NationsNutrition vs Carium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NationsNutrition
This app motivates and supports behavior change for eating and exercise. It integrates with the Health app to automatically import steps, calories burned, and body weight measurements.
- Motivates behavior change
- Supports eating and exercise goals
- Integrates with Health app
- Automatic import of steps
- Automatic import of calories burned
- Automatic import of body weight
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NationsNutrition motivates and supports behavior change related to eating and exercise. This application is primarily available to individuals from participating health plans, health care providers, and sponsored programs. NationsNutrition integrates with the Health app to support automatic import of steps and calories burned from workouts to the NationsNutrition exercise log and body weight measurements to the NationsNutrition weight tracking.
Carium
This app empowers users to actively manage their health and wellness by connecting them with their healthcare or wellness team. It offers tools to support personal goals and facilitates real-time communication and progress tracking through secure technology and health data integration.
- Personalized health and wellness goal support
- Virtual connection to care teams
- Secure communication with providers
- Integration with Apple HealthKit
- Real-time progress tracking
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Take an active role in your health and wellness journey in partnership with your healthcare or wellness team. Carium is a free app that provides easy-to-use tools to support your health and wellness goals, and virtually connects you to your trusted care team or wellness coach. Through Carium’s secure technology, along with data from Apple HealthKit and other sources, you and your care team have a single source to support your progress and communicate easily — in real time, from within real life. To use the Carium app, you will need a code from your healthcare provider or coach. If you don’t have a code – or if you want your healthcare team to offer Carium – drop us an email at info@carium.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NationsNutrition at 60% against Carium's 0%. Carium's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Carium holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of NationsNutrition's written reviews are positive against 0% of Carium's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NationsNutrition ships an update every 5 weeks, Carium every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NationsNutrition | Carium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (35 ratings) | 4.1 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NationsBenefits, LLC | Carium, Inc. |
Customer experience
NationsNutrition
Carium
In-app purchases
NationsNutrition
No in-app purchases
Carium
No in-app purchases
