Comparison

Dining Note vs Bowelle

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

Head to head
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

About

Bowelle

Easily track your food, mood, and symptoms to identify patterns and potential triggers. Visualize your health data with beautiful charts and export it to share with healthcare professionals.

Highlights
  • Food and symptom tracking
  • Mood and water intake logging
  • Stress level monitoring
  • Bowel movement diary
  • Customizable fields
  • Visual trend charts
  • Data export for doctors
Features
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Bowelle is designed to be the quickest, most easy-to-use food & symptom diary on the App Store. Beautiful visual representations make it easier to discover patterns and determine how you feel over longer periods of time. You can track how you feel, what you eat, water intake, stress levels, bowel movements, notes and custom fields you define. By keeping a diary, you may learn significantly more about your patterns and possible triggers. Bowelle offers: A record of: • How you feel • What you eat • Water intake • Stress levels • Bowel movements • Notes • Custom fields Charts • Visual representations allow you to determine trends and overlap different data types. Daily average • The daily averages are easily accessible from the side menu. • They are also configurable and can be based on the past 7, 14 or 30 days. Alternatively, you can base it on all existing data. History • Use the detailed history to see all data. • Filter it by what you are interested in to narrow down the scope. • Export your data via email and share it with your doctor, nutritionist or dietitian. Apple Health • Sleep, step count, water and weight Download Bowelle now and start keeping a journal today! --- A word from the developer "It is stunning to read studies indicating that as many as 10-20% of the world’s population have IBS. The symptoms can vary so considerably from individual to individual that one may wonder if it is even the same condition. I created Bowelle because there is a need for a fresh and modern approach in the marketplace. If you are reading this, chances are that your symptoms are affecting your life more than you like. By keeping a record every day, my hope is that you will identify some of the triggers causing your symptoms. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to drop me a note at feedback@bowelle.com. I will listen to everything coming my way." - Robert Gummesson --- Terms of Use: https://bowelle.com/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Dining Note4 screens
Bowelle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bowelle at none against Dining Note's shown. Bowelle also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). Dining Note's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Dining Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bowelle sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Dining Note against 4.7 for Bowelle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 867 and 2.2K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Dining Note's written reviews are positive against 92% of Bowelle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dining Note ships an update every 5 weeks, Bowelle every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dining Note versus Bowelle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDining NoteBowelle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (867 ratings) — better4.7 (2.2K ratings)
Positive reviews93.6% of reviews — better92.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8672.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB13 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer4th May Games Inc.Bowelle AB

Customer experience

Dining Note

All ratings857 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews361 reviews
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.6%

Bowelle

All ratings2,248 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews577 reviews
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.1%
Negative4.9%

User reviews

Dining Note

From 867 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

Bowelle

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable
  • 👍 Helpful for tracking symptoms and triggers
  • 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
  • 👍 Useful reports and data visualization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with editing/deleting past entries
  • 🔒 Concerns about data loss or syncing
  • 💡 Limited customization options in free version
  • 💡 Lack of integration with other health apps
  • 💡 Desire for more detailed symptom tracking

Bugs and requests

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

Bowelle

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Issues with data display or loading

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to add time stamps for symptoms
  • Option to track exercise, medications, and other health factors
  • More detailed food logging with food database integration
  • Sync across multiple devices
  • Expanded customization options in free version

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dining Note

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Premium$2.99
9 purchases

Bowelle

Subscriptions9
  • Bowelle Premium$2.491 Month
  • Bowelle Premium1 Month trial$3.491 Month
  • Bowelle Premium$3.991 Month
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  • Bowelle Premium$4.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium3 Months trial2 variants$6.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium$7.993 Months
  • Bowelle Premium$9.991 Year
  • Bowelle Premium1 Year trial$14.991 Year
  • Bowelle Premium$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Dining Note free?
Dining Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bowelle free?
Bowelle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dining Note or Bowelle?
Dining Note is rated higher. Dining Note averages 4.8 out of 5 from 867 ratings, while Bowelle averages 4.7 from 2.2K ratings.
Do Dining Note or Bowelle have ads?
Dining Note shows ads; Bowelle does not.
Which is updated more often, Dining Note or Bowelle?
Dining Note ships an update every 5 weeks, and Bowelle every 8 days. Most recently, Dining Note was updated on October 26, 2026 and Bowelle on October 25, 2026.

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