Best alcohol tracker apps, compared by someone who makes one
I build Modraly, which is on this list, so I have an obvious interest in how you read it. I have tried to make the page useful anyway: ten other apps, what each one is for, and the cases where one of them is a better choice than mine.
Most of these apps are not really competing with each other. A sober-day counter, a 160-day course, a pledge to keep three days dry and an app for splitting rounds all get called alcohol trackers, and only a few of them are diaries. The first thing to decide is whether you want help changing how you drink, or only want to see the number.
At a glance
Everything here comes from each app's own website and its App Store and Google Play listings. It compares what the apps say they do and what they charge; it is not a hands-on review of each one. Accounts and free limits were checked on 13 September 2026, ads on 4 October 2026, and prices, privacy labels and update dates on 5 October 2026. Prices are the UK App Store's unless the cell says otherwise. They move, so check the store on the day you pay. I am not affiliated with any of these organisations.
| App | What it is | Price | Ads | App Store privacy label | Usable free? | Account | Streaks / badges | Coaching | Where data lives | Platforms | Last update | Countries / units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DrinkControl | Units, calories, spend, dry days, streaks | Free, with Premium at £3.99/month or £11.99/year. Lifetime purchases are listed at £14.99 and £24.99. US: $3.99 / $11.99. | No | Not linked to you: content, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics. | Yes for logging. Longer stats, widgets, reminders and export are Premium. | No | Yes, dry days | No | On device. Apple Health sync. | iPhone, Android | 16 September 2026 (6.6.0). On the App Store since 2011. | Worldwide, with local guidelines. English only. |
| Drylendar | Colour calendar. Green days mean no drinks. | Free to download. Premium: £1.99/week, £5.99/month, £34.99/year or £59.99 once. US: $5.99 / $34.99 / $59.99. | Yes, declared on its App Store listing. | Used to track you: identifiers. Linked to you: health, contact details, content, identifiers, usage data. | Partly. App Store reviews from 2026 say some of the calendar now needs a subscription. | Not stated. The listing mentions friends. | Green days, a yearly recap | No | Not stated. Apple Health sync. | iPhone, iMessage | 3 October 2026 (2.9.6) | No units. English and nine other languages, including French. |
| I Am Sober | Days sober, daily pledge, community | Free counter. Sober Plus: £9.49 to £10.49/month, £24.99 for six months, £29.99 to £37.99/year. US: $9.99/month, $29.99 to $39.99/year. | Declared on the App Store listing. The Google Play listing says there are no ads. | Linked to you: contact details, content, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics. | Yes: counter, pledge and community. Extra workbook material, more addictions and private groups need Plus. | Yes | Yes. A drink resets the count. | A community, no coach | Their servers | iPhone, Apple Watch, Android | 28 September 2026 (8.8.2) | No units. Many languages, including French. |
| Try Dry | Units, calories, money saved, badges, missions | Free. Funded by the charity Alcohol Change UK. | No | Linked to you: contact details. Not linked: health, location, sensitive information, identifiers, usage data. | Yes, all of it | Yes | Yes: dry streaks, badges, missions | No. Optional free email programme. | Alcohol Change UK account | iPhone, iPad, Android | 1 September 2026 (1.8.19) | UK units. Also in Welsh, French, German, Norwegian and Italian. |
| NHS Drink Free Days | Pledged dry days, not a drink log | Free. Not on the US or French App Store. | No | Used to track you: identifiers. Not linked to you: contact details, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics. | Yes, all of it | No | Milestones on pledged days | Tips, no coach | On device. The NHS still collects device details, IP address and optional analytics. | iPhone, Android | 14 September 2026 (4.4.0) | England. UK units. |
| MyDrinkaware | Units, calories, spend, drink-free days, Drinking Check | Free. UK App Store and Google Play only. | No | Used to track you: identifiers, sensitive information. Linked to you: contact details, identifiers, sensitive information. | Yes, all of it | Yes, by email | Drink-free days and goals | Goals and reminders, no coach | Drinkaware servers | iPhone, Android | 20 July 2026 (5.9.4) | UK only. UK units. |
| Option Zéro | Consumption diary, goals, resources, optional clinician | Free. Funded by the French addiction fund. | No | Not linked to you: contact details. | Yes, all of it | Anonymous login, hosted in France | Goals and a calendar | Optional video appointment with an addictologist | A certified French health-data host. They say your log is not shared with the clinician unless you share it. | iPhone, iPad, Android | 10 August 2026 (1.54.0) | France. In French. Standard drinks. |
