Comparison

Intuitive Eating Buddy vs Benchline

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 helps you develop a more natural and intuitive relationship with food by tracking meals, body cues, and lifestyle factors. It aims to quiet the "food noise" associated with dieting and calorie counting, promoting sustainable weight management through awareness and personalized challenges.

Highlights
  • Log meals, hunger, and fullness
  • Track mood, workouts, sleep, and drinks
  • Add context with notes and tags
  • Identify eating patterns over time
  • Choose personalized challenges for change
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

Benchline

This app helps you monitor any goal and log daily habits. It offers custom benchmarks for fitness, reading, or finance, and visualizes your progress. Stay motivated with streak tracking and detailed statistics in a clean, ad-free interface.

Highlights
  • Customizable goal benchmarks
  • Daily habit logging
  • Streak tracking
  • Detailed statistics
  • Clean dark interface
  • Offline data storage
  • No ads or subscriptions
Features
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Track anything. Improve everything. Benchline combines custom goal tracking and daily habit logging into one beautifully simple experience. BENCHMARK ANY GOAL • Create custom benchmarks for any discipline: fitness, reading, finance, and more • Define your own metrics with the exact units that matter to you • Set personal goals and watch your progress bar fill as you close the gap TRACK DAILY HABITS • Watch your streaks grow and stay motivated by your consistency • At-a-glance weekly view keeps you accountable across past days and today • Detailed stats: total completions, best streak, and quarterly completion breakdown DESIGNED FOR CLARITY • Clean dark interface — every element earns its place • No ads, no subscriptions, no account required • Your data lives entirely on your device — fully private and available offline • Reorder benchmarks and habits your way with drag-and-drop Whether you're training for a marathon, tracking your squat PR, or building a reading habit — Benchline gives you the tools to measure what matters and see yourself improve. Download free. Start tracking today.

Screenshots

Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens
Benchline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Benchline at none against Intuitive Eating Buddy's 2. Benchline also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). Intuitive Eating Buddy's advantage is ratings volume (190 vs 2). On price, 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. Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Benchline asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Benchline 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 190 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Intuitive Eating Buddy versus Benchline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntuitive Eating BuddyBenchline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (190 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings190 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.214.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSagital SRLKOLJA MALTE KRISTEK

Customer experience

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings190 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

Benchline

All ratings2 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

Benchline

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
None

Benchline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Benchline free?
Benchline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Intuitive Eating Buddy or Benchline?
Benchline is rated higher. Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 190 ratings, while Benchline averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Intuitive Eating Buddy or Benchline have ads?
Neither Intuitive Eating Buddy nor Benchline shows ads.

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