KidneyDiet vs Potassium Counter & Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KidneyDiet
This app assists individuals with kidney disease in monitoring key nutrients like phosphorus, potassium, and protein. It offers personalized daily guidelines, a comprehensive food database, and detailed nutrient tracking to support informed dietary choices. Users can also log favorite foods and share their progress with healthcare providers.
- Track phosphorus, potassium, and protein
- Personalized daily guidelines
- Extensive food and nutrient database
- Detailed nutrient intake charts
- Log favorite foods
- Email daily diary
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KidneyDiet® helps you watch the 3Ps. Phosphorus. Potassium. Protein. KidneyDiet helps people with kidney disease make better choices. Watching your nutrient intake and educating yourself about your nutrition needs changes during the course of kidney disease. Whether you are on dialysis or not, you must become aware of the following in your diet: PHOSPHORUS POTASSIUM PROTEIN SODIUM FLUIDS KidneyDiet makes it easy to personalize your Daily Diary Guidelines and compare your nutritional intake against your doctor's recommendations. - KidneyDiet provides an extensive, comprehensive research-quality food and nutrient database. - Charts and tables provide clarity on your nutrition. - Nutrient tracking is comprehensive and shows insight into your intake of carbohydrates, glycemic index, glycemic load, fat, cholesterol, vitamins and minerals in the foods you eat. - Personalized guidelines tailor the app to meet your specific needs. - Keep a list of favorite foods. - Email your Daily Diary to yourself or your healthcare provider. ** Free 2-week trial! ** During the trial period all features are available. After the trial period, you will still have access to the "learning" section of the app which provides educational information about nutrients and you will still be able to search for foods, accessing an extensive database. Upon subscribing, you will once again have access to all features, unlocking your diary, favorites, charts, and customizing your nutrient guidelines. You will not be inconvenienced by advertising interrupting your app usage, ever. Eat right. Enjoy life.
Potassium Counter & Tracker
This app helps manage potassium intake for various health goals, including lowering blood pressure, managing chronic kidney disease, and supporting nerve health. It allows users to set personalized targets, log food and beverages via barcode scanning or manual entry, and track progress over time. The app also provides nutritional insights and supports healthy diet choices.
- Log potassium intake
- Track daily and long-term progress
- Set personalized daily targets
- Barcode scanner for food logging
- Add custom foods and recipes
- Nutritional insights for healthy eating
- Export data for healthcare providers
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Use this app to increase potassium intake to lower high blood pressure; to restrict potassium intake as advised by your healthcare provider to lower the risk of high blood potassium if you have chronic kidney disease (CKD); to ensure a healthy intake to protect from nerve-related problems such as tingling, numbness, muscle weakness, cramps & spasms, brain fog, irritability. Set your target daily potassium intake based on guidance provided in the app or as advised by your healthcare provider; and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz). Record food and beverage consumption using the barcode scanner (please note that only manufacturers in the US are required to include potassium content in the nutrition label read by the scanner), dictation, search or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided (which can be changed at any time). Tap the notepad to add notes. Compare the potassium content of different foods by tapping the Compare button on the "Foods" screen. Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronize data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit. Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the app's 400-item database for you. All food and beverage popups indicate whether the item is a plant, good prebiotic, probiotic or ultra-processed food (UPF) to inform a healthy diet and also whether they are high or low FODMAP per serving where data are available to support people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Useful lists show potassium content of foods per 1oz or 100g and serving, which can be toggled from high to low & low to high. Also useful UPF, unprocessed plant, prebiotic, probiotic, high & low FODMAP food lists.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: KidneyDiet at Free against Potassium Counter & Tracker's $4.99. KidneyDiet also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 23%) and ratings volume (311 vs 38). Potassium Counter & Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On rating, 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
KidneyDiet is free to download; Potassium Counter & Tracker costs $4.99 up front. KidneyDiet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Potassium Counter & Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for KidneyDiet against 4.4 for Potassium Counter & Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KidneyDiet has 311 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of KidneyDiet's written reviews are positive against 23% of Potassium Counter & Tracker's.
KidneyDiet ships an update every 3 months, Potassium Counter & Tracker monthly. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | KidneyDiet | Potassium Counter & Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (311 ratings) — better | 4.4 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.4% of reviews — better | 23.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 311 — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #132 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 297 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kismetly, Inc. | First Line Medical Communications Ltd |
Customer experience
KidneyDiet
Potassium Counter & Tracker
Bugs and requests
KidneyDiet
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes when clicking 'see all nutrition' or 'add to diary' buttons
- Barcode scanner not functioning (QR code error)
- Many foods display without portion size options
- Cannot add custom portion sizes for preset foods
- Login and password reset emails not sending
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- In-app purchases blocked with error notifications
- App becomes unstable after recent updates
- Inaccurate nutritional information compared to package labels
- Favorites automatically populated without user confirmation
- Cannot delete items from diary once added
- Food search returns irrelevant results (e.g., oatmeal cookies instead of oatmeal)
- Red warning indicators disappearing after app updates
- Subscription data lost after app reinstall
- Incompatibility with new iPhone models
Requested features
21 requests- Add carbohydrates and cholesterol tracking for diabetic patients
- Allow users to edit saved custom foods
- Ability to delete items from favorites without limitation
- Multi-year subscription discounts
- Recipe builder with automatic nutrient calculation
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- Meal-based logging instead of individual items
- Landscape orientation support for iPad
- Add sugar and calories to daily totals chart
- Flexible portion size entry (e.g., 4 ounces instead of 1 ounce)
- List view of daily foods with all nutrients visible
- Ability to mark nutrients as 'unknown' with daily flags
- Track blood pressure, pulse, weight, and temperature
- Weekly and multi-day intake review
- Recent/commonly-used foods quick access
- Better search functionality (e.g., 'apple' returns 'applesauce')
- Expanded restaurant menu options
- International food databases (UK, Australia, Hispanic foods)
- Dry weight tracking for dialysis patients
- Nutrient comparison tool to suggest healthier alternatives
- Custom measurement unit preferences
- Ability to add ingredients for automatic nutrient calculation
Potassium Counter & Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
KidneyDiet
- Monthly Subscription$7.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$54.991 Year
Potassium Counter & Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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