I hate reviewing things in general and was very skeptical of this working. I am a big time coffee drinker and really wanted to focus on my health more and well being so I saw immaculate reviews for this and just couldn’t say no to buying this. I picked the hidrate spark steel bottle in the spring color amethyst and was so surprised at how cold my drinks really were. Then I set up the bottle to my new app I got that also syncs to my Fitbit info so whatever I drink also goes to Fitbit as well. The app was super easy to understand. At first I thought for someone who isn’t super active 70 oz of water seems impossible but the reminders during the day, the glowing on my bottle was just motivating me to drink more and more. It’s changed my life and I will never go back to the way I was . I used to drink maybe 1-2 oz a day from 70 oz now! On top of that I purchased the customization glow colors I added to my bottle so it matches my mood. And I was able to also join a bunch of communities with fun challenges to do where were literally drinking to beat each other for fun so it’s a nice little incentive for anyone trying to kick start their habit or lifestyle change. I never review but felt this app and bottle has proved me wrong and is so much more convenient than guessing if I drank enough or not. Keep up the great work hidrate u got me as a long time customer!! 👏🏻👏🏻

Wish they had a better color section. That needs work, should be able add up To 6 Colors Gradient effects. & i wish the pro bottles had Hoilday themes. Like white with red hearts valentines hearts, Halloween 🎃 pumpkins all around. & wish they had clear pro thermos. The lighted all up! Like a acrylic plastic outter display & the outer metal thermos inside. Was all led’s. That you customize to glow rainbow, gradient red, purple, pink, white, Valentine’s, rainbow 🌈 imagine Selecting. For bottle To glow. top to bottom or bottom to top option. The leds would glow through the colors. & have a slider slow to fast. & whole thermos lights up inside the clear acrylic body. Or clear hard silcone. slowly lighting up. Not just the bottom. & if you were created like that you could even have preet patterns. Like hearts swirling around the thermos, pumpkins, like even could make 1 out of a OLED Display. With hard clear silcone. Then The thermos could look anyway you wanted it to. Could display photos on it. Id pay like $199 for bottle like that. Thats handwash only! Hidrate spark this idea could be a game changer. Hidrate spark 1st smart hydrate tracker, Oled display thermos bottles… OLED is essentially a Displays made from a metal sheet that has programable pixels in it. Be Amazing. I’m sure in the future this could be a very possible thing!

Updates to the app have made it frustrating to use and less functional over the past few years. The pro bottles used to sync with the app flawlessly, the widget stayed up to date and I only needed to glance at the widget on my watch or phone to see up-to-date info, but now they only sync when you open the app and sometimes you have to close out and reopen multiple times before the app sync will occur and pull in all of the data. Sometimes when adding new friends, the person will show up as unknown and will have to be removed and re-added to get their name to show up. They give out useless trophies/awards for things and one of the award paths is opening the app x amount of days which makes me wonder about the sync issues and how you’re now forced to open the app even though background data syncing is enabled and the bottle is always connected via Bluetooth. There needs to be a “car mode” where the bottle doesn't attempt to weigh the contents; if you place your bottle in the cup holder while driving, it may very well check its weight and track that you’ve drank 20oz in one go…. At this point, just save your money and download the app and just manually put in how much water you’ve drank. At the very least, buy the tap bottles because these pro ones are quite a bit more expensive and aren’t worth the extra cost. These issues are not specific to myself, my phone or any of my bottles - I purchased pro bottles for my close friends and they’re having the same issues.

So I want to first say this is worth the buy! Product does as it’s suppose to do. However this asked me to rate the app. For me and my wife our app feature has major lags and issues. Connecting Bluetooth easy and fine. I can track my consumption each day and so forth. Adding friends, my wife and I are competitors when it comes to health tracking. Trying to add each other so we could track each other was an over 4 hour ordeal. We somehow got it to work but only after we both said F it! The lighting aspect - first I didn’t know you have to pay extra $5 for the Light up feature to be added on to phone. Didn’t like that as I thought that was the point of buying the pro. Regardless of this is another feature that in the app seems easy, but in practicality is not. It took me over 3 hours to get the light up feature to actually light up. Now my wife has been doing hers now for over 2 hours an no luck. So all this to say, bottle and tracking is easy and great and recommend buying. However save the upcharge of buying pro and getting the most out of the app as you’ll be ready to cuss everyone trying to get the simplistic of features activated.*update: all functions are working and in good order. I’ve changed rating from 3star to 4 star.