Water Tracker by WaterMinder® Reviews

by Dehydrated In NC

I just purchased WaterTracker with great anticipation. Unfortunately, I am greatly disappointed. I created a Siri shortcut to log a 16.9 ounce bottle of water and then used that shortcut to log my first water intake from my watch. Siri replied that it logged the water as expected. However, the log didn’t update on the phone. Meanwhile the watch app still shows that it needs to be setup with all the same information I setup on my phone. I attempted to refresh the connection from WaterMinder but this had no effect. I tried closing WaterMinder and relaunching it to no avail. So, I figured I’d try the Siri shortcut on my phone. This logged the 16.9 oz. and magically the previous 16.9 oz. also appeared, giving me a total of 33.8 oz. obviously this means I should delete the duplicate entry I had just logged which I did. Now every time I select the history tab WaterMinder crashes. I had high hopes for WaterTracker. I’m still hopeful that the developers can fix this.

Update: Clearing iCloud data, removing WaterTracker from the phone and watch, and starting over has resolved the crashing issues. I did have to setup WaterTracker on the watch. It also appears that the watch interface settings are not syncing. I configured it to use the ring interface on the watch as well to get around this.

by Josey86

This is my favourite water tracking app. I’ve been using it for at least the last 5 years. Unfortunately, in the last few months, anything logged from my Apple Watch doesn’t sync with apple health, so to keep them synced I either have to go in to apple health at the end of everyday to add in my hydration from the day (which doubles everything up in WaterTracker ) or log everything from my phone. For some reason, logging on my phone instantly syncs with apple health. I’ve tried contacting support and kind seem to find anything other than FAQs, so I’ve resorted to leaving a less than stellar review in the hopes that support will see it and help.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled WaterTracker on my phone and my watch multiple times. I’ve tried restarting my phone and my watch. I’ve soft reset my phone. I’ve tried unlinking WaterTracker from apple health and relinking. Nothing seems to fix the problem. I’ve not had WaterTracker completely removed from my watch for three weeks. Prior to that I had it off my watch for two months.

by Conrad Taylor

I have been using WaterTracker for over a year now and it’s a very good app. However, it can be much better because anything consumed doesn’t always update the main screen. At this time, I need to tap History and tap Hydrate to see the updated totals. Next, how does one determine the hydration factor impact for soy milk because this doesn’t appear to be a standard option in WaterTracker ? Furthermore, Reminders need to be simplified to something like every half hour, hour, and other value entered by the user. BTW, this could be similar to the Podcast app. Also, I should be able to receive these reminders only during certain interval during the day and the reminder should tell me how much to actually drink to meet my daily goal. It would be nice if I could say, ‘Hey Siri, log 8 oz of water’ or similar phrase but I know that Siri is very limited in its abilities to do anything at this time. In summary, this is a very good application for tracking my fluid intake per day but there are a few enhancements that I feel would make WaterTracker even better.

by Farmboyphotography

WaterMinder works great. You CAN track any liquids you take in, water, milk, wine, pre-workout, rea, whatever. HOWEVER: The notifications are extremely annoying. It doesn’t matter how much you drink. WaterTracker hounds you like a passive aggressive ex-girlfriend still obsessed with you, with comments about how much you should have drank by this time of day. No consideration for your personal habits or routines and not enough customization to fix that. The constant preachy hounding is almost enough reason to dump WaterTracker, even though it (mostly) works for the intended purpose. Tone down the bossy reminders and I might even keep using it. Do I recommend WaterTracker? If you really need someone telling you to drink constantly, certainly you should get WaterTracker. If you hate being constantly reminded what a failure you are for not drinking enough water early in the day, skip WaterTracker .

by Travis.reiter

App is slick and has a ton of configuration options to personalize WaterTracker , but the biggest feature I expected to find was dynamic reminders. I blindly trusted WaterTracker ’s position on the health app leaderboard and bought it without researching it much, and that’s my fault. But the reminders are static, and I expected more from a $5 app. Having 50 icons to choose from for your water buttons is nice, but I’d rather have options with my reminder settings. I get plenty of notifications from my phone as it is. The default settings include 7 reminders throughout the day. I only want reminders if I’m falling behind and not trending toward 100%, but as it is, I’m going to get 7 reminders every day regardless of progress. I’d like to be able to set a reminder to trigger on certain criteria, for example if I haven’t logged anything in over 3 hours, or if it’s 2:00PM and I am not yet 30% of the way to my goal.

