Waterpad guide — every glass you drink grows the plant in your pot, and full days bloom in your garden — no install, no sign-up, no ads

When drinking enough water keeps slipping your mind

You mean to drink more water, and by the afternoon you have forgotten. A log that only piles up numbers gets dull fast, and missing one day feels like you broke everything, so you stop.

Waterpad is a water log where every drink you have grows the plant in your pot. It opens right in the browser with no install and no sign-up. The interface is in Korean, English, Japanese and German, and your drinks are saved in this browser on this device only.

1. Log a glass with one tap

• On the Today tab, tap Glass (250 ml) or Bottle (500 ml) and it is logged. Switch the unit to US fl oz and the buttons become 8 oz and 16 oz.
• If your cup is a different size, type the amount under Custom amount and tap Add. Amounts you use are kept as Your cups buttons, so next time it is one tap.
• Tapped by mistake? Tap Undo last. You can also delete any drink from the Today’s drinks list.

2. Set your daily goal

• The goal starts at 2000 ml. Tap Goal: 2000 ml to set anything from 500 to 6000 ml. A new goal counts from today on, and past days keep their own goal.
• The right amount differs from person to person. Start with a goal that feels easy.

3. Watch today’s plant grow

• Each day starts with a seed in the pot. As you get closer to your goal, the plant grows through five stages: Seed, Sprout (1 % of your goal or more), Leaves (35 % or more), Bud (70 % or more) and Bloom (100 %).
• Below the plant you see how much you drank today and how much of your goal that is. You do the drinking; the plant simply grows with it.

4. Full days fill your garden

• Reach your goal and that day’s bloom is planted in Your garden on the Garden tab. The garden is grouped by month, with the total at the top (for example “12 plants”). Tap a pot to see the day it bloomed.
• Missing a day never wilts or removes a flower you already have. The next day simply starts again: “A new day, a new seed.”

5. Streaks unlock new flowers

• Days in a row where you reach your goal build a streak. Today counts once you reach the goal.
• You start with the Daisy, then unlock the Tulip at a 3-day streak, the Sunflower at 7 days, the Cactus bloom at 14 days and the Cherry blossom bonsai at 30 days. Once unlocked, a flower stays yours even if the streak ends.
• Under Flowers on the Garden tab, tap Grow this next on any unlocked flower, and that one grows in your next pot.

6. Reminders, only if you want them

• Reminders are off to start. On the Settings tab, tap Turn on reminders and your browser asks once whether to allow notifications. Choose to be reminded every 1 hour, 1.5 hours, 2 hours or 3 hours.
• No reminders arrive during Quiet hours (22:00–08:00 to start), and with Stop after today’s goal switched on, they stop for the day once you reach your goal.
• Reminders are made on this device with no server sending them, so they are best-effort: they only arrive while Waterpad is open or added to your Home Screen and your browser allows it. On iPhone, add it to the Home Screen first (iOS 16.4 or later).

7. Look back at your week

• Last 7 days on the History tab shows each day as a bar, with a goal line and a mark on every day you met your goal.
• The Last 30 days list shows how much you drank each day and whether you met your goal.

8. Keep a backup file

• Under Backup on the Settings tab, tap Save a backup file to keep your drinks, garden and flowers in one backup file.
• Tap Restore from a backup file and it first shows what the file adds. Choose Add to what’s here or Replace everything; Replace everything asks you to confirm. A broken file is refused and nothing is changed.
• Delete everything asks first and offers Export first, so you can keep a backup file before it goes.