MealLogger vs Intuitive Eating Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Photo food logging
- Optional nutrient details
- Connect with health professionals
- Custom nutrition programs
- Daily serving tracking
- Social support groups
- Exercise tracking integration
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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
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.
- 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
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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 .
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | MealLogger | Intuitive Eating Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (193 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.5% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 193 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wellness Foundry | Sagital SRL |
Customer experience
MealLogger
Intuitive Eating Buddy
User reviews
MealLogger
From 10 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
MealLogger
No in-app purchases
Intuitive Eating Buddy
- Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Questions
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