Comparison

Let's duck vs Glug

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

Head to head
About

Let's duck

This app features a pixelated duck that lives on your Apple Watch and encourages movement without pressure. It integrates with Apple Health, tracks workouts, and offers a calming breathing exercise. Optional purchases unlock customization and history.

Highlights
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Tracks various workout types
  • Offers guided breathing exercises
  • Customizable duck outfits and colors
  • Displays workout stats
  • Watch face complications and widgets
Features
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Let’s Duck is a little pixel duck that lives on your Apple Watch and moves with you. I made it because most fitness apps made me feel like I was always behind. Rings to close, streaks to protect, numbers that turn red. I wanted something that just felt nice to open. So there’s no score to keep up with here. The duck is simply happy when you move, and happy to see you when you don’t. YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING SPECIAL Already use Apple’s Workout app, or another app that saves to Apple Health? Your duck picks those workouts up on its own. You don’t have to change how you work out. Just open the app now and then and say hi. NO PRESSURE, REALLY Take a week off and nothing breaks. Your duck won’t sulk. It’ll just be glad you’re back. If you turn on reminders, they’re gentle nudges like “lunch loop if you feel like it”, and they skip the days you’ve already moved. Rest days are part of it. A REAL LITTLE PET Your duck hatches from an egg, grows up, and has its own personality. Feed it, play, give it baths and tuck it in at night. It picks up your habits, too: early bird, night owl, water lover. WANDERLAND Every walk outside uncovers a little more of your duck’s own map of the neighbourhood, turned and drawn so your real streets stay private. Watch it uncover live as you walk, collect the places your duck finds, and decorate it all with the presents it brings you: flowers, benches, fountains, even a cottage. Friends from the games drop by to visit. MINI GAMES, GAME BOY STYLE Fishing, skipping stones, a pebble shooter, a sky chase with bosses, a rhythm game with kawaii songs and more, each with its own story, characters and 8-bit music. Listen to every soundtrack on the Jukebox. WHAT THE DUCK DOES ON A WORKOUT • Comes along on walks, runs, swims, rides, yoga, strength and lots more, waddling through its own little world while you go • Cheers your small wins with a happy hop • Draws a map of your outdoor workouts, colored by pace, and lets you press play to watch it waddle the whole route again • Shows the stats that matter: time, distance, heart rate, pace and calories • Breathes with you: rest a finger on the screen for a calm minute on a night pond • Lives on your watch face too, through complications and widgets Everything you record is saved to Apple Health. No account, no sign-up, no ads. FREE, AND YOU CAN EARN EVERYTHING Your duck and its workouts are free for everyone. Workouts you record in Let’s Duck earn feathers on the Pond Road, which unlock games, colors, outfits and more over time, just by moving. Locked games have free demos. Want it all right away, or want to support the app? Duck Premium is a one-time purchase that unlocks everything at once, plus a golden supporter collection. No subscription. Let’s Duck is made by one person. If you have an idea or something isn’t working right, I’d love to hear from you through the review. Hope your duck makes your day a little lighter.

About

Glug

This app uses a virtual pet fish to motivate you to drink water. Your fish's survival depends on you meeting your daily hydration goals, with consequences for missing them. Unlock decorations and expand your fish's world as you stay hydrated.

Highlights
  • Virtual pet fish survival mechanic
  • Personalized daily water goals
  • Log water intake to fill tank
  • Unlockable tank decorations
  • Push notifications with consequences
  • Widgets for tracking
Features
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Meet your fish. Your fish needs you to drink water. Glug is a hydration tracker with a virtual fish that lives or dies based on how much you drink. When you hit your water goal, the tank fills and your fish thrives — happy, glowing, swimming laps. Miss a day? Watch them gasp. Miss two? They're belly-up. Three? Skeleton. This isn't a step counter. It's a consequence. Here's how it works: • Set your goal — Glug calculates a personalized daily target from your weight, age, activity level, climate, and what else you drink. • Drink water, fill the tank — log each drink and watch the water level rise. Every oz counts. Your fish is watching. • Unlock their world — keep your streak alive to unlock decorations: rocks, plants, a castle, a treasure chest, a sunken ship, and a companion fish. The more you drink, the richer the tank. Your fish has six health states: thriving, happy, worried, gasping, belly-up, and skeleton. The push notifications don't pull punches. Expect: "YOUR FISH IS GASPING", "POV: you killed [name]", and "fish is currently flopping. log something." You set their name. That makes it worse. Glug Pro unlocks the app — the tank, the fish, decorations, widgets, and every future update. $4.99/month · $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial · $29.99 lifetime, one time. Download Glug. Your fish is counting on you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glug-privacy.pages.dev

Screenshots

Let's duck4 screens
Glug4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Let's duck at every 3 days against Glug's every 6 weeks. Glug's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Let's duck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Glug sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Let's duck against 5.0 for Glug. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Let's duck ships an update every 3 days, Glug every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Let's duck versus Glug: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLet's duckGlug
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS2617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB22 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developertrung truongTHOMAS JOHN GIRGASH

Customer experience

Let's duck

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Glug

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Let's duck

One-time1
  • Let's Duck Unlimited$2.99
3 purchases

Glug

Subscriptions2
  • Glug Pro$4.991 Month
  • Glug Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Glug Pro - Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Let's duck free?
Let's duck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glug free?
Glug is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Let's duck or Glug?
Let's duck and Glug are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Let's duck or Glug have ads?
Neither Let's duck nor Glug shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Let's duck or Glug?
Let's duck ships an update every 3 days, and Glug every 6 weeks. Most recently, Let's duck was updated on October 31, 2026 and Glug on October 28, 2026.

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