Comparison

Water Alert Pro vs Gulps

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

Head to head
About

Water Alert Pro

This app helps you stay hydrated by reminding you to drink water throughout the day. It allows you to set custom goals, schedules, and track your intake with detailed logs and visual representations. It also integrates with Apple Health and offers various backup options.

Highlights
  • Daily water drinking goals
  • Customizable drinking schedule
  • Free reminding sounds and custom text
  • Log water intake with quantity and time
  • Visual logs and histograms
  • Apple Health integration
  • Cloud backup and restore options
Features
Read full description

Water is essential to our life, drinking enough and right quantity of water is vital to our health. But because of our bad memory, busy work or too many little things, the day is ended before we drink enough water. Water Alert is the sweet app to remind to drinking water, this app is a must have to make yourself hydrate, especially for breast feeding mom or people has health problem. It helps and motivates you to drink water according to the schedule and will keep the water drinking logs, including the quantity and time you drink water. Key Features: ⁃ Set daily water drinking goals. ⁃ Custom water drinking schedule. (Create unlimited reminders.) ⁃ 12 free reminding sounds. ⁃ Custom reminding test. ⁃ Set default bottle or you can custom yourself. ⁃ Shows drunk / goal water. ⁃ Custom quantity of each bottle. ⁃ Supports oz/ml/L. ⁃ Badge to show drunk percentage or remaining percentage. ⁃ Keeps daily water drinking logs. ⁃ Shows quantity of each day by logs and histogram. ⁃ Shows time and quantity of each drinking of a day. ⁃ Send Logs by email. ⁃ Supports Wifi Backup and Restore. ⁃ Supports iCloud Backup and Restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Adds 3D Touch function. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). Apple Health Water Alert is able to write water data only according to your permissions and preferences. If allowing WATER ALERT to write data, you could transfer the drunk water data to Health App easily. Payment: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscribe semiannual. You will be charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate as defined by iTunes." Purchase semiannual subscription for all features for USD$1.99. Auto Renew: Once subscribes, your account will be charged USD$1.99/semiannual, based on your previous subscription, for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Change Subscription Type: If you want to change your subscription type, Open the "Settings" app. Tap your name, then tap "Subscribe." Tap the name of the subscription you want to change. If different types of subscriptions are available, a list will be displayed. Tap the desired option.Tap "Buy". Share Subscription: If you want to share a subscription with family, please open the Settings app, tap your name and Subscriptions. Then tap the name of the subscription that you can share with family, scroll down and turn on Share with Family. Cancel Subscription: Subscriptions are managed by your Apple account and auto-renewal can be turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in Account Settings after purchase. By completing your subscription, you agree to app's Term of Use & Privacy Policy. Term of Use:https://www.thelinklinks.com/term.html Privacy Policy:https://www.thelinklinks.com/privacypolicy.html If you have any question, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.

About

Gulps

Easily monitor your daily hydration with this intuitive application. Set personal goals, log your usual portion sizes, and track your progress directly within the app or via a convenient notification center widget. It seamlessly integrates with your health data.

Highlights
  • Track daily water intake
  • Set custom goals
  • Log usual portion sizes
  • Notification center widget
  • Health app integration
  • Customizable reminders
Read full description

Keep track of a simple yet healthy habit: drinking water. Gulps lets you track your daily water intake in a simple and intuitive way: set your goal, set your usual portion, and start keeping track from within the app or the widget in your notification center. HEALTH Gulps is now fully integrated with the Health app. THEY SAY ABOUT US "I lost track of my water intake throughout the day, and this is the perfect way to keep up with it. I love the way you can customise it" "Wouldn't have thought it would change my behaviour so much, but it has. The gasification of drinking water... Who's have thought? And competing daily with my husband always helps!" "I started looking for water intake apps because I had a kidney stone. This one is excellent and the best I found! I love the simple design and it is very easy to use. You can customise 2 different cup sized and there is a calendar that tracks your progress. Oh and the tracker now shows you if you drank more than your goal, although it doesn't show it on the calendar. My favourite part is the reminders. You can tell it during what times you want to be reminded and also how often. And all of this is free! Really excellent app and recommended for everyone!"

