TRY DRY: The Dry January app 17+

A huge help!

I’m surprised at the reasonably low rating for this app. Almost a year on since dry January 2020 and I still use it daily. I managed 3 months fully dry in a row and have since managed to reduce my drinking to a completely healthy level. 12 months on, my drinking habits are completely changed. I now don’t drink at all during the week and drink less at the weekend than I ever used to.I now enjoy and look forward to a drink rather than it being a necessity. Without this app I would never be on this position. Will power required of course but a fantastic assistant along the way.

Suggestions for app improvement: If you guys can fix the login out issue that occurs regularly that would be great and also when you add drinks on planned drinking days it would be nice to select 1, 2 or 3 identical drinks at the same time (a quantity select) instead of having to enter every drink individually. As this takes too long in my opinion.

Looking forward to dry Jan 2021!

Very helpful

Very helpful app, whether you’re just using it for Dry January or planning to stay sober for longer. It’ll help you save money too, of course!
The visual aspect means that the ever-growing rows of yellow stayed-dry icons on your calendar act as an incentive to keep going. And if you do lapse on occasion (as I have) the simple visuals help you choose to look at the positive of all those yellow icons and feel smug (!) at how well you’ve done, and look on the occasional black icon in a sea of yellow as just a blip.
Easy to correct mistakes, too. If you log a day as dry but later remember you’d had a drink, just click on the date in the calendar and then on ‘I had a drink’ in the following screen. And if you enter your drinks in the wrong date, just click on the date in question and then in View your drinks’ in the following screen, where you can either add more drinks or remove them by swiping and hitting Delete.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a 5* review - we really appreciate it! It's great to hear that the visual aspect of the app is helpful for you. Thanks for your interesting feedback too. Best wishes.

Very happy

This app has worked well for me, it seems very intuitive and simple to use with occasional, well timed and informative updates. Personally I haven’t experienced any bugs or issues.
If you do have a drink you can list exactly what you had, which makes me feel better looking back to see even if I did have a drink (on one occasion may I add!) it was only 2 glasses of wine (which is still something to be proud of!) rather than a ‘X FAIL’ feeling!
This and reading the book ‘Easy way to control Alcohol’ combined have made what I thought would be very difficult a walk in the park! I see you can set further challenges such as ‘sober spring’ and I intend to continue using this app after Jan to monitor and log my long term reduction in drinking. It’s brill! Don’t wait til next year start it NOW!