The Best Alcohol Tracker Apps (2026): Free and Paid, Compared

An alcohol tracker logs each drink against a limit you set, and apps split three ways. Drink trackers such as Try Dry and DrinkControl turn every glass into units or grams; Reframe and Sunnyside wrap tracking in a paid cut-back program, about $100 a year after a 7- or 15-day trial; I Am Sober counts sober days and milestones. The unit matters: a US standard drink is 14 g of alcohol, a UK unit 8 g.

US standard drink

14 g of pure alcohol

UK unit

8 g of pure alcohol

Coaching programs

About $100 a year

PlateLens

Grams, free on every plan

The apps side by side

The prices are the in-app purchases each US App Store listing shows: Reframe and DrinkControl list several plans, and which one a new account is offered can vary, so check the store before you subscribe.

Which app fits which need

Reframe: a program to cut back or quit

Reframe is a course first and a tracker second. Its App Store listing describes “a core 160-day, evidence-based, education program” with progress tracking and a private community; around it sit daily tasks, a cravings toolkit, meditations, daily virtual meetings and optional one-to-one Thrive Coaching. The drink tracker lives inside that program. There is no free plan: Reframe’s FAQ says it does “not have a freemium subscription model” and offers a 7-day free trial. Reframe puts the cost at about $100 a year, and the US App Store lists annual plans from $59.99 to $119.99. It runs on iPhone, Apple Watch and Android.

Sunnyside: a weekly moderation plan by text message

Sunnyside is built for drinking less rather than quitting. Each Sunday it proposes a drink plan for the week; every evening a text asks how the previous day went, and you reply with a number, a word or an emoji, or tap + in the app. Human coaches answer by text if you want them. What it records is a number of drinks. There is no free plan: a 15-day trial, then $99.99 a year on the US App Store, or $299.00 a year for Premium, which adds faster coaching and live video calls. It works on iPhone and Android, by text message and in a web dashboard.

Try Dry: a dedicated tracker for dry months and cutting back

Try Dry is the official app of the Dry January challenge, made by the UK charity Alcohol Change UK, and it keeps working after January for cutting back or for planned drinking days. You log each drink by type and size; it counts units and lets you choose the national definition, the US standard drink included, and adds calories and money saved, dry-day streaks, badges, and sleep, energy, mood and craving check-ins. Its App Store listing reads “Totally free. No upfront costs. No hidden costs. No ads.” It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.

DrinkControl: detailed logs by glass, size and strength

DrinkControl logs a drink the way it was poured, by glass, can or bottle and serving size, and converts it “into standard alcohol units / grams of pure alcohol” against the guideline you pick (US, UK, Canada, Australia, WHO and more). It charts drinks, calories from alcohol and money spent, colours every calendar day, keeps rolling 7- and 30-day totals, syncs with Apple Health and keeps your data on the phone. The free version is Limited: widgets, reminders, statistics for previous months, quarters and years, custom drinks and serving sizes, CSV export and backups are Premium, listed on the US App Store at $3.99 a month or $11.99 a year, alongside one-time purchase options. It runs on iPhone and Android.

I Am Sober: a sobriety day counter

I Am Sober counts days rather than drinks: a sober-day tracker, a daily pledge and evening review, milestones, money and time saved, a withdrawal timeline and a large community grouped by milestone, for alcohol and other habits. It is free to use and Limited: Sober Plus, at $9.99 a month or $29.99 to $39.99 a year on the US App Store, adds groups, a Face ID lock, cloud backups and more trackers. It runs on iPhone, Apple Watch and Android.

MyDrinkaware: UK units and drink-free days

From the UK charity the Drinkaware Trust, MyDrinkaware logs drinks by type and size and works out UK units, calories and spending, with goals for drink-free days, sleep tracking and the World Health Organization’s AUDIT questionnaire as its “Drinking Check”. It is free. It is listed on the UK App Store and on Google Play; the US App Store does not list it.

Two newer loggers

BoozeBuddy is a free iPhone and iPad logger for nights out: it converts beers, wines, cocktails and shots into standard drinks, records cost and location, and keeps everything on the device. Alcogram, mostly on Android, logs drink type and volume, reports millilitres of pure alcohol and adds a sober-days calendar and a social feed; its iPhone version is new. Its free version is limited: the Android app shows ads, and on iPhone customization is a one-time $4.99 purchase.

