Mensa Dresden vs SmarTasty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Mensa Dresden
View daily menus for canteens in Dresden, perfect for students. Track your Emeal balance, view transaction history, and filter meals by allergies or ingredients.
- Daily canteen menus
- Emeal balance check
- Transaction history
- Allergy filtering
- Ingredient filtering
Read full descriptionHide full description
See what's for lunch (or dinner) at Dresden's canteens today. Ideal for any hungry student at TU Dresden, HTW Dresden or other universities and schools in the city. Need to know how much money is still left on your Emeal? Just scan it. Additionally you can enter your Autoload credentials and have the app show you a list of your recent transactions. Be sure to check the settings to note any allergies or unwanted ingredients so as to find your favorite meal even quicker.
SmarTasty
Read full descriptionHide full description
Snap a photo, see the calories. SmarTasty recognizes the food in your photo, estimates calories and nutrition and shows your whole day on one page. Plus over 3,500 recipes and a meal plan that writes your grocery list. Every recipe is cooked without refined sugar and without industrial seed oils. Each one shows the nutrition per serving and, at a glance, how balanced it is. TODAY Calories, protein, carbs and fat, with your meals and photos underneath, plus water, weight, steps and training. Log food by photo, text, barcode or search โ you check and save. PHOTO SCAN One photo is enough: Photo Scan finds the ingredients, estimates the amounts and works out calories and nutrition. You see every ingredient and can change it. VITAMINS AND MINERALS See how much of your daily needs is in your food โ for recipes and for the meals you log. Free: your 3 best values of the day in your diary; with Premium all 21 โ plus what you're still missing, with foods that fill the gap. HEALTH Activity, nutrition, water, weight, sleep and recovery on one page, over 7 or 30 days. Connect Apple Health if you like, so your daily goal matches how active you are. WEEKLY REVIEW Your week at a glance: Health Score, SmarTasty Age, sleep, activity, weight and water โ and how many days you logged. MEAL PLANNER Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for 1, 3 or 7 days. Put it together yourself or let the app build it in a few steps โ to suit how you eat. SHOPPING LIST One tap moves your meal plan onto your grocery list. The same ingredients share one line, sorted by supermarket aisle. RECIPES Over 3,500 recipes: vegetarian, vegan, high protein, low carb, gluten-free, quick and seasonal. With nutrition, servings you can scale and tips for swapping ingredients. Measurements are metric for now. RECIPE IMPORT Save recipes from Reels, websites or photos โ with ingredients, steps and estimated nutrition. INTERMITTENT FASTING 16:8, 18:6 or 20:4 โ with an end time, a weekly overview and a notification when your fast is over. HEALTH COACH The Coach shows you what stands out in your week: food, nutrients and calories โ with Apple Health also sleep and steps. Ask about your day; it suggests recipes when you ask for them. FREE AND PREMIUM SmarTasty is free to use, with no banner ads. Recipes, meal planner, shopping list, pantry, food diary, your Health Score number and your SmarTasty Age are free. Logging by text, barcode and search has no limit. Each week you also get 3 photos for Photo Scan, 1 question to the Health Coach, 3 recipe imports, 1 pantry scan and 1 supplement scan. Your health history is free for up to 1 year. If you joined before version 1.2.4, you keep your previous limits. SmarTasty Premium removes these limits. You also see the 5 areas of your Health Score, all 21 vitamins and minerals with what you are still missing today, and your history across all years. New users get a trial week: 7 days of Premium, no payment details โ it ends by itself. Premium costs โฌ7.99 a month or โฌ39.99 a year (prices in Germany โ the App Store shows the price for your country before you buy). Founder price until 28 Feb 2027: the first year for โฌ19.99, then โฌ39.99 a year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://smartasty.app/privacy SmarTasty is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or dietitian. Recipe photos are created with AI.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mensa Dresden at none against SmarTasty's 2. Mensa Dresden also leads on ads (none vs shown). SmarTasty's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SmarTasty sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Mensa Dresden asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mensa Dresden ships an update every 2 months, SmarTasty every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mensa Dresden | SmarTasty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kilian Koeltzsch | Daniel Lehner |
In-app purchases
Mensa Dresden
No in-app purchases
SmarTasty
- SmarTasty Premium (monthly)$7.991 Month
- SmarTasty Premium (yearly)1 Year trial$39.991 Year









