Intuitive Eating Buddy vs Rainfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 .
Rainfall
This app offers personalized daily mindfulness practices based on your iPhone's sensor data. It provides short guided meditations, soundscapes, and a weekly weather record for your mental state. Unlock longer sessions and more soundscapes with an optional subscription.
- Daily personalized mindfulness practices
- On-device sensor data analysis
- Guided meditations with multiple voices
- Ambient soundscapes
- Weekly mental weather record
- Customizable app icons
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Some days ask more of you than others. Rainfall notices — and meets you with one quiet, well-chosen practice, before you have to ask. A forecast, not a feed Open the app and Rainfall has already sensed the weather of your day — partly cloudy, building pressure, gentle rain — from signals already on your iPhone. No check-ins to remember. No streak to keep. No library to search. If the read doesn't fit, tap "not quite" and tell it what does. It remembers. One practice, chosen for you Each read offers a single short session from a library of original meditations — guided by one of seven distinct voices, set over original ambient beds. Three minutes when that's what fits. Twenty when the day calls for it. Nothing to scroll through unless you want to. Soundscapes to settle into When words aren't what you need, drift off to an endless soundscape — gentle rain, wind, and more — that plays on as long as you like. Your sky, your settings Choose one of five living-sky app icons — Sky, Dusk, Night, Mist, Dawn — so Rainfall sits on your home screen the way you'd like. The Climate tab keeps a quiet weekly record of your weather. The You tab holds your subscription and notifications. Built around one promise: this stays on your iPhone Rainfall reads your day's signals — heart-rate variability, sleep, calendar density — on-device. The raw signals never leave your phone. The Mind Weather inference happens locally. Your weather history syncs only through your own iCloud, never our servers. Mindful minutes are written to Apple Health, where you already trust them. Rainfall is suggestive — never diagnostic. It is not a medical device, a therapy, or a substitute for either. Rainfall Extended A subscription unlocks the longer sessions — 10 or 20 minutes — and every soundscape. The free tier stays free, always: the daily Read, the three- and five-minute sessions, and a soundscape to drift off to. No time limit, no pressure. Feelings are weather. Weather passes. We'll meet you on the other side. Terms of Use (EULA): https://rainfallmeditation.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://rainfallmeditation.com/privacy Rainfall Extended is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). The price is shown in the app before purchase and charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Intuitive Eating Buddy at 196 against Rainfall's 1. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on iOS requirement (16.2 vs 18.6). Rainfall's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Rainfall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rainfall 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. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainfall's.
| Parameter | Intuitive Eating Buddy | Rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (196 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sagital SRL | Alan Wizemann |
Customer experience
Intuitive Eating Buddy
Rainfall
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
Rainfall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Intuitive Eating Buddy
- Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Rainfall
- Rainfall Extended Monthly$4.991 Month
- Rainfall Extended Yearly$49.991 Year
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