Comparison

Mindful Drinking vs DrinkLedger

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

DrinkLedger

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DrinkLedger is a drink logger, nothing more and nothing less. Log what you drink in two taps, confirm the days you didn't drink, and see honest statistics about your consumption. No coaching program, no lectures, no account. Your data never leaves your phone. There is no server, no login, and no ad network. Everything is stored on your device, and you can export your complete history as CSV or JSON at any time, for free. LOG QUICKLY - Personal presets: your usual beer or wine is two taps - Custom drinks with volume and alcohol percentage - Log for past days, edit or delete any entry - Confirm alcohol-free days explicitly. Days you didn't track are never silently counted as zero, so your statistics stay honest. HONEST STATISTICS - Grams of pure alcohol as the base unit, shown as WHO standard drinks, US drinks, UK units, or Austrian Standardglas - Color bands you configure yourself show how each day compares to your own limits - Today, the current week, and your confirmed dry days are always free DRINKLEDGER PRO (one-time purchase) - Rolling 7-day, 30-day, and all-time averages - Daily and weekly trend charts - Apple Health sync, write-only: the app never reads your health data - Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription. WHAT DRINKLEDGER DOESN'T DO No goals that nag you. No social feed. No streaks that reward drinking. No ads, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. If you want a coach, there are other apps; if you want a clear, private record of what you actually drink, this is it. Made by one person in Austria who wanted exactly this app and couldn't find it.

Screenshots

Mindful Drinking4 screens
DrinkLedger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mindful Drinking at 15.3 against DrinkLedger's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mindful Drinking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and DrinkLedger sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mindful Drinking versus DrinkLedger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful DrinkingDrinkLedger
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (55 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings55 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB4 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMihaly SetaloMarkus Wohlmuth

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mindful Drinking

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Access$9.991 Month
  • Premium Access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime AccessFree
1 purchases

DrinkLedger

One-time1
  • DrinkLedger Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Mindful Drinking free?
Mindful Drinking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrinkLedger free?
DrinkLedger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mindful Drinking or DrinkLedger have ads?
Neither Mindful Drinking nor DrinkLedger shows ads.

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