About a month ago I posted Hydrate or Diedrate here — the water tracker that replaces cheerful droplets and confetti with a skull quietly documenting your decline.

Since then, 1,240 people have downloaded it, it has picked up 20 ratings/reviews, and I've gotten way more useful feedback than I expected.

So I've been building.

Version 1.3.3 just shipped, and this one is mostly about accessibility.

The app now has full VoiceOver support. Every control is properly named. Calendar days announce their hydration status instead of relying on colour. Reduce Motion is respected. Contrast has been tightened up in both themes, and the UI holds together at larger system text sizes.

Dehydration does not discriminate. Neither should the paperwork.

I also fixed a considerably less noble oversight: the alternate app icon selector now actually shows you the icons before you select one.

A user asked for it.

They were correct.

A few people have also asked for ways to stay accountable with friends, so I'm working on Vessels, a small sharing/accountability feature that fits the app without turning it into a social network. Widgets and Apple Watch support are also on the list.

Mostly, though, I wanted to come back and say thanks. A ridiculous number of you gave this weird little app a chance, sent feedback, left reviews, and even got friends using it.

For the next 72 hours, I've dropped Preserved Lifetime from $4.99 to $2.99. No subscription. No codes. It's just the price in the app.

The skull has authorized temporary fiscal leniency.

Hydrate or Diedrate — App Store

As always, if something sucks, tell me. There's a decent chance I'll fix it.

Is it grandfathered in or something, since it was released 10 years ago? I mean, holy keyword stuffing, Batman!

A - What it solves

Indie dev here (I built this). As an introvert, I kept hitting the same wall: drained by Wednesday, but no idea what was actually doing it. Social Battery tracks the energy impact of your activities — log what you did, rate your energy before and after, and your patterns surface over time.

New in 1.5.0, and this one came straight from this sub: people tagging. Several of you asked to see how specific people affect your energy ("can I create a card per person?"). Now you can tag people on any activity and see who reliably recharges you — and who quietly drains you.

Also new: streak celebrations when you log, people included in your CSV export, and a bunch of fixes (including some embarrassing copy bugs — RIP "Thus are your best social day").

B - Why it over the alternatives

Compared to Daylio or general mood trackers: this tracks energy, not mood: "tired" and "sad" are different signals, and only one of them tells you to cancel Friday plans. Compared to readiness scores like AutoSleep's fuel or Oura: those infer from sleep/HR; this captures the social piece those can't see-- that dinner with one friend restores you and the same dinner with another wipes you out. Lower friction than journaling: logging takes seconds, no writing required.

Private by default. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking.

C - Cost

Freemium: Free download, core features free (logging, insights, history, CSV export).
One-time $6.99 lifetime Premium: Unlocks 30/90-day trends, the per-person breakdown, calendar integration, and custom categories. No subscription, ever.

Social Battery: Introvert App on the App Store

Would love feedback. The last two threads here directly shaped this update.

Working on Apple Health integration, quick-logging via Apple Watch, and widgets.

Hey everyone

I built Hydrate or Diedrate because I hated how every hydration app was trying to congratulate me for drinking a glass of water.

I wanted the opposite.

Instead of confetti and smiling water droplets, you get a deadpan skull documenting the condition of “the vessel.”

💀 What the app offers:

Daily water tracking
Custom hydration goals
Streaks and history
Apple Health sync
Custom reminder schedule
Clean, private design (no account required)
100+ hand-written skull reminders

Examples:

“You are trending toward dust.”
“No water logged. The skull has been informed.”
“Today’s withering has been postponed.”

When you finally hit your goal:

“Hydration restored. The skull stands down.”

🔒 Privacy First

No account required. Your hydration history stays on your device.

🎁 Lifetime Giveaway

I’m giving away Lifetime Preserved Access (normally $4.99).

✨ Preserved includes:

Apple Health sync
Custom reminder times
Extended history
Additional themes
All future premium features

🎯 To participate:

Upvote this post.
Leave a comment (or leave the skull’s next hydration reminder. It might make it into a future release)

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback—good or bad. Every update so far has come directly from user suggestions.

