Comparison

Caffiend vs Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

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

Head to head
About

Caffiend

Effortlessly monitor your caffeine and hydration levels with this intuitive companion app. Log drinks quickly, view daily and historical data, and sync with Apple Health. Enjoy a clean interface with customizable options like Dark Mode and Siri shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Quick drink logging
  • Daily and weekly insights
  • Detailed history and editing
  • Apple Health synchronization
  • Interactive widgets
  • Dark Mode and Siri shortcuts
  • Apple Watch app
Features
Read full description

Introducing Caffiend: Your Ultimate Caffeine Tracking Companion Caffiend is your all-in-one solution for tracking caffeine and hydration intake. Designed to integrate seamlessly with iOS, Caffiend leverages powerful features like Health app synchronization, interactive widgets, and a sleek, modern user interface to make tracking your intake effortless. Why Choose Caffiend? • Quick Logging: With one-tap access to your favorite drinks, logging your daily coffee, soda, or energy drinks is a breeze. • Comprehensive Insights: The Home Screen provides a clear view of your daily totals and a graphical breakdown of your past week, helping you stay informed and in control. • Detailed History: The Caffiend Journal lets you explore your caffeine and hydration habits over days, weeks, and months. Made a mistake? No problem—quickly edit your entries, and updates will sync directly with Apple Health. Designed for Modern Lifestyles Caffiend adapts to your preferences with support for Dark Mode, Siri shortcuts, and more. Best of all, Caffiend is a one-time purchase—no subscriptions, ever. You can also now track your daily intake right from your watch! The Caffiend Apple Watch app shows your current caffeine and hydration amounts, with support for logging entries from your wrist coming back next. Your Feedback Matters If you love using Caffiend or have an idea to make it better, your feedback on the App Store means the world. Leave us a review and follow us on X @creative_ave for updates, and let us know how we’re doing! Download Caffiend today and take control of your caffeine and hydration intake like never before.

About

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

Track your daily caffeine intake from various beverages with smart logging and personalized insights. Get reminders, view detailed statistics, and integrate with HealthKit for secure data storage. Understand your habits and their impact on your well-being.

Highlights
  • One-tap logging of frequent sources
  • Voice logging with Siri shortcuts
  • Smart, personalized reminders
  • Detailed statistics and charts
  • HealthKit integration
  • Customizable beverage list
  • Sleep analysis integration
Features
Read full description

Many apps record caffeine, but most never learn about you and your habits. What if your caffeine tracker were smarter? • One-tap logging of your most-frequent sources • Logging via voice with Siri shortcuts • Smart reminders to keep you on track • New insights into your caffeine routine with charts and detailed stats • Integration with HealthKit, for secure data storage RECaf was designed and built to take advantage of all the latest and greatest features available to you on your phone. And the best part—you can try it for 14 days, risk free, with an auto-renewing annual subscription thereafter. More features include: • Completely customizable source list. Add any sources you like and adjust the caffeine levels, measurement units, and icons. • Easy-access to your most frequent sources. RECaf automatically brings the caffeine you use most often to your fingertips • Shortcuts for any source—from the source list, choose any source, record a unique audio phrase, and then log that source with your voice. • A favorites panel grants easy access to those sources you like but don't log as often. • Interactive notifications with machine learning — RECaf will study your caffeine intake over time and learn what time (if any) you tend to log on a particular day. So if you usually have coffee at 10am on Mondays, skip Tuesdays, then have green tea at 7am on Wednesdays, RECaf will send you quick reminders only on the appropriate days and at the appropriate times, if it notices you haven't yet logged your "usual." Adjust the time of the log right in the notification, and log with a tap. • Statistics about your caffeine intake. • Number of items logged today • Number of mg of caffeine logged today • Average items and mg over the past 7 days • Average items and mg over the last 30 days • Number of items logged in the past week past your designated "after hours" time • Breakdown of logging percentages by time of day (morning, afternoon, evening) • The last item logged and percentage of entries • The most frequent item logged and percentage of entries • Your typical "routine" for each day of the week. (Time and source) • Sleep analysis: How does caffeine effect your sleep? • A comprehensive list of all items logged in your HealthKit database. (Even those not logged with RECaf.) • The ability to edit your entry dates and amounts. Or delete entries that may have been logged erroneously. Download and try RECaf today. A yearly subscription to our 12-month premium features will automatically renew 24 hours prior to expiration of your free trial. To turn off auto-renew, visit subscription settings inside the Settings app on your device. Annual Premium subscription features include: • Recording caffeine log entries right within RECaf • Customizing the source list, including editing or removing existing items and adding new ones • Reminders when you may have missed a log • Quick access to the most frequently used sources Terms of use can be found at: https://recaf.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Caffiend4 screens
Caffeine Tracking by RECaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Caffeine Tracking by RECaf at Free against Caffiend's $1.99. Caffiend's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf is free to download; Caffiend costs $1.99 up front. Caffeine Tracking by RECaf sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Caffiend asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Caffiend versus Caffeine Tracking by RECaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaffiendCaffeine Tracking by RECaf
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—4.0 (207 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.7% of reviews — better39.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—207 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreative Avenue LLCJoseph Cieplinski

