyros is not medical advice. Use sauna and cold exposure safely and follow guidance from your health professional if you have any concerns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Phyros at none against Mindful Drinking's 3. Phyros also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.3). On price, ads and device support 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. Mindful Drinking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Phyros asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Mindful Drinking | Phyros |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.3 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mihaly Setalo | Mark Stephens |
In-app purchases
Mindful Drinking
- Premium Access$9.991 Month
- Premium Access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime AccessFree
Phyros
No in-app purchases