by RABleakney

Finally, an App that is dedicated to helping remind me to drink the 3 liters (100 oz) a day that I need (Women get 2 L). Graphic is excellent and is an instant seller when folks want to know what that sound is....
Put it on your watch to capture every time you are beyond arms length from your phone- it makes for a accurate counting of those ounces.
I am on a Keto Diet and it essential that I get all of my 3 L in a day - or risk medical complications. I have tried counting the water bottles, buying a 2 L jug (but seriously- who wants to lug that around), even stacking my refrigerated water bottles on my desk just to have them come up to room temperature.... and am free of all that now. One glance of the icon on the corner of my watch dial and I know how much I drank and how much to go.
Developer: my only ask is to not prompt me to drink more when you know that I had a drink moments ago. For such an awesome App it would rate a 5 if you put in logic to know when I last had a drink and prompt me again from that time. Deducted a star.

by NOSHELTR

Easy to use, loads of customizable features. Best ones are ability to create different drinks and their water content, choice of time of day for reminders, and the intelligence to stop reminding you when you’ve hit your daily goal. Getting 4 stars because reminders do not respect your recent inputs. I will log 24 oz of water at 8:58 and a reminder to drink water at 9:00. Dumb. Should have intelligent system to suppress reminders if you’re ahead of your goal, if you’ve logged intake within x minutes, and adjust your goal to consume x amount by a certain time. For example if I want to make sure I hit 100% of my goal between 8am and 8pm, the intelligent reminders should remind me to consume at an intelligent rate. I’ve been told they’re working on this feature set for this summer, but we’re mid way through and I haven’t seen it yet. Good app though. Works great with Apple Watch.

by Enthous

I originally gave WaterTracker only 2 stars and a poor review based on poor syncing with my Apple Watch 3 and glitches in the iPad version. I recently replaced my watch with an Apple Watch version 6 and no longer have syncing problems. WaterTracker itself is well designed and is better than the others I downloaded, although it was the only one that didn’t let me use it in a limited fashion before I had to pay for it. It reminds me to drink, makes recording my intake easy, and I like the ability to design my own beverages and sort them my way. The iPad version still has to be restarted every morning in order to see my daily history, so I can’t give it 5 stars yet. When everything works as it’s supposed to, it will definitely be a 5 star app.

by IDF18

In general, this is a great app for those of us who get busy during the day and forget to drink enough. I especially like that I can use it on the Apple watch. After using WaterTracker for a little over a week, I've noticed some things that could/should be improved on.
1. The reminders should be better timed. I keep getting mine right after I logged that I just had a glass of water. Obviously, that's the exact moment I don't need those reminders.
2. When I increase the temperature from cold to moderate, WaterTracker tells me to lower (yes, lower) my water intake. That doesn't make sense to me.
3. I wanted to see what WaterTracker would say if I drank an unhealthy amount and entered up to 9 liters (my recommended intake is 2.1l) and WaterTracker kept congratulating me on passing the recommendation.
But overall: good app.

by MBBeans

So, I want to start off by saying that WaterTracker is really good other than this one issue. It’s very manageable and efficient.

However, different drinks don’t impact your hydration level as much as others.

If you look in the settings and go to “Hydration and Other Drink Types,” there is a chart at the bottom that tells the hydration impact of each type of drink. It would be really nice, but the values aren’t right.

For example, in WaterTracker , the hydration impact of soda is the same as water. They’re both set at 1.
Soda should have an impact of about .47 of what water has.
Also,
Juices should be at ~.55, not 1.
Energy drinks should be at .4, not 1.
Tea should be at ~.85, not 1.
These things don’t hydrate you nearly as well as water does.

