Weighed vs Budgie Diet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weighed
This app helps you control your body weight by tracking progress towards your goals. It sets achievable weekly targets, uses a moving average to estimate completion time, and offers location-based reminders. Seamlessly syncs with Apple Health and iCloud.
- Weight and body fat tracking
- Goal setting (lose, maintain, gain)
- Weekly target setting
- Moving average progress estimation
- Location-based reminders
- Apple Health integration
- iCloud data synchronization
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Weight and Body Fat Tracker - 100% Free Weighed makes it easy to control your body weight by showing your true progress, helping you to stay focused and meet your body goals. Start making progress today! GOALS - LOSE | MAINTAIN | GAIN: Set a goal to lose, gain, or maintain your body weight and Weighed will help you meet your target, a moving average is used to estimate the time to completion so that occasional blips don’t disrupt your progress. When you use Weighed to track your weight & body fat, the App sets achievable targets each week and tracks your progress towards your goal. By logging on a regular basis, the up and down fluctuations of your weight don’t disguise your true progress. WEEKLY TARGETS: Weekly targets provide short-term, achievable aims. By focusing on your target for the week not the end result, your goal is broken down into small, easy steps and daunting changes are less intimidating. REMINDERS: Receive reminders to record your weight or body fat % at specified time & days, or when entering or leaving a location. APPLE HEALTH: Integrating Weighed with Apple Health allows you to use other applications, and third-party devices as data sources. Data can be automatically imported from Apple Health and Weighed can share entries with Apple Health so that other applications can use the data. iCLOUD: Weighed synchronises your data between devices automatically using iCloud. Record your entries on your iPhone, and review your progress on your iPad. Privacy policy: https://narwahle.github.io/octiron-public/weighed/pages/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://narwahle.github.io/octiron-public/weighed/pages/terms-of-use.html
Budgie Diet
This app dynamically adjusts your daily calorie budget based on your real-time activity and past performance. It helps you track food intake, water consumption, and weight progress against your set goals, all while prioritizing user privacy and offering a completely free, ad-free experience.
- Dynamic calorie budgeting
- Activity-based targets
- Weight and water tracking
- OpenFoodFacts database integration
- Apple Health sync
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Privacy-focused, no account needed
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Rather than using fixed calorie targets that don’t flex with your actual activity, Budgie Diet uses your real calorie burn plus your past performance to estimate a budget for you - how much you can eat while still keeping to your goals. Just one glance and it’ll tell you both how much it thinks you have left to eat for the day, and what you can eat right now without having nothing left for later! Not only that, it helps track your water and assess how your weight progress is doing against the goals you set. Unlike some other calorie tracker apps, Budgie Diet is completely free and ad-free and always will be - no features are gated behind a subscription, you'll never see any ads, nothing will track you, you don't even have to register an account or even give your name! Budgie Diet takes just a minute to set up and can give you guidance instantly, and all your information stays private and on your device and on your iCloud. Features include: * Meaningful calorie targets and guidance, based on your goals and real-world activity data! * Pick a calorie goal based on your needs and what you want to achieve! Tweak it at any time! * Track your weight over time, and see estimates of how long it will take you to reach your goals! * Log and track calories, water, macros and your weight, all from Budgie Diet! * Search the free OpenFoodFacts database for packaged foods - no login required! * Already log your food, water or weight with another app and like it? No problem - Budgie can grab data from Apple Health! * Home and lock screen widgets, to see your current budget status at a glance! * Charts that can show you your performance against your current goal - even from before you used Budgie Diet! * Want to base your budget on your Apple Fitness move goal? No problem! * Bulking? Turn on surplus mode and Budgie Diet will help you get your gains! * Use Shortcuts to log food and water or check your budget, via Siri or via any other shortcut you choose! * Complete privacy - no need for an account, and all your data stays private * Syncs with iCloud to keep your data safe and secure * One minute to set up, and Budgie Diet’s ready to go! * No ads! No tracking! No nonsense! * Cute bird mascot! * Apple Watch companion app with quick food and water logging! * Whales for some reason! DISCLAIMER: Budgie Diet is for information purposes only, and its suggestions are not a substitute for professional medical advice. It's best to consult your doctor before starting any new diet plan. Weight changes achieved will vary depending on personal habits and other factors unique to individuals, and suggested results are for guidance only. Estimates created by Budgie Diet are inherently uncertain and will be based on data from multiple sources that could be inaccurate or totally wrong.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Budgie Diet at weekly against Weighed's every 3 months. Budgie Diet also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium). Weighed's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. Weighed sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Budgie Diet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Weighed against 5.0 for Budgie Diet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Weighed ships an update every 3 months, Budgie Diet weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weighed | Budgie Diet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tom Hunt | Joseph James Baldwin |
Customer experience
Weighed
Budgie Diet
In-app purchases
Weighed
- Pro Monthly14 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Pro Yearly14 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Nice Tip$0.99
- Generous Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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- Huge Tip$9.99
- Pro Lifetime$19.99
Budgie Diet
- Protein Bar$2.99









