PÜL 4+

Very happy with this app so far. Clean and easy to keep track of my water intake. Wish there was a widget for iOS though!

As a distance runner / triathlete, I love to track everything about my training — really whatever my Garmin can do. I never thought to track my hydration because I drink plenty and felt good enough. Turns out I wasn’t drinking enough or at the right times.

Seeing how my workouts affect my hydration goal helped me better understand the need to hydrate before each workout, and after to help recovery. The reminder notifications are great little nudges to keep me on track throughout the day. I especially love the cap reminders — just seeing the light flash out of the corner of my eye is enough to get me to take a sip.

Drinking from the cap is an interesting experience too. It just feels smooth — once you try it, you won’t want to go back to your old cap. My only request to the Pül team is a matte black bottle and cap!

Received my Pul bottle and smart cap today and got the app to set it up and start logging the day’s past drinks. It doesn’t let you put in past times for drinking, even though the option is there to wind back the time. It doesn’t stick. I’m also confused at the drink selection. You want to log an Old Fashioned for hydration but there’s no standard Tea (only black tea) or lemonade or other normal, less specific drinks? There’s no option to add your own drink. For example it’s just 1% Milk or Almond Milk, nothing in between. My other gripe is that the daily drinking progress doesn’t update even after adding drinks in the log. I’m stuck at 1% for the espresso I logged even though I logged 8 oz of “almond milk”. I’m not even sure or able to verify my cap is properly connected even though it’s fully charged and present in the app. It just says “Disconnected” and I have yet to see the cap light up to tell me I’m drastically behind on my hydration as the app says. Not sure I’ll be keeping this even though the idea is great. This just seems like a nice water bottle with no working technology behind it. The app itself hasn’t been updated in over 7 months, which tells me not much is being invested there and that any improvements will be a long time coming. Too bad.