Most Australian’s aren’t drinking enough water. So in this article, we rank the 8 best drinking water apps to help increase your water intake to the recommended 8+ glasses a day.
You might be wondering, who are we to determine the best drinking water apps? Admittedly, we’re not a tech company. But we do know water. As a family-owned and operated business, we’ve provided clean drinking water to thousands upon thousands of offices and homes across Australia. What’s the bottom line? After 28 years, the industry recognises us as a leader.
These applications feature easy-to-use water trackers, motivating reminders, detailed analysis, and gamified habit builders. The best part? They all help you create healthy hydration habits. So keep reading to find an app that fits your lifestyle, device, and budget.
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1. Waterlogged
This daily hydration tracker creates personalised charts to monitor your water intake. The app is fully customisable to match your water bottle and glass sizes. It has been featured by Dr. Oz, and Lifehacker, and is currently listed as Apple’s top hydration ap
Key features:
- Record your water intake by taking photos of your cups
- Fully customisable settings
- Integrates with Fitbit
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2. Plant Nanny
This app gamifies your water consumption. Keep your virtual plant happy by ‘watering’ within precise periods. You’ll be extra motivated because your drinking habits ensures your virtual plant thrives. It has been the top ranked app in over 10 countries.
Key features:
- Unlock and collect different plants
- Grow an entire garden
- Share your progress (and plants) on Facebook
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3. Daily Water Tracker Reminder
With encouragement to reach your goals and a playful design, this app helps you build your hydration habits by making water tracking fun.
Key features:
- Set goals to stay motivated
- Reminder notifications
- Log your drinking with one tap
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4. WaterMinder
WaterMinder is an easy-to-use water tracker that monitors your intake based on your weight or personal goal. It has been featured by Women’s Health, The New Yorker, and Glamour.
Key features:
- Achievements and awards to stay motivated
- Graph your progress daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
- Easy-to-use interface
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5. Hydro Coach
This easy-to-use water tracking app offers motivating reminders and a detailed analysis of your progress. Over two million people are using Hydro Coach to stay hydrated.
Key features:
- Detailed analysis and statistics
- Motivating reminders
- Syncs with Fitbit, Samsung Health and Google Fit
Quick specs:
- Availability: Android
- Rating: 4.6
- Cost: Free with in-app purchases
6. Aqualert
Aqualert sends daily reminder alerts, logs your water intake, and calculates how many servings you have left. It's simple and easy to use–appropriate for all ages.
Key features:
- Simple and easy-to-use
- Calculate your remaining drinks to meet your target
- Integrates with Google Fit
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7. Water Drink Reminder
This app reminds you to drink every day by sending you notifications, and tracking your progress in an easy to read graph. There is a great variety of serving sizes to choose from. It’s the number one health app in over 30 countries.
Key features:
- Receive daily reminders on your smartwatch
- Minimalist design
- Syncs data with Google Fit and Samsung Health
Quick specs:
- Availability: Android
- Rating: 4.8 stars
- Cost: Free with in-app purchases
8. iHydrate
This hydration tracker lets you track your H2O consumption from all drinks, including juice, coffee, sports drinks, beer and wine. The app creates personal water intake goals for each user, based on lifestyle and exercise habits.
Key features:
- Breaks down which drinks you consume
- Unlimited custom reminders
- Modify the date and time of your entries
Quick specs:
- Availability: iPhone
- Rating: 4.4 stars
- Cost: $2.99
The next step: Changing the kind of water you drink
Meeting the recommended water intake levels is critical. These apps are outstanding for your health and we highly recommend them. But apps can’t monitor everything.
While the best drinking water apps will help you increase your water intake, they can’t monitor the quality of that water. Being inadequately hydrated is harmful to your health, as is drinking unclean water, so what can you do?
Water filter taps provide constant access to clean drinking water. They remove lead, mercury, nickel, chlorine, fluoride, dirt, and sediment. To get instant access to a steady stream of nutritious and clean water, install a water filtration system.
