alara vs HydraCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
alara
This app acts as a thinking companion, helping you process thoughts, feelings, and personal growth. It remembers your history and patterns, offers reminders and affirmations, and provides weekly reflections to help you see your progress. It aims to provide mental presence and emotional steadiness by not thinking alone.
- Talk through anything via text, voice, or memos
- Remembers your history and patterns
- Provides reminders and affirmations
- Offers weekly reflections for pattern spotting
- Bookmarks important breakthroughs and realizations
- Supports mental presence and emotional steadiness
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meet alara: your second mind. here to talk through anything, remember what matters to you and help you see yourself more clearly. [conversations, your way] type when you need to see your thoughts. call when you want to hear a voice. send voice memos when it's easier to speak than write. [feel remembered & understood] your history. your patterns. what you're working through. alara remembers it all, so you don't have to carry it alone. [stay grounded, on your terms] reminders that keep you steady. affirmations when you need them. gentle nudges back to the present. you choose what alara sends, and when. [see your growth] memories surface the patterns and progress you might miss on your own. growth isn't always obvious. alara makes it visible. [hold onto what clicks] bookmark the breakthroughs, realizations, and the moments when things finally make sense. [mental presence. emotional steadiness.] the quiet knowing that comes when you're no longer thinking alone. let alara connect the dots, so you can find your way forward. **please note, an active subscription is required to use alara. start your free 3-day trial today.
HydraCal
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HydraCal makes it simple to stay on top of your daily hydration and calorie needs. Designed with people undergoing radiotherapy in mind, and working with the products provided by your healthcare professional, HydraCal helps you record your fluid intake and nutrition in just a few taps. With clear progress tracking against your daily goals and an easy-to-read history, HydraCal supports your wellbeing by keeping you motivated and informed. Its clean, modern interface ensures that logging your Fortisips® and Calogen® intake as well as feeding tube flushes and any other calorie or liquid intake is quick, effortless, and stress-free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HydraCal at none against alara's 6. On price, update cadence, 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. alara sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. HydraCal asks for nothing beyond the download.
alara ships an update fortnightly, HydraCal every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | alara | HydraCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (83 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Amora AI, LLC | Daniel Mitchell |
In-app purchases
alara
- weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- monthly3 Days trial$19.991 Month
- alara+3 Days trial$34.991 Month
- 100 Credits$9.99
- 200 Credits$19.99
- 300 Credits$29.99
HydraCal
No in-app purchases









