Comparison

BeckonCall vs Food Diary

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

Head to head
About

BeckonCall

A clinical communication tool created by physicians for physicians. It allows for efficient management of consults, admits, orders, and patient calls with customizable delivery and response methods. Avoid hold times and interruptions while staying in control of your communications.

Highlights
  • Clinical message management
  • Consult, admit, and order handling
  • Customizable message delivery
  • Physician-designed interface
  • Reduced communication delays
  • After-hours call management
Features
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Meet the only clinical communication tool designed by doctors, for doctors. Receive and respond to clinical messages on your terms. No hold times, delays, or unwanted interruptions. Period. Manage consults, admits, orders, and after-hours patient calls in one place, according to your rules. You control: • What information you receive • How and when the message is delivered • The means by which you respond What Physicians are Saying: “I would recommend BeckonCall to any practice that needs to communicate with hospital staff or patients. BeckonCall just makes it easier and more efficient to communicate as a physician.” -Dr. Jozef Zoldos, Orthopedic Surgery “BeckonCall saves me phone calls and time. Before it was difficult to know if incoming messages from the hospital warranted a phone conversation or not, now I can handle a lot of those via text only. It saves a lot of time and back and forth.” -Dr. Arya Nabavieh, Internal Medicine Hospitalist

About

Food Diary

This app helps you identify foods that cause discomfort by tracking your meals and symptoms. It generates reports for your doctor and syncs data across devices, prioritizing your privacy.

Highlights
  • Track meals and symptoms
  • Identify food triggers
  • Generate PDF reports for doctors
  • Visualize patterns with charts
  • Sync data across devices
  • Privacy-focused data storage
Features
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How you feel is tied to what you eat. Working out which food is behind it, on your own, is close to impossible — the reaction arrives hours later, and by then you have eaten four other things. This app does the connecting for you. FIND YOUR TRIGGER FOODS Log your meals, log how you feel, and let the app compare the two. It ranks the foods most likely behind your bloating, cramps, headaches, fatigue or skin flare-ups, and shows the evidence behind every one, so you can see exactly why your gut is being blamed on last night's dinner. A DIARY THAT TAKES SECONDS Add a whole meal in one go, with every ingredient in it still tracked separately — so you find out which part of the dinner was the problem, not just that dinner was. Portions, timing and severity in a few taps. Home screen widgets for one-tap logging. REPORTS YOUR DOCTOR CAN USE Export a clean PDF: your full timeline, symptoms grouped by severity, portion history, and nothing cut in half by a page break. Walk into an appointment with a record instead of a recollection. SEE THE PATTERN Charts for how often symptoms hit, how bad they get, and how that moves week to week. Compare foods side by side. Run an elimination plan and watch what changes. BUILT FOR REAL CONDITIONS Whether it is IBS, a food allergy, lactose or gluten intolerance, celiac disease, histamine intolerance, acid reflux, eczema, or nausea nobody can explain, the method is the same: log it, compare it, narrow it down. Following a low FODMAP or dairy-free plan? Track it here and keep the evidence. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no tracking, nothing shared. Your diary lives on your device and in your own iCloud, synced between iPhone and iPad. Food Diary is a subscription, with a free trial so you can try it properly first. You will see the plans as soon as you open the app, and you can cancel any time. Start your diary today and find your trigger. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BeckonCall4 screens
Food Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BeckonCall at 100% against Food Diary's 0%. BeckonCall also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). Food Diary's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Food Diary sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. BeckonCall asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BeckonCall holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of BeckonCall's written reviews are positive against 0% of Food Diary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BeckonCall ships an update every 2 months, Food Diary every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
BeckonCall versus Food Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeckonCallFood Diary
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better3.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB39 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBeckon Call, IncChristopher Hefferman

Customer experience

BeckonCall

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Food Diary

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

BeckonCall

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Food Diary

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Limited Time Offer$24.991 Year
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  • Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$39.99

Questions

Is BeckonCall free?
BeckonCall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Food Diary free?
Food Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BeckonCall or Food Diary?
BeckonCall is rated higher. BeckonCall averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Food Diary averages 3.7 from 6 ratings.
Do BeckonCall or Food Diary have ads?
Neither BeckonCall nor Food Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BeckonCall or Food Diary?
BeckonCall ships an update every 2 months, and Food Diary every 2 weeks. Most recently, BeckonCall was updated on November 10, 2026 and Food Diary on November 13, 2026.

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