Is there a good app for track water intake?
Too Expensive: 8 apps already serve this, and 17 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to track water intake, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| water tracker quick access | missing-feature | 1 | Мені не хватає ТРЕКЕРА ВОДИ в швидкому доступі |
| cant choose water intake amount | missing-feature | 1 | I also dislike that I can’t choose my water intake |
| water intake only in 5 oz increments | missing-feature | 1 | it only allows you to add water intake in 5 oz increments. If I drank 16 oz of water, I would have to put 15 oz |
| cant log exact water amount, only fixed increments | missing-feature | 1 | you cannot get the exact amount of water you drink it’s only goes up by a certain amount |
| water intake only in 5/10 oz increments not singular | missing-feature | 1 | it goes by 10s or 5s of oz and doesn't go my singular |
| food and water tracking difficulty | ux | 1 | Good luck tracking food and water. No easy way to create custom food items, or edit the often incorrect details |
| water tracking loses inputs | bug | 1 | Water tracking is abysmal, loses inputs regularly |
| can't easily track intake vs output to goals | missing-feature | 1 | the ability to easily track input vs output and alignment to my calories goals has been eliminated |
| cannot track salt instead of sodium | missing-feature | 1 | Can't track salt instead of sodium which is the standard in Europe |
| no calcium intake tracking | missing-feature | 1 | the ability to track daily calcium intake to help push off issues with bone density |
| water logging quantity entry | ux | 1 | Немного неудобно воду добавлять, было бы лучше как с весом продуктов, рукчами вбивать количество |
| no Apple Health water intake import | missing-feature | 1 | My only wish is that the app could read water intake directly from Apple Health |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium Counter & Tracker | 4.3 | 35 | $4.99 |
| Drink Pacing Journal | 0.0 | 0 | $0.99 |
| DoseTrack Injection Log | 0.0 | 0 | $2.99 |
| Sauna & Cold Plunge Tracker | 4.4 | 23 | $5.99 |
| Sauner - Sauna Tracker & Log | 4.7 | 7 | $0.99 |
| Vitamin K Counter & Tracker | 4.2 | 6 | $4.99 |
| Crab and Shrimp Pot Tracker | 4.7 | 85 | $2.99 |
| Keto Logger | 4.8 | 299 | $2.99 |
Should you build it?
The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier. Opportunity here scores 45 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
8 attempts, mostly stale and capped near 111 stars — recurring builds that nobody sustains, a clear retention problem.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Econ01/HydroTracker | active | 111 | Kotlin |
| z3r0c00l-2k/AquaDroid | stale | 110 | Kotlin |
| Vaibhav2002/Healthify | stale | 99 | Kotlin |
| noobcoder17/drinkable | stale | 60 | Dart |
| criticalAY/Neer | active | 44 | Kotlin |
| frogermcs/WaterLog-assistant-app | stale | 43 | JavaScript |
| subhajit4980/HealthyMode | stale | 14 | Kotlin |
| MatthewAraujo/bottle_watter | active | 13 | Go |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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