Comparison

Intuitive Eating Buddy vs Daily 5

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

Head to head
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 .

About

Daily 5

Easily monitor your daily fruit and vegetable consumption to cultivate healthier eating habits. This app offers intuitive logging, insightful statistics, and AI-driven tools to help you achieve your 5-a-day target.

Highlights
  • Log fruit and vegetable servings
  • Track 5-a-day goal progress
  • View streaks and goal stats
  • AI-powered recipe generation
  • AI photo scan for food detection
  • Full nutritional breakdown
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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Track your fruit and vegetable intake effortlessly. Daily 5 helps you build healthy eating habits with intuitive logging, beautiful stats, and AI-powered features that make hitting your 5-a-day goal easy and enjoyable. WHY DAILY 5? Getting enough fruits and vegetables improves energy, strengthens immunity, and supports long-term health. Daily 5 makes tracking simple — just log what you eat and watch your healthy habits grow. FREE FEATURES Log from 50+ fruits and vegetables Track daily servings toward your 5-a-day goal View streaks and goal completion stats See weekly trends and variety tracking Basic nutrition overview (calories, carbs, fat, protein) Generate 1 AI recipe per day Set meal reminders Save and browse recipes DAILY 5 PRO Unlock the full experience: AI Photo Scan — Point your camera at your plate and let AI detect your fruits and veggies instantly 100+ Additional Items — Access the complete catalog including artichoke, kale, passion fruit, shiitake, and many more Full Nutritional Breakdown — Track vitamins (A, B, C, D, E, K) and minerals (iron, calcium, potassium, zinc, and more) Unlimited AI Recipes — Generate as many personalized veggie recipes as you want Personalized AI Insights — Get tailored advice based on your eating patterns HealthKit Sync — Send your nutrition data to Apple Health Premium Themes — Customize with 12 color themes and 4 font styles Download Daily 5 and start your journey to healthier eating today.

Screenshots

Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens
Daily 54 screens

Verdict

The call

Intuitive Eating Buddy and Daily 5 both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's written reviews are positive against 42% of Daily 5's. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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 and Daily 5 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Intuitive Eating Buddy against 4.6 for Daily 5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 194 and 135 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's written reviews are positive against 42% of Daily 5's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Intuitive Eating Buddy ships an update every 4 days, Daily 5 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Intuitive Eating Buddy versus Daily 5: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntuitive Eating BuddyDaily 5
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (194 ratings) — better4.6 (135 ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better42.1% of reviews
Number of ratings194 — better135
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSagital SRLMarius Caciulescu

Customer experience

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings194 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

Daily 5

All ratings135 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive42.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative47.4%

Bugs and 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

Daily 5

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
3 purchases

Daily 5

Subscriptions2
  • Daily 5 Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Daily 5 Pro - Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Eat 5 Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily 5 free?
Daily 5 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Intuitive Eating Buddy or Daily 5?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is rated higher. Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 194 ratings, while Daily 5 averages 4.6 from 135 ratings.
Do Intuitive Eating Buddy or Daily 5 have ads?
Neither Intuitive Eating Buddy nor Daily 5 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Intuitive Eating Buddy or Daily 5?
Intuitive Eating Buddy ships an update every 4 days, and Daily 5 every 3 weeks. Most recently, Intuitive Eating Buddy was updated on November 3, 2026 and Daily 5 on October 30, 2026.

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