Eight Glasses a Day review

Clare Hopping

We review Eight Glasses a Day, a simple iPhone app that helps you monitor how much water you drink every day

Published on Oct 9, 2009

The human body is made up of at least 50 per cent water and it’s important to ensure we’re replenished to enable our brain and organs to function correctly.

But remembering to drink the right amount of water each day can be quite an arduous task, or result in a mad scrabble to drink a large quantity towards the end of the day.

The eight glasses app takes a serious health consideration and adds an element of fun to it.

The premise is simple: every time you’ve drunk an 8oz glass of water, you just tap a glass on the screen and it empties. You continue doing this each time you have enough water until all the glasses on the screen are empty.

When you’re not in the app itself, the icon will show how many glasses you have left to drink in a small red bubble in the top right-hand corner, in the same way missed calls or text message volumes are displayed.

The real beauty of this application is its simplicity. It’s not overcomplicated or too fancy, it just does exactly what it claims to do and what the user needs it do to. Nothing more and nothing less.