Truffle vs Edible Dialect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Truffle
This social app helps you track restaurants you've visited or want to visit, either for personal journaling or with friends. Enjoy a pressure-free experience without rankings or mandatory reviews, and visualize your tracked spots on a shared map.
- Social restaurant tracking
- Personal restaurant journal
- Connect with foodie friends
- No ranking or review pressure
- Map of tracked restaurants
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Truffle is the social restaurant tracking app. Key features: - Connect with foodie friends or use Truffle as a restaurant journal for yourself. We’re flexible - Enjoy a non-ranking system and no pressure to post photos, write reviews, or broadcast yourself (but you can, if you want) - See all your and your friends' tracked restaurants on the Truffle map
Edible Dialect
This app provides a single, trustworthy score for nearly 25,000 New York City restaurants by aggregating ratings from various sources. It offers personalized dining recommendations and allows users to see how each score is calculated.
- Single, aggregated restaurant score (0-100)
- Personalized dining recommendations
- Detailed score breakdown by source
- Covers nearly 25,000 NYC restaurants
- Natural language search for restaurants
- Saves favorite restaurants
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One score you can trust for nearly 25,000 New York City restaurants. Edible Dialect gathers ratings from across the review landscape — crowd platforms, critics, and specialists — and distills them into a single, honest number: the Edible Score, from 0 to 100. No more juggling five apps and five different star systems. One place. One score. Real signal. WHY EDIBLE DIALECT One score, not five tabs - Every restaurant gets a single 0–100 Edible Score built from real ratings across trusted sources. Your personal dining concierge - Ask for a plan and get specific recommendations with reservation and directions links. No black box - Tap any restaurant to see exactly how its score was built, source by source. Nothing hidden, nothing curved. Nearly 25,000 NYC restaurants - Five boroughs, every neighborhood. Search the way you talk - Type "Thai in Astoria" and get real results. Recognition counts - Restaurants earning major guide recognition or national culinary awards get credit for it. Save your list - Heart what you love; scores stay current. HONEST BY DESIGN - We never subtract. A restaurant no critic covered isn't punished for it, and we don't rank restaurants against each other. No account required. Made in New York, for New York.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Edible Dialect at 100% against Truffle's 65%. Edible Dialect also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Truffle's advantage is ratings volume (336 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Truffle sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Edible Dialect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Edible Dialect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Truffle has 336 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Truffle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Edible Dialect's.
| Parameter | Truffle | Edible Dialect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (336 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 336 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Reeltalk INC. | Overview Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Truffle
Edible Dialect
Bugs and requests
Truffle
Reported bugs
5 issues- SMS verification code not being sent to users
- Photos shuffle from their original upload order
- Private account photos remain public by default
- Text verification not working in UK
- Photos not displaying in chronological order
Requested features
11 requests- Star rating system for meals and restaurants
- Ability to rate restaurants on profile alongside reviews
- Social features to view and sort other users' reviews
- Photo sorting by chronological order of addition
- Option to set photos as private by default
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- Ability to assign rankings to restaurants
- Feature to track who you dined with (friends vs. family)
- Ability to note what was ordered at each restaurant
- Integration of photos from Google, Yelp, and Facebook
- Ad-supported free tier option
- Free trial period before subscription
Edible Dialect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Truffle
- Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Edible Dialect
No in-app purchases









