Fudo Note vs Bon Viv
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Detailed restaurant notes
- Restaurant rating system
- In-app photo snapping
- Quick note search
- Customizable restaurant types
- iCloud sync for backup
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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
Bon Viv
Log your dining experiences with ratings, notes, and photos. Organize restaurants into custom lists and discover new places through friend recommendations and an interactive map. Save spots you want to try and easily track your culinary journey.
- Log restaurant visits with ratings and notes
- Add photos to visit logs
- Create and share custom restaurant lists
- Search millions of restaurants
- Explore restaurants on an interactive map
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Save restaurants to a 'Want to Visit' list
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Bon Viv is your personal restaurant diary — a beautiful way to track every place you've eaten, share discoveries with friends, and never forget a great meal. LOG YOUR VISITS Every restaurant deserves to be remembered. Log visits with a rating (Amazing, Great, Good, or Meh), personal notes, and photos straight from your camera roll. Build a living record of your culinary life. ORGANIZE WITH LISTS Create custom lists for any occasion — "Date Night Spots," "Best Ramen in the City," "Places to Try in Tokyo." Share your lists with friends or keep them private. EXPLORE & DISCOVER Search millions of restaurants powered by Google. See what your friends have already rated before you book. Use the interactive map to explore a neighborhood and spot hidden gems at a glance. STAY CONNECTED WITH FRIENDS Follow friends and see their latest visits, ratings, and lists in a real-time activity feed. Find a great spot? Your friends will know. WANT TO VISIT Save restaurants you're curious about to your Want to Visit list. When you finally go, log the visit in seconds. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS · Star ratings with color-coded visual cues · Map view with friend ratings overlaid · Filter visited restaurants by cuisine, price, location, and rating
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bon Viv at every 2 months against Fudo Note's every 3 months. Bon Viv also leads on 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fudo Note against 5.0 for Bon Viv. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Fudo Note ships an update every 3 months, Bon Viv every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fudo Note | Bon Viv |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | YU-WEI CHUANG | JACOB ROBERT DRAPER |
Customer experience
Fudo Note
Bon Viv
In-app purchases
Fudo Note
No in-app purchases
Bon Viv
No in-app purchases