Thanks for supporting indie developers.

The skull has a message for you.

It is not "great job." It is not a confetti animation. It is not a cartoon plant that wilts when you forget it.

It is: "You are trending toward dust."

I built Hydrate or Diedrate because I've never once been motivated by a cheerful blue droplet. The app tracks your water, builds your streak, and delivers reminders with the bedside manner of a disappointed coroner. The notifications rotate through 100+ hand-written lines — contextual by time of day and how badly you're doing:

Early morning: "A water event has not been recorded."

Midday: "No water logged. Bold strategy."

Late night: "The day is ending. The dryness is not."

When you finally hit your goal: "Hydration restored. The skull stands down."

It's a real tracker. Daily goals, streaks, full history, Apple Health sync, widgets coming soon. It just doesn't pretend you deserve a medal for drinking water.

Free. Everything you need is free forever. One-time $4.99 for Preserved — Lifetime Access: custom reminder times, extended history, dark mode. No subscription. The skull remembers you.

The skull would not ask for feedback. I would.

Hydrate or Diedrate — App Store

A: Answer

Indie dev here (I built this). I have never once been motivated by a cheerful blue droplet telling me "great job!" for drinking a glass of water. Every hydration app is either a sterile spreadsheet or a gamified pet that guilt-trips you with big sad eyes.

So I built the opposite. Hydrate or Diedrate tracks your water -- and instead of congratulating you, a deadpan skull quietly judges your progress. You log water, build a streak, and get reminders like:

"No water logged. The skull has been informed."
"You are trending toward dust."
"Today's withering has been postponed."

It's a real, working tracker -- daily goals, streaks, history, Apple Health sync -- that just happens to have the bedside manner of a disappointed coroner.

B: Better

Versus WaterMinder, Plant Nanny, and the cheerful crowd: those reward you with confetti and cartoon foliage. This one's entire personality is dry, deadpan menace -- and as it turns out I find being lightly threatened more motivating (and a lot funnier) than being praised. The reminders rotate through dozens of hand-written lines, so the skull never repeats itself.

It's also not trying to be a full health platform. Log water. Avoid the dry fate. That's the whole app.

Private by default -- your data stays on your device.

C: Cost

Free download. Everything you need to track water and build a streak is free, forever.

One-time $4.99 for Preserved -- Lifetime Access: custom reminder times, Apple Health sync, extended history, and extra themes. No subscription. Pay once; the skull remembers you.

Hydrate or Diedrate on the App Store

Would love feedback. The skull, less so -- but I would.

A -- Answer

Indie dev here (I built this). Quick recap: I lost about 60 pounds last year mostly by walking, got tired of fitness apps that turned it into a pressure machine, and built Just Walk -- tap Start Walk, walk, log it, watch your mosaic fill in.

I posted here 2 months ago and got more useful feedback in one thread than I expected in a year. This update is basically that thread, shipped:

• Kinder streaks. u/Thedividendprince1 pointed out that streaks can recreate the exact guilt I was trying to avoid, and suggested something like "walked 4 of the last 7 days" instead. That's in now -- when your streak breaks but you've still been showing up, the app tells you the kinder truth instead of showing you a zero.
• Optional walk notes. Same comment suggested notes like "felt better after this walk." One tap after a walk, no pressure to use it.
• All 10 languages actually show up now. u/Jumpy-Sky2196 and u/Astrikal both caught that my App Store listing said English-only despite the app being translated into 10 languages. Turned out to be a config issue on my end that took embarrassingly long to track down. Fixed.
• Rate & feedback links in Settings, because I made asking for feedback harder than it needed to be.

B -- Better

Same position as before: most walking apps are trying to become full fitness platforms. Just Walk stays small on purpose. No social feed, no calorie tracking, no leaderboards, no AI coach, no notifications nagging you back in.

Versus Apple Health: Health tracks your activity, Just Walk helps you keep the habit. It's not trying to be a better pedometer.

Versus streak-based habit apps: this is the one that doesn't punish you for missing a day. That was the whole point, and this update makes it more true than it was at launch.

