OpenNutriTracker vs Mist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenNutriTracker
This app offers a straightforward way to monitor your daily food intake and analyze nutritional information. It features a food diary, custom meal planning, and a barcode scanner for easy logging. Prioritizing user privacy, it provides a completely free and ad-free experience.
- Nutritional tracking
- Food diary
- Custom meal planning
- Barcode scanner
- Privacy focused
- Open-source
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OpenNutriTracker is an open-source mobile application designed to simplify nutritional tracking and management. Whether you are looking to improve your health, lose weight, or simply maintain a balanced diet, OpenNutriTracker provides a minimalistic interface to easily track and analyze your daily nutrition. - Nutritional Tracking: Easily log your meals and snacks, and access a vast database of food items and ingredients to get detailed nutritional information. - Food Diary: Maintain a comprehensive food diary to keep track of your daily food consumption, habits, and progress. - Custom Meals: Plan your meals in advance, create personalized meal plans, and optimize them according to your dietary goals. - Barcode Scanner: Scan barcodes on packaged food items to instantly retrieve their nutritional information. - Privacy Focused: OpenNutriTracker prioritizes the privacy its users. It does not collect or share any personal data without your consent. - No Subscription, In-App Purchases, or Ads: OpenNutriTracker is completely free to use, without any subscription fees, in-app purchases, or intrusive advertisements.
Mist
Easily log your food and exercise with a simple interface. Automatically calculates calories and macros, allowing you to view their impact on your health. Focuses on fast, uncomplicated tracking.
- Quick food and exercise logging
- Automatic calorie calculation
- Macro tracking
- View health impacts (sleep, weight, mental health)
- Optional calorie count hiding
- Simple, no-fuss interface
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Track food and exercise as quickly as a notes app. - No complicated menus, calories are automatically calculated - Log meals, workouts, and daily activity in seconds - Search for foods and see their macros - View how diet affects different aspects of health, including sleep, weight, and mental health - Hide calorie counts whenever you want - No complicated features. Just fast, easy food tracking Privacy policy: https://www.getmistapp.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.getmistapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mist at 4.9 against OpenNutriTracker's 4.2. Mist also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (508 vs 14). OpenNutriTracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Mist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. OpenNutriTracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mist holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mist has 508 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of OpenNutriTracker's written reviews are positive against 81% of Mist's.
OpenNutriTracker ships an update monthly, Mist every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenNutriTracker | Mist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (14 ratings) | 4.9 (508 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 508 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Simon Oppowa | Holograph |
Customer experience
OpenNutriTracker
Mist
In-app purchases
OpenNutriTracker
No in-app purchases
Mist
- Mist Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mist Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
