Comparison

Prevent overeating vs Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Prevent overeating

Features
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▼ Usage ▼ Register the "name," "daily limit," and "end time" of the food you are eating while studying or working. Enter the time when you usually finish eating in the "End time" field. If you don't have a specific time, you can use the default value (23:59). Once you have registered, the information you have registered will be displayed in the list. When you have eaten, you can manage the number of food you have eaten by pressing the plus button on the list. If you accidentally press the plus button, you can use the minus button to reduce the number. To avoid overeating, the time to eat next is calculated backwards from the registered "end time". If you eat too fast, a message will be displayed. ▼ Recommended usage ▼ This is recommended for people who eat too much of the following items ・Gum ・Candy ・Chocolate ・Gummies ・Mint tablets ・Sweets etc. Take care of your health and refresh yourself in moderation.

About

Intuitive Eating Buddy

This app guides you toward a more natural way of eating by building awareness of your body's signals. Log meals, hunger, and fullness, and track factors like mood and sleep to understand your eating patterns. It offers supportive challenges to help you make small, sustainable changes for a healthier relationship with food.

Highlights
  • Log meals, hunger, and fullness
  • Track mood, workouts, and sleep
  • Add notes and tags for context
  • Identify patterns over time
  • Choose supportive challenges
  • Build a better relationship with food
Features
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Did you know that only 2 in 10 people who diet or count calories manage to keep the weight off? And, at the same time, more than 3 in 10 people end up gaining more weight than before they started. So chances are, dieting or counting calories will leave you worse off overall. Eating Buddy offers a different approach Your body is designed to regulate weight naturally. But highly processed foods, dieting, and chronic stress can override its signals to a point where eating feels out of control. That’s where Eating Buddy steps in. It helps you return to a more natural, intuitive way of eating through awareness. How it works Log meals and body cues in seconds: Quickly log meals, hunger, and fullness to build awareness. Track what affects your eating: Note mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks to see what influences how you eat. Reflect and organize: Use notes or tags to add context and categorize meals. See Patterns over time: Eating Buddy helps surface patterns so connections become easier to notice. Choose challenges that fit you: Based on your patterns, pick supportive challenges to focus on one small, meaningful change at a time. If you are tired of starting over with dieting and want a calmer, more sustainable way to relate to food, download Eating Buddy now to get started. -------------------------- We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans for our optional challenges system. Both plans include a one-week free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our terms of use at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula and our privacy policy at https://www.eatingbuddy.app/privacy-policy .

Screenshots

Prevent overeating3 screens
Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prevent overeating at none against Intuitive Eating Buddy's 2. Prevent overeating also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). Intuitive Eating Buddy's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Prevent overeating asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prevent overeating ships an update every 2 days, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Prevent overeating versus Intuitive Eating Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrevent overeatingIntuitive Eating Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (194 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—89.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—194 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaito IshiiSagital SRL

Bugs and requests

Prevent overeating

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App kicks user out after logging a meal (recent update)
  • Nothing happens when clicking 'log meal' button
  • Notes and tags not displayed in timeline (initially)
  • Dates in timeline are a day behind

Requested features

25 requests
  • Add 'bites' as a unit of measure
  • Allow soft drinks to be added to total drinks
  • Discourage eating when 'ravenous'
  • Allow selection of multiple hunger levels for prompts
  • More articles within the app
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  • Community feature for users to connect
  • Ability to add movement not tied to Apple Watch (manual add)
  • Sync data between devices
  • More analysis and recommendations in reports
  • Make it a one-time payment ($24.99) instead of subscription
  • Add a button for medication/vitamins and water logging
  • Create a separate app for medication, vitamins, and water
  • Log hydration
  • Change 'Satisfied' to 'Slightly full' or 'Satiated' on fullness scale
  • Option to choose how you're feeling *after* eating
  • Ability to adjust the time of logged food
  • More options for describing food amounts (cup, tablespoon)
  • Option to take a picture of the meal and add to log
  • Change timeline order so most recent meal is at the bottom
  • Expand serving/after meal dropdown on 3D Touch or long press
  • Option to select how you're feeling without logging meals
  • More options for reasons for eating when not hungry
  • Integrate with Apple Health for hydration and workout data
  • Set reminders for regular check-ins
  • Display notes and tags in the timeline

In-app purchases

None

Prevent overeating

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Intuitive Eating Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Prevent overeating free?
Prevent overeating is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Prevent overeating or Intuitive Eating Buddy have ads?
Prevent overeating shows ads; Intuitive Eating Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Prevent overeating or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Prevent overeating ships an update every 2 days, and Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. Most recently, Prevent overeating was updated on October 25, 2026 and Intuitive Eating Buddy on October 30, 2026.

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