iZen Garden 3 vs TeleDIETS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iZen Garden 3
Create a tranquil digital Zen garden with a vast array of objects, plants, and creatures. Rake the sand into intricate patterns while listening to soothing ambient soundtracks. Perfect for relaxation, meditation, or stress relief.
- Hundreds of objects, plants, and creatures
- Customizable sand raking
- Nine ambient meditation soundtracks
- Meditation and sleep timers
- Daily Zen sayings
- Save garden designs
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For less than the price of a latte, iZen Garden™ gives you all the peace and tranquility of a beautiful Zen Garden without the sandy mess! Choose from 100s of objects, plants and creatures to place in your garden, then rake the sand. Now Universal. iZen Garden is available for iPhone and iPad in a single app bundle. One price gets you both platforms. New audio track, "Merced River" featuring the sounds of the Yosemite valley. ** Selected as one of the "500 Best Apps in the World" by the Sunday Times of London. ** ** TOP PICK! Featured in O'Reilly's "Best iPhone Apps" ** ** As Featured on iPhones in Apple store displays! ** ** Editor's Choice by ItaliaMac ** ** Selected as one of the Best 100 Apps by iLounge.com 2 years running! ** The tradition of the Zen Garden goes back nearly a thousand years in Japanese and asian culture. iZen Garden brings this beautiful artform to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Choose from over 100 different types of stones, shells, fossils and plants to place in your garden and then use your finger to “rake” the sand into intricate abstract patterns. All while listening to the soothing sounds of one of our 9 built-in meditation soundtracks. iZen Garden™ is perfect for long meetings, train rides, or meditation practice. It helps you to center your mind, relax your psyche and relieve your stress. iZen Garden™ was chosen as a staff favorite it's first week in the App Store. Listen to what others have said: "The best by far... a true rarity: it’s an app that we continue to enjoy many months after the initial purchase." - iLounge "Out of all the Zen Garden applications, this is clearly the most thorough and precise, and the system is clear-cut." - iPhone Alley Features: * 100 different stones, seashells, fossils and plants, all professionally photographed from real objects and beautifully rendered to place in your garden. * Add fluttering and resting butterflies to your garden which will fly around from place to place. * Rotate, scale, and move the objects to place them using a pinch gesture with your fingers. * Four different colors of sand, from beach white, to volcanic black. * Nine different soothing ambient soundtracks to help still your mind while you tend your garden. Relax to the gentle lapping of ocean waves at your feet, the quiet solitude of a forest, or the soft twinkling of bells and wind chimes. * Completely customizable rake with variable width and depth settings. * "Daily Zen" a daily Zen saying or Koan is presented when you enter your garden. * Save your design to your camera roll by holding the Home button and pressing the lock button. * Built-in documentation and help system makes using the app a breeze. * To access the Information Screen double tap anywhere on the sand, or touch the "i" button. * Meditation Timer. Create your garden and then sit in quiet contemplation until the timer finishes and brings you back with a gentle ringing of a bell. * Sleep Timer. Puts your phone to sleep after a set period of time so you can listen to the relaxation sounds to fall asleep without worrying about your battery dying. * Share your garden and your Daily Zen on Twitter, Email, or through your film roll. Includes beautiful themes that frame your garden artfully with different trays and handmade papers. * Save multiple gardens and recall them at any time to continue to tend and change them. And now, with the re-release of iZen Garden, we're offering on-going updates with new objects, new ambiance, and more! See what everyone is talking about, buy iZen Garden™ today!! A monthly subscription to iZen Garden is a doorway to daily zen, and greater peace and happiness. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TeleDIETS
This app provides personalized meal plans and activity tracking, synced with your healthcare professional. Log food and exercise to monitor progress towards your health and weight goals, with optional wearable device integration.
- Personalized meal plans
- Grocery list generation
- Food and activity logging
- Calorie and weight goal tracking
- Wearable device syncing (Apple Watch)
- Data synchronization with counselor
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TeleDiets is a professional meal planning, food and activity logging tool that can only be activated by an authorized nutrition counselor or medical physician. You can login to TeleDiets by using the username and password that was provided by the counselor when your web based cloud account is set up. Your personalized meal plan, grocery list, daily caloric goal and weight control goal are setup by the counselor on your web cloud account, then pushed to the TeleDiets app. The nutritional and weight management goals include your daily calorie budget, goal weight, BMI, macronutrient ratios and other important factors that attribute to better overall health, nutritional habits and weight control. How it works: Once you login to TeleDiets app you can access your daily meal plan as recommended by your counselor, grocery list, log foods and activities to track your daily amount of calories consumed or burned during activities, and compare those numbers with what has been established by your counselor. TeleDiets's cloud account also allows logging online via a web based portal. Regardless if you log on your phone or the cloud account, all data is sync'd up and down. This logged information can then be viewed and monitored by your nutrition counselor for better coaching and compliance to your personal plan. Step up your goals with wearable device steps and calorie tracking with Apple Watch! Simply sync your wearable device with your profile and let Telediets do the rest! With step and calorie counting with Apple Watch you can now stay on track with up to date daily activity logging. To enable automatic syncing with Apple Health, login to your profile, go to Settings >Optional> and activate “Enable Apple Watch Sync”. NOTE: TO USE TeleDiets YOU WILL NEED TO LOGIN WITH YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD PROVIDED BY YOUR NUTRITION PROFESSIONAL. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL apps.dmgo@dietmastersoftware.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TeleDIETS at 5.0 against iZen Garden 3's 4.1. TeleDIETS also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support. iZen Garden 3's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. iZen Garden 3 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. TeleDIETS asks for nothing beyond the download.
TeleDIETS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iZen Garden 3 has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
iZen Garden 3 ships an update every 3 months, TeleDIETS every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iZen Garden 3 | TeleDIETS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jiva DeVoe | Lifestyles Technologies, Inc |
Customer experience
iZen Garden 3
TeleDIETS
In-app purchases
iZen Garden 3
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
TeleDIETS
No in-app purchases
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