Comparison

foodious vs Active Stretch

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

Head to head
About

foodious

Discover recipes tailored to your lifestyle, dietary needs, and nutritional goals. This app offers detailed ingredient classifications for allergens, diets, and nutritional content, helping you find or adapt meals to fit your specific requirements.

Highlights
  • Lifestyle-aligned recipe discovery
  • Allergen and diet filtering
  • Detailed nutritional information per ingredient
  • Related recipe suggestions
  • Recipe variation options
  • Dynamic and normalized data
Features
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foodious is a unique and powerful recipe and nutrition application that allows you to discovery recipes that best fit your lifestyle. whether you're trying to avoid allergens, have specific nutritional goals, or are following a specific diet, foodious has rich ingredient classification data that allows for very specific discovery of the recipes that meet your goals. each ingredient is classified as to whether it's one of the major allergens (gluten, dairy, soy, etc), as well as whether it's paleo, vegan, vegetarian (etc). this ingredient data is rolled up into recipes to determine the overall characteristics of the recipe itself. each ingredient is also linked to it's nutritional data, so foodious can display which ingredient is contributing to the nutrition of the recipe (calories, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, sodium, etc) and how much. foodious will also suggest related recipes, which are discovered by comparing each ingredient in the recipe (and the diets it conforms to) to the ingredients in other recipes and thereby discovering recipes that share similar ingredients as well as diets. foodious will also present recipe variations when possible, which can be used to modify a given recipe and make it gluten-free, or low-sodium, or shellfish free (etc). what makes foodious different is that the recipe and ingredient data is both rich, dynamic, and highly normalized, so foodious treats recipes and ingredients as data, all of which makes foodious a very powerful recipe and nutrition discovery application. this app is designed to work with the foodious website (https://www.foodious.com), which is the data provider for the the app itself.

About

Active Stretch

Features
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Book your appointment without hassle using the Active Stretch app. View available appointment times, choose a time that works for you, and book your session.

Screenshots

foodious4 screens
Active Stretch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: foodious at every 8 days against Active Stretch's every 10 months. Active Stretch's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

foodious ships an update every 8 days, Active Stretch every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
foodious versus Active Stretch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfoodiousActive Stretch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTom LarameeGeisler Young

In-app purchases

None

foodious

No in-app purchases

None

Active Stretch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is foodious free?
foodious is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Active Stretch free?
Active Stretch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do foodious or Active Stretch have ads?
Neither foodious nor Active Stretch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, foodious or Active Stretch?
foodious ships an update every 8 days, and Active Stretch every 10 months. Most recently, foodious was updated on October 24, 2026 and Active Stretch on October 4, 2026.

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