Customer experience

Caffiend

Written reviews58 reviews
Positive39.7%
Neutral10.3%
Negative50.0%

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

All ratings207 ratings
Positive75.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative20.8%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive39.5%
Neutral9.2%
Negative51.3%

User reviews

Caffiend

From App Store reviews

What we love

  • 👍 HealthKit integration
  • 👍 Good for tracking caffeine
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive UI
  • 👍 Customizable drinks
  • 👍 Apple Watch app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🐛 Inaccurate totals
  • 🐛 Limited drink database
  • 🐛 Poor UI/UX
  • 🐛 Unit conversion issues

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

From 207 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • ⚡ Quick and easy logging with minimal taps
  • ⌚ Excellent Apple Watch app integration
  • 🔔 Smart reminders based on user habits
  • 📊 Syncs with Apple Health app

Room to improve

  • 💳 Mandatory subscription with no free tier
  • 🚫 Misleading 'free' app store listing
  • 🐛 Data inconsistency across widgets and screens
  • ⌚ Watch app sync issues
  • 🔄 Occasional sync failures between devices

Bugs and requests

Caffiend

Reported bugs

27 issues
  • App crashes on adding items
  • App crashes on barcode scan
  • App crashes on haptic touch
  • Data lost after updates
  • Total caffeine incorrect
Show 22 more
  • Journal entries not updating total
  • Entries not showing in journal
  • Unit conversion errors (mL/oz)
  • Apple Watch app not downloading
  • Barcode scanner not working
  • Setup is difficult/unintuitive
  • Journal dates/times incorrect
  • HealthKit sync issues
  • Total hydration inaccurate
  • Caffeine not showing up
  • Water not showing up
  • Negative hydration after deletion
  • Caffeine sync to HealthKit incomplete
  • App crashes when opening feedback/support
  • Entries not syncing between Watch and iPhone
  • Some journal entries not included in daily total
  • Random caffeine/hydration numbers displayed
  • Barcode scanner hit or miss
  • Adjusting servings doesn't update caffeine
  • Caffeine intake doesn't change after editing servings
  • Total caffeine incorrect after adding/deleting
  • HealthKit times don't match log times

Requested features

23 requests
  • Add reminder feature
  • Improve drink database (more brands, international)
  • Add stats and trends
  • Ability to add custom icons
  • Siri Shortcuts support
Show 18 more
  • Update for newer Apple Watch models
  • Ability to edit journal entries
  • Visualize caffeine leaving system
  • Add estimated BAC
  • Improve unit conversions (metric/imperial)
  • Allow custom serving sizes
  • Add more hydration-only drinks
  • Allow adding to previous days
  • Option to count coffee/tea as hydration
  • Organize custom drinks by name
  • Upload pictures for custom drinks
  • Caffeine timer feature
  • Add drink from Apple Watch
  • Complication for Apple Watch
  • Fix 'expresso' misspelling
  • Edit entries in ml unit
  • Graph for week/progress
  • Fewer taps for actions

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App crashes when adding favorites
  • Inconsistent caffeine values across home widget, history, and today screen
  • Watch app doesn't recognize active subscription
  • Sync between watch and phone sporadic
  • Daily counter doesn't reset properly
Show 6 more
  • Shortcuts double-log entries with NFC
  • Forgot-to-log reminder doesn't actually log
  • Partial caffeine logging (0.8x instead of full amount)
  • Lost caffeine sources database
  • App non-functional even after paid subscription
  • Subscription button not working

Requested features

9 requests
  • Graphs and data visualization
  • Advanced analytics and strategy recommendations
  • Water intake tracking alongside caffeine
  • Native iPad app support
  • Lifetime purchase option instead of subscription
Show 4 more
  • Caffeine metabolism calculator for sleep timing
  • More coffee drink varieties (flat white, long black, etc.)
  • Drip coffee option
  • Free trial without credit card requirement

In-app purchases

None

Caffiend

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Caffeine Tracking by RECaf

Subscriptions1
  • RECaf Yearly Premium14 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Caffiend free?
Caffiend costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Caffeine Tracking by RECaf free?
Caffeine Tracking by RECaf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Caffiend or Caffeine Tracking by RECaf have ads?
Neither Caffiend nor Caffeine Tracking by RECaf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Caffiend or Caffeine Tracking by RECaf?
Caffiend ships an update monthly, and Caffeine Tracking by RECaf monthly. Most recently, Caffiend was updated on October 11, 2026 and Caffeine Tracking by RECaf on October 14, 2026.

Other comparisons