Comparison

Breasy vs Smackerel

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

Head to head
About

Breasy

Pay for vending machine products using your payment card, eliminating the need for cash or keys. Connect via Bluetooth to compatible machines and manage queues efficiently. Enjoy a seamless and secure coffee break experience.

Highlights
  • Contactless payment via payment card
  • Bluetooth connectivity to vending machines
  • Secure Masterpass™ integration
  • Queue management system
  • Add cash or credit card
  • Product selection
Features
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Revolutionise your coffee break with Breasy and your payment card and forget about your key! Breasy lets you pay for products in any vending machine simply and securely, with no additional cost: look for the Breasy and Masterpass™ logos on the machine. Thanks to Bluetooth 4.0 technology you can connect to any Hi! system equipped vending machine and make a secure payment thanks to Masterpass™ in cash or by credit card so you don't have to go without your coffee. Breasy also manages queues intelligently and lets you know when it's your turn. - Download Breasy - Login or Register - Activate Bluetooth and location services - Choose the vending machine you want to connect to (look at the number on the label) - Top up with cash or register your credit card (Mastercard & Visa) - Choose the product Tutorials @breasy.coffee/en#section-experience support@breasy.coffee

About

Smackerel

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Smackerel is a personal food journal built for one person: you. Snap a photo of what you're eating, give it a name, and a couple of hours later rate it — right from your lock screen. Do that a few times and something quietly remarkable happens: Smackerel starts to know your palate. Not a star average. Not a crowd score. Your taste fingerprint — the smoky, the charred, the spicy, the things you reach for and the things you quietly push aside. BUILD YOUR TASTE FINGERPRINT The Palate tab is the heart of Smackerel. As you log meals and jot a line about each one, an on-device model reads your notes and sketches your taste over time: • Three dials — Spice, Salt, Richness — tuned to how you actually eat • "You gravitate to" and "you steer clear of" word lists, drawn from your own words • A running feed of small discoveries: "You go for smoky and charred edges," "Numbing-tingly heat agrees with you" It gets sharper every time you log. The magic is silent — there's no chatbot, no "Ask AI" button. Your palate just grows with you. ONE TAP TO LOG Logging a meal is featherweight. Snap, name it, save. The thoughtful part — the rating and the note — comes later, when a gentle reminder lands on your lock screen: "How was the koji-aged ribeye?" Tap Love, Good, Mid, Meh, or No without even opening the app. Already have a camera roll full of meals? Import them in a batch; Smackerel reads the date and location and suggests the restaurant for you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts. No login. Ever. • No ads, no feed, no social, no noise. • Your photos stay in your own Apple Photos library — Smackerel never deletes them. • Your palate is built on-device with Apple Intelligence. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to turn on the optional frontier-model boost. A LITTLE HISTORY Years ago, just before Instagram, I built a small app called dish-on-it: photograph your food, rate it, and find the best version of the dish you were craving. People used it for two things — keeping a private journal of what they ate, and quietly sharing what was good with the people they trusted. Then Instagram arrived and we moved on. Years later, backpacking around the world, a friend asked: "Do you have a list of restaurants you love?" They knew my taste. I wished I still had that little app. So I built it again — this time completely private, just for the joy of remembering what you ate and discovering who you are at the table. Today, Smackerel is a smart journal. Tomorrow it may become more. This is a project I built for friends and family, and you're welcome to use it. If you like it, help me make it better. If you don't… well, delete it then. Hello, Smackerel. Available on iPhone (iOS 26 or later). Uses on-device Apple Intelligence, with optional escalation to frontier models (Anthropic). Some mackerel were sustainably harmed and enjoyed as sushi in the making of this app.

Screenshots

Breasy4 screens
Smackerel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Breasy at 3 against Smackerel's 1. Breasy also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Breasy versus Smackerel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreasySmackerel
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews18.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvoca S.p.A.Nikhil Hasija

In-app purchases

None

Breasy

No in-app purchases

None

Smackerel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breasy free?
Breasy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smackerel free?
Smackerel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Breasy or Smackerel have ads?
Neither Breasy nor Smackerel shows ads.

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