DrinkData vs Chalky
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DrinkData
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Take control of your drinking with DrinkData—a privacy-first alcohol tracker built around standard drinks. Log intake on your phone, see clear trends, and keep sensitive habit data on-device unless you choose optional cloud backup. PRIVACY-FIRST TRACKING Your data is yours—stored locally by default, with no selling or sharing of your drink history. • Local SQLite storage on your device • Optional secure cloud backup for Premium members • Designed for sensitive health and habit information STANDARD DRINKS & DAILY LOGGING Build an accurate picture of alcohol consumption with tools made for everyday use. • Log standard drinks, calories, ABV, and alcohol-free days • Personal drink database with favorites for fast entry • Calendar view to spot weekly and monthly patterns INSIGHTS FOR MINDFUL DRINKING Turn logs into awareness—not judgment—with charts and streaks. • Statistics dashboard for intake, dry days, and streaks • Support reduction goals, mindful drinking, or sobriety tracking • Identify trends over time to guide healthier choices PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) • Cloud backup and restore across devices • CSV export for personal records or healthcare conversations • One-time lifetime purchase—no subscription required HEALTH NOTE DrinkData is for informational self-tracking and complements—not replaces—professional medical advice. Download DrinkData today and start a private standard-drink diary that puts you in control of your data and your habits.
Chalky
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Chalky is a climbing journal that works wherever you climb. Create sessions, log attempts, track projects, capture media and review stats, all in one place. Everything saves to your phone first and syncs once connected, with no reception required. LOG AS YOU GO: Start a session, log climbs, and refine when you're done. Include grades, attempts, sends, hold types, media, notes and more. Fill in what you care about and skip the rest. Quick-log records a climb in three taps, allowing you to stay in the moment. SEE YOURSELF IMPROVE: Climbing stats that include grade pyramids, climbing progression, send and attempt rates. Wall-angle and style splits show what you've been avoiding. View your whole climbing history, or just one session at a time. Unlock achievements when you hit a milestone. SET GOALS AND WORK YOUR PROJECTS: Pick a challenge and track every attempt and high point until you succeed. Set climbing goals to motivate you along the way. EVERY DISCIPLINE, EVERY GRADE SYSTEM: Bouldering and sport, indoors and out. Trad, ice, mixed, aid, free solo and scrambling. Roped climbs record whether you led it, top-roped or ran it on auto belay, and sends record how it went: onsight, flash, redpoint, pinkpoint, clean, hangdog or solo. Grades in V-Scale, Font, French, YDS, Ewbank, UIAA, British trad, Water Ice, M-scale or aid. Set your default per discipline and Chalky remembers. LEARN AS YOU GO: Not sure what a pinkpoint is, or what counts as a flash? There's a reference built in explaining 50+ terms, holds and techniques. RELIVE THE SESSION: Every finished session becomes a story: your climbs, your photos and videos, your notes, and the weather you actually climbed in. Attach media straight from the session or from your library. SHARE YOUR SENDS: When a session is worth showing, build a share card and post it wherever you like. Want to show off a sick send? Add your climbing buddies to share your photos and clips with them. No feed, no follower counts, nobody you didn't invite. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU: Import years of logged ascents from theCrag via CSV so you're not starting from scratch. Export everything back out to CSV whenever you like. It's your data. MAKE IT YOURS: Customise the look with light and dark themes, eight accent colours and three typefaces. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT: No ads, nothing sold, no third-party tracking. Product analytics are anonymous, hosted in the EU, and there's an off switch in Settings. I built Chalky for my own climbing: local gyms around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, and outdoor climbing around the Glass House Mountains. Every app I tried fell over on something basic. One couldn't capture video. Another didn't have the stats I wanted. Most needed reception I couldn't count on, and a few felt built for the gym rather than the climber. So I made the one I wanted to use. If it helps you learn something from each session, it's doing its job.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chalky at none against DrinkData's 1. Chalky also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. DrinkData sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chalky asks for nothing beyond the download.
DrinkData ships an update every 6 months, Chalky weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DrinkData | Chalky |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AARON MATTHEW WOODS | Bryce Walton |
In-app purchases
DrinkData
- Premium Features$9.99
Chalky
No in-app purchases









