Features

Here's a list of everything AlcoLog can do, grouped for scanning. 300+ hours of development have gone into AlcoLog, with every UI element and small detail carefully considered.

Every feature below was built around five principles: log a drink in one tap, don't make tracking feel like a chore, stay front and centre during sessions (the moments when it matters most), never nag the user, and give you full control. AlcoLog sells you nothing you don't need and gets out of your way the rest of the time.

Session Tracking Free

One tap starts a session. The timer ticks, every logged drink rolls into live stats, and you end whenever you're done. Sessions can run past midnight, back-date anywhere up to 24 hours, and resume automatically if you log late.

• Start, pause, resume, and end sessions with a live HH:MM:SS timer
• Log beer, wine, cocktails, spirits, hard seltzers, water, and soft drinks
• Quick-add the last drink or the last favourite with a single tap
• Session-active stat line: drinks, units, calories, cost (in your chosen currency)
• "Another {drink}" button colour-matched to the last drink type
• Auto-stop after inactivity (choose 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, or 120 minutes)
• Resume window picker down to "End Immediately" if you prefer no resume
• Session end review every 10th session with a feedback or review prompt
• Rotating quote card during active sessions, plus the personal Motivational Note card

Add Drink & Drink Library

273 drinks & brands, 87 region-aware size presets, 9 regions. A built-in catalogue so you never have to guess ABV or calories. Every value is editable — override anything, save custom favourites, scan a barcode, or identify a drink from a photo on-device.

Drink types and sizes Free

• 5 top-level drink types: Beer, Wine, Cocktail, Spirits & Seltzers, and Water
• 11 subtypes layered on top: Beer · Cider · Red · White · Rosé · Sparkling · Fortified & Dessert · Spirit · Seltzer · Cocktail · Liqueur
• 87 size / measurement presets: 31 beer · 13 wine · 16 cocktail & liqueur · 27 spirit & seltzer — all region-aware
• 9 regions covered: UK · USA · EU · Australia · Philippines · Korea · Ireland · Italy · France + global imports
• Region filter chips on the size picker surface your locale first (UK pint, US pint, AU schooner, EU standard, India peg, PH Red Horse Litro, etc.)
• "(Shot)" and "(Shot - Double)" suffixes on every neat spirit/liqueur pour so shot terminology is readable regardless of whether your local label says "single", "double", "peg", or "standard"
• Seltzer sizes auto-snap ABV to 5% (or 8% for "strong can") when picked
• Back-date any drink up to 24 hours via an inline time picker
• Edit or delete any drink already in the current session, with a confirmation alert before destructive actions

Real brands across every category Free

Picking any branded drink auto-fills ABV and calories from the catalogue. No more Googling a beer you've never tried before.

• 84 beers & ciders — Guinness, Heineken, Stella, Peroni, BrewDog, Camden Hells, Corona, Budweiser, Blue Moon, Sierra Nevada, Carlsberg, Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin, Tsingtao, Tiger, San Miguel (UK + PH variants), Red Horse, VB, XXXX Gold, Strongbow, Kopparberg, Angry Orchard, and more
• 79 spirits & hard seltzers — Gordon's, Bombay Sapphire, Tanqueray, Hendrick's, Jack Daniel's, Maker's Mark, Tito's, Grey Goose, Bacardí, Patrón, Jameson, Glenfiddich, Hibiki, Yamazaki, 7 Korean sojus (Jinro, Chum-Churum), Tanduay, Emperador, plus White Claw, Truly, High Noon, Bud Light Seltzer, Kopparberg Hard Seltzer, San Mig Hard Seltzer and more
• 39 wine varietals — 12 reds, 9 whites, 4 rosés, 6 sparkling, 8 fortified & dessert: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Chianti, Rioja, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Albariño, Provence Rosé, Champagne, Prosecco, Cava, Port, Sherry, Madeira, Ice Wine, and more
• 29 branded liqueurs — Baileys, Aperol, Campari, Disaronno, Sambuca, Limoncello, Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Chambord, Chartreuse, Pimm's, Drambuie, Kahlúa, RumChata, Midori, Jägermeister, Ouzo, and more
• 41 cocktail & mocktail recipes — 29 classics (Margarita, Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Negroni, Espresso Martini, Aperol Spritz, Piña Colada, Mai Tai, Long Island, Bloody Mary, Mimosa, French 75) + 12 mocktails
• Region-aware sort: your detected region surfaces first in every picker. Search brands by name.
• Manually editing ABV or calories beyond a small tolerance clears the brand so the summary never misrepresents what you logged

Alcohol-free, sober-curious, and everything in between Free

AlcoLog is fully usable sober. Tracking a dry month, cutting back, or just picking a 0.0% on a weeknight? Every category has alcohol-free options built in, and zero-alcohol drinks are clearly badged (0% Beer (n)) on the session timeline so you can see how much alcohol-free drinking you did at a glance.