| Reframe | 160-day course, daily tasks, community | 7-day trial, then a subscription. Monthly plans run from £11.99 to £21.49, annual plans from £67.99 to £119.99. Coaching costs extra. | No | Used to track you: identifiers. Linked to you: identifiers. Not linked: location, contact details, content, usage data. | No. There is only the trial. | Yes | Course milestones | Yes, it is the core of the app. Thrive Coaching costs extra. | Their servers | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch | 3 October 2026 (3.9.95) | Aimed at the US. English. |
| Sunnyside | Weekly drink plan, texts with coaches | 15-day trial. Membership £88.99/year, Premium Membership £299/year. US: $99.99 / $299. Sunnyside Med is separate. | No | Linked to you: contact details, content, identifiers, usage data, sensitive information, diagnostics. | No. There is only the trial. | Yes | A weekly plan, no sober streak | Yes, human coaches by text | Their servers | iPhone, Android | 25 September 2026 (1.99.0) | US. English. US standard drinks. Not on the French App Store. |
| PintPal | Rounds, who paid, cost per person | Free, no paywall | No | Data not collected. | Yes, all of it | No in Local mode, yes in Live mode | No | No | On device in Local mode. A shared session in Live mode. | iPhone, iPad | 17 May 2026 (1.1.3) | No weekly guideline. English. Not on the French App Store. |
| Modraly | Units, spend, calories. Calendar. No streaks. | Free to log. Premium £5.99/month, £34.99/year or £59.99 once (UK); 6,99 € / 44,99 € / 69,99 € (France); $7.99 / $49.99 / $79.99 (US). 7-day trial on annual only. | No, free or Premium. | Data not collected. | Unlimited logging and the full month calendar. Stats and history cover the last 7 days. 2 favourites. The App Clip is a demo week and saves nothing. | No | No | No | On the device only. Nothing collected, free or paid. Writes to Apple Health, never reads. | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, App Clip. Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, Lock Screen, widgets. | 4 October 2026 (1.5). Seven releases in the four weeks since launch on 6 September. | Local unit and official weekly guideline for the UK, France, the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and Spain. UK reference elsewhere. 13 languages. |
Which of these apps show ads
Fewer than I expected. Developers have to tell the stores whether an app carries advertising: Apple prints “Contains Advertising” in the age rating section of the listing, and Google Play prints “Contains ads” under the app name. On 4 October 2026 I read that line on every listing.
Two of the ten declare advertising on the App Store: Drylendar and I Am Sober. I Am Sober's Google Play listing says the opposite (“completely free with no ads”) and carries no ads label, and I cannot tell from the listings which of the two is current. The other eight declare no advertising on either store.
Tracking is a separate question from ads. On 5 October 2026, Drylendar, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware and Reframe declared “Data Used to Track You” in their App Store privacy label, which means identifiers can be shared for advertising elsewhere even when the app itself shows none. I did not expect to find a public-health app in that list.
Only PintPal and Modraly carry the label “Data Not Collected”. Modraly shows no ads on the free version or on Premium.
One by one
DrinkControl
A drinking diary, and the closest app to Modraly
DrinkControl converts what you drink into units, calories and money, and sets the total against moderate or low-risk guidelines. It marks dry days and keeps a streak of them. Your data stays on the phone, with no account. Widgets, longer charts, reminders, CSV export and custom drinks are in Premium, sold as a subscription or a one-off lifetime purchase. It has been on iPhone since 2011, is back on Android, and is in English only.
For a unit diary with streaks, or for anything on Android, start here. It is the most direct alternative to Modraly and has been around since 2011.
Drylendar
A colour calendar of drinking days
Drylendar is a calendar. Its App Store listing says green days mean no drinks and the goal is to see more green over time: you tap a day and log what you drank. The listing also mentions notes, friends, a yearly recap and Apple Health sync. It is free to download, with Premium at £5.99 a month or £34.99 a year, and reviews from 2026 say more of the calendar now sits behind that subscription. The listing declares advertising, and its privacy label declares data used to track you. It runs on iPhone and iMessage, and it does not count units against a weekly guideline.
Good if a month of coloured squares tells you what you need. Not much use if you want units against a national guideline.
I Am Sober
A sober-day counter for people who have stopped
I Am Sober is a free sobriety counter with a daily pledge, a running total of money and time saved, and a large recovery community. One drink resets the day count, which is the whole idea. Sober Plus adds more workbook material, extra addictions to track and private groups. It is on iPhone, Apple Watch and Android. It is built for people who have stopped, so it is not a diary for people who still drink.
Stay with it if you have stopped and the unbroken count is what keeps you going. If you still drink, a counter that resets was not built for you.
