Comparison

Proteinful vs Protein Notes

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

Head to head
About

Proteinful

This app helps you track your protein intake, manage calories, and log your food with a focus on building healthier eating habits. It offers personalized goals, fast logging, and progress tracking to support fitness and weight management.

Highlights
  • Personalized protein goal calculator
  • Fast food logging with a food diary
  • Smart search with barcode scanning
  • High-protein meal and recipe logging
  • Consistency and streak tracking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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The simple, powerful protein tracker, food diary, and fitness nutrition app. Proteinful is a protein tracker, calorie tracker, and food diary designed to help you reach your daily protein goal, manage calories, track macros, and build healthier eating habits.  Built using evidence-informed nutrition principles, Proteinful focuses on what matters most: meeting your protein needs and staying consistent without the complexity of traditional calorie counting apps. *Personalized protein goal calculator* Proteinful calculates your ideal daily protein intake based on your body, activity level, and goals whether you are focused on weight loss, fat loss, muscle building, strength training, fitness performance, or overall health. *Fast food logging with a powerful food diary* Log foods, meals, and recipes quickly with a food diary built for real life. Save meals, repeat recent foods, add diary notes, and create custom foods for accurate tracking. Color-coded meals, meal totals, calendar views, and visual progress rings make it easy to track protein, calories, macros, and daily nutrition at a glance. *Smart search for easy meal tracking* Find foods quickly with search suggestions, recent and frequent items, favorites, and barcode scanning. Ideal for meal prep, macro tracking, and everyday fitness nutrition logging. *High-protein meals and recipe logging* Discover high-protein meals and recipes that support weight loss, muscle gain, fitness training, and healthier eating. Log recipes instantly with smart meal suggestions based on time of day. *Consistency and progress tracking* Track daily consistency, streaks, and progress over time to help build sustainable nutrition habits and stay motivated. *Widgets for protein tracking and motivation* Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your daily protein progress and helpful nutrition tips, keeping your goals visible throughout the day. *Apple Watch support* View a daily nutrition snapshot on your Apple Watch for quick, at-a-glance tracking during workouts, meals, or busy days. *iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch* Your food diary, favorites, notes, and settings stay synced across devices so you can start tracking on one device and continue on another seamlessly. *Designed for everyday fitness and healthy eating* Whether you are following a high-protein diet, counting calories, tracking macros, losing weight, building muscle, or simply trying to eat better, Proteinful is designed to be fast, clear, and easy to use. *Key features* • Protein tracker and personalized protein intake calculator • Food diary with saved meals, repeat logging, and calendar view • Protein, calorie, and macro tracking with visual progress • High-protein meals and recipe logging • Smart search with barcode scanning • Consistency and streak tracking • Home and Lock Screen widgets for protein progress • Apple Watch nutrition snapshot • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch • Apple Health integration • Clean, intuitive design for daily use Proteinful makes protein tracking, meal logging, and fitness nutrition simple and sustainable, supporting weight loss, muscle growth, and long-term healthy eating habits.

About

Protein Notes

Features
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Set Daily Protein Targets Kickstart your journey by setting your personalized daily protein goal. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast looking to build muscle or maintain a balanced diet for overall health, our app caters to your needs. Easy Meal Input Log your meals by inputting the food name and its protein value. As you log your meal, the food is automatically saved to your food list. When adding meals, simply search with the food name to find and add it to your meal quickly. Track Your Progress Stay motivated by tracking your weekly progress. Check how well you meet your protein targets through an easy-to-understand history view. This allows you to adjust your diet and stay on track toward achieving your health goals. Attribution: the screenshots are made with Screenshots Pro (https://screenshots.pro)

Screenshots

Proteinful4 screens
Protein Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Protein Notes at none against Proteinful's 1. Protein Notes also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Proteinful sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year. Protein Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Proteinful ships an update fortnightly, Protein Notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Proteinful versus Protein Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProteinfulProtein Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIAN & COYudai Abe

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Proteinful

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription$2.991 Year
None

Protein Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Proteinful free?
Proteinful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Protein Notes free?
Protein Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Proteinful or Protein Notes have ads?
Both Proteinful and Protein Notes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Proteinful or Protein Notes?
Proteinful ships an update fortnightly, and Protein Notes every 2 weeks. Most recently, Proteinful was updated on September 17, 2026 and Protein Notes on September 20, 2026.

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