Comparison

Syd vs The CalorieFinder

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

Head to head
About

Syd

An AI-powered mentor offers personalized, science-backed recommendations for improving your life quality, covering physical and emotional health, finances, and social well-being. Access educational resources and gain self-awareness through AI-driven insights.

Highlights
  • AI Life Quality Mentor
  • Personalized, science-backed recommendations
  • Evidence-based insights
  • Education Hub with articles and resources
  • Life Quality Index™ tracking
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Discover the life you love with syd™ We all want to uncover our potential to enjoy fulfilling and healthy lives — but often we limit ourselves by the choices we make. Be it striving to find your purpose or optimising your health, you will reach your goal faster with the support of your AI-powered Life Quality Mentor – syd™, available at your fingertips. With the syd™ Super-App, you can get powerful personalised science-backed recommendations and support to discover your pathway towards a life you love. AI Life Quality Mentor: Chat with syd™, your AI Life Quality Mentor, anytime about anything - from physical and emotional health to financial wellbeing, social life, and more. syd™’s responses and guidance are personalised and evidence-based, helping you navigate every aspect of your life quality with confidence. Evidence-Based Recommendations: syd™’s AI is trained on 1.2 million scientific studies and 8.3 billion person-years of data to deliver recommendations that are not only personalised, but proven. Education Hub: Access a library of articles, meditations, recipes, and science-backed resources designed to help you build healthier habits and understand yourself better. Personal Insights: Gain deeper self-awareness through AI-powered insights into your mood, personality, stress, and Life Quality Index™ - revealing patterns, highlighting opportunities for growth, and supporting meaningful, lasting improvements in your life quality. Our proven AI platform is backed by a team of dedicated scientists, mathematicians, engineers and creatives; bringing together the very best in research, global data and genetics – applied for the benefit of entire communities. Integrate Apple Health with syd™ to synchronize and view your biometrics right in the app to tailor recommendations, motivate, and track goal progression. Privacy is at the core of everything we do and we mean it – read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://syd.iamyiam.com/en/terms/ Privacy notice: https://syd.iamyiam.com/en/user-privacy/ Our platform and services contain general medical information. The information is not medical advice, and should not be treated as such.

About

The CalorieFinder

Features
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The CalorieFinder is a powerful and user-friendly food and nutrition app, designed to help you keep a record of your daily foods and drinks, and also to develop recipes and obtain detailed nutritional information of your recipes and meals. The CalorieFinder is designed for individual (private) and for business use. For individuals, The CalorieFinder is more than a calorie counter app; it is also a meal tracker where you can: *Record your eating habits (sometimes to the interest of your nutritionist, dietician or general practitioner) *Check the nutrition information of thousands of commonly consumed foods from around the world (this provides a valuable insight into which foods can help you meet your target, see the protein or fat content in one food for example and how it compares to another food) *Develop recipes *Use the calorie counter to design your recipes, type to search ingredients and confirm the weights, and obtain detailed nutritional information of these recipes (calories and other nutrients breakdown of your recipes) *Build your own personal food gallery *Track the nutritional values of your daily foods and drinks including values for protein, fats, saturated fats, carbohydrates, sugars and salt. *Easily save and find your saved items *Build a community of like-minded individuals *Share images of your latest recipes with other individuals in your network *Be inspired by other's recipes on the platform *Our support team available to help *Have direct access to our blog, constantly updated with nutritional research, to facilitate our understanding of foods and how the foods we eat nourish the body, thus helping us create a better relationship with our foods as we age. The CalorieFinder is a must-have for every nutritionist, food consultant, catering manager, chef, canteen, fitness centre, hospitality business and the staff members including managers, baristas, barkeeper, waiter as every member of a team needs to know and understand the ingredients that goes in every single dish or cocktail. For businesses, The CalorieFinder is more of a recipe development app that allows a business to enrol many sites or sections for their business and allow every site to store their recipes while also sharing with the teams member securely. In addition to the features listed above, businesses can also *Build a network of like-minded professional *Check the calories and nutrient breakdown of their recipes *Share images of your latest recipes to showcase your food products and catalogue by sharing on TCF *Build your own recipes gallery. The CalorieFinder: Your Ultimate Food and Nutrition Companion. Whether you're a health-conscious individual, a fitness enthusiast, a food business with multiples sites or, simply curious about the nutritional content of any ingredient or recipe, The CalorieFinder is here to assist you. The app is also collaborative as we do allow users to add pictures and the nutritional data of any ingredient or food product we do not have on the database (please allow 24hrs for verification and validation). The CalorieFinder is free to download for personal use, giving access to 4 (four) recipes analysis a day (presumably breakfast, lunch, a snack and dinner). For the full experience, The CalorieFinder app is available at a premium, depending on the option you choose with an annual subscription fee. By subscribing, you acknowledge to agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy below: https://thecaloriefinder.com/term-and-conditions/ https://thecaloriefinder.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Syd4 screens
The CalorieFinder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: The CalorieFinder at 13.0 against Syd's 15.1. 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. Syd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $24.99 per month and The CalorieFinder sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $50.00 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Syd ships an update every 3 weeks, The CalorieFinder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Syd versus The CalorieFinder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSydThe CalorieFinder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size263 MB62 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperiamYiamThe CalorieFinder Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Syd

Subscriptions1
  • Discovery Membership$24.991 Month
5 purchases

The CalorieFinder

Subscriptions5
  • Personal Premium$50.006 Months
  • Business Silver$200.006 Months
  • Business Gold$399.006 Months
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  • Business Platinum$600.006 Months
  • Business Unlimited$699.996 Months

Questions

Is Syd free?
Syd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The CalorieFinder free?
The CalorieFinder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Syd or The CalorieFinder have ads?
Neither Syd nor The CalorieFinder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Syd or The CalorieFinder?
Syd ships an update every 3 weeks, and The CalorieFinder every 2 weeks. Most recently, Syd was updated on November 6, 2026 and The CalorieFinder on November 3, 2026.

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