Drink Timer

Keep track of when you’ll have zero alcohol in your system after a night out!

First off, this application is not meant to help you work out how many beers you can have before you drive home! Alcohol takes a surprisingly long time to leave the body and this application is to help you judge what you can drink of an evening in order to be free of alcohol the following morning.

The on/off switch at the bottom of the screen brings up the setup controls - it’s important that the program knows your gender. You can also reset the application after you’ve been fiddling with it to familiarise yourself with how it works.

Just before you take that first refreshing mouthful of your favourite poison, enter the data into the application. If you know how many units are in the drink, put that in the Units box. If you don’t know, you can enter the amount in millilitres and the strength as a percentage. For example, a pint of Nelson Mandela is 568 ml at 5.2%. That’s 2.95 units.

If you drink the same thing all night, you can add each new drink by hitting the ‘Same Again’ button.

You’ll notice that on the home screen of your device, once you’ve entered a drink, a red badge appears on the Drink Timer icon. This tells you how many hours until your system is booze free. Note that this won’t change over time, it’ll only update when you open the application.

Remember, other than a government approved breathaliser, there’s no way to be 100% accurate about your blood alcohol level, so if you’re in any doubt, get the bus. If you forget to enter a drink and the cops pull you over, they won’t take kindly to you waving your iPhone about saying “But this told me I was sober!”