Comparison

Share Meals vs Deficit

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

Head to head
About

Share Meals

Discover free food resources in your area and connect with communities dedicated to food sharing and security. Find information on food pantries, meal programs, and more.

Highlights
  • Find free food resources
  • Connect with food sharing communities
  • Boost food security
  • Locate food pantries
  • Information on meal programs
Features
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Find free food resources near you with ease. Connect with communities focused on sharing food and boosting food security. Share and find information about free food, food pantries, meal swipes, meal programs, and more.

About

Deficit

This app provides a personalized daily plan for athletes to manage their weight cuts. It calculates exact food, drink, and training targets to ensure weigh-in success. Features include adaptive planning, progress tracking, and sport-specific tools.

Highlights
  • Adaptive daily weight cut plans
  • Personalized food, drink, and training targets
  • Progress tracking and adherence scoring
  • Sport-specific tools (conditioning, e1RM)
  • Weight-class suggestions
  • Competition day water and sodium scripting
  • Safety ceilings and nutritional floors
Features
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Fighters. Powerlifters. Olympic weightlifters. One bad week of guessing on the scale can undo a whole camp. If you cut weight and weigh in to compete, Deficit does your cut math for you. One number to hit each day. Eat this. Drink this. Train this. Until the scale just works. Not built for the aesthetic gym goer, but for athletes that perform. WHY DEFICIT • Your Atlas: a day-by-day plan charted in advance by an adaptive engine, not generated on the fly, not a chatbot guessing at your macros • A coach that reads your plan and edits it back: ask for more carbs on lift days, a looser deficit, why today's number moved • Log what you eat, by text or photo. The engine trues up your plan against it instead of handing you a ticker and walking away • Weekly check-ins score your adherence and your trend, then re-chart every remaining day • Sport-specific tools: a conditioning log for combat athletes and top-set/e1RM tracking for lifters. Both feed the macro math • Weight-class suggestions pulled from your own data • Water and sodium sized to your weigh-in window, with a step-by-step script for competition day • Hard safety ceiling: 8% max cut for strength, 15% for combat, a protein floor of 0.8 g/lb that never drops, no diuretics, no laxatives • Made-Weight Record and year-round coaching between camps. Deficit doesn't stop when your camp closes Make weight. Not decisions. $9.99/month. Free for 7 days, so you run a real cut before you pay a cent. Cancel anytime. Subscription auto-renews monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.getdeficit.com/privacy

Screenshots

Share Meals4 screens
Deficit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deficit at 100% against Share Meals's 50%. Deficit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Share Meals's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads and device support 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. Deficit sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Share Meals asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Deficit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Share Meals has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Share Meals's written reviews are positive against 100% of Deficit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Share Meals ships an update monthly, Deficit weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Share Meals versus Deficit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShare MealsDeficit
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (13 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperShare Meals United, Inc.Mark Calip

Customer experience

Share Meals

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Deficit

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

In-app purchases

None

Share Meals

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Deficit

Subscriptions1
  • Deficit Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Share Meals free?
Share Meals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deficit free?
Deficit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Share Meals or Deficit?
Deficit is rated higher. Share Meals averages 3.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Deficit averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Share Meals or Deficit have ads?
Neither Share Meals nor Deficit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Share Meals or Deficit?
Share Meals ships an update monthly, and Deficit weekly. Most recently, Share Meals was updated on October 29, 2026 and Deficit on October 24, 2026.

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