• 60 alcohol-free options across every category
• 23 zero-alcohol beers & ciders — Heineken 0.0, Guinness 0.0, Peroni 0.0, Budweiser Zero, Corona Cero, Lucky Saint, BrewDog Punk AF, Beck's Blue, Athletic Brewing (Run Wild, Upside Dawn), Erdinger Alkoholfrei, Heaps Normal, Thatchers Zero, Kopparberg AF, Old Mout AF, and more
• 14 zero-proof spirits & seltzers — the full Seedlip range (Garden 108, Grove 42, Spice 94), Tanqueray 0.0, Gordon's 0.0, Pentire Adrift, Lyre's (Dry London, White Cane, American Malt, Italian Spritz), Ritual Zero Proof, Monday Zero Alcohol, Everleaf Mountain Spritz
• 8 zero-proof liqueurs — Lyre's Italian Orange, Lyre's Amaretti, Lyre's Coffee Originale, Everleaf Forest, Everleaf Marine, Crossip Dandy Smoke, and more
• 12 mocktails — Virgin Mojito, Virgin Mary, Nojito, Seedlip & Tonic, Virgin Piña Colada, Virgin Margarita, Virgin Espresso Martini, Shirley Temple, Roy Rogers, Arnold Palmer, and more
• 3 alcohol-free wines — 0% Red, 0% White, 0% Sparkling (Noughty-style)

Custom values Free

• Edit ABV, calories, or cost on any drink to override the brand defaults
• One-tap "Reset all values to default" when you've customised
• Session summary shows units, calories, and cost live as you edit

Barcode scanner Pro

Scan a bottle or can and AlcoLog looks up ABV and calories across multiple open data sources in parallel.

• Pro tier searches four providers simultaneously: Open Food Facts, USDA FoodData Central, LCBO.dev, and Systembolaget
• Premium tier adds a fifth: FatSecret, via our own proxy for nutrition accuracy on branded drinks Premium
• User-entered data always wins over any API result, so your corrections stick
• First-time explainer sheet documents the providers and the privacy policy (no scan history is sent to AlcoLog)

FatSecret's US dataset doesn't always include ABV for beer. AlcoLog covers that gap with the on-device brand catalogue, not a Premium-only ABV layer.

Photo Recognition Free

Tap the camera icon on the Add Drink form to identify a drink from a photo. Apple's Vision framework analyses the image entirely on-device in around 300ms and surfaces drink-type and size guesses for you to confirm before logging.

• Snap a fresh photo or pick one from your camera roll (PhotosPicker, no permission required)
• Vision framework's image classifier runs locally — the photo never leaves your device, never touches our servers, never goes to any third party
• Drink-type guess (Beer, Wine, Spirits, etc.) plus a sensible default size pre-fill the form, ready for you to tweak before saving
• First-time explainer sheet documents what's happening on-device and reassures you nothing is uploaded
• Available to every user, no subscription required

Favourites Pro

• Save any drink (type + size + ABV + calories + cost) as a named favourite
• Tap a favourite on the Add Drink screen to log it instantly
• Long-press for edit or delete, drag-to-reorder the favourites row
• Favourites also populate the "Another {name}" quick-add button on the home screen

Onboarding & Your Goal Free

First launch walks you through a five-tab tour, then asks the one question that shapes the rest of your experience: what brings you here? Whatever you pick (cut back, stay under a limit, build sober days, quit entirely, or just track) becomes the Your Goal card on your AlcoScore screen and sets your weekly progress framing for everything that follows. Your goal is a parallel surface, not part of the AlcoScore calculation, so you can change it any time without your score moving.

The five goal types

• Cut back: drink less than your current baseline. Weekly target self-set; the card tracks your progress against it.
• Stay under a limit: defaults to your region's weekly health authority guideline (14 units in the UK, equivalent local values elsewhere) and you can adjust it.
• Build sober days: pick a target number of dry days each week; the card counts up as the week unfolds.
• Quit entirely: sobriety streak counter from your start date, with milestone celebrations baked in.
• Just track: no goal, no pressure, no Your Goal card. The rest of the app works exactly the same.

