Comparison

Moderation Mindful Food Diary vs Dining Note

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

Head to head
About

Moderation Mindful Food Diary

This app offers a simple and joyful way to journal your eating habits without calorie counting. It focuses on mindful eating and provides insights into your patterns, helping you build healthy habits effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Easy meal logging
  • Mindful eating insights
  • Customizable tags
  • Weight trend tracking (Pro)
  • Siri Shortcuts & Widgets
  • Dark Mode
Features
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Make mindful eating easier with one quick healthiness check-in. Add tags or a note only when they help, then see your patterns and streaks emerge over time. No calories, macros, food database, account, or ads. A food diary should build awareness, not become homework. Moderation asks one simple question: was this meal healthy or unhealthy for you? Over time, those quick check-ins become trends you can understand and habits you can shape. No weighing every ingredient. No searching through endless food results. You decide how a meal felt, add only the context that is useful, and keep moving. LOG MEALS IN SECONDS • Log breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, or your own custom meals with one tap. • Mark each meal healthy or unhealthy based on your goals, not somebody else's formula. • Use reminders when they help, with extra nudges available for more accountability. • Work fully offline, so a weak connection never interrupts your diary. UNDERSTAND HOW YOU EAT OVER TIME • Review meals in a clear daily timeline and calendar. • See daily, weekly, and monthly healthiness patterns at a glance. • Build healthy-day streaks and get gentle encouragement when you are nearly back on track. • Explore tag insights to notice which situations, ingredients, places, or routines help or get in your way. • Follow weight trends with Apple Health, without turning every meal into a calorie calculation. ADD CONTEXT ONLY WHEN IT HELPS • Add custom tags for the details that matter to you, such as mood, location, ingredients, or how you felt. • Add a note while logging a meal, then read or edit it directly from the timeline. • Create custom meal types that fit your actual day instead of forcing a fixed meal plan. FIT AWARENESS INTO YOUR DAY • Log meals with Siri, Shortcuts, widgets, or the Action Button when opening the app would slow you down. • Ask Siri to show today's logged meals, or use Shortcuts to retrieve meals for a date range and filter them by healthiness. • Put healthiness, streak, and insight widgets on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. • Toggle meal notifications from Control Centre and let reminders adjust when your time zone changes. YOUR FOOD HISTORY STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Your food history and meal notes stay on your device. Moderation requires no account, sign-up, or social profile, and it contains no ads. WHAT USERS SAY “This is exactly what I was looking for. A very low-fi way to practice mindful eating.” EmilyLT, United Kingdom “It’s so quick to add & tag meals, which stops it being a burden that you eventually forget to do.” Ye-old-farm, United Kingdom “Easy to use especially when not a person who likes to track calories.” R.J.13766, United States TRY IT FREE, UPGRADE WHEN READY Start with the quick check-in and see whether the approach fits your life. An optional Moderation Pro subscription unlocks the complete personalisation toolkit, including unlimited custom tags, custom meal types, extra reminder nudges, premium themes, and alternative app icons. Access to Pro features requires a subscription. Availability and pricing can vary by country. Purchases are managed through your Apple ID, and Restore Purchases is available inside the app. Download Moderation and make your food diary the easiest part of eating more mindfully. Privacy Policy: https://www.pixelfolio.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.pixelfolio.app/terms.html

About

Dining Note

Easily track your daily food and drink intake, including meals and snacks. Record exercise, add photos, and set a password for privacy. Improve your eating habits with simple monthly statistics.

