Libellus Potionis

Martin Albrecht Godisch

About this app

Libellus Potionis is a privacy-friendly, free, open-source and ad-free alcohol consumption tracker that runs entirely offline. It requests no camera, microphone or location access and makes no network connections.

KEY FEATURES

• Logging: predefine your own beverages or pick from internationally common presets. Log drinks instantly or retroactively with precise timestamp corrections.
• Concurrent limits: set three boundaries at once — a daily limit (grams of pure alcohol), a rolling 7-day weekly limit (grams), and a maximum number of drinking days per week. Each has its own progress bar.
• Blood alcohol concentration (BAC): enter your body weight to get a live estimate from the Widmark formula.
• Counseling reports: generate a two-page PDF report of your consumption for consultations and counseling appointments.
• Data portability: export your dataset as a CSV file for external processing (e.g. in LibreOffice Calc), or create JSON backups to move data between devices.
• Adjustments: set your own "day start" time, so that late-night drinks count toward the preceding evening, and an evaluation start date for a clean restart.

A User's Guide is available inside the app.

PRIVACY & SECURITY

The app stores only what you enter. It holds no network permission, so it is incapable of network access and your data cannot leave the device by itself. Your data stays in the app's private storage, protected at rest by Android's device storage encryption and the app sandbox. An optional biometric fingerprint lock guards against unauthorized physical access. There is no tracking, no analytics and no cloud synchronization.

COMPATIBILITY

The app runs on Android 11 (API 30) and newer. It carries its own language selector, which works on every supported version, independently of the system-level per-app language picker.

OPEN SOURCE

Libellus Potionis is free software released under the GNU General Public License v3 (or later). The source code is available at the canonical repository: https://gitlab.com/godisch/potillus/

What’s new

A full review turned up several corrections. The drink editor's volume message now names the real limit of 5,000 ml instead of 10,000 ml. A Chinese language choice carried in a backup written on an iPhone survives the import. A new installation starts at 80 g per week over four drinking days.

The PDF report keeps the six most recent months and sums up everything older, its weekday columns follow the report's language, and day counts use each language's plural form.