80 Bites vs Intuitive Eating Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
80 Bites
This app helps you manage eating habits by tracking bites and identifying fullness cues. It guides users to understand their body's hunger signals through a structured program.
- Track food bites
- Identify fullness cues
- Stomach training program
- Hunger management
- Dieting alternative
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Why the number 80? Ever wonder what all those hard-to-track, pesky serving sizes do for you? A day's allotment roughly ends up being 80 Bites. But that's NOT where we are starting. When you use the 80Bites app, you will get a sound and a question at bite 26. WHY? If your stomach were OK, you would FEEL something. Most of you won't feel anything so keep eating; remember, even if you get to 50 Bites, it is just your current marker. Tap the "Bite" button each time you put food in your mouth. For now, forget about beverages. Eat solid food - not soup - for the diagnostics part of the stomach training program. Created by Registered Dietician Meredith Luce RD MS LN and Pilates Expert Joan Breibart, the 80Bites App precedes the 80Bites Program — 12 STEPS developed to downsize hunger — just like Ozempic! Shedding pounds happens automatically when your hunger is tamed. Visit 80Bites.com to subscribe to the 12 STEP Stomach Training program and ditch dieting for good! A message from Sam the Stomach: Hello, Hungry People! It seems that you eat too often, too much, and food is always on your mind. The 80Bites app is designed to help you manage your eating habits. Here's how it works: Grab a plate of food and a beverage (please note, sips don't count). Open the app, take a bite, and hit the BITE button. When you reach your 26th bite, a loud noise will sound. This is your cue to stop. Push your plate away and focus on your stomach. We're not referring to the larger area under your belly button but rather the small sausage-shaped container under your left breast. Can you feel any sensation of fullness? If not, feel free to continue eating. However, make sure to track when you start to feel full. The app's counter goes as high as 99 bites. If you don't reach a sensation of fullness within this limit, perhaps try again at another meal. Remember, a bag of chips doesn't count as a meal. You might be wondering, why 26 and 80? The answer lies in your hormones. The drug Ozempic works by rebalancing your gut hormones that may be out of sync. With 80Bites and Ozempic, which is soon coming in a handy pill form, you can address this issue in a comprehensive manner. Ready to get started? Let's embark on this journey towards better eating habits together.
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 price: Intuitive Eating Buddy at Free against 80 Bites's $0.99. Intuitive Eating Buddy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). 80 Bites's advantage is chart position (#196 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Intuitive Eating Buddy is free to download; 80 Bites costs $0.99 up front. 80 Bites sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Intuitive Eating Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Intuitive Eating Buddy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intuitive Eating Buddy has 190 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of 80 Bites's written reviews are positive against 89% of Intuitive Eating Buddy's.
80 Bites ships an update every 2 months, Intuitive Eating Buddy every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 80 Bites | Intuitive Eating Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (38 ratings) | 4.8 (190 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 190 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PhysicalMind Institute | Sagital SRL |
Customer experience
80 Bites
Intuitive Eating Buddy
User reviews
80 Bites
From 38 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 💡 Effective for portion control
- 👍 Helps build mindful eating habits
- 👍 Encourages slower eating
- 👍 Useful for weight loss journey
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs with daily calculations
- 🐛 Stacking/consolidation of days
- 🐛 App crashes or becomes unstable
- 🐛 Inconsistent recording of bites
- 🐛 Difficult to edit or add manually
Intuitive Eating Buddy
From 190 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
80 Bites
Reported bugs
24 issues- Days are consolidated/stacked
- Previous days disappear from graph
- App crashes when going to history
- Doubles bites due to not closing properly
- Previous purchases not restorable after update
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- App not working on iPhone 12
- FAQ screen has no back button
- Major bugs with daily calculations
- No way to edit or manually add bites
- Stacking problem is very serious
- Duplicated eating events
- App instability when switching functions
- App crashes forcing reboot
- Unstable when timeline is full
- Advert page for diet appears all the time
- Glitches with adding bites during time gaps
- App crashes when going to history
- Sometimes doesn't close properly and doubles bites
- Major bug: switching apps creates duplicate bite entry forms
- App duplicated eating events for second day
- Stacked day 3 onto day 2
- Doesn't change days, keeps adding bites
- App crashes when going to history
- Sometimes doesn't close properly and doubles the bites
Requested features
10 requests- Daily bite tally/counter
- Save bites for the day
- Total bites for the day display
- Sync between devices (iPad/iPhone)
- Manually add bites or edit entries
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- View bites by meal/snack
- Restore previous purchases
- Dark mode option
- Improved graphics for newer displays
- Ability to send feedback from the app
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
80 Bites
- 12 Steps Program$14.99
Intuitive Eating Buddy
- Monthly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Yearly Challenges Plan7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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