Try Dry
The official Dry January app, usable all year
Try Dry is the Dry January app from the charity Alcohol Change UK, and it works all year. Each day you record whether you stayed dry, drank, or drank as planned. It tracks units, calories and money against a baseline you set, awards badges (84 were added in 2025), runs missions and keeps dry streaks. It is entirely free, with no ads, but you have to create an account. Everything is built around UK units and the 14-unit week.
The best free option in the UK if badges and the Dry January framing help you. It will not suit you if you refuse an account, or if you count in French standard drinks rather than UK units.
NHS Drink Free Days
A pledge to keep some days drink-free, for England
With Drink Free Days you pledge at least three drink-free days a week and tick them off. It does not ask what you drank on the other days. There is no account and your progress stays on the phone, although the NHS privacy policy still lists device details, IP address and optional analytics, and the App Store privacy label declares identifiers used to track you. It is free and aimed at England.
Use it if all you want is more dry days, free and without an account. If you need to know what the drinking days add up to, you need a diary.
MyDrinkaware
A free tracker from a UK charity, with a WHO self-assessment
MyDrinkaware comes from Drinkaware, a UK charity. It logs units, calories, spend and drink-free days alongside sleep and energy, and it includes the Drinking Check, a self-assessment developed by the WHO. You can set goals and reminders. It is free with no paywall, needs an email address to register, and is only on the UK App Store and Google Play. Units and guidance are British.
The strongest free option in the UK, and the only app here with a validated self-assessment. Start with it if your real question is whether your drinking is a problem.
Option Zéro
The French public-health app (formerly Oz Ensemble)
Option Zéro is run by CaPASSCité and Dr Géraldine Talbot. It was built on the code of Oz Ensemble after that public experiment ended in May 2025. You log what you drink, set a goal, read the resources, and can book a video appointment with an addictologist. It is free and has no ads. Your data sits with a certified French health-data host under an anonymous login, which is not the same as staying on your phone.
The French public option, and the only app here with a clinician you can book. If you would rather your log never left the phone, choose an on-device diary.
Reframe
A structured course that leans towards quitting
Reframe is a course in neuroscience and CBT with a tracker inside it: daily tasks, readings, meditations, a community and monthly challenges. What you pay for is the course. After a 7-day trial it is a subscription, from £11.99 a month or £67.99 a year, with coaching on top. It is in English and aimed at the US. Modraly does none of this.
If you want a programme that works on the habit itself, especially with a view to stopping, Reframe is a serious choice and a different kind of app from Modraly.
Sunnyside
Moderation with a weekly plan and human coaches
Sunnyside sends you a drink plan every Sunday and you log against it through the week. If you want, human coaches reply by text. After a 15-day trial it costs £88.99 a year, or £299 a year for the Premium Membership. Sunnyside Med, which prescribes naltrexone in the US, is a separate medical product. The point of Sunnyside is accountability to a plan and a person, which Modraly deliberately leaves out.
Choose it if knowing someone expects to hear from you is what makes you follow through. Skip it if you want a private count and no plan.
PintPal
Beer sessions and rounds with friends
PintPal is for beer sessions with friends: rounds, who bought what, cost per person and totals per venue. Local mode keeps everything on the phone with no sign-up, and Live mode needs a profile so a group can share a session. It is free, with no ads and no paywall, on iPhone and iPad. It makes no attempt to compare your week with a guideline.
Excellent for settling up after a night out. It is not a weekly unit diary and does not claim to be.
Where Modraly fits
This is the section to read with the most suspicion. Modraly is the newest app on the page (it came out in September 2026) and I build it alone.
A private drink counter for people who still drink, set against your country's guideline. Six things set it apart from the ten apps above, and each one can be checked against the table.
- Nothing is collected. No account, no Modraly server, no ads, no tracking. Of the eleven apps on this page, only Modraly and PintPal carry Apple's “Data Not Collected” privacy label, and PintPal does not count units. Four of the others declare data used to track you.
- Your own country's guideline. Your week sits next to the official weekly guideline for the UK, France, the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany or Spain, in the unit that country uses. The app itself is in 13 languages. Most of the other trackers here are built around a single country's unit.
- Free to log, and a Premium you can buy once. Logging is unlimited and free, with no ads, including from Siri, the Apple Watch and the Lock Screen. Premium is £5.99 a month, £34.99 a year or £59.99 once. That is about half of Reframe's cheapest annual plan (£67.99) and well under half of Sunnyside's (£88.99). DrinkControl is cheaper, at £11.99 a year, and five apps here are free.
- Built for Apple devices. iPhone, iPad and an Apple Watch app with a complication. Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action Button log a favourite without opening the app. There are Home Screen widgets (Premium), an App Clip, iMessage stickers and write-only Apple Health. It requires iOS 26 and is built with the iOS 27 SDK. The price of that focus is no Android version.
