Comparison

Hydration Bear vs HoopsProtocol

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

Head to head
About

Hydration Bear

Features
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Hydration Bear is a hydration reminder that is harder to ignore. At the times you choose, Hydration Bear reminds you to drink and can temporarily lock selected apps. Take a sip using the front camera to confirm that you are done, then continue using your apps. Manual confirmation is available when the camera cannot be used. Key features: - Set reminder intervals or multiple custom reminder times - Choose the apps, categories, or websites to lock during a reminder - Confirm a drink using on-device recognition - Log each drink by beverage and actual volume - View daily progress, streaks, history, and seven-day statistics - Estimate a daily hydration goal from the body information you provide Camera frames are analyzed only in device memory. They are never recorded, saved, uploaded, or shared. Body information, reminder settings, and hydration records stay on the current device by default. Daily hydration goals are health estimates, not medical advice. If you have a kidney, heart, or other condition that requires limits on fluid intake, follow guidance from a qualified healthcare professional. Apple Watch app and watch-face complications, plus Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Hydration Bear Pro (optional): lock other apps when a reminder is due and set unlimited custom reminder times. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial; monthly and lifetime options are also available. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://wateralarm.deepfish.tech/wateralarm/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://wateralarm.deepfish.tech/wateralarm/en/privacy/

About

HoopsProtocol

This app helps basketball players improve their game by tracking shooting drills, providing landing and strength training, and offering recovery exercises. It focuses on injury prevention and skill development with structured practice routines.

Highlights
  • Form shooting tracker
  • Landing mechanics training
  • Strength and recovery exercises
  • Structured practice routines
  • Injury prevention drills
  • Session clip saving
Features
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Count your makes. HoopsProtocol keeps score of the one drill every player already does — form shooting, alone at a rim — and wraps it in the warm-up, landing and strength work that guards against basketball's worst injuries: the ACL, the rolled ankle, jumper's knee, gone on a rebound, a closeout, a cold first jump. Built with Cape Concierge PT, a Cape Cod physical-therapy practice. THE PRACTICE BOARD Home is a coach's half-court diagram: each section anchored to the spot where its work happens — Pregame at the center circle, Ball Work in the paint, The Weight Room, Bounce for landing, Postgame for recovery and The Scorer's Table for handouts. Over 60 drills across six sections, each with its cues written out — a structure a coach can run, not a video library to scroll. The shooting and ball-handling sections are filmed rep by rep. FORM SHOOTING THAT KEEPS SCORE Nine timed stations, Mikans to free throws, that run themselves — with two thumb-sized make and miss buttons, a shot chart drawn on the floor your session happened on, and a short history of past sessions. THE TAPE, COURTSIDE Start a session and its clips save to your phone, so a gym with dead Wi-Fi still plays every one; Settings can keep the full library. Sideline mode makes the buttons bigger and the screen brighter, and touch lock ignores a stray bump while the tape rolls. The practice clock runs by hand, on work-and-rest intervals, or by stations, and announces what's up next. Music plays under the drills, mirror flips a clip for the whole line, and AirPods, a clicker or Siri can run it. LANDING IS A SKILL The Bounce section teaches it directly — snap downs, drops to stick, single-leg landings — because the mechanics that keep a knee healthy are trainable, and almost nobody trains them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGN-UP SHEET No sign-in, no password, no roster. Install it and every section is already open, with free drills in each one — nothing to configure before a session that tipped off ten minutes ago. HOOPSPROTOCOL PRO Pro unlocks the rest of the library: the vertical plyometric block and the filmed shooting and ball-handling work. Choose a monthly or an annual plan, or buy it once and keep it — every way in opens the same drills. Both plans start with a week-long free trial for new subscribers, renew automatically at the price shown until canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings or from the app's Settings; the one-time purchase never renews. Restore with the same Apple Account. What sits in the open tier is a coaching decision and may be adjusted as the program develops. Terms of Use: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/hoopsprotocol-privacy COURTSIDE CALCULATORS Sweat rate from a weigh-in and weigh-out, a single-leg hop screen with the left/right difference worked out, acute-to-chronic workload so a training spike shows before it costs you a player, and heat-index guidance for gyms with no AC. Screening tools for a coach, not a diagnosis; anything that hurts goes to a clinician. HANDOUTS FOR PARENTS AND PLAYERS Clean one-pagers you can text to a parent or print for the locker room. READABLE COURTSIDE, QUIET ABOUT YOU Type scales with your text size, VoiceOver reads every control, and it follows your light or dark setting. And there is nothing to track: no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, no health records — the courtside calculators work out a number on your device and keep nothing. The one thing the app can send is the optional "ask CCPT to reach out" form in Settings — an email you type, sent only when you tap the button. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else, ever. The program — the drills, the progression, the coaching — is built with Cape Concierge PT. The app is published and supported by Tatzel Labs LLC. Questions? Email support@tatzel-labs.com.

Screenshots

Hydration Bear4 screens
HoopsProtocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hydration Bear and HoopsProtocol are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Hydration Bear sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and HoopsProtocol sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hydration Bear ships an update every 6 days, HoopsProtocol every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hydration Bear versus HoopsProtocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHydration BearHoopsProtocol
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHangzhou Deep Sea Fish Information Technology Co., Ltd.Tatzel Labs LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hydration Bear

Subscriptions2
  • WaterAlarm Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • WaterAlarm Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • WaterAlarm Pro Lifetime$34.99
3 purchases

HoopsProtocol

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • HoopsProtocol Pro$149.99

Questions

Is Hydration Bear free?
Hydration Bear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HoopsProtocol free?
HoopsProtocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hydration Bear or HoopsProtocol have ads?
Neither Hydration Bear nor HoopsProtocol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hydration Bear or HoopsProtocol?
Hydration Bear ships an update every 6 days, and HoopsProtocol every 11 days. Most recently, Hydration Bear was updated on October 31, 2026 and HoopsProtocol on November 6, 2026.

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