How to choose

• You want a plan and someone to answer you: Reframe for a structured course, Sunnyside for a lighter weekly plan by text. Both are paid; use the trial to decide.
• You are doing a dry month or cutting back on your own: Try Dry, built for Dry January and the months after it. Doing Sober October? It works the same way.
• You want every pour logged by size and strength: DrinkControl.
• You are counting days since your last drink: I Am Sober.
• You follow UK guidance in UK units: MyDrinkaware.
• You already track food and want drinks in the same daily total: PlateLens, with alcohol in grams.

If you want to talk to someone about your drinking rather than track it, these alcohol help resources list free services by country.

Grams, standard drinks and units: why grams travel

A “drink” is not a fixed amount. In the United States a standard drink is about 14 g of pure alcohol, the amount in a 12 oz beer at 5%, a 5 oz glass of wine at 12% or a 1.5 oz shot of 40% spirits. In the UK a unit is 8 g, or 10 ml. In Spain the standard drink unit, the UBE, is 10 g. One US standard drink is therefore 1.75 UK units, and an app set to one country’s definition gives a different total from an app set to another. When Spain’s Ministry of Health reviewed the evidence for its 2020 low-risk limits, it converted every study to grams of alcohol for exactly that reason: what counts as a standard drink varies from region to region.

Grams are the same in every country, and any drink converts to them in one line: millilitres × ABV ÷ 100 × 0.789, the density of alcohol in grams per millilitre. A 16 fl oz (473 ml) pint of 7% IPA holds 26.1 g, which is 1.9 US standard drinks, about 3.3 UK units or 2.6 Spanish UBE, and its alcohol alone carries about 183 kcal at 7 kcal per gram. Try Dry lets you pick the national definition, and DrinkControl shows grams next to standard drinks. For the calories in common drinks, see how many calories are in alcohol.

PlateLens: drinks counted with your meals

A count of drinks is the least comparable number on this page: one 16 oz pint of 7% IPA is 26.1 g of alcohol, nearly two US standard drinks and about 3.3 UK units. PlateLens counts grams of pure alcohol in each drink you log in the same diary as your food, from a photo of the glass, a sentence such as “a pint of hazy IPA, 7%” or a barcode, and takes a correction in plain words with Fix it: “it was a 12 oz can, not a pint.” Alcohol tracking is free on every plan and starts off; turn it on in More → Alcohol, or Alcohol in Targets on the web. It adds optional daily and weekly limits in grams, an Alcohol gauge for Home, Day, Week, Month and Year views, Apple Health export on iPhone, the gauge on Apple Watch, an Alcohol section in PDF reports and Coach answers about alcohol; every account sees which part of a drink’s calories is alcohol. The details are in the alcohol tracking guide. The food side of that log has been measured from outside, for calories rather than alcohol: the Dietary Assessment Initiative’s published validation study put PlateLens’s photo-mode calorie error at ±1.1% over 180 weighed meals, and Foodvision Bench’s public leaderboard on GitHub has also reproduced it on 231 meals.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where this comes from

Every page below was read on 8 October 2026. PlateLens is independent of every other app on this page.

• US App Store listings and the iTunes Lookup API (country=us) for in-app purchases and compatibility: Reframe, Sunnyside, Try Dry, DrinkControl, I Am Sober, BoozeBuddy, Alcogram and PlateLens; the UK App Store listing for MyDrinkaware, which the US store does not return. Android availability from each app’s Google Play listing.
• The apps’ own pages: Reframe FAQ; Sunnyside’s alcohol tracker page and help centre; Alcohol Change UK’s Try Dry page and user guide; DrinkControl; MyDrinkaware; I Am Sober.
• US standard drink: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “What Is A Standard Drink?”. UK unit: NHS, “Calculating alcohol units”. Spanish UBE and the conversion to grams: Ministerio de Sanidad, Límites de consumo de bajo riesgo de alcohol, 2020. 7 kcal per gram of alcohol: 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report, Part D, Chapter 11.
• The pint example is computed: 473 ml × 7 ÷ 100 × 0.789 = 26.1 g; 26.1 ÷ 14 = 1.9 US standard drinks; 26.1 ÷ 8 = 3.3 UK units; 26.1 ÷ 10 = 2.6 UBE; 26.1 × 7 = 183 kcal.