Comparison

Fudo Note vs Ricky's Food Pal

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

Head to head
About

Fudo Note

Record your dining experiences with this app. Capture details about restaurants, snap photos of dishes, and assign ratings. Easily organize and retrieve your notes based on location, favorites, or date.

Highlights
  • Detailed restaurant notes
  • Restaurant rating system
  • In-app photo snapping
  • Quick note search
  • Customizable restaurant types
  • iCloud sync for backup
Features
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Fudo Note is an amazing, hands-on, and fun food note-taking app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It allows you to take notes on the restaurants you've visited, snap photos of your favorite dishes, and rate the restaurants. The notes are sorted based on your preferences. Key features include: - Take detailed notes on every aspect of the restaurants you've visited. - Rate the restaurants you've visited. - Snap photos within the app. - Quickly find notes for nearby restaurants you've visited. - Quickly find notes for your favorite restaurants. - Quickly find notes for restaurants you've visited by date. - Easily backup and restore note data through Finder/iTunes/iCloud sync. - Set photos as note covers. - Add or edit customized restaurant types. - Support Dark Mode

About

Ricky's Food Pal

Easily log and remember your favorite meals with photos, personal ratings, and descriptive notes. Quickly find dishes by restaurant and keep your culinary memories organized separately from other photos.

Highlights
  • Instant meal logging with photos
  • Search meals by restaurant
  • Personal dish ratings
  • Descriptive notes for meals
  • Organized food photo gallery
Features
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The Smarter Way to Remember What You Ate We’ve all been there: sitting at a favorite restaurant, trying to remember the name of that incredible dish from last time. Or worse—scrolling through thousands of random phone photos just to show a friend a specific dish. Meet Ricky’s Food Pal, the dedicated home for your culinary memories. Ricky’s Food Pal isn't a calorie counter or a social media feed—it’s a private, powerful log designed to help you remember the meals that matter. Key Features: - Instant Meal Logging: Snap a photo of your dish and save it in seconds. - Search by Restaurant: Quickly look up "that steakhouse" to see everything you've ordered there in the past. - Personal Ratings: Rate dishes so you know exactly what to order again (and what to skip). - Descriptive Notes: Record the flavors, the service, or who was at the table with you. - No More Gallery Clutter: Keep your food photos organized in one place, separate from your family and travel photos. Your Dining History, Simplified. Whether it’s a high-end tasting menu or the best taco truck in town, Ricky’s Food Pal makes sure you never forget a great bite.

Screenshots

Fudo Note4 screens
Ricky's Food Pal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fudo Note at none against Ricky's Food Pal's 1. Ricky's Food Pal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Ricky's Food Pal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fudo Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fudo Note against 5.0 for Ricky's Food Pal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fudo Note ships an update every 3 months, Ricky's Food Pal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fudo Note versus Ricky's Food Pal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFudo NoteRicky's Food Pal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB37 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEgg MobileJonathan Chow

In-app purchases

None

Fudo Note

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Ricky's Food Pal

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade$1.99

Questions

Is Fudo Note free?
Fudo Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ricky's Food Pal free?
Ricky's Food Pal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fudo Note or Ricky's Food Pal?
Fudo Note and Ricky's Food Pal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Fudo Note or Ricky's Food Pal have ads?
Neither Fudo Note nor Ricky's Food Pal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fudo Note or Ricky's Food Pal?
Fudo Note ships an update every 3 months, and Ricky's Food Pal every 3 weeks. Most recently, Fudo Note was updated on November 1, 2026 and Ricky's Food Pal on October 31, 2026.

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