Comparison

Oh She Glows vs Yummy Dish Diary

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Oh She Glows

Discover delicious and healthy plant-based recipes from a New York Times bestselling author. This app features vibrant photography, easy-to-use search and filtering, and tools to help you cook with confidence. Enjoy offline access and customize your favorite recipes.

Highlights
  • Trending recipes
  • Seasonal and holiday recipe sorting
  • High-resolution food photography
  • Ingredient and title search
  • Dietary and allergy filtering
  • Offline recipe access
  • Customizable favorites list
Features
Currently charting
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New York Times bestselling cookbook author Angela Liddon, shares her most popular plant-based recipes from the award-winning recipe blog, OhSheGlows.com, and stunning, vibrant food photography for each recipe. Angela has been creating healthy, veggie-packed recipes for more than 10 years, and she only shares recipes that are hits with her family, friends, and recipe testers, so you can be confident that the recipes in this collection will win over even the biggest skeptic. One thing is for sure, this healthy recipe app will have you glowing from the inside out and bursting with cooking inspiration! Be sure to unlock the free recipe bundles on the bundles page, including a delicious Cookie Lover's holiday bundle. FEATURES: • Trending Recipes - see which recipes others are cooking right now. If a recipe is trending, you’ll see “trending” below the recipe title • Recipe list is now sorted by season and holiday so the most relevant recipes show up first in the recipe list. If you wish to see the recipes in chronological order (our previous way of displaying them), visit the Settings app, click on Oh She Glows, and tap “show newest recipes first” • Browse through beautiful full-screen high-resolution photography • Search for recipes with ease using ingredient keywords or by recipe title • Find detailed nutritional information available for each recipe located in the "tips" section • Filter your recipes based on dietary/allergy info, season, dish type, and more • Strikeout ingredients and directions as you cook so you don’t lose your place • Customize your own favorites list with your most-loved recipes • Add your own notes to the recipes if you make any changes • Take recipes with you on the go with convenient offline access • Cook without worry that your device will go to sleep with our anti-lock feature • Enjoy split view on your iOS 12+ iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4, and iPad Pro • Synchronize favorites and notes between devices using iCloud • Browse recipe thumbnails by category (e.g., view all breakfast recipe titles and photos in one spot) We hope you enjoy cooking with the Oh She Glows - Healthy Plant-Based Recipes app. For any questions please feel free to email us at app_support@ohsheglows.com, and we are happy to help! From our kitchen to yours, The Liddon Family TESTIMONIALS: “This is the GO TO app for vegan friendly recipes!!! You don't even have to be vegan to enjoy them because each recipe is so full of flavor. The app is perfectly laid out so you can make the recipes with ease. The search feature and the filters make it easy to make recipes with dietary concerns in mind or to use items you currently have on hand. Best recipe app ever!!!” ~ C.P. “This is everything I could ask for in a food app. Every recipe I have tried was absolutely delicious. The layout of the app is gorgeous and the features are on point. It is so easy to use and makes me want to cook! Thank you Oh She Glows for another amazing product!” ~ Sierra J. “I love love love this app. In my opinion it's the best recipe app out. It's easy to read and understand and the recipes are oh so good. The app makes me want to cook more. I highly recommend it.” ~ Jodie F.

About

Yummy Dish Diary

Log meals with photos, ratings, and notes to remember every dish. Discover and share food recommendations with friends while keeping your personal diary private.

Highlights
  • Save meals with photos and videos
  • Rate dishes and mark reorder preference
  • Add notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details
  • Log home-cooked or restaurant meals
  • Search meals, restaurants, and tags
  • Discover and share food recommendations
  • Follow friends and interact
Features
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Eat it. Rate it. Save it. Share it. Yummy Dish Diary is your personal food diary for keeping track of every dish worth remembering—whether it came from a favorite restaurant or was made at home. Save meals with photos and videos, ratings, notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details. Search your diary anytime, revisit favorite spots, and quickly remember what you ordered and whether you would get it again. Want to share your food finds? Publish selected meals as public posts, discover recommendations from other food lovers, follow friends, and join the conversation. Your personal diary stays private, and you choose what to share. Features: - Save meals with photos and videos - Rate dishes and mark whether you would order them again - Add notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details - Log restaurant meals or dishes made at home - Search meals, restaurants, cuisines, tags, and notes - Revisit favorite dishes and spots - Discover and share food recommendations - Follow friends and interact with their posts - View simple insights from your food diary - Sync your diary across devices - Control your profile and sharing privacy Whether you are saving a new favorite, exploring recommendations, or trying to remember what you ordered last time, Yummy Dish Diary keeps every delicious moment close.

Screenshots

Oh She Glows4 screens
Yummy Dish Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Yummy Dish Diary at Free against Oh She Glows's $2.99. Yummy Dish Diary also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Oh She Glows's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (12K vs 1). On rating there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Yummy Dish Diary is free to download; Oh She Glows costs $2.99 up front. Oh She Glows sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Yummy Dish Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Oh She Glows against 5.0 for Yummy Dish Diary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oh She Glows has 12K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Oh She Glows's written reviews are positive against 100% of Yummy Dish Diary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oh She Glows ships an update every 3 months, Yummy Dish Diary every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Oh She Glows versus Yummy Dish Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOh She GlowsYummy Dish Diary
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (12K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#51 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlo Bakery CorporationAlex Perez

Customer experience

Oh She Glows

All ratings12,302 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews303 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral6.6%
Negative21.5%

Yummy Dish Diary

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Oh She Glows

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recipes fail to download
  • App freezes when opening
  • Recipes disappear after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more recipes
  • Improve search functionality
  • Include nutrition information
  • Add a shopping list feature

Yummy Dish Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Oh She Glows

One-time5
  • Free Bonus BundleFree
  • Spring BonusFree
  • Cookie Lover’s BundleFree
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  • Oh She Glows Salads PreviewFree
  • Get Glowing$0.99
None

Yummy Dish Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Oh She Glows free?
Oh She Glows costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Yummy Dish Diary free?
Yummy Dish Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Oh She Glows or Yummy Dish Diary?
Yummy Dish Diary is rated higher. Oh She Glows averages 4.9 out of 5 from 12K ratings, while Yummy Dish Diary averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Oh She Glows or Yummy Dish Diary have ads?
Yummy Dish Diary shows ads; Oh She Glows does not.
Which is updated more often, Oh She Glows or Yummy Dish Diary?
Oh She Glows ships an update every 3 months, and Yummy Dish Diary every 3 weeks. Most recently, Oh She Glows was updated on November 12, 2026 and Yummy Dish Diary on October 31, 2026.

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