Your Goal card on the AlcoScore screen

The card sits between the AlcoScore dial and the Helping / Harming sections. It morphs based on your goal type and how the week is going.

• Running card: this week's progress toward your target, a color-coded progress bar, and a mini history strip of the last five weeks. A soft "On Track" pill appears when you're under target. We never show negative status pills, and the footer copy is always forward-looking ("X days left this week") rather than punishing ("X over").
• Quit Streak card: a large "DAY N sober" hero with your start date, replacing the running card for the Quit goal type.
• Achievement card: triggers automatically after four consecutive weeks under your cap goal. Gold trophy, four-cell streak row, and a "Reflect on Your Goal" CTA that opens the celebration sheet.
• Milestone card: triggers on your sobriety milestones at Day 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, 365, and 730. Tier-themed visuals progress as your streak grows (teal in the early days, then bronze, silver, gold, and platinum at the longer milestones).
• Tap any celebration card to open a reflection sheet with confetti, your stats over the achievement window, and the option to keep the goal or evolve it (re-pick the type, adjust the target). The CTA reads "Reflect on Your Goal" rather than "Update Your Goal" so users who are succeeding don't feel pressured to change.

Changing your goal at any time

• Settings > Goal opens the same picker used in onboarding. Switch goal types, adjust your target, or reset your sobriety start date whenever it suits you.
• Changing goals never changes your AlcoScore. The score is computed from your drinking patterns over a rolling 28-day window; the goal sits alongside it as a parallel encouragement surface.
• "Just Track" users see no Your Goal card at all, and the rest of the AlcoScore screen renders unchanged.

AlcoScore Free

A 0–100 health score that analyses your drinking across six weighted pillars: frequency (25%), intensity (25%), trend (20%), control (10%), behaviour (10%), and recovery (10%). The score uses a rolling 28-day window, unlocks after 5 completed sessions across 3 different days, and updates at the end of every session. Your Goal card (covered above) sits on the same screen as a parallel encouragement surface; it is not factored into the score itself.

• Score dial with breathing glow and chase highlight — animation speed tracks your score band (Legendary breathes slowly, Concerning faster)
• Six pillar bars with tap-to-explain detail panels
• Proud Points and Pinch Points after every session (e.g. "Stayed within your 6 unit limit", "Faster than your recent average pace")
• Helping Your Score and Harming Your Score cards across all sessions, with pillar cross-highlights when you tap an insight
• Confetti and haptic burst the first time you hit Great or higher
• "Building Score" state with progress dots while you accumulate the first 5 sessions
• Your Goal card on the same screen, separate from the score and never influencing it
• Medication use is deliberately excluded from scoring — no bonus or penalty for logging doses

AlcoScore stays at six pillars; goal tracking is a parallel surface, not a seventh pillar. A Premium "AlcoScore Advanced" roadmap (AI coach, predictive insights, cohort comparisons, shareable progress reports) is flagged Coming Soon. All existing AlcoScore features are available on every tier.

History & Trends Free

Every session you've ever logged, visualised three ways: monthly cards, a line graph, and a calendar heatmap. Every chart is interactive.

• Monthly Overview strip with sessions, drinks, units, calories, and cost per month
• Trend arrows per row (red up, green down, blue dash) and 🎊 emoji when every metric is lower than the previous month
• Trend graph: pick a metric (Sessions / Drinks / Units / Calories / Cost) and a range (1M / 3M / 6M / 1Y / All Time)
• Rolling average overlay on the trend graph, window size adapts to the selected range
• Tap the chart to enter a landscape fullscreen view; swipe up or down to shift by one month in the 1-month range
• Calendar heatmap with accent-tinted intensity per day, weekday headers, and month-to-month navigation
• Sober-streak trophies: 🏆 on any sober day inside a streak, with a star + run count for streaks of 2 or more
• Tap any sober day to toggle a manual override (e.g. mark a fasting day as non-sober or vice versa)
• Best Ever sober streak chip in the legend
• All Sessions list with expandable session cards, per-session drink breakdown, swipe-to-delete
• Bidirectional sync: swipe the monthly overview, the calendar, or the sessions list — all three scroll together

Smart Alerts

Alert thresholds for intake, reminder cadence for logging and hydration, and location-based auto-start on arrival. Every alert is optional and yours to set.

