Comparison

Practice Recorder vs Daily Carb

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

Head to head
About

Practice Recorder

Record and listen to audio privately on your device. Organize recordings into folders, play them in various orders, and easily back them up. Designed for focused, long-term practice with features like earpiece playback and automatic suggestions.

Highlights
  • Private on-device recording
  • Folder organization
  • Multiple playback modes
  • Backup and restore
  • AirDrop and Finder sharing
  • CarPlay support
Features
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Record and listen with privacy and focus. Organize recordings into folders and play them in order or on shuffle. Designed for private listening and long-term practice. Privacy first • Recordings stay on your device — no cloud upload • Playback starts through the iPhone earpiece by default (like a phone call) Backup & restore • Included in device backups • Fully restored on a new device Playback • iPhone earpiece, headphones, speaker, Bluetooth, AirPlay • Shuffle by folder, across all folders, or by least-recently-played • Repeat single recordings or playlists • Prefer new or recently added recordings Organization • Create, rename, reorder, and delete folders (up to 200) • Move one or all recordings between folders • Undo deletes with shake • Automatic folder name suggestions • Rename recordings (emoji supported) Sharing & import • Export and import recordings between compatible apps • AirDrop support • Finder File Sharing with metadata, cover art, and Sound Check Advanced • One-tap recording • CarPlay support for safe listening in the car • High-quality compressed audio for long recordings • Current recording is safely preserved during interruptions or low battery • Built-in reminders to record and listen daily • Detailed in-app instructions and direct developer support

About

Daily Carb

Track your daily nutrition, water intake, and vital health metrics like glucose, blood pressure, and weight. Set carb budgets, log meals from a large database, and monitor progress with charts. Share detailed reports with your doctor.

Highlights
  • Carb budget and nutrition tracking
  • Food logging with large database
  • Water intake monitoring
  • Weight and BMI tracking
  • Glucose and HbA1c logging
  • Blood pressure and heart rate logging
  • Data sharing with doctors
Features
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This is the app you are looking for if you are a dieter or who want to control your diabetes or weight! You can set your carb budget and track your daily nutrition intake of the food, carbs, fiber, fat etc, and also track quantity of water intake, readings of your glucose, HbA1c, blood pressure, heart rate, weight, exercise, medications and insulin, you can share the readings with your doctors in form of CSV, HTML or PDF by email. Key Features: Food: ⁃ Create your carb budget and track it. ⁃ Track your food logs includes daily nutrition intake, such as carbs, fiber, calories etc. ⁃ Huge default food database from restaurant, common foods and supermarket. ⁃ Add your custom food or your recipes. ⁃ Add food to Favorites. ⁃ Search food database. ⁃ Report your carbs intake. Weight: ⁃ Track your weight logs. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Calculate BMI of each reading automatically. ⁃ Show weight change compared with last weight. ⁃ Report weight and BMI logs by chart. Water: ⁃ Log your daily quantity of water intake. ⁃ Show your target, actual and average glasses of water intake by chart. ⁃ Show number of glasses of water intake in Water’s icon. ⁃ Report your water intake. Others: ⁃ Calendar overview of your data. ⁃ Password protection. ⁃ Supports Touch ID passcode. ⁃ Supports WiFi Backup & Restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup & restore. ⁃ Manage your personal info and set color ranges for your glucose and blood pressure. ⁃ Email your readings to your doctors in form of CSV, HTML or PDF. ⁃ Badges to show your consumed/remaining net carbs and water intake. ⁃ Supports AirPrint. ⁃ Supports transferring data to Health app. ⁃ Supports universal version. In App Purchase: Exercises: ⁃ Log the date, duration, exercise name, intensity of exercises and add note to it. ⁃ Hundreds of default common exercises for you to chose. ⁃ Customize and save your own exercises. ⁃ Save your favorites exercise. ⁃ Search exercise by name. ⁃ Show your actual exercise time and average exercise duration by chart. Glucose: ⁃ Log your glucose and HbA1c logs. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Analyze glucose level by chart. ⁃ Show the statistics info of four glucose segments. ⁃ Calculate average glucose level of different periods. Blood Pressure: ⁃ Log your blood Pressure and heart rate. ⁃ Add note to each reading. ⁃ Calculate your MAP of each reading. ⁃ Analyze BP and heart rate level by chart. ⁃ Show Max, Min and Avg number of BP, Heart rate and MAP. ⁃ Show percentage and number of BP in different levels. Lipid Panel: ⁃ Log your Cholesterol, Triglycerides, HDL and LDL. ⁃ Add note to reading. Medications: ⁃ Log your medication intake. ⁃ Log medication intake time, dosage, and add note to it. ⁃ Manage your medications’ route, unit, side effects, icon and other info. Reminders: ⁃ Create unlimited reminders to alert you measure your blood pressure or glucose, drinking water, visiting doctor, doing exercise or anything else you would like. ⁃ Create reminder text of each reminder. ⁃ Set time, repeat frequency, and icon for the reminders. ⁃ Ten default reminder sounds and you can set your own. ⁃ Set if reminder is ON or OFF. Apple Health: Daily Carb is able to write nutrition/weight/glucose/blood pressure data only according to your permissions and preferences. If allowing Daily Carb to write data, you could transfer these data to Health App easily. If you have any questions or suggestion, please mail to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.

Screenshots

Practice Recorder3 screens
Daily Carb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Carb at Free against Practice Recorder's $19.99. Daily Carb also leads on ratings volume (194 vs 49) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). Practice Recorder's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 7). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Daily Carb is free to download; Practice Recorder costs $19.99 up front. Daily Carb sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Practice Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Practice Recorder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 194 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Practice Recorder's written reviews are positive against 70% of Daily Carb's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Practice Recorder ships an update every 3 months, Daily Carb every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Practice Recorder versus Daily Carb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPractice RecorderDaily Carb
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (49 ratings) — better4.0 (194 ratings)
Positive reviews94.7% of reviews — better70.2% of reviews
Number of ratings49194 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaks and Pasha倩 赵

Customer experience

Practice Recorder

All ratings49 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%

Daily Carb

All ratings193 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral10.4%
Negative13.5%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive70.2%
Neutral11.5%
Negative18.3%

Bugs and requests

Practice Recorder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Daily Carb

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Favorites list randomly clearing
  • Ads appearing even after in-app purchase

Requested features

5 requests
  • Barcode scanning for adding foods
  • Ability to edit serving sizes and nutritional info
  • Improved organization and search for favorites/custom foods
  • Sync with other health apps or devices
  • More comprehensive international food database

In-app purchases

None

Practice Recorder

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Daily Carb

One-time7
  • Exercises$0.99
  • Glucose & Insulin Calculator$0.99
  • Blood Pressure$0.99
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  • Lipid Panel$0.99
  • Medications$0.99
  • Reminders$0.99
  • Get All$3.99

Questions

Is Practice Recorder free?
Practice Recorder costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Carb free?
Daily Carb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Practice Recorder or Daily Carb?
Practice Recorder is rated higher. Practice Recorder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 49 ratings, while Daily Carb averages 4.0 from 194 ratings.
Do Practice Recorder or Daily Carb have ads?
Daily Carb shows ads; Practice Recorder does not.
Which is updated more often, Practice Recorder or Daily Carb?
Practice Recorder ships an update every 3 months, and Daily Carb every 7 months. Most recently, Practice Recorder was updated on October 23, 2026 and Daily Carb on October 23, 2026.

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