Travel, time zones and late nights
Date handling is the thing that quietly ruins habit apps: fly east and yesterday becomes two days, or a streak breaks over nothing. Sippy is built so that does not happen.
A drink keeps the day it was drunk on
Every drink stores the day it counted toward at the moment you logged it, as a plain calendar date rather than a time. Flying to another time zone, or moving your bedtime later, cannot move past drinks between days — the history you saw yesterday is the history you see tomorrow.
When the day rolls over
At midnight, unless your bedtime is after midnight. In that case the cut-off is halfway between your bedtime and your wake-up, so a glass at 00:30 still belongs to the evening you drank it in.
Reminders after you land
They follow the phone's clock, so they re-plan themselves around local wake and bed times. If the new local day is very different from home, open the app once after landing to replan the next few days, and consider turning on “I live in a hot climate”, or tapping “Hot day” if you have gone somewhere warm.
The streak while you are away
- Half the goal still keeps the streak, which covers most travel days.
- A freeze covers a day that got away from you.
- A rest day, taken on the day itself, covers one you can see coming — a long flight, say.
FAQ
- Does a long flight count as one day or two?
- Each drink counts toward the local day it was logged on, and keeps it afterwards.
- I changed my bedtime. Did my old days change?
- No. Only days from that point on use the new cut-off.
- Does the weekly challenge reset at the wrong time abroad?
- No. The week is compared by calendar date, so a flight cannot make the same week claimable twice.
Sippy is a reminder and a record of what you drink, not medical advice. Its suggested goal follows published guidance for healthy adults, and the app is for ages 14 and up. If you have heart, kidney or liver disease, low blood sodium, take diuretics, or have been told to limit fluids, ask your doctor before setting a goal.
Drink water, grow cute cats
Sippy nudges you only when you are behind, logs a glass in one tap from the Lock Screen, and grows a cat farm — or a tiny forest — as the goal days add up. Free, no ads, and nothing leaves your iPhone.
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