Midtown vs InstaCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Midtown
Manage your club membership with ease. Book classes, reserve amenities, and discover events. Stay informed about club news and exclusive offers.
- Book classes
- Reserve amenities
- Discover events
- Manage account
- Exclusive offers
- Club news updates
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Elevate your Midtown Athletic Club Membership with our exclusive app. Seamlessly book classes, reserve amenities, discover exciting events, and manage your account. Enjoy exclusive offers, access your account history, and stay up-to-date on club news. Download now and make the most of your Midtown Athletic Club Membership.
InstaCal
This AI-powered nutrition tracker uses photo scanning to instantly analyze your meals and provide macro breakdowns. Connect with friends through a social feed, discover local food options on a map, and gain insights from a virtual dietitian.
- AI photo meal analysis
- Social food feed
- Food discovery map
- Multiple logging options
- AI dietitian chat
- Health and fitness app sync
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InstaCal: The Social App for Food & Fitness Food is social. Your nutrition app should be too. InstaCal is where you see what your friends are actually eating, find your next meal from real plates near you, and log your own food in seconds with AI. Not a tracker with social bolted on, a social app where the content is what people eat. A FEED BUILT AROUND FOOD Follow friends and see every meal they log, with full macro breakdowns. Like, comment, and bookmark the ones that inspire you. Share yours on cards designed to post anywhere. You choose who sees each meal: your feed, your profile only, or only you. YOUR OWN COACH, IN YOUR DMS InstaCal Coach is an AI dietitian that reads every meal and workout you log and leaves a short note: what worked, what to fix, what to eat next. It recaps your day, week and month. Ask it anything. 6 WAYS TO LOG • Photo Scan - snap your plate, AI breaks down every ingredient • Barcode Scanner - scan packaged food in seconds • Nutrition Label Scanner - point and done • Food Search - describe it in plain English, adjust the portion, log it • Build a Meal - combine ingredients your way • Saved Meals - one tap to relog your go-to's Fix with AI: "the chicken is 8oz, add ranch." See exactly what changes before it's applied. TRACKING THAT READS AT A GLANCE Your day in boxes: calories, macros, streak, burned, distance, goals and body weight. Swipe through your week Monday to Sunday. Tap any box for full charts and the Coach's read. FOOD AND FITNESS, FINALLY TOGETHER Connect Apple Health or Strava, or type "ran 5k in 28 min" and it's logged. See calories burned next to calories eaten, with splits, pace, heart rate zones and elevation on every run. Set weekly training goals and watch them fill. EVERY ROUTE ON ONE MAP Your runs and rides draw themselves in as you scroll, and one map shows every route you've ever recorded. DISCOVER MEALS NEAR YOU Open the Map to see real meals logged around your city. Find your next lunch spot based on what people actually ordered, photographed and loved. Explore shows you plates that fit the macros you have left today. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Set a target like "run 50 miles this month" and race your friends, or go head-to-head on points where everyone is scored against their own goals. Join public seasons with the whole community. MESSAGE YOUR PEOPLE DM friends one-on-one or in groups. Reply to stories, react, share meals and workouts straight into a chat. EARN YOUR BADGES 88 achievements to unlock as you log, cook, compete and keep your streak alive. Then get your month, wrapped: a story of your meals, miles and streaks, ready to share. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for today's calories, your streak, a one-tap Log a meal, friends' latest plates and your last workout. Lock Screen too. YOUR PROFILE, YOUR RULES Public or private, you choose who sees what. Add your Instagram and website. Follow friends, creators, athletes and dietitians, or keep it to your close circle. FREE FOREVER Unlimited logging by photo, search or Build a Meal. The full social feed, Explore, stories, challenges, achievements, DMs, widgets, Wrapped and saving meals. Coach notes on every meal and workout, and Fix with AI, included. INSTACAL PRO UNLOCKS • Barcode and nutrition label scanning • One-tap relog, duplicate and edit your saved meals • Unlimited Coach chat, plus weekly and monthly recaps • Full insight pages: calories, macros, streaks, distance, training, trends and progress • Meal scores, pace zones and your last six runs • Nearby slides and your personal meal map Free to start. One subscription unlocks everything. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InstaCal at 5.0 against Midtown's 4.2. InstaCal also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Midtown's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (74 vs 24). 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. InstaCal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Midtown asks for nothing beyond the download.
InstaCal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 74 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Midtown's written reviews are positive against 100% of InstaCal's.
Midtown ships an update monthly, InstaCal every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Midtown | InstaCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tennis Corporation of America | Digital Delight LLC |
Customer experience
Midtown
InstaCal
Bugs and requests
Midtown
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen issues and connection problems
- Lack of information about assigned courts
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to add classes/events to personal calendar
- Improve account and transaction history accessibility
- Add court reservation and selection functionality
- Implement digital membership barcode
InstaCal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Midtown
No in-app purchases
InstaCal
- InstaCal$7.991 Month
- InstaCal3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Streak Restore$0.99
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