Screenshots

Water Alert Pro4 screens
Gulps3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Gulps at free with in-app purchases against Water Alert Pro's subscription. Gulps also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Water Alert Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months and Gulps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gulps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 166 and 143 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 78% and 78% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Water Alert Pro ships an update every 7 months, Gulps every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Water Alert Pro versus Gulps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWater Alert ProGulps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (166 ratings)4.7 (143 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews78.2% of reviews
Number of ratings166 — better143
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLINKLINKS LTDFancy Pixel S.r.l.

Customer experience

Water Alert Pro

All ratings166 ratings
Positive77.7%
Neutral7.2%
Negative15.1%
Written reviews211 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral7.6%
Negative14.2%

Gulps

All ratings142 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral12.8%
Negative9.0%

User reviews

Water Alert Pro

From 166 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🔔 Helpful reminders
  • 📊 Customizable settings
  • 💧 Effective at increasing water intake
  • ⏰ Convenient tracking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs with editing/deleting entries
  • 📢 Intrusive ads
  • 🔍 Unintuitive interface
  • 🔋 Battery drain from notifications

Gulps

From 143 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • ⏰ Effective reminder notifications for hydration
  • ⌚ Seamless Apple Watch integration
  • 🎯 Customizable water intake goals
  • 📊 Clean visual progress tracking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Daily water intake fails to reset properly
  • 🐛 Watch app sync issues with iPhone app
  • 🐛 Notification typo ('Time tro drink water')
  • ⌚ Watch complication randomly disables
  • 📝 Limited customization for water amounts

Bugs and requests

Water Alert Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Percentage counter displaying incorrect values
  • Connectivity issues with Apple Watch
  • Inability to delete or edit past entries

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customizable drink sizes
  • Ability to set custom reminder sounds
  • Improved Apple Watch integration
  • Sync with Health app

Gulps

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Water intake not resetting at start of new day
  • Watch app entries not syncing to iPhone app
  • Widget entries not updating in Apple Health
  • Watch complication graphic disables randomly
  • Siri Shortcut returns 'an error occurred' notification
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  • Notification quick response redirects to app instead of logging
  • App crashes when adding gulp for previous days
  • Watch app doesn't sync when in airplane mode
  • App crashes at 13% water intake on watch
  • Drop image disappears when exceeding 100% on watch
  • Data from watch entries lost or not recorded
  • App shows previous day's data on new day start
  • Custom gulp size settings not applying correctly
  • Notification quick actions not registering gulps

Requested features

13 requests
  • Custom water intake amounts (not just two preset sizes)
  • Variable gulp sizes for flexible tracking
  • Dark mode theme
  • Smart reminders based on current intake progress
  • More granular reminder scheduling options
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  • Apple Health data reading capability
  • History view with detailed time entries
  • Display water amount in ml alongside percentage
  • MyFitnessPal integration
  • Restore original water drop notification sound
  • Ability to input water for previous days without crashes
  • Apple Watch complication feature
  • Exceed 100% consumption display on calendar

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Water Alert Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Premium - 6 months14 Days trial$1.996 Months
One-time1
  • Pro Version$19.99
3 purchases

Gulps

One-time3
  • Glass Half Full tip$0.99
  • Full Glass tip$2.99
  • Generous tip$4.99

Questions

Is Water Alert Pro free?
Water Alert Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gulps free?
Gulps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Water Alert Pro or Gulps?
Gulps is rated higher. Water Alert Pro averages 4.2 out of 5 from 166 ratings, while Gulps averages 4.7 from 143 ratings.
Do Water Alert Pro or Gulps have ads?
Water Alert Pro shows ads; Gulps does not.
Which is updated more often, Water Alert Pro or Gulps?
Water Alert Pro ships an update every 7 months, and Gulps every 6 weeks. Most recently, Water Alert Pro was updated on October 23, 2026 and Gulps on October 24, 2026.

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