Comparison

MealLogger vs Intuitive Eating Buddy

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

Head to head
About

MealLogger

Easily track your food intake by photographing meals and adding optional details. Connect with health professionals, join nutrition programs, and monitor daily food servings. Share progress with friends in private or public groups for support and motivation.

Highlights
  • Photo food logging
  • Optional nutrient details
  • Connect with health professionals
  • Custom nutrition programs
  • Daily serving tracking
  • Social support groups
  • Exercise tracking integration
Features
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MealLogger, the fast photo food journal, is the easy way to keep track of your healthy eating and wellness goals. Now faster and with more ways to help you stay on track. On a diet? Suffering food allergies? Managing your weight? With MealLogger you can simply photograph your food intake, add a bit of text and nutrient information if you choose, and youre done. And, if you work with a health professional, MealLogger allows you to connect directly to your dietitian, nutritionist, fitness trainer, etc for feedback, advice, and support on your mobile device. You can get great social and one-on-one support from MealLogger, but now you can also join custom Nutrition Programs. Track your daily servings of food categories: Meats, Grains, Fish, Legumes, Vegetables, Supplements, Fruits, and more. Search for nutrition programs - like the DASH diet, or AHA guidelines. Or if you're joining MealLogger via our fitness club or health partners, you'll find programs published specifically by your club or company sponsor. Tracking servings has never been easier. Just snap a picture and tap the serving amount. No looking up food; no entering grams and calories. No more looking up one food type from hundreds of examples. And MealLogger lets you know how you're doing, meal by meal, how many more servings you need to eat that day. Connect to your friends with MealLogger groups! Create your own community based on your lifestyle, connecting with friends, family members, colleagues, or anyone sharing a common interest. If you're not yet ready to share with a group, follow a public group to learn more how others motivate each other to eat healthy or to research a specific diet you've always been curious about. Designed with privacy in mind, MealLogger groups can also be completely private -- no need to worry about posting updates to social networks or public forums where everyone can see. With private MealLogger groups, you can get same social support you love in a place built specifically for personal healthy eating conversation with those you trust. Did you know: studies show on average using a food diary can lead to a weight loss of more than 10% over the course of a year. And we all know a picture is worth a thousand words. Weíve combined the ease of photographing food, the power of social and one-on-one support with easy nutrition serving tracking. With MealLogger, weíve streamlined the process so you can also track your exercise and synch with popular trackers like Fitbit or Runkeeper in one easy-to-use app. Download your MealLogger photo food journal and begin keeping a food diary immediately. You'll be able to access your free account to save your journal to the cloud for access through multiple devices! Questions? Please contact us through the Help button on the Account page or send us an email at custserv@wellnessfoundry.com with any questions about how MealLogger can help you achieve your diet and fitness goals! If your health professional is not currently using MealLogger, contact us through the Help Button on the Account page and we will reach out to help you get connected. Take charge of your nutritional wellbeing with MealLogger, the photo food journal designed to help you eat better. Healthy eating! -The MealLogger Team

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 .

Screenshots

MealLogger4 screens
Intuitive Eating Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Intuitive Eating Buddy at 4.8 against MealLogger's 3.5. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 57%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). MealLogger's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.2). 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. MealLogger asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intuitive Eating Buddy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intuitive Eating Buddy has 193 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of MealLogger's written reviews are positive against 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MealLogger ships an update every 5 weeks, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MealLogger versus Intuitive Eating Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMealLoggerIntuitive Eating Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (10 ratings)4.8 (193 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.5% of reviews89.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10193 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWellness FoundrySagital SRL

Customer experience

MealLogger

All ratings10 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive56.5%
Neutral15.9%
Negative27.5%

Intuitive Eating Buddy

All ratings193 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%

User reviews

MealLogger

From 10 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 📸 Photo logging is convenient
  • 🤝 Connects with coach/friends
  • 💡 Unique approach (not just calories)
  • 📈 Helps with accountability

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App is buggy and unstable
  • 🐌 App is slow
  • ❌ Can't save or log in
  • ⚠️ Data loss after updates
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns

Intuitive Eating Buddy

From 193 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and understand
  • 💡 Focuses on awareness, not calorie counting
  • 💡 Non-judgmental approach to eating
  • 💡 Helps track potential problem foods
  • 💡 Provides structure for intuitive eating

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes after logging meals (recent update)
  • 🐛 App is useless if 'log meal' button doesn't work
  • 🐛 Intro message can be off-putting (e.g., 'don't eat processed food')
  • 🐛 Feels like diet culture to some users
  • 🐛 Basic reports with no analysis

Bugs and requests

MealLogger

Reported bugs

38 issues
  • Save button overlaps status bar
  • Cannot create an account
  • App is super buggy
  • Doesn't always work
  • Getting worse with iOS upgrades
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  • Can't log meals (error message)
  • Can't log in (Facebook/email)
  • Cannot reset password (email not sent)
  • App became absolutely unusable
  • App crashes frequently
  • Pictures won't load
  • App is getting slower and less stable
  • App crashes a lot
  • App is crashing
  • UI issues
  • Double posts and data loss upon deletion
  • Like/comment buttons not working
  • Synchronization completed bar flashes constantly, pausing screen
  • Thin strip of meal pic shown in journal list
  • User image shown beside each meal in journal
  • Lost diary after upgrade
  • Thumbnails don't render
  • Crashes when taking photos
  • Cannot see entries by day or week anymore
  • Deleted all recorded data after upgrade
  • No longer saves images to camera roll
  • Trouble saving things
  • Won't log tracking item (protein)
  • Deletes meal completely when editing
  • App won't delete pics
  • App would just crash and reload unexpectedly
  • Whole food diary wiped out completely
  • Update erased all pics
  • Can't import pictures from library
  • Lost all my logs after update
  • Deleted all previous meals after revamp
  • Latest update is awful
  • Synchronization completed bar pauses screen

Requested features

31 requests
  • Daily, weekly, monthly summary of food groups
  • Allow half portions for all food groups
  • Manual entry of # of servings
  • More options on custom nutrition plans (max servings)
  • Water measurements (custom glass sizes, oz/ml)
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  • Export data to HealthKit
  • Import exercise data
  • Further customization of nutrition plans (pregnancy, breastfeeding)
  • Notifications to log food
  • Reuse photos for recurring items
  • Add fat grams to logging
  • Scroll through pictures when viewing meals
  • Zoom into people's pictures
  • Weekly summary to show text-only posts
  • Add fat percentage
  • Like/comment buttons to work
  • Design and structure improvements
  • View nutritionist comments on phone
  • Option to orient sideways for typing
  • Import pictures from photo album
  • Favorites or history for quick logging
  • Track body fat % when entering weight
  • Use own images for exercises
  • Metric units for measurements
  • Select previous meals for quick logging
  • Guess meal type based on time of day
  • Rate healthiness of meals
  • Dessert category for meals
  • User image not shown beside each meal in journal
  • Ability to delete pictures
  • Add a 'dessert' category

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

In-app purchases

None

MealLogger

No 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

Questions

Is MealLogger free?
MealLogger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intuitive Eating Buddy free?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MealLogger or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
Intuitive Eating Buddy is rated higher. MealLogger averages 3.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Intuitive Eating Buddy averages 4.8 from 193 ratings.
Do MealLogger or Intuitive Eating Buddy have ads?
Neither MealLogger nor Intuitive Eating Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MealLogger or Intuitive Eating Buddy?
MealLogger ships an update every 5 weeks, and Intuitive Eating Buddy every 4 days. Most recently, MealLogger was updated on October 22, 2026 and Intuitive Eating Buddy on October 25, 2026.

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