Is There an App That Tracks Water Intake Your Way?
If you’ve been searching “is there an app that tracks water intake,” the honest answer is: there are dozens. The better question is whether any of them fit you—your goal, your reminders, your units. With Auto, you don’t download one. You build your own in a few minutes.
Why build it instead of downloading one
Plenty of hydration apps exist, and some are fine. But most bury the settings you want behind paywalls, or nag you with reminders you can’t customize, or lock your daily goal to a formula that ignores your weight and activity. If you’ve ever thought I wish there was an app that reminds me to drink water—but on your schedule, in your units, showing exactly what you care about—that’s the case for building your own.
In Auto, you describe what you want, snap or upload a photo, and it builds you a personal mini-app (a “Frame”). You own it. You tweak it in plain language until it’s right.
Building a water tracker in Auto
Start with one prompt describing the whole thing:
- The daily goal it should calculate—for example, based on your weight, with an option to set a custom target.
- Reminders that notify you to log water on your own schedule.
- A photo estimate feature so you can snap a bottle or glass and let Auto guess the amount.
- Quick-add buttons plus a custom ml/oz input.
- Views you actually use: a calendar for streaks, a stats screen with weekly and monthly bar graphs, and a settings page for units and cup size.
Then refine. If a button does nothing, say so. Want the today’s log to show photo thumbnails, or to edit an entry instead of deleting it? Just ask. This is where owning it beats settling.
How someone built theirs
A real Auto user built exactly this. They opened with one detailed prompt: onboarding for weight, age, height, sex, and activity level; a weight-based daily goal with a custom override; reminders; a big bubble on the main screen that fills as you drink; photo-based estimation; a custom ml button; a calendar for streaks; a stats view filterable by week and month; and a settings screen for units, cup size, and notifications.
From there it was all polish. They fixed the settings screen so units, cup size, and the reminders toggle actually showed. They made onboarding run only once and moved those values into settings to edit later. They had the calendar always select today, added photo thumbnails to the log, and turned “delete an entry” into a full edit screen. They tapped into intake details, fixed padding where the nav bar collided with content, and sized up the description text.
Then the fun stuff: subtly animating the waves in the bubble, making a toast pop from the bubble when water is added, and matching each log’s icon to the button that was pressed. When one animation didn’t land, they simply said “go back to the previous version.”
You can see others’ takes too—Frames like “Water Tracker” and “Hydration” already exist as proof people build this.
FAQ
Is there any app to remind us to drink and track our water intake? Yes—and in Auto you build one with reminders on your own schedule, so it fits your day instead of the reverse.
What is the best app to remind you to drink water? The best one is the one that matches your goal, units, and reminder style exactly—which is why building your own tends to beat generic options.
Do I need to code? No. You describe what you want in plain language and refine it by asking for changes.
How long does it take? Minutes for a working version. Refinements are just more prompts.