That’s a pretty big issue in my opinion. I know that you can go through and add different drinks and change the coefficient of hydration of each one separately, but I shouldn’t have to do that or go and research the hydration impact of a particular type of drink every time I want to add something. I should be able to select the drink type and amount and the coefficient should be correct to begin with.
Other than that, I love WaterTracker .
It works great, looks great, and is very useful. If that one problem could be fixed it would be the perfect hydration app.

by FusionHammer

I use WaterTracker to track my water intake. You can also use it to track other hydration sources, like sports drinks. Difference being the percentage of the amount consumed counting toward your overall intake.

Example, 100 ml of water will count 100% of that. 100 ml of a sports drink will count for a little over 100% and alcohol less than 100%. I don’t agree with counting alcohol consumption towards hydration, so I don’t use WaterTracker for those beverages.

The reminders are the part of WaterTracker that are lacking. They simply remind you to drink water at specific times during the day. They do not take into account how much you have already consumed, when you consumed your last beverage, or how much you need to consume to reach your daily goal. This feature needs to be enhanced to consider those things. More than once I’ve been reminded to drink water after I just logged drinking 1 liter. :-(

by C. Laird

Hi! Your app is super amazing so far, and as someone who’s commonly dehydrated this does help keep me on track. *however*, I would like to say that the gender option on WaterTracker can be harmful to transgender individuals- hear me out.

A trans persons body type is not the same as their gender, and for medical purposes they must chose the one that matches their body. This can be harmful because it’s labeled as male and female, even though there are plenty of males with breasts, and plenty of females with… other parts.

It can be very harmful to have to chose between those options while they’re labeled as such. I’d suggest making it so that when someone needs to add info about their body type, call it… that. “Your body type.” And don’t label it with a gender, but rather someone’s *sex*. (As gender and sex are different!) this will help many many people feel more comfortable and confident using WaterTracker. I hope you can understand where I’m coming from. Thank you for reading.

by LosingFast

... but no matter what I do I can’t get WaterTracker to sync the watch and phone data. I have brand new everything so it shouldn’t be an issue with outdated equipment. I could understand this perhaps if I hadn’t had to shell out money for WaterTracker . To be clear, I’ve read reviews and developer responses. The watch app does not sync with the iPhone. I’ve restarted both. Reloaded WaterTracker . Still no syncing. Very disappointed.

UPDATE:
I’m not sure how it happened, but after a couple of weeks I noticed that WaterTracker was syncing. I had ready tried the developers fix after reading it on another review, and it hadn’t fixed the problem. As I said, I don’t know what changed (other than my opinion of WaterTracker ). I am now very impressed.

by 321Saudade123

I was never a big water drinker. My grandmother always said I would be dehydrated. Well, that didn’t happen. But what DID happen was that due to my not drinking enough water, my kidneys were not able to eliminate the particles that build kidney stones. So two years ago I was hospitalized for kidney stones. To avoid it happening again, my doctor recommended drinking 1 gallon of water every single day.

So WaterTracker is PERFECT for me! It’s so easy to enter your goals and log in your drinks. At a glance you can see how you’re doing. Anyway, I love it and I RELY on it. That kidney stone all but crippled me, limited my movement due to pain. I remember that pain and WaterTracker helps me keep it from happening again.

So thanks to anyone who read my story about how much WaterTracker means to me, and many thanks and gratitude to those caring individuals who developed it.

by VeryME

The first thing usually I worry about is having an alarm that tells me what to do because that would seem very annoying, however with WaterTracker I find myself enjoying every time the water reminder tells me “hey ! Its time to drink water” - also - having the flexibility to choose the best time to remind me is key.

realized that my water intake throughout the day is under the optimum level that works for me - it has just been a week and I have found out lots of changes with my taste pallets whereby the more water I drink the better I feel + the less sugary and salty food I crave.

