Comparison

TipsyBuddy vs Kin

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

Head to head
About

TipsyBuddy

Features
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AC Buddy helps you stay aware of your estimated blood alcohol concentration throughout the night. Log your drinks, track your water intake, and see your BAC estimate update in real time all from your iPhone or Apple Watch. KEY FEATURES - Real-Time BAC Estimate: See your estimated blood alcohol concentration based on your logged drinks, body profile, and the Widmark formula with duration-aware absorption. - Apple Watch App: A full companion app with quick-add buttons, drink logging, favorites, hydration tracking, and today's activity log all from your wrist. - Drink Catalog: Choose from a built-in catalog of beers, wines, cocktails, spirits, and more. Create custom drinks for anything not listed. - Favorites: Star your go-to drinks for one-tap logging on iPhone and Apple Watch. - Hydration Tracking: Log water intake, set a daily hydration goal, and monitor your progress with a visual progress bar. - BAC Timeline Chart: View a trend chart of your estimated BAC over the past several hours with a legal limit reference line. - iPhone & Watch Sync: Your drinks, water, favorites, and profile stay in sync between your iPhone and Apple Watch via Watch Connectivity. - Apple Health Integration: Optionally sync your water and drink logs to Apple Health. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER BAC Buddy provides estimates only. It is not a medical device and does not measure your actual blood alcohol concentration. Never use this app to decide whether it is safe or legal to drive. Readings can be inaccurate due to body chemistry, medication, food, sleep, and logging errors. If you or someone else may be in danger, call emergency services immediately. Safety Information: Built-in safety tips, emergency warning signs, and a dedicated Safety tab to help you make informed decisions.

About

Kin

This app helps you maintain important friendships by providing gentle reminders to connect with people you care about. It offers features like a connection score, fading friend alerts, and private messaging to ensure you never lose touch.

Highlights
  • Friendship reminders
  • Connection score
  • Fading friend alerts
  • Log hangouts
  • Check-ins
  • AI friendship advice
  • Private messaging
Features
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Kin is the friendship tracker that helps you stay close to the people who matter — even when life gets busy. We all have friends we mean to call but never do. Kin makes sure you never lose touch again. Add the people you care about, choose how often you want to connect, and Kin reminds you before a friendship quietly fades. WHY YOU'LL LOVE KIN • Never lose touch — gentle reminders when it's been too long • Connection score — see at a glance which friendships need attention • Fading friend alerts — catch drifting relationships before it's too late • Log hangouts — keep a private history of the time you spend together • Check-ins — track how you and your circle are really doing • AI friendship advice — talk through any situation and get warm, judgment-free guidance • Private messaging — stay connected right inside the app STAY CLOSE, EFFORTLESSLY Kin is your private space for friendships — not another noisy social network. No feeds, no likes, no pressure. Just you and the people you love. KIN PLUS Upgrade to unlock unlimited friends, AI friendship advice, private messaging, and more — $4.99/month or $29.99/year. Kin is free to download, with optional ads. Download Kin today and never lose touch with the people who matter most. Terms of Use (EULA): https://brilliant-idea-bot.replit.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://brilliant-idea-bot.replit.app/privacy

Screenshots

TipsyBuddy4 screens
Kin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TipsyBuddy at none against Kin's 8. TipsyBuddy also leads on ads (none vs shown). Kin's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. Kin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. TipsyBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
TipsyBuddy versus Kin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTipsyBuddyKin
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB53 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChristopher Pena VelezRUSSEL JAMES BLAYLOCK

In-app purchases

None

TipsyBuddy

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kin

Subscriptions2
  • Kin Plus Monthly4 variants$4.991 Month
  • Kin Plus Annual4 variants$29.991 Year

Questions

Is TipsyBuddy free?
TipsyBuddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kin free?
Kin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TipsyBuddy or Kin have ads?
Kin shows ads; TipsyBuddy does not.

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