Comparison

Intuitive Eating Buddy vs JustaPlate

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

JustaPlate

This app helps you build healthy eating habits using the Plate Method. Log meals with photos, get personalized recommendations, and track your daily intake without calorie counting. It's designed for balanced nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Log meals with photos
  • No calorie counting
  • Plate Method guidance
  • Personalized meal recommendations
  • Track daily intakes
  • Export meals as PDF
Features
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Stop calorie counting! JustaPlate is a simple and easy-to-use meal tracker based on the Plate Method. Keep a food diary and get adjusted recommendations for your next meal. With JustaPlate you can plan healthy meals and manage your macros without a calorie counter. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF JUSTAPLATE ? Easy and Flexible Food Tracker: - No calorie counting - No serving measuring - No food categories exclusion Healthy Balanced Meals With One Plate: - 1/4 Proteins - 1/4 Whole Grains - 1/2 Vegetables and Fruits Adapted Recommendation: - Get recommendation for your next meal - Based on your previous meals - Adjust your meals to reach your gaol Healthy Eating Lifestyle: - Build awareness of what you eat - Start with small changes - Set achievable goals GOING VEGAN OR VEGETARIAN JustaPlate is designed for vegan and vegetarian meals. If you are transitioning between diets, JustaPlate will help you to ensure you are eating healthy and balanced meals. JUSTAPLATE IS NOT ANOTHER WEIGHT LOSS APP The Plate Method can help weight management by defining the appropriate portion of each food. However, JustaPlate doesn’t promote any weight loss diet. With JustaPlate, no need for a calorie tracker to maintain a healthy diet. We believe that the most important is to have a balanced healthy diet as part of a healthy lifestyle, including physical activity and quality sleep. WHY JUSTAPLATE IS DIFFERENT? - It’s a visual app With the plate representation and your meals photos taken, you can track your daily meals and check your healthy balance at a glance. JustaPlate is an easy-to-use nutrition tracker. - It’s a realistic app In addition to the four food categories presented in the plate method (Proteins, Whole grains, Vegetables and Fruits), JustaPlate introduces a fifth category (Other) that accounts for any food that doesn’t fit into the four recommended categories. You can enjoy an occasional treat without feeling guilty. - It’s a flexible app You don’t have to stick exactly to each meal's recommended food categories and proportions. The Plate method is meant as a guideline. You can compose meals at your convenience throughout the day, and JustaPlate will aggregate the data into one daily plate. - It’s catalogue free Have you ever tried to log that typical local dish you eat but didn’t find it in the food database? With JustaPlate, there is no need for a catalogue to know what you are eating. If it’s food, you can name its main components and categorise them within the plate. If not, it’s probably not food! - It helps you build healthy habits Food journaling is effective for building good and sustainable eating habits. With JustaPlate, you can track every food you eat or focus on just one meal. Set your realistic goal and keep track of it with the streak count. APP MAIN FEATURES - Log meals with photos - Get meal recommendations - Track daily intakes - Track fats - Log drinks - Customize plate template - Export meals as PDF - Set meal preferences - Set daily goal - Set reminders Do you have any feedback for us? Please share at feedback@justaplate.com Terms can be found at: https://justaplate.com/terms/

Screenshots

Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens
JustaPlate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Intuitive Eating Buddy at none against JustaPlate's shown. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on ratings volume (196 vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). JustaPlate's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and JustaPlate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

JustaPlate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intuitive Eating Buddy has 196 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Intuitive Eating Buddy ships an update every 4 days, JustaPlate every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Intuitive Eating Buddy versus JustaPlate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntuitive Eating BuddyJustaPlate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (196 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings196 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSagital SRLJodli LLP

Customer experience

Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

JustaPlate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

JustaPlate

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
2 purchases

JustaPlate

Subscriptions2
  • JustaPlate Plus - Monthly$5.491 Month
  • JustaPlate Plus - Annual$40.991 Year

Questions

Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JustaPlate free?
JustaPlate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Intuitive Eating Buddy or JustaPlate?
JustaPlate is rated higher. Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 196 ratings, while JustaPlate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Intuitive Eating Buddy or JustaPlate have ads?
JustaPlate shows ads; Intuitive Eating Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Intuitive Eating Buddy or JustaPlate?
Intuitive Eating Buddy ships an update every 4 days, and JustaPlate every 9 days. Most recently, Intuitive Eating Buddy was updated on November 7, 2026 and JustaPlate on November 3, 2026.

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