Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker vs Bottle Cap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker
This app helps you monitor your alcohol consumption and gain better control over your drinking habits. It provides discreet feedback and personalized challenges to encourage a healthier relationship with alcohol.
- Track drinks discreetly
- Set personal drinking targets
- Receive timely, helpful hints
- Suggests monthly challenges
- Promotes healthier alcohol habits
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Leaf keeps an honest record of what you drink, in UK units, so you can see how a week actually went rather than how it felt on Sunday morning. Logging takes a couple of taps. Pick from a starter list of everyday drinks, from pints and large glasses of wine to G&Ts, cans, hard seltzers and alcohol-free beer, or add your own with its size, strength, price and calories. Leaf works out the units. If you're out and only remember the next day, you can add drinks to any earlier day. SET A DAILY BUDGET Choose how many units a day feels right for you, and Leaf shows how each day compares. Setup puts the budget in familiar terms, so three units means something you can picture rather than an abstract number. The calendar colours each day by whether you stayed under, so a heavy run of weekends is easy to spot. SEE THE PATTERN Reports show your weekly trend over four or twelve weeks, which drinks make up most of your units, which days of the week tend to be heaviest, and an estimate of what you spent and the calories you drank. Month, year and all-time views give you the longer picture, and Leaf is upfront about days you didn't log instead of quietly treating them as zero. STOPPED DRINKING? Switch Leaf to sober tracking and it counts the time since your last drink, with an estimate of the money you've saved and the units you've avoided. You can move between drinking and sober tracking whenever your plans change. FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN The widget shows today's total and logs your most recent drink without opening the app. In sober tracking it counts the days since you stopped. GENTLE NUDGES Optional reminders prompt you to log your day, alongside monthly challenges and support messages. Turn each one on or off in Settings. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS There's no account to create. Your diary is stored on your iPhone, and you can export it as CSV files whenever you like. ALREADY USE LEAF? This update keeps every drink, day and setting you've already recorded. UNITS THE NHS WAY The NHS advises not regularly drinking more than 14 units a week, spread over three or more days, with several drink-free days if you want to cut down. Leaf counts UK units the same way the NHS does, so your weekly total in Reports compares directly with that guideline. Leaf is not a medical service. If you're worried about your drinking, your GP is a good place to start, or you can call Drinkline free and in confidence on 0300 123 1110 (weekdays 9am to 8pm, weekends 11am to 4pm). The NHS website also lists local alcohol support services near you.
Bottle Cap
Easily log your alcohol intake to encourage more mindful drinking. Set personal weekly limits and track your progress with a simple, intuitive interface. Your data is kept private and synced securely with your health app.
- Effortless drink logging
- Personalized weekly limits
- Intuitive progress visualization
- Secure Health app sync
- Private data storage
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The simplest way to more mindful drinking. Bottle Cap is focussed on making logging your alcohol intake quick and easy. Forget about calculating measures or alcohol strength; it's the alcohol tracking app you'll actually use. Set your weekly limit, tap to log a drink, and keep an eye or your intake. All synced securely to Health. EFFORTLESS DRINK LOGGING Tap to log a single drink or an entire session. It's fast, easy, and super simple. PERSONALISE YOUR LIMIT Choose a weekly limit that feels right for you, no judgement. FUN AND INTUITIVE DESIGN See your remaining drink allowance at a glance. SEE YOUR JOURNEY Track your entries directly in Bottle Cap or jump into Health for a more detailed historic view. PRIVATE AND SECURE Bottle Cap never tracks you. Your data stays on your device, syncing only with Health. ABSOLUTELY FREE No hidden fees or pay-walls. Created to support better drinking habits, not to turn a profit. Bottle Cap is the easiest way to keep tabs on your alcohol intake, start your journey to mindful drinking today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bottle Cap at 100% against Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker's 34%. Bottle Cap also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bottle Cap holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bottle Cap's.
Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker ships an update every 3 months, Bottle Cap every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker | Bottle Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ocasta | Richard Picot |
Customer experience
Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker
Bottle Cap
Bugs and requests
Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker
Reported bugs
21 issues- Reports are nearly always blank
- Time/day overlap when travelling
- Locks up on iOS
- Calendar date incorrect in reports
- Weekly bar chart shifts data by one day
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- Days changed color and wouldn't track drinks
- Cannot sync across devices
- Cannot delete a drink if recorded in error
- App crashes when trying to record a drink
- Data wiped
- Overview is a day out of sync
- Logs everything to the next day
- Cannot edit or delete an entry
- Date in reports doesn't sync with main diary
- Data lost after app update
- Drinks popping up on wrong days
- Cannot navigate to correct dates
- Reports section not tracking alcohol-free days
- Report function doesn't work
- App crashes on startup
- App won't stay open for long
Requested features
10 requests- Graphs and data visualization for comparison
- Average drink amount per month/year
- Comparison of drinking year over year
- Average units for the week and per drink day
- More info on target drinking limits
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- Week-long or month-long challenges with user support
- Export data functionality
- Monthly summary page
- Monthly or yearly graphs
- Dark mode option
Bottle Cap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Leaf | Discreet Drink Tracker
No in-app purchases
Bottle Cap
No in-app purchases
Questions
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