Hydrate Easy vs HydroLite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hydrate Easy
Easily track your daily water intake with simple logging and visual progress. Set personalized goals, receive timely reminders, and sync data with Apple Health. Customize the app's appearance to your preference.
- One-tap logging
- Daily goal tracking
- Customizable reminders
- Apple Health integration
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Streak tracking
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Hydrate makes drinking enough water one tap. It tells you what's left today in plain words, logs a glass, can or bottle without typing, and keeps your streak going. No account, no subscription, nothing to set up beyond your goal. Today • What's left, up top: "24 oz to go", then "Goal reached". • A goal ring that fills as you drink. • One tap for a glass, can, bottle or large bottle, in ounces or milliliters. • Any other amount at any time, for the drink you forgot to log. • Change or delete any drink, on any day. History • Your daily average, goal days, streak and personal best for the last week or month. • A bar for every day, and every day's drinks to look back on or put right. Apple Watch • Log a drink from your wrist and see what's left today. • Complications for your watch face. • Drinks logged on your Watch reach your iPhone, even if it was out of reach for a while. Widgets • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what's left at a glance. Reminders • Reminders every one to four hours, between the hours you choose. • Each one says what's left, and they stop for the day once you reach your goal. • Log a glass straight from the reminder. Apple Health • Connect Apple Health and every drink you log is saved there as Water. • Delete a drink in Hydrate and it's deleted from Apple Health too. • Hydrate only saves Water. It doesn't read anything from Apple Health. Make it yours • Eight accents, each with its own app icon. • Light, or one of two darks: soft Graphite or true Black. Private by design • Your drinks stay on your device. No accounts, analytics, ads or tracking. Hydrate helps you build a daily habit. It isn't medical advice; ask your doctor how much water is right for you.
HydroLite
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HydroLite is the simplest way to track your water. Open the app. Tap a preset. That's it. No accounts, no nagging, no bloat. Features • One-tap water logging — 8, 12, 16, 20 oz or 250/500/750 mL/1 L • Calm daily progress ring with instant visual feedback • Undo your last log with a single tap • Interval reminders with quiet-hours support • Electrolyte & drink-type tracking (premium) • Custom one-tap presets (premium) • 3-day history (free) or 30-day history + trend chart (premium) • Clean light and dark mode, readable on small phones Privacy-first • No account, no sign-in • No cloud sync; anonymous, opt-out product analytics only — never your hydration data • Works fully offline Pricing • Free forever: logging, built-in presets, interval reminders with quiet hours, 3-day history • Premium Monthly — $1.99/month (auto-renewing) with a 7-day free trial: custom presets, electrolyte & drink-type tracking, 30-day history and trend chart • Premium Yearly — $14.99/year (auto-renewing) with a 7-day free trial: the same premium features, billed annually • Premium Lifetime — $6.99 (one-time): the same premium features, paid once, kept forever Yearly and monthly both start with a 7-day free trial; lifetime unlocks everything with a single purchase. Subscription details Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; renewal is charged within 24 hours of the period end. Manage subscriptions in your Apple ID Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription before the trial ends. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://has-deploy.github.io/hydrolite/privacy-policy.html HydroLite helps you track water intake. Hydration targets are general defaults that you control. Not medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hydrate Easy at none against HydroLite's 3. HydroLite's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 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. HydroLite sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Hydrate Easy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hydrate Easy ships an update every 4 months, HydroLite every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hydrate Easy | HydroLite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Strickland | anthony mcmurtrey |
In-app purchases
Hydrate Easy
No in-app purchases
HydroLite
- HydroLite Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- HydroLite Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- HydroLite Lifetime Unlock$6.99