Highlights
  • Record meals and beverages
  • Track exercise
  • Add photos to entries
  • Password protection
  • Customizable themes
  • Monthly statistics
Features
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Try it with the help of the simple diet diary app, 'Dining Note.' Managing your eating habits is the start to a healthy diet. Record your diet every day and improve your eating habits. You can keep track of who you ate with and where you ate, as well as write simple diary entries. Features 1. Record breakfast, lunch, and dinner details 2. Record snacks, coffee, water, and other beverage intake 3. Record exercise details 4. Add photo function 5. Password setting function 6. Theme color change function 7. Simple monthly stats screen

Screenshots

Moderation Mindful Food Diary4 screens
Dining Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dining Note at 4.8 against Moderation Mindful Food Diary's 4.1. Dining Note also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 76%) and ratings volume (857 vs 112). Moderation Mindful Food Diary's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Moderation Mindful Food Diary sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Dining Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dining Note holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dining Note has 857 ratings behind it against 112, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Moderation Mindful Food Diary's written reviews are positive against 94% of Dining Note's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moderation Mindful Food Diary ships an update monthly, Dining Note every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Moderation Mindful Food Diary versus Dining Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModeration Mindful Food DiaryDining Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (112 ratings)4.8 (857 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews93.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112857 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPixelfolio Inc.4th May Games Inc.

Customer experience

Moderation Mindful Food Diary

All ratings112 ratings
Positive73.2%
Neutral11.6%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral5.3%
Negative18.4%

Dining Note

All ratings857 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews359 reviews
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.6%

User reviews

Moderation Mindful Food Diary

From 112 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 👍 Practical and straightforward
  • 👍 Low-fi approach to mindful eating
  • 👍 Good for those who dislike calorie tracking
  • 👍 Motivates healthy habits

Room to improve

  • 👎 Cannot record specific food items
  • 👎 Subjective healthy/unhealthy logging
  • 👎 Time of logging cannot be changed
  • 👎 Requires Apple Health for weight logging
  • 👎 App crashes frequently

Dining Note

From 857 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Straightforward interface
  • 💡 Flexible for recording food intake
  • 🚀 Minimal and non-intrusive
  • 👍 Doesn't focus on calories or weight loss

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or glitches
  • 💡 Limited customization options
  • 💡 Lack of syncing between devices
  • 💡 No notes or mood tracking section

Bugs and requests

Moderation Mindful Food Diary

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Crashes all the time
  • Loses days of data
  • Cannot log weight without enabling Apple Health
  • Time cannot be changed for logged meals
  • App asks for review before setup is complete
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  • UI doesn't handle skipping meals well

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to track images
  • Option to add a 'neutral' meal
  • Ability to remove test data
  • Streak freeze option (like Duolingo)
  • Allow streak to continue if unhealthy meal followed by healthy
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  • More instructions for getting started
  • Option to manage on watch
  • More tags and meal customization in free tier
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Ability to log specific food items
  • Ability to change logging time
  • More insights in future releases

Dining Note

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Swipe up gesture to exit app sometimes doesn't work
  • Photo uploads can be unreliable or cause app to crash
  • Inconsistent behavior when trying to save entries

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit or delete entries
  • Implement time stamps for meals
  • Include option to export data
  • Add more drink categories beyond just water and coffee
  • Integrate with Apple Health or other fitness apps

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Moderation Mindful Food Diary

Subscriptions4
  • Moderation Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.491 Month
  • Moderation Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Moderation Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Moderation Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Kind Tip$0.99
  • Coffee Tip$2.99
  • Amazing Tip$9.99
1 purchases

Dining Note

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Moderation Mindful Food Diary free?
Moderation Mindful Food Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dining Note free?
Dining Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Moderation Mindful Food Diary or Dining Note?
Dining Note is rated higher. Moderation Mindful Food Diary averages 4.1 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while Dining Note averages 4.8 from 857 ratings.
Do Moderation Mindful Food Diary or Dining Note have ads?
Dining Note shows ads; Moderation Mindful Food Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Moderation Mindful Food Diary or Dining Note?
Moderation Mindful Food Diary ships an update monthly, and Dining Note every 5 weeks. Most recently, Moderation Mindful Food Diary was updated on October 20, 2026 and Dining Note on October 17, 2026.

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