Consumption alerts

• Units threshold with custom limit Free
• Drinks, calories, and cost thresholds Pro
• Custom auto-raise percentage (5–100%, step 5) to raise the limit after each breach Pro
• Breach alerts fire as a notification plus an in-app system alert with a configurable auto-raise on OK Free
• Bars-vs-Dials swipeable view on the home screen alerts card Free

Reminders Free

• Log drinks reminder: choose an interval from 10 to 60 minutes
• Hydration reminder: fire by time interval, by drink count, or both
• Motivational note reminder: surfaces one of your personal notes on a schedule
• Auto-Stop notification when the session ends automatically
• Resume-window warning one minute before the resume window closes

Location triggers Pro

• Auto-start a session on arrival at a saved location
• Auto-end a session on departure
• Uses your shared pool of saved locations (see the Locations section for the per-tier cap)
• Approximately 100-metre geofence accuracy; runs in the background
• Location permission warning with deep-link to iOS Settings when authorisation is missing

Medication redose and location reminders

• Redose timers per medication, set in hours + minutes Free
• Per-medication location reminders (arrival, departure, or both) Pro
• Uses your shared pool of saved locations (see the Locations section for the per-tier cap) Pro

Medications Free

A logging tool for seven alcohol-related preparations. AlcoLog is not a medical device and does not provide advice — it tracks doses you log yourself.

• Naltrexone (Revia, Vivitrol) — The Sinclair Method
• Nalmefene (Selincro) — as-needed, EMA approved
• Acamprosate (Campral) — abstinence support
• Disulfiram (Antabuse) — aversion therapy
• Gabapentin (Neurontin) — off-label
• Topiramate (Topamax) — off-label
• Recovery Supplements (DrinkAid, Myrkl, Revibe) — over-the-counter

Each medication card has its own colour, method description, dose logging with a 24-hour time picker, last-24h dose list, and redose timer. Location reminders per medication are Pro.

Locations

AlcoLog can auto-tag each drink with a place and keeps a single shared pool of saved locations that every location-aware feature reuses — session triggers, medication reminders, drink tagging, and your Home Location. Everything lives on the device.

Drink location tagging Free

• Opt-in tagging captures the location automatically on each logged drink
• Session Timeline chart shows a coloured dot per drink for each location, with the Home icon for drinks logged at home
• Smart drift handling: drinks logged within the same location stay grouped; drinks that drift beyond the zone flag as "uncertain" with an amber tint
• Manual override at any time — set, change, or clear the location on any drink
• Locations stay on the device and are never shared with AlcoLog or any third party

Shared pool of saved locations Free

AlcoLog keeps a single pool of saved locations. Any place you save is reusable across every feature that works with places — session triggers, medication reminders, drink tagging, and your Home Location. The per-tier cap on the pool is:

• Free: up to 10 saved locations
• Pro: up to 20 saved locations
• Premium: up to 50 saved locations
• Per-location detection radius picker (50m / 100m / 250m / 500m)
• "In use by" block shows which app features reference each location

Home Location Pro

• Mark any one of your saved locations as home for special behaviour
• Optional Arrive rule: auto-start or auto-end a session on arrival, on days and times you choose
• Optional Leave rule: same, on departure
• Per-rule weekday multi-select with Weekdays / Weekends / All presets
• Time window picker that wraps past midnight (e.g. 21:00 to 04:00)
• 3-minute exit debounce prevents false "leave" triggers on trash runs and similar short exits
• Home geofence is excluded from the generic session triggers, so ordinary morning commutes never start or end a session

Currency auto-switch Pro

• Optional toggle to flip your default currency to match the region you're in
• Uses GPS location to detect your region (requires location permission)
• Shows the detected country and currency code when on

iOS Widgets

22 home-screen widgets across Small, Medium, and Large sizes, plus 6 Lock Screen widgets. Widgets honour your chosen theme and update live as sessions progress.