Still no account, no data collection, everything stays on your device. Location is only used during a walk to measure distance.

C -- Cost

Freemium. Free download, and the core loop -- start a walk, build your streak, see your recent mosaic -- is free forever.

One-time $4.99 for Just Walk Pro: complete mosaic history, custom color themes (including the emoji dots my kid is weirdly attached to), and lifetime stats. No subscription.

Just Walk: Daily Walk Tracker on the App Store

Still coming: Apple Watch and widgets. These were far and away the two biggest requests and they need work I can't do on my current setup, so they're next rather than now. Not forgetting them.

Genuinely, thank you. Tell me what's still wrong with it.

Maybe it’s introversion or social anxiety, idk, but I kept coming home exhausted and couldn’t really explain it. Some weeks were fine, others I was done by Wednesday. That in itself is exhausting. I needed to figure out why.

So I started logging it: work stuff, hanging out, errands, family time. After each interaction / event, I’d just note how I felt going in and coming out. Not like journaling, just a quick check.

A few weeks in it got kind of obvious. One friend I see for coffee pretty much always leaves me feeling good. Client meetings for work (I’m self-employed, so they’re necessary) are just consistently awful for me. Grocery shopping on weekends is somehow one of the worst things on my list, which I did not expect at all.

Having it written down made the “should I go out tonight” thing a lot less stressful. I could just look at where I was at instead of spiraling about it.

I ended up building an app for this because I was doing it in a notes app and it was a mess. It’s called Social Battery - Introvert App, free to download. Just log your activities and it shows you your energy patterns over time.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/social-battery-introvert-app/id6759211267

What drains you that you wouldn’t have guessed? I’m wondering if the grocery store thing is just me.

As an introvert, I'd been looking to answer a question I kept running into: what actually drains my energy, and what restores it?

**Social Battery: Introvert App** is for tracking the energy impact of social plans, work, errands, family time, workouts, etc. Instead of general mood journaling, it focuses on logging activities and seeing your personal energy patterns over time.

Compared with Daylio or other mood trackers, this is more focused and lower-friction for this specific problem:

* track energy instead of just mood

* log activities quickly

* spot draining vs energizing patterns

* manually correct categories

* premium users can add custom categories (new)

* share a visual Social Battery card (new)

Freemium

* Free download

* No subscription

• One-time IAP $6.99 for Premium

[**Social Battery: Introvert App**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/social-battery-introvert-app/id6759211267) on the iOS App Store

As an introvert, I'd been looking to answer a question I kept running into: what actually drains my energy, and what restores it?

Social Battery: Introvert App is for tracking the energy impact of social plans, work, errands, family time, workouts, etc. Instead of general mood journaling, it focuses on logging activities and seeing your personal energy patterns over time.

Compared with Daylio or other mood trackers, this is more focused and lower-friction for this specific problem:

• track energy instead of just mood
• log activities quickly
• spot draining vs energizing patterns
• manually correct categories
• premium users can add custom categories

(new)

• share a visual Social Battery card

(new)

Freemium

• Free download
• No subscription

• One-time IAP $6.99 for Premium

Social Battery: Introvert App on the iOS App Store

I built this because most DBT apps felt like homework when I actually needed help.

A — Answer (problem)

Most DBT / mood apps are either:

• too clinical
• too bloated
• or something you only use after the moment passes

I wanted something I’d actually open when things spike — not something I avoid.

B — Better (vs alternatives)

Compared to Daylio, DBT Coach, Woebot, etc:

• Fast — check-in + skills in seconds
• Short tools — 30–90 sec breathing / grounding
• No streaks / no pressure
• No “lesson” feeling — just do the thing and move on
• Built for the moment, not just tracking later

If other apps felt like too much, this is intentionally simpler.

C — Cost

• Discounted to $0.99 for the next 48 hours (then $2.99 lifetime)
• No subscriptions, no IAPs

App Store:
DBT Daily - Diary Card and Skills

If you’ve tried DBT apps and stopped using them, I’d honestly like to know why.