WaterTracker certainly is simple, efficient and does the job - I also love the animations they use and Apple Watch reminders, beautiful graphics. Being a bit greedy here - maybe more of those graphics ? Cuz they’r amazing - I’d be really really be happier with it.

by Amanita Bella Dreams

If you just want to log water than WaterTracker is easy. However, it gives you the option to log any beverage but the glitch is it counts all beverages towards your water goal. It’s a “hydrate” total that includes soda, coffee, and even energy drinks as hydration and that is completely incorrect. I did not try alcohol but I suspect it would be included as was because WaterTracker doesn’t differentiate the kind of beverage logged in the correct categories. Obviously soda is not hydration and alcohol would be the opposite of hydration. So, the developers need to fix this glitch. WaterTracker Calory is by far more advanced and costs $15 a year for the complete premium subscription. You can log water and it only applies water to water; all other beverages are logged separate. It also bar scans your food so counting calories is so easy!!! Use the free version if all you want is a water logger. If WaterTracker was to develop into an app like Calory I would try it again because of the ease of use. But, currently it would have a long way to go to complete with Calory. So, if you just want to log water only and nothing else then it’s a great app and very easy to use.

by Tao-ish

WaterMinder catapults to the top of the water tracking Apps with it’s new powerful INTERVAL functionality. This allows the user to DEFINE what the “active hours” WaterMinder should track and exactly WHEN to be reminded. WaterMinder, by default, used to roll over to a new “day” at Midnight. But No longer are you stuck with that definition of a “DAY” if you work night shifts (or any other non-traditional schedule other than a 9-5). Get up at Noon? Want to track your day starting at 3AM? Now you can define what your particular DAY cycle is!! And reach your tracking goals like anyone else who’s on a traditional 12AM to 12AM schedule!! Many, many, heartfelt Thank You’s to the developers for listening and crafting the ability to define what an actual water tracking “day” means for individuals. This is KEY WATER TRACKING functionality and literally no other Water Tracker offers this!!

by Aaaaaaaaadds

I can think of many things that can be done to make WaterTracker more dynamic and adaptable instead of just a simple app that acts as a log and sends you preset reminders. The most obvious one is to change your required daily intake based on your level of activity. iPhones and Apple Watches log your basic level of activity (distance walked, flights climbed, number of steps) and many people log their physical activity into the health app using different apps and activity trackers. Wouldn’t it be cool if WaterTracker accounted for that and upped your required water intake based on your level of activity each day? Other things WaterTracker can adapt for can be weight and body water % (I use a smart scale that automatically calibrates this info to my health app), weather (like a reminder to drink extra water on a hot day), and consumption of diuretic drinks as logged into WaterTracker . If the developers can incorporate these features into WaterTracker then they would really have a complete app that stands out from the rest.

by BarrySullens

Widget does not work. Doesn’t stay updated as entries are made on other devices. True on iPhone and iPad. If you try to add an entry from a reminder on watch, it might work, and it might not. Sometimes it adds the entry correctly, sometimes it adds my top option, 8 oz water, even if I added another entry like 10 oz coffee. If I add an entry that way, I have to double check to make sure it added correctly. More times than not, I end up deleting the entry and adding it manually from WaterTracker on my watch. iPad app does not live update data. I have to open WaterTracker , force close it, and reopen before latest updates from other devices show up. Come on guys. I have lots of apps that share and merge cloud data from multiple devices. If they can get it right, so can you. From a single app perspective, if you only use the iPhone app to do all the activities (adding entries and viewing current hydration), it works satisfactorily...well, except for the widget. I’ve deleted the widget; it is just useless.

by Chargerman165

I got WaterTracker before but somewhere along I stopped tracking my water intake daily because I love to drink water and I was working out every day and figured that I was drinking enough. Several weeks ago I decided to start tracking again as I would forget to drink water at times so went to look for an app. Forgetting that I had downloaded this one I tried others which did not do what I wanted then found this one that I had previously downloaded. WaterTracker does exactly what I need for it to do and syncs up with my Apple Watch seamlessly every time which makes it super easy to input. It has lots of options and is a great app that I now use several times daily and helps me drink more. Due to a back issue I have been laid up for the past three weeks and WaterTracker has helped and reminded me of my intake and I have stayed on track every day. Due to upcoming back surgery in a couple days and few weeks of recovery this will continue to keep me on track. I really like WaterTracker and it is one of the BEST apps I have ever used and would RECOMMEND it highly.