Mindful bites vs BeanThere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mindful bites
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Why Choose Mindful Bites? Zero Calorie Counting: Focus on nourishment and mindfulness, completely free from the anxiety of macros. Food, Mood & Symptom Tracking: Easily log your meals alongside your emotional state and physical symptoms (like bloating, low energy, or headaches) to identify your trigger foods. Handy Home Screen Widgets: Log your bites, moods, and symptoms instantly right from your iOS Home Screen! Custom Reminders & Tips