My Water: Daily Drink Tracker 4+

BEAST

This is the beast app that I found for adding in water and drinks and such things like that, because it’s all pretty much calculated. I love that it’s easy to use with my Apple Watch as well I just click in what type of drink I want to add and I choose the volume of the drink that I drank and it adds it right into my health app and everything so that way when I print out a PDF to give to my doctors they can really see that I am keeping up with my house which is important right now because I have a T. B. I.

I do you want to say that I’d like to see an integration into the camera where you could just scan the nutritional facts on the back of the bottle and say that you drink the whole bottle and it would just do it that way but I’d be a whole techie person, algorithm writing Saga that would have to happen.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Thank you for your review, we are glad to read it! About the proposal to read drinks by barcode - we will definitely think about it, thank you. And maybe will it possible. We wish you good health!

Helpful App, but watch weight tracking!

The app is extremely helpful in tracking the amount of water you intake and in the paid version ($20 for the year) you can breakdown a lot of different types of drinks, and even the actual amount of H2O in each drink like coffee, and even gives you negative ounces for consuming alcohol!

However if you use the weight tracking feature, and you use a Apple Watch to track your activity and you connect the app to your health data, for some reason the app resets your weight to the default 107lbs! This is a HUGE problem if you’re trying to close your “Move” ring and you weigh more (I’m 235lbs). I didn’t notice until I was exercising and noticed it was taking me more than twice as long to burn my usual amount of calories! I finally realized that when I entered my weight in the app, for some reason it reset my weight in my iOS health to the app’s default weight (107lbs). First I reset it manually in iOS, which worked until the next time I updated my weight in the app, at which time the same thing happened.

So... until this is fixed, either don’t connect the app to iOS health or don’t allow the app to make changes to your weight.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Check your connection with Apple Health to import/export weight data. Please open on the main screen and press on Track your weight, and press on the icon on the right upper corner and you will see the button connect to Apple Healt. Or open in the Apple Health category Weight and check Data Sources & Access if it allows importing/exporting weight data. If it will not help you contact us on this email mail@victorsharov.com.

Helpful log but occasionally misleading

I really appreciate this app as it helps me easily log my fluid intake and send me notifications to reach my daily goal. But some of the different types of beverage choices can be misleading with how it calculates the water content. I drink a lot of green tea and sugar-free sports drinks on days that I workout. But both of these, while almost all water, are calculated as much less fluids than regular water. I wish this app had both the total amount of fluid intake along with the total water intake. Some days I find myself drinking 2-3 extra cups just to fill the meter when technically I’ve already met my total fluid intake goal. Additionally, editing my log of drinks isn’t as easy as it could be. Sometimes I just want to edit a drink’s volume but that would require having to delete it entirely and reentering the whole thing. Overall, the app is helpful as a daily reminder and has motivated me to stay hydrated, but there are some changes that could make it more informative and user friendly. All changes that seem reasonable for an app that you have to pay so much for to get the full as a lifestyle tool.