Comparison

Drink Note vs Added Sugar

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

Head to head
About

Drink Note

Track your daily water, sugar, and caffeine intake with personalized limits and detailed statistics. Log drinks quickly with interactive widgets and Siri Shortcuts. Integrates with Apple Health for a complete health overview.

Highlights
  • Track water, sugar, and caffeine intake
  • Personalized intake limits
  • Detailed statistics and body state estimation
  • Interactive widgets and Siri Shortcuts
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable drink types
Features
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Drink Note is an advanced system for tracking your daily intake of water, sugar, and caffeine. Add your favorite drinks to Favorites. You can use them to create interactive widgets and unique Siri Shortcuts scenarios. With smart setup, logging a drink can take just one tap. Create and customize drink types — hot or cold — and define parameters such as alcohol, caffeine, and sugar content. For hot drinks, you can also add extra sugar. Drink Note calculates personalized intake limits for water, sugar, and caffeine based on the data you provide and WHO (World Health Organization) recommendations. Get detailed statistics across three categories: water, caffeine, and sugar. The app calculates your average intake and assigns a level with estimated symptoms that reflect your current body state. All data is automatically synced with Apple Health, allowing you to integrate it into your overall health picture. All information is stored exclusively on your device and in iCloud. No data is shared with third parties. Our app is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to stay healthy and maintain an ideal balance. Additional Information: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Added Sugar

Features
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Added Sugar Tracker answers a different question than most sugar trackers: not "how much sugar did you eat today" but "how much of it was added." Sugar stirred into food counts toward your daily limit. Sugar already locked inside whole fruit and milk does not. That one distinction is the whole app. Fruit juice is the exception it makes on purpose: once fruit is pressed, its sugar counts — the same line the WHO draws for free sugars. WHAT IT DOES • The split: log a portion and your day divides into two numbers — what counts and what doesn't — measured against a 25 g reference line and also shown in teaspoons, because grams are hard to picture. • 305 everyday foods, already portioned: a can, a bowl, a slice, a spoonful. Nothing to weigh, nothing to look up, no barcode to scan. • 74 flagged for hidden sugar: foods whose name gives no warning — ketchup, breakfast cereal, jarred pasta sauce, flavoured yogurt. A biscuit is not flagged; you already knew about the biscuit. • Every food explains itself: tap any item to see why its sugar counts, or why it doesn't. 72 foods in the catalogue count as zero. • Progress over 14 or 30 days: days under your limit, at a glance. • 46 achievements for keeping the habit going — not for how little sugar you eat. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER Added Sugar Tracker has no sign-up and no account. Every entry you log, every food you add and every setting stays on your device — there is no server to lose it to, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. It works with no connection at all. ADDED SUGAR PRO Added Sugar Tracker is a premium app: logging, the catalogue and progress are part of Added Sugar Pro. • A recurring subscription, with the first period at a reduced price • Or a one-time purchase that never renews Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Added Sugar Tracker is a personal log for noticing what you eat. It is not a medical device: it does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition, it is not a tool for managing diabetes, and its figures are catalogue estimates by portion rather than measurements of your food. For advice about your own diet, talk to a doctor or a dietitian. Terms of Use: https://doesonejob.com/sugarsplit/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://doesonejob.com/sugarsplit/privacy/ Questions or ideas: sugarsplit@doesonejob.com

Screenshots

Drink Note4 screens
Added Sugar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Added Sugar at weekly against Drink Note's monthly. 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. Drink Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Added Sugar sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drink Note ships an update monthly, Added Sugar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Drink Note versus Added Sugar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrink NoteAdded Sugar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAleksandr StupakYUSUF OCAL

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drink Note

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
4 purchases

Added Sugar

Subscriptions3
  • Added Sugar Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Added Sugar Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Added Sugar Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Added Sugar Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Drink Note free?
Drink Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Added Sugar free?
Added Sugar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drink Note or Added Sugar have ads?
Neither Drink Note nor Added Sugar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drink Note or Added Sugar?
Drink Note ships an update monthly, and Added Sugar weekly. Most recently, Drink Note was updated on October 30, 2026 and Added Sugar on October 31, 2026.

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