Comparison

Caffeine Tracker vs DRIPography

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

Head to head
About

Caffeine Tracker

Features
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Meet your mysterious new companion — a 3D character that lives inside your caffeine tracker and reacts to your body's caffeine level in real time. Sleepy when you're clean, dancing when you're at peak, jittery when you've had too much. The numbers on a graph, finally with a face. MyDailyCaffeine is the smart way to track and manage your daily caffeine intake. Coffee, espresso, tea, matcha, energy drinks — log them all in seconds and see exactly how your body feels, minute by minute. ◆ Meet Your Mystery Mascot (NEW) A 3D animated character appears on your Today tab. Their pose and mood are driven by your actual caffeine curve, so a single glance tells you more than any chart. Tap them for a surprise reaction. Drag to rotate. Pinch to zoom. You can toggle them off anytime from Settings. ◆ Track Caffeine Intake Record every caffeinated drink with one tap. Coffee (95mg), espresso (63mg), green tea (28mg), matcha (70mg), energy drinks (80mg), cola, cocoa, chocolate — and create custom drinks with your own values. ◆ Daily Caffeine Limit Set a personal daily cap (default 400mg, the WHO healthy-adult guideline). See at a glance how much you've consumed versus your target. ◆ Remaining Caffeine in Your Body Know exactly how much caffeine is still active in your system using a 5-hour half-life model. Decide whether that afternoon cup is a good idea — before you pour it. ◆ Calendar Heatmap Spot weekly patterns and habit shifts with a color-coded monthly calendar. ◆ Statistics and Trends 7, 30, and 90-day analytics. Daily averages, most-consumed drinks, long-term trends. ◆ Streaks and Badges A gentle streak system and achievement badges keep the daily logging habit going. ◆ Widget Support Home Screen widgets for an instant caffeine summary, no app open required. ◆ Apple Watch App Log your coffee right from your wrist and check your current caffeine level at a glance. ◆ Personalization Eight theme colors inspired by coffee (espresso, mocha, caramel, matcha, chai, berry, midnight, slate). Dark mode included. ◆ Privacy First All data stays on your device. No account. No cloud. No tracking. ◆ 33 Languages English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, and many more. Feedback & Support: https://keik.co.jp/wp/app-inquiry-form/

About

DRIPography

Features
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Dial in the perfect pour-over recipe for your beans — together with AI. DRIPography is a hand-drip (pour-over) coach for iPhone + Apple Watch. Build the recipe that best fits each bean with AI, brew it right from your wrist with step-by-step water amounts and haptic cues, then log the cup when you're done. The more you log, the smarter the suggestions get — and your coffee gets better every day. — A recipe made for your bean, with AI Just enter the bean name and AI proposes a first recipe. Want it brighter or bolder? Pick a direction per axis (acidity, bitterness, body, aroma) and AI recalculates the ratio, water temperature and pour style. Enter or fine-tune steps by hand anytime. — Brew from your wrist, synced to Apple Watch Recipes you build on iPhone sync to the Watch automatically. Start brewing and the step countdown, pour amount and running total appear on your wrist, with a haptic at every step change. Times stay accurate even with the screen off. — A coffee diary that completes itself Rate every cup on five axes (overall, acidity, bitterness, body, aroma). Look back at a glance in the calendar — and each note feeds the next recommendation. — Your library, organized around beans Drippers, recipes and tasting logs all live under each bean. Beans with the same name merge automatically, and the more you add, the smarter it gets. — Details that make a real brew ¡ Scales water and time precisely by servings (stored per single serving) ¡ Immersion drippers (Hario Switch ¡ Clever) auto-restructure past capacity ¡ Free dripper entry — V60, Chemex, Kalita and more ¡ Six example recipes to start right away Five languages: 한ęĩ­ė–´ ¡ English ¡ æ—ĨæœŦčĒž ¡ Deutsch ¡ įŽ€äŊ“中文 iCloud backup & sync across devices. AI recipe suggestions are free every month. Today's cup, into a better cup tomorrow. Pour Over, Make Over — DRIPography

Screenshots

Caffeine Tracker4 screens
DRIPography3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DRIPography at none against Caffeine Tracker's 1. DRIPography also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). 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. Caffeine Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DRIPography asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Caffeine Tracker ships an update every 9 days, DRIPography every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ¡ 2 level
Caffeine Tracker versus DRIPography: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaffeine TrackerDRIPography
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeiK LLCroh yongwook

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Caffeine Tracker

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

DRIPography

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Caffeine Tracker free?
Caffeine Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DRIPography free?
DRIPography is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Caffeine Tracker or DRIPography have ads?
Caffeine Tracker shows ads; DRIPography does not.
Which is updated more often, Caffeine Tracker or DRIPography?
Caffeine Tracker ships an update every 9 days, and DRIPography every 2 days. Most recently, Caffeine Tracker was updated on October 8, 2026 and DRIPography on October 9, 2026.

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