Comparison

Water Tracker vs WaterBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Water Tracker

This app helps you stay hydrated by sending timely reminders to drink water throughout the day. It calculates your daily water needs and allows you to customize notification schedules based on your wake and sleep times. Supports both metric and imperial units.

Highlights
  • Daily water intake calculation
  • Customizable notification schedules
  • Adjustable notification intervals
  • Support for metric and imperial units
  • Health improvement focus
Features
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Track your water intake through the day. Simple, fast and distraction-free. • Animated ring shows how close you are to your daily goal • One-tap logging with your own cup sizes — long-press to edit • Drink types: water, tea, coffee, milk and more, each with a net hydration coefficient • Reminders that fit your wake–sleep rhythm, respect quiet hours and go silent once you reach your goal • History: weekly and monthly charts, a calendar heat map, best streak and average • Apple Health: reads and writes your water (optional) • Home Screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts for instant logging • Turkish and English Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription): • Unlimited custom drinks: add your own recipes and coefficients • Advanced insights: daily drinking pattern, trends and goal rate • Smart reminders: interval adapts to what's left of your goal Your hydration data stays on your device; no account required.

About

WaterBuddy

Features
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See it, tap it, done. WaterBuddy logs a glass from your Home Screen widget or your Apple Watch in a single tap - no account, no server, nothing to sign up for. A water tracker only earns its place if you are still using it in week three, and the surest way to keep using one is never having to stop what you are doing. LOGGING - Three quick-add vessels: Cup 150 ml, Glass 250 ml, Bottle 500 ml. All three amounts are editable, so they match the glass on your desk and the bottle in your bag. - A daily goal anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 ml, in 100 ml steps. It starts at 2,000 ml. - A circular vessel fills with animated water, showing today's percentage and the exact millilitres. - Cross the goal and the screen throws confetti. WITHOUT OPENING THE APP - Home Screen widget, small and medium, with a button that logs a serving right there. It pours your middle quick-add vessel, whatever you have set it to. - Apple Watch app: tap the vessel to log a serving, or tap More to reach the other two amounts. It works with your iPhone nowhere near you, and syncs across once you are back in range. - Apple Watch complication: a circular percentage ring for your watch face, so today's progress is simply there. LOOKING BACK - Today's servings as a list you can edit, or swipe away when you tap the wrong one. A mistap is a one-second fix. - A Last 7 days bar card with your average and your best day. REMINDERS THAT KNOW WHEN TO STOP Optional, and off until you turn them on: a nudge every two hours, from 9 AM to 9 PM. Log some water and the next one moves back. Reach your goal and the rest of the day stays quiet. The reminder text contains no numbers at all, deliberately: a lock screen is a public surface, and what you have drunk today is nobody else's business. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No sign-up. No email address. No server, and no cloud. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, and no third-party SDKs of any kind - the project has zero dependencies, and every framework in it is Apple's own. There is no networking code in WaterBuddy anywhere, so what you log has no way to leave your device. The only place it travels is between your own paired iPhone and Apple Watch. MADE TO LIVE WITH - A dark liquid-glass design over a slowly moving aurora gradient. - English, Russian and Uzbek, switched inside the app and applied immediately. - Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency. WHAT IT IS NOT It is not a health app and it makes no health claims. No HealthKit. No friends, no feeds, no leaderboards. No coffee, tea or other drinks: water, and nothing else. Requires an iPhone running iOS 17.0 or later; there is no iPad version. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 26.0 or later.

Screenshots

Water Tracker4 screens
WaterBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WaterBuddy at none against Water Tracker's 1. WaterBuddy also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, 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. Water Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WaterBuddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Water Tracker ships an update every 4 months, WaterBuddy every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Water Tracker versus WaterBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWater TrackerWaterBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiFLoop Bilgi TeknolojileriSardor Allaberganov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Water Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro$3.99
None

WaterBuddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Water Tracker free?
Water Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WaterBuddy free?
WaterBuddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Water Tracker or WaterBuddy have ads?
Water Tracker shows ads; WaterBuddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Water Tracker or WaterBuddy?
Water Tracker ships an update every 4 months, and WaterBuddy every 5 weeks. Most recently, Water Tracker was updated on October 31, 2026 and WaterBuddy on October 24, 2026.

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