Comparison

PauseCafé vs CoffeeMeter

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

Head to head
About

PauseCafé

Features
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How much caffeine is still in me before I sleep? Am I drinking enough in this heat? Track your caffeine AND your hydration, make progress, and earn real rewards. Log every drink in one tap, pick its size, stay under your daily limit, reach your hydration goal, and unlock badges, points and real gifts. ACTIVE CAFFEINE & HEALTH (Premium) - Active caffeine: how much caffeine is estimated to still be in your body, in real time. It rises with every drink then falls over the hours, so you know at a glance how much will be left at bedtime. Shown in the app, on the widget, on Apple Watch and as complications on your watch face. - Health app sync: write your caffeine and water to Health and keep them alongside the rest of your data. - Caffeine, sleep and heart insights: see the link between your caffeine and how you actually sleep, and between your caffeine and your resting heart rate. These insights use Health app data and are computed on your device: they never leave your iPhone. SMART TRACKING - Coffee, tea, soft drinks, energy drinks — log your drinks in one tap - Pick the size of every drink (S, M, L): volume and caffeine adjust automatically - An animated cup that fills in real time - Hydration counter in millilitres, with a blue ring around your cup - The water in your drinks counts towards your hydration: coffee, tea and soft drinks bring water too - Personal water goal (WHO guidance adapted to your profile) - Alerts based on EFSA and FDA guidance - Caution mode (200 mg a day - EFSA guidance) - Heatwave alert in France (free) and stepped-up hydration reminders in hot weather (Premium), based on the Météo-France alert level for your département - 30-second cooldown to avoid mistaken entries - iOS home screen widget GAMIFICATION - 130 badges to unlock (caffeine, hydration, streaks, timing) - 8 levels, from Sprout to Legend - Points earned with every drink and every good day - Daily streak with milestone bonuses - Community challenges worth up to several hundred points COMMUNITY & REFERRALS - Add friends by username and make progress together - Refer a friend. You both get 100 bonus points. REWARDS - Trade your points for months of Premium (free users) - Trade your points for gifts (Premium) - Partner offers STATISTICS - Weekly and monthly charts (caffeine + water) - Breakdown by drink category - Analysis of when you drink through the day - Premium Insights tab: water-caffeine, caffeine-sleep and caffeine-resting heart rate correlations - Weekly summary email every Monday (optional) APPLE WATCH (Premium) - Two concentric rings: caffeine + hydration - Log a drink or a glass of water from your wrist - Today's caffeine, active caffeine and hydration as complications on your watch face - Custom drinks synced across devices PREMIUM — monthly or yearly subscription - No adverts - Real-time active caffeine (app, widget, Apple Watch and complications) - Health app sync (caffeine and water) - Insights tab: water-caffeine, sleep and resting heart rate correlations - Stepped-up hydration reminders in hot weather - Apple Watch with dual caffeine + water tracking and a Hydration complication - Custom drinks - Double points - Open Food Facts barcode scanner - 3 favourite drinks - 1-tap mode (a single tap for your quick drink) - Gifts and gift cards PauseCafé is a personal wellbeing tool offering guidance only, and is no substitute for advice from a healthcare professional. Scientific guidance: EFSA 2015, FDA, ANSES France 2021, WHO for hydration. Terms of use: https://pausecafe-app.fr/cgu.html

About

CoffeeMeter

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This app helps you use coffee as fuel and prevent it from costing you sleep. Tap one button to log an espresso, matcha, energy drink, or even a Coca-Cola. A real bi-exponential pharmacokinetics model projects how much caffeine you'll likely still have in your bloodstream when you want to be asleep. WORK WITH YOUR NATURAL CORTISOL CoffeeMeter shows your cortisol awakening response, the natural alertness curve that peaks in the first hour after waking. Drinking coffee inside that window can blunt how strongly caffeine hits. CoffeeMeter highlights the window where your first cup tends to land hardest (typically 1.5 to 3.5 hours after wake). SIMULATE BEFORE YOU SIP Thinking about a 4 pm espresso? CoffeeMeter lets you test combinations without committing. See how that hypothetical second coffee changes your bedtime number, then decide. BUILD YOUR HEALTH STORY Every cup syncs to Apple Health. Your data is yours, exportable as CSV any time, ready to share with your doctor or AI assistant. WHAT IS INSIDE - Real-time caffeine gauge with rising indicator - 24-hour rolling caffeine curve with bedtime marker - Sleep-impact projection at your set bedtime - Cortisol-based optimal coffee window - 10 drink types: espresso, big coffee, green tea, matcha, black tea, mate, energy drink, Coca-Cola, chocolate, decaf - What-if simulation for combined doses - Apple Health sync (caffeine intake) - Edit history, adjust bedtime, fine-tune your half-life COFFEEMETER PRO unlocks unlimited logging, unlimited simulations, and CSV export for AI assistants and your own analysis. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PauseCafé4 screens
CoffeeMeter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CoffeeMeter at none against PauseCafé's shown. PauseCafé's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PauseCafé sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and CoffeeMeter sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PauseCafé ships an update every 5 days, CoffeeMeter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
PauseCafé versus CoffeeMeter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPauseCaféCoffeeMeter
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin BeguerieTheorics Limited

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PauseCafé

Subscriptions2
  • PauseCafé Premium — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PauseCafé Premium — Yearly$24.991 Year
1 purchases

CoffeeMeter

Subscriptions1
  • Cafein Pro$24.991 Year

Questions

Is PauseCafé free?
PauseCafé is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CoffeeMeter free?
CoffeeMeter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PauseCafé or CoffeeMeter have ads?
PauseCafé shows ads; CoffeeMeter does not.
Which is updated more often, PauseCafé or CoffeeMeter?
PauseCafé ships an update every 5 days, and CoffeeMeter every 3 weeks. Most recently, PauseCafé was updated on October 7, 2026 and CoffeeMeter on October 24, 2026.

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