Eatlist vs Barfly Diners
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eatlist
Record your dining experiences by logging restaurants visited and dishes enjoyed. Add notes, photos, and track visit frequency to build a personal culinary history. Share your favorite spots with friends.
- Restaurant search and logging
- Menu item notes
- Photo reviews with suggestions
- Visit frequency tracking
- Share favorite places
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Keep a dining journal by tracking all the great restaurants you've visited and what you've eaten there. Features: - Quickly search for a restaurant and add it to your list - Keep notes on menu items you've tried and what you liked - Add photos to your restaurants reviews & get photo suggestions automatically - Track the number of times you've visited a restaurant Coming soon: - Easily share your favorite places with friends
Barfly Diners
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Never forget a good bar again. Barfly Diners is a private journal for people who love bars — the neighborhood spot, the ice house, the dive, the cocktail room. Save the places you love, skip the ones you didn't, and remember the details that make a regular a regular: the bartender's name, what you drank, who you met, where to sit. YOUR JOURNAL, NOT A FEED • Love it, put it On the List, or Pass — your call, your notes • Remember staff, go-to drinks, people you met, and visit history • Search everything — places, notes, people • Photos, visit notes, and "get there before 6 on Fridays" wisdom FIND YOUR NEXT SPOT • "I'm here now" — one tap logs where you're sitting • Places near me — see what's around, spot the ones you've already loved • Plan a trip — search another city without saving anything PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No social feed. No ads. • Your journal lives on your device — not on our servers • Optional auto-backup is encrypted on your phone before it leaves; we store bytes we cannot read. Your recovery code is the only key. • Share one journal with your partner: same code, both phones, always in sync FOR PEOPLE WHO SIT AT THE BAR Barfly Diners is made by barflies, for barflies — the people who know the staff, tip well, and always have a recommendation. Pull up to the bar. Barfly Diners is for adults 21 and over (18+ rating). Drink responsibly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Barfly Diners at 3 against Eatlist's 1. Barfly Diners also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Eatlist ships an update every 3 weeks, Barfly Diners every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eatlist | Barfly Diners |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (63 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cortado Labs, LLC | Barfly Diners |
In-app purchases
Eatlist
No in-app purchases
Barfly Diners
No in-app purchases









