Comparison

Eatlist vs Barfly Diners

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Restaurant search and logging
  • Menu item notes
  • Photo reviews with suggestions
  • Visit frequency tracking
  • Share favorite places
Features
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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

About

Barfly Diners

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Eatlist4 screens
Barfly Diners4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Eatlist versus Barfly Diners: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEatlistBarfly Diners
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (63 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings63 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB8 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCortado Labs, LLCBarfly Diners

In-app purchases

None

Eatlist

No in-app purchases

None

Barfly Diners

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eatlist free?
Eatlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Barfly Diners free?
Barfly Diners is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Eatlist or Barfly Diners have ads?
Neither Eatlist nor Barfly Diners shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eatlist or Barfly Diners?
Eatlist ships an update every 3 weeks, and Barfly Diners every 2 weeks. Most recently, Eatlist was updated on November 2, 2026 and Barfly Diners on October 31, 2026.

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