Comparison

Dining Note vs Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

Intuitive Eating Buddy

This app helps you develop a more natural and intuitive relationship with food by tracking meals, body cues, and lifestyle factors. It aims to quiet the "food noise" associated with dieting and calorie counting, promoting sustainable weight management through awareness and personalized challenges.

Highlights
  • Log meals, hunger, and fullness
  • Track mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks
  • Add context with notes and tags
  • Identify eating patterns over time
  • Choose personalized challenges for change
Features
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Did you know that only 2 in 10 people who diet or count calories manage to keep the weight off? And, at the same time, more than 3 in 10 people end up gaining more weight than before they started. So chances are, dieting or counting calories will leave you worse off overall. Eating Buddy offers a different approach Your body is designed to regulate weight naturally. But highly processed foods, dieting, and chronic stress can override its signals to a point where eating feels out of control. That’s where Eating Buddy steps in. It helps you return to a more natural, intuitive way of eating through awareness. How it works Log meals and body cues in seconds: Quickly log meals, hunger, and fullness to build awareness. Track what affects your eating: Note mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks to see what influences how you eat. Reflect and organize: Use notes or tags to add context and categorize meals. See Patterns over time: Eating Buddy helps surface patterns so connections become easier to notice. Choose challenges that fit you: Based on your patterns, pick supportive challenges to focus on one small, meaningful change at a time. If you are tired of starting over with dieting and want a calmer, more sustainable way to relate to food, download Eating Buddy now to get started. -------------------------- We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans for our optional challenges system. Both plans include a one-week free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our terms of use at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula and our privacy policy at https://www.eatingbuddy.app/privacy-policy .

Screenshots

Dining Note4 screens
Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Intuitive Eating Buddy at none against Dining Note's shown. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). Dining Note's advantage is ratings volume (857 vs 192) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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 Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 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 4.8 for Intuitive Eating Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 857 and 192 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Dining Note's written reviews are positive against 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dining Note ships an update every 5 weeks, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dining Note versus Intuitive Eating Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDining NoteIntuitive Eating Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (857 ratings)4.8 (192 ratings)
Positive reviews93.6% of reviews — better89.3% of reviews
Number of ratings857 — better192
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer4th May Games Inc.Sagital SRL

Customer experience

Dining Note

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

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings192 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

User reviews

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

Intuitive Eating Buddy

From 192 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and understand
  • 💡 Focuses on awareness, not calorie counting
  • 💡 Non-judgmental approach to eating
  • 💡 Helps track potential problem foods
  • 💡 Provides structure for intuitive eating

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes after logging meals (recent update)
  • 🐛 App is useless if 'log meal' button doesn't work
  • 🐛 Intro message can be off-putting (e.g., 'don't eat processed food')
  • 🐛 Feels like diet culture to some users
  • 🐛 Basic reports with no analysis

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

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App kicks user out after logging a meal (recent update)
  • Nothing happens when clicking 'log meal' button
  • Notes and tags not displayed in timeline (initially)
  • Dates in timeline are a day behind

Requested features

25 requests
  • Add 'bites' as a unit of measure
  • Allow soft drinks to be added to total drinks
  • Discourage eating when 'ravenous'
  • Allow selection of multiple hunger levels for prompts
  • More articles within the app
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  • Community feature for users to connect
  • Ability to add movement not tied to Apple Watch (manual add)
  • Sync data between devices
  • More analysis and recommendations in reports
  • Make it a one-time payment ($24.99) instead of subscription
  • Add a button for medication/vitamins and water logging
  • Create a separate app for medication, vitamins, and water
  • Log hydration
  • Change 'Satisfied' to 'Slightly full' or 'Satiated' on fullness scale
  • Option to choose how you're feeling *after* eating
  • Ability to adjust the time of logged food
  • More options for describing food amounts (cup, tablespoon)
  • Option to take a picture of the meal and add to log
  • Change timeline order so most recent meal is at the bottom
  • Expand serving/after meal dropdown on 3D Touch or long press
  • Option to select how you're feeling without logging meals
  • More options for reasons for eating when not hungry
  • Integrate with Apple Health for hydration and workout data
  • Set reminders for regular check-ins
  • Display notes and tags in the timeline

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dining Note

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Premium$2.99
2 purchases

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Dining Note free?
Dining Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dining Note or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Dining Note and Intuitive Eating Buddy are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 857 and 192 ratings respectively.
Do Dining Note or Intuitive Eating Buddy have ads?
Dining Note shows ads; Intuitive Eating Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Dining Note or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Dining Note ships an update every 5 weeks, and Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. Most recently, Dining Note was updated on October 17, 2026 and Intuitive Eating Buddy on October 20, 2026.

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