Hydrate App vs Simple Hydration
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydrate App
Effortlessly track your daily water intake and monitor progress towards personalized hydration goals. Log various beverages quickly and visualize your achievements with a clean, colorful ring. Gain insights into your hydration habits over time.
- Log any drink in seconds
- Set personalized daily hydration goals
- Visualize progress with a colorful ring
- View daily, weekly, and long-term trends
- Supports light and dark mode
- Fast and simple user interface
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Hydrate makes it effortless to drink enough water and to see exactly what you're drinking all day. Log any drink in a couple of taps, set a goal that fits you, and watch your progress fill a clean, colorful ring. Completely free. No ads, no subscriptions, no paywalls. Every feature is yours from the start. If Hydrate helps you, you can leave an optional tip to support development, but you never have to. Whether you're a busy professional, a fitness enthusiast, or just trying to build a healthier habit, Hydrate keeps it simple. WHAT YOU CAN DO Log in seconds — water, coffee, tea, juice, sport drinks, and more, with no fussy forms Set your goal — a personalized daily target that adapts to you, whether you sip or guzzle See your day at a glance — a live ring shows how close you are as you go Spot your trends — daily, weekly, and long-term insights reveal your real habits WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT Free and fair — no ads, no subscriptions, ever Fast and simple — no learning curve, no clutter Beautiful in light and dark mode Quick enough that you'll actually stick with it Staying properly hydrated supports your energy, focus, and physical performance. Hydrate just makes it easy to keep up. Download Hydrate free and make drinking enough the easiest part of your day.
Simple Hydration
Easily monitor your daily water intake with a straightforward and customizable goal-setting system. This app offers a clean interface for tracking your hydration progress over time without unnecessary complexity.
- Progress tracking over time
- Customizable hydration goals
- Simple navigation
- Clean interface
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This is a great app for simple hydration tracking. Think of it's lack of features as a feature of it's own. Our features - tracks progress throughout time - customization in your goals - simple navigation style
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Hydration at daily against Hydrate App's every 16 months. Simple Hydration also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.2 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 Hydrate App against 5.0 for Simple Hydration. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Hydration has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hydrate App ships an update every 16 months, Simple Hydration daily. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and June 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hydrate App | Simple Hydration |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digitizr LLC | Max Linsky |
Customer experience
Hydrate App
Simple Hydration
In-app purchases
Hydrate App
No in-app purchases
Simple Hydration
No in-app purchases