- Updated often, in the open. Seven versions in the four weeks after launch on 6 September 2026, each one in the public changelog: four more countries, Siri, eleven languages, iMessage stickers, the Apple Watch app.
- Nothing resets. No streaks, no badges, no coach. A drink is a number in your week, and the app shows it without comment.
The full list of versions is in the changelog.
Choose Modraly if you still drink, want the number next to your own country's guideline, use Apple devices and want nothing collected about you. Choose something else for a programme, a streak, Android or an unlimited free history.
When another app is the better choice
- If you want a programme or a coach, look at Reframe or Sunnyside.
- If you want to know whether your drinking is a problem, use MyDrinkaware for its WHO self-assessment, or Option Zéro in France, where you can book a clinician.
- If streaks, badges or a sober-day counter keep you going, choose I Am Sober, Try Dry, DrinkControl or Drylendar.
- If you only want more dry days in England, free and without an account, NHS Drink Free Days does exactly that.
- If you are on Android, your options are DrinkControl, Try Dry, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware, Option Zéro, I Am Sober, Reframe and Sunnyside.
- If you want to split rounds with friends, use PintPal.
- If you need clinical support, none of these apps is enough, including mine. Start with the NHS, Alcool Info Service or the NIAAA.
When Modraly is
- You drink socially and want the numbers without being managed.
- You do not want an account, ads, tracking, or your history on someone else's server.
- You want your total next to the official guideline where you live, on iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.
- Fifteen days of free history is enough, or you are willing to pay for the rest.
Modraly is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice.
Free to download. Logging is unlimited, always. No ads.
Common questions
What is the best alcohol tracker app?
It depends on what you want it to do. MyDrinkaware is the strongest free tracker in the UK and includes a WHO-developed self-assessment. Try Dry suits Dry January and people who like badges. I Am Sober is a sober-day counter for people who have stopped. Reframe is a structured course, and Sunnyside pairs a weekly plan with human coaches. Option Zéro is the French public-health app. DrinkControl is a unit diary that also runs on Android. Modraly counts units, spend and calories on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, next to your own country's guideline, with no account, no ads and no data collected.
Which alcohol tracker apps have ads?
Of the 11 apps compared here, these declare advertising on their App Store listing as of 4 October 2026: Drylendar and I Am Sober. I Am Sober's Google Play listing says the opposite and carries no ads label. DrinkControl, Try Dry, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware, Option Zéro, Reframe, Sunnyside, PintPal and Modraly declare no ads. Tracking is separate: Drylendar, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware and Reframe declare data used to track you in their App Store privacy label.
Which alcohol tracker apps collect no data?
On 5 October 2026, the App Store privacy label read “Data Not Collected” for PintPal and Modraly, and for no other app compared here. PintPal splits rounds between friends, so Modraly is the only one of the two that counts units against a weekly guideline. Drylendar, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware and Reframe declare data used to track you. The remaining apps declare data that is collected, linked to you or not.
What is the best alcohol tracker app in the UK?
MyDrinkaware and Try Dry are free UK apps that need an account. NHS Drink Free Days is free without an account, but it tracks pledged dry days rather than drinks. DrinkControl is a unit diary with streaks on iPhone and Android. Modraly is on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, needs no account, counts in UK units against the 14-unit guideline, and keeps 7 days of history on the free version.
Is there an alcohol tracker that works without an account?
Yes. Modraly and DrinkControl keep everything on the device with no account. So does NHS Drink Free Days, although the NHS privacy policy still lists some analytics, and so does PintPal in Local mode. Drylendar's listing does not say. Try Dry, MyDrinkaware, I Am Sober, Reframe and Sunnyside need an account, and Option Zéro uses an anonymous login on a hosted service.
Which alcohol tracker apps do not include streaks or badges?
Modraly and PintPal have neither. NHS Drink Free Days has milestones on the days you pledged rather than a sober streak, and Sunnyside works from a weekly plan. The other apps on this list are built around a count of dry days, badges, or a counter that resets.
Is there an alcohol tracker app for Android?
DrinkControl, Try Dry, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware, Option Zéro, I Am Sober, Reframe and Sunnyside all have Android apps. Drylendar, PintPal and Modraly are on Apple devices only. Modraly has no Android version and no date for one.
Is there a free alcohol tracker app?
Try Dry, NHS Drink Free Days, MyDrinkaware, Option Zéro and PintPal are free with nothing to pay for. DrinkControl and Modraly are free to log with, and limit other things: Modraly shows 7 days of stats and two favourites, DrinkControl keeps longer charts for Premium. I Am Sober's counter is free. Drylendar is free to download and sells a subscription. Reframe and Sunnyside are a trial followed by a subscription.