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Your bars, most urgent first
Each need drains at its own pace. Tap Replenish when you act on it, or let Apple Health top it up.
Cues: Water & Sleep Tracker
iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Free
Bars that drain. Top them up before they hit zero.
Cues is a free self-care tracker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that helps you remember water, food, sleep, movement and medication with bars that drain over time. Top them up when you act, without streaks or an account.
- Water
- Food
- Sleep
- Movement
- Meds
- Bathroom
- Social
Free, with no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads.
- Default cues
- 7
- Curated presets
- 8
- Accounts required
- 0
- Streaks to break
- 0
Inside the app
See what's running low, before it's empty.
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The cues you choose
Seven defaults, eight presets and your own cues, each with its own drain time.
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Thirty days, at a glance
How each cue has gone today and over the last thirty days, without a streak to break.
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Room for more on iPad and iPhone Duo
On iPad and an opened iPhone Duo, lists sit beside their charts and cue details open beside your bars.
More screens
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Quiet by default Quiet hours, cue alerts and Apple Health, all in one place.
Features
Top them up. That's the whole game.
Cues is a free self-care tracker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that helps you remember water, food, sleep, movement and medication: each need is a bar that drains over time, and you top it up when you act on it.
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The seven defaults
Water, food, sleep, movement, meds, bathroom, social — ready on first launch. Each bar drains at its own pace: water over about four hours, food over six. Top it up with a tap.
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Auto-refill from Apple Health
With your permission, Cues reads sleep, exercise, water and food from Apple Health, and daylight if you add the Sunlight cue, and tops up the matching bar. A glass of water logged in any Health-aware app counts. It keeps up with late, edited and deleted samples; new ones can take a few minutes to arrive.
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Live Activity when one runs critical
When a cue drops to critical it surfaces on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with a “Did it” button — one tap to top it up without opening the app.
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Siri, Shortcuts and Control Center
Ask Siri to “Log a cue in Cues” and say which one, use it in Shortcuts, or put a Cues button in Control Center (iOS 18 or later) where you'll actually reach it.
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Apple Watch companion
Glance at your wrist, see what's running low, top it up from the watch. Includes a watch-face complication for the most urgent cue, which also sits in the Smart Stack.
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Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
Home Screen widgets show your most urgent bars and fill the one you tap in place, without opening the app. The Lock Screen widget shows the cue that's running lowest.
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iPad and iPhone Duo
On iPad, a sidebar, cards in columns and cue details beside your bars. On iPhone Duo, fold-aware layouts put details beside your bars, and an edit in progress survives closing the phone.
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Eight curated presets
Drop in eight extra cues without designing them yourself: Sensory Break, Fresh Air, Mood Check, Screen Break, Temperature, Fun, Sunlight, Hygiene — all free.
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Custom cues
Design your own bars with the name, emoji, colour and drain time that fit your life. Anything that needs remembering can be a cue; custom cues are free, and you top them up yourself.
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Quiet by default
No streaks to break. No shame. No guilt. Quiet hours by default, a hard cap on how many reminders can ever be queued, and fixed-time reminders — for meds — taking priority.
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No account, no servers
No login, no servers of ours, no telemetry, no ads, no tracking. Your bars and history stay on your device and its paired Apple Watch.
Questions
Common questions
What is Cues?
Cues is a free self-care tracker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Each basic need — water, food, sleep, movement, meds, bathroom, social — is a bar that drains over time, and you top it up when you act on it.
How is Cues different from a habit tracker?
Cues focuses on time since you last met a need, without streaks. A bar that hit zero yesterday is simply a bar you can fill today.
What do the bars measure?
They are reminders based on time and your logged actions or linked Apple Health data, not measurements of hydration, hunger or medication levels.
Who is Cues for?
Busy people, parents, students, and anyone with ADHD or executive-function challenges who loses track of basic needs — eating, drinking water, standing up — until they're already running on empty.
Does Cues refill from Apple Health?
Yes, if you allow it. Cues reads sleep, exercise, water and food from Apple Health, and daylight for the optional Sunlight cue, and tops the matching bar up by itself, so a glass of water logged in any Health-aware app counts in Cues too. Health delivers new samples in the background, so a top-up can take a few minutes.
Can I use Cues for medication reminders?
Yes. The meds cue supports reminders at fixed times that fire even during quiet hours. Cues is a self-care tracker, not a medical device, so don't rely on it as your only safeguard for a dose that matters.
Does Cues need an account or an internet connection?
No. Cues works offline, with no account, no servers and no tracking. Your data stays on your device.
Is Cues really free?
Yes — no subscription, no in-app purchases and no trial.
Does Cues work on iPad and iPhone Duo?
Yes. Cues is one app for iPhone and iPad: iPad gets a sidebar, cards in columns and details beside your bars, and on iPhone Duo fold-aware layouts put cue details beside your bars. There is no sync between devices, so an iPad keeps its own bars.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. The Watch app and the widgets are optional; the iPhone or iPad app on its own is complete.
Something else? The support page covers setup and troubleshooting, or write to [email protected].
Guides
Good to know
- How to remember to drink water and take your medicationTie each one to something you already do every day, keep it within sight, use a fixed-time reminder for medication, and keep a light record so you know whether you did it. Here is how to set that up so it lasts.Read the guide
- Cues vs. Finch, Waterllama and TiimoCues is a free self-care tracker with no streaks, no in-app purchases and no account: water, food, sleep, movement and medication are bars that drain over time and refill from Apple Health. Here is how it compares with Finch, Waterllama and Tiimo.Read the guide
Privacy
Quiet, private, on-device.
No accounts, no servers, no telemetry. Cues keeps your bars and history on your device, shares them only with your paired Apple Watch, and reads and writes Apple Health locally, with your permission.
Read the privacy policy- No server
- No account
- No analytics
- No tracking
- No ads
- Health data stays on your device
Get Cues today.
Free on the App Store — the seven defaults and eight presets included.
Questions? [email protected]