TRY DRY: The Dry January app 17+

Nice app - shame about the maths

I’ve very much enjoyed using the app and it’s certainly helping me change my boozing habits.

Just one or two issues. After 20 alcohol free days it was showing my cash saving as around £180+ which got me quite excited! That is until I realised this was obviously based on pub prices and I only ever drink at home. Undaunted I went to settings and overrode the weekly figure to a more realistic £30. Unfortunately however this resulted in a total saved as £55 when it should have been approaching £90. A bit more tinkering revealed that the calculations were literally all over the place. Someone needs to look at this, it’s spoiling an otherwise great app.

Update: Won’t load at all today. Stuck on the splash screen.

Developer Response ,

Hi there

Please could you email Rowan at dryjanuary@alcoholchange.org.uk so I can look into the calculations for you.

I am very sorry to hear you having trouble with login.

If you can remember your password can I suggest you try the following:


1. Uninstall and reinstall just to check you have the latest version.

2. Please check you have background data refresh turned on in your phone's settings for the app.

3. Try login

If this doesn't work. Please could you let us know by emailing me

Kind regards
Rowan

A huge help!

I’m surprised at the reasonably low rating for this app. Almost a year on since dry January 2020 and I still use it daily. I managed 3 months fully dry in a row and have since managed to reduce my drinking to a completely healthy level. 12 months on, my drinking habits are completely changed. I now don’t drink at all during the week and drink less at the weekend than I ever used to.I now enjoy and look forward to a drink rather than it being a necessity. Without this app I would never be on this position. Will power required of course but a fantastic assistant along the way.

Suggestions for app improvement: If you guys can fix the login out issue that occurs regularly that would be great and also when you add drinks on planned drinking days it would be nice to select 1, 2 or 3 identical drinks at the same time (a quantity select) instead of having to enter every drink individually. As this takes too long in my opinion.

Looking forward to dry Jan 2021!

Very happy

This app has worked well for me, it seems very intuitive and simple to use with occasional, well timed and informative updates. Personally I haven’t experienced any bugs or issues.
If you do have a drink you can list exactly what you had, which makes me feel better looking back to see even if I did have a drink (on one occasion may I add!) it was only 2 glasses of wine (which is still something to be proud of!) rather than a ‘X FAIL’ feeling!
This and reading the book ‘Easy way to control Alcohol’ combined have made what I thought would be very difficult a walk in the park! I see you can set further challenges such as ‘sober spring’ and I intend to continue using this app after Jan to monitor and log my long term reduction in drinking. It’s brill! Don’t wait til next year start it NOW!