Comparison

Meals.Chat vs Thinking Walks

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

Head to head
About

Meals.Chat

Effortlessly log meals by snapping a photo, and let AI estimate calories, macros, and ingredients. Set personalized goals, track progress with beautiful insights, and manage caffeine intake. Smart reminders ensure you never miss a log.

Highlights
  • AI food logging via photo
  • Manual text or voice logging
  • Personalized calorie and macro goals
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly progress charts
  • Caffeine intake tracking
  • Smart logging reminders
Features
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Your meal. Made clear. Take a photo of your food, or tell us what you ate. Meals.Chat uses AI to estimate calories, protein, carbs, and fat, then keeps your meals and daily totals together in one place. LOG WITH A PHOTO Use your camera or choose a meal photo from your library. Open the result to see your saved photo, nutrition estimate, and ingredient breakdown. JUST SAY WHAT YOU ATE Forgot the photo? Type a meal, snack, or drink in your own words. Meals.Chat turns your description into a food log. MAKE SENSE OF YOUR DAY See calories, macros, and logged meals together in Today. Set your calorie and macro goals in chat, check your progress, and look back at earlier days. ADJUST IN A SENTENCE A smaller portion? Extra dressing? Open a logged meal and describe what changed to update its estimate. DRINKS COUNT TOO Log coffee, tea, and other drinks, with caffeine estimates when available. Your first 15 meals are free. Subscribe to Pro to keep logging after that. Nutrition values are estimates. You can review the ingredients and adjust a meal when needed. Support: https://meals.chat/support/ Privacy: https://meals.chat/privacy/ Terms: https://meals.chat/terms/

About

Thinking Walks

Features
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A Thinking Walk is a half-hour walk with someone who keeps you sharp. You each walk your own route, in your own city, but you start on the same second, hear the same music, and know the other one is out there too. No video call, no chat, no screen. Just walking, listening and thinking about one question. PLANNING WITHOUT THE BACK-AND-FORTH Tap three moments that suit you and send a link. Your buddy picks one, even without the app. It lands in both calendars as a normal appointment, once or every week. START TOGETHER, HEAR TOGETHER Open the walk just before it begins and the start happens on its own. Both phones play the same playlist from the same second, synced to a shared clock. The music is on your phone in advance, so it works without signal. YOUR MUSIC OR OURS Add your own audio files from Files or iCloud Drive. They stay private, playable only by you and your buddy. Or pick from the Thinking Walks library: royalty-free tracks at walking tempo, credited to their makers. THE RACE TRACK AND YOUR BEAT SCORE The next seconds of the song lie on the road as a waveform, so you see the build-up and the drop coming. Your beat score shows how well you walk in time, live next to your buddy's. Afterwards it counts: records, streaks and averages, just for the two of you. QUIET BY DEFAULT, ONE TAP TO TALK Want to say something on the way? Tap the mic and your buddy hears you live, over the music. Phone to phone, never recorded. YOU KNOW THEY'RE WALKING. NOTHING ELSE. During the walk you only see whether your buddy is walking too. No location, no heart rate. Afterwards you can share your route; the start and end stay hidden. LOGGED AUTOMATICALLY WITH APPLE WATCH When the walk begins, your Apple Watch workout starts with it. Distance, pace and heart rate land in Health. Without a Watch, your iPhone logs the walk. Health data stays on your device. WRAP UP OUT LOUD After the walk, record a short note on where you landed. No keyboard, only voices. Every walk stays easy to find, together with what you said. NO BUDDY YET? Try a walk with the demo buddy and feel how it works before you invite anyone. Thinking Walks is free, with no ads and no subscription. Privacy: https://thinkingwalks.app/privacy Terms: https://thinkingwalks.app/terms

Screenshots

Meals.Chat3 screens
Thinking Walks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thinking Walks at none against Meals.Chat's 2. Meals.Chat's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Meals.Chat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Thinking Walks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meals.Chat versus Thinking Walks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeals.ChatThinking Walks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB48 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMohrer Associates LLCPitstop Payments B.V.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Meals.Chat

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Yearly$59.991 Year
None

Thinking Walks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meals.Chat free?
Meals.Chat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thinking Walks free?
Thinking Walks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meals.Chat or Thinking Walks have ads?
Neither Meals.Chat nor Thinking Walks shows ads.

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