Comparison

Finny | Dining App vs Cookbook Log

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

Head to head
About

Finny | Dining App

Organize all your dining experiences, from past visits to future plans. Save check-ins with friends, bookmark new restaurants, and create custom lists for any occasion. Easily search and filter your saved places to rediscover favorites or find new culinary adventures.

Highlights
  • Save dining check-ins with photos and notes
  • Bookmark new places and create organized lists
  • Search past dining experiences by place or people
  • Filter saved places by visited or unvisited
  • Create public or private custom lists
  • See friends' dining explorations
Features
Read full description

Finny is a beautiful and elegant dining app that saves and organizes all your dining experiences in one place. All the places you’ve been and places you want to go. We’ve all experienced the need to save and organize all of our dining experiences and recommendations we come across, whether it’s from our family, friends, or food bloggers. With Finny, you can curate your own dining experiences so you can return to the places you love and save all the new places you can’t wait to try out. You can also see what places your friends have been exploring and saving, so you can check them out for yourself. SAVE CHECK-INS Check-in to places with your friends, and save photos and notes — all the things that make dining out memorable, fun, and important. BOOKMARK NEW PLACES Going on vacation to Italy this Summer? Or want to hit all of Bobby Flay’s restaurants? Save all those recommendations and organize them into lists for future visits. SEARCH Look back on your birthday dinner from last year or from that special vacation spot. You can search by place, who you ate with, or tags, and remember all the good times. FILTER Forget that place with giant meatballs you went to last year? Or that new Thai place you’ve been meaning to try? Filters can help you find places, whether you’ve been there or not. CREATE LISTS Have go-to places for hot dates or dumplings? Create lists to organize all of them. Make them public or keep them private for just you and your circle. Your feedback will help us improve and add more features to Finny. Any questions or suggestions, or simply to tell us about a place you love, just email us: info@finny-app.com

About

Cookbook Log

This app allows you to maintain a personal food diary, discover what friends and family are cooking, and curate your own recipe collections. It helps you save meaningful food memories and decide on your next culinary creation, fostering a more personal and social home cooking experience.

Highlights
  • Personal food diary
  • Discover loved ones' cooking
  • Create cookbook lists
  • Decide what to make
  • Save food moments
  • Share recipes
Read full description

Use Cookbook Log to: • Keep a personal food diary • See what loved ones are cooking • Create your own cookbook lists • Decide what to make next • Save meaningful food moments From everyday meals to favorite recipes, Cookbook Log helps you save what you cook, discover what others are making, and start cooking and sharing, together. We believe food is a love language – it carries memory, connection and care. Whether you’re logging meals or saving inspiration from restaurants, trips, or gatherings with friends, Cookbook Log makes home cooking feel more personal, social, and lasting.

Screenshots

Finny | Dining App4 screens
Cookbook Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cookbook Log at every 3 weeks against Finny | Dining App's every 3 months. Finny | Dining App's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Finny | Dining App against 5.0 for Cookbook Log. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Finny | Dining App ships an update every 3 months, Cookbook Log every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Finny | Dining App versus Cookbook Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinny | Dining AppCookbook Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHOCNYCO, LLCCookbook Log LLC

Customer experience

Finny | Dining App

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cookbook Log

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Finny | Dining App

No in-app purchases

None

Cookbook Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Finny | Dining App free?
Finny | Dining App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cookbook Log free?
Cookbook Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Finny | Dining App or Cookbook Log?
Finny | Dining App and Cookbook Log are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Finny | Dining App or Cookbook Log have ads?
Neither Finny | Dining App nor Cookbook Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Finny | Dining App or Cookbook Log?
Finny | Dining App ships an update every 3 months, and Cookbook Log every 3 weeks. Most recently, Finny | Dining App was updated on November 3, 2026 and Cookbook Log on October 31, 2026.

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