Home screen — Free Free

• Small: Session Control, Session Tracker, AlcoScore, Weekly Overview, Your Note
• Medium: Session Dashboard, Weekly Summary
• Large: Full Session, Weekly Heatmap

Home screen — Pro Pro

• Small: Quick Add, Favourites, Sober Streak
• Medium: Favorites Quick Add, 6-slot Favourites, AlcoScore + Insights
• Large: AlcoScore Dashboard

Home screen — Premium Premium

• Small: Drink Count, Session Calories, Session Cost, Insights Mini
• Medium: Session + Score, Spending Tracker
• Large: Insights Feed

Lock screen Free

• Units Gauge, Calories Gauge, Weekly Gauge (circular)
• AlcoScore (circular with progress ring)
• Session Summary (rectangular stat line)
• Session Info (inline text)

Dynamic Island & Live Activity

When a session is running, AlcoLog stays with you through the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen Live Activity. Every stat updates live.

• Compact Dynamic Island shows your chosen metric — default is units, with a live-ticking timer on the trailing edge Free
• Expanded Dynamic Island (long-press) shows units, drinks with per-type emoji pills, calories, cost, and reminder progress bars for water and logging Free
• Lock Screen Live Activity mirrors the expanded view with live-ticking reminder countdowns Free
• Theme-aware: Live Activity follows your iPhone appearance setting Free
• Pick which metric shows in the compact view: units, drinks, calories, or cost Pro
• Disable Live Activity entirely if you prefer Pro

Apple Watch Premium

A full Apple Watch companion app with bidirectional iPhone sync in real time. Everything you can do on iPhone, you can do on the wrist — session control, drink logging with branded recents, medication dosing, alert configuration.

On-watch screens

• Vertical paging: AlcoScore on the swipe-up page, Home as the default landing
• Home screen with live timer, session stats, drink timeline chart, quick-add and water buttons, end-session button
• Last Session card on idle with bar chart and stats
• Add Drink flow: type tiles, branded recents for beer and spirits, size picker, ABV crown selector, log confirmation with toast
• Medications screen: all 7 preparations, dose logging, redose timer set via crown
• Alerts screen: every alert setting editable on-watch with real-time bidirectional sync to iPhone

Complications and controls (15 total)

• Circular (5): Units, Drinks, Calories, Cost, AlcoScore — each with a green timer arc while a session is active
• Corner (5): same metrics, corner layout with bend text
• Rectangular (1): Session Summary with emoji stats and live timer
• Inline (1): single-line status string
• Control Center (3): Session Toggle, Add Water, Add Favourite

Watch Smart Stack widgets (3)

• Session Control tile (start / end with live timer)
• Add Water tile
• Add Another Drink tile (colour-matched to last drink)

Apple Health Pro

One-way sync. AlcoLog writes your drinks to Apple Health and reads nothing in return.

• Writes Alcoholic Beverages (1 standard drink per logged alcoholic drink) under Nutrition
• Writes Calories from Alcohol into dietary energy intake
• Data is written on session end
• AlcoLog does not read heart rate, steps, sleep, or any other health data
• Review and delete AlcoLog's contributions from the Health app at any time

Haptics Free

A tuned haptic system with four categories that fire on taps, buttons, expansions, and special moments like an AlcoScore chase or confetti burst.

• Master haptics toggle
• Four per-category intensity sliders (0–100%): Navigation, Button, Movement, Special
• Live preview on drag — each slider plays its own sample pattern
• Strength sliders apply to both iPhone and Apple Watch where the hardware supports it

Siri Shortcuts Pro

• 10 shortcuts for hands-free session control and quick-adds (start session, end session, add drink, add water, log medication, and more)
• Compatible with "Hey Siri" and the Shortcuts app

App Icons Premium

• 7 alternate app icons: Pint Glass, Beer Mug, Shot Glass, Whiskey Tumbler, Wine Bottle, Cocktail Glass, Champagne Flute
• Default icon remains available on all tiers

Privacy & Data

No account, no email, no tracking, no third-party analytics. Your data stays on the device.

• No sign-in required — no email, no password, no login Free
• All session, drink, medication, favourite, and location data is stored locally in SwiftData Free
• Opt-in anonymous session summaries with a random per-install ID — off by default, purged within 30 days of opt-out Free
• Copy-able anonymous ID in Data & Privacy settings for data-subject requests Free
• Full list of what is collected and what is never collected in the Data & Privacy screen Free
• CSV export: last 10 sessions Free
• Unlimited CSV export + PDF reports Pro
• Read the full Privacy Policy for specifics Free

Easter Eggs Free

A few hidden things for the people who poke around.

• Golden Quote
• Special Thanks Tower
• Heart Burst
• Tip Celebration

We won't reveal everything, you'll need to hunt around the app for these Easter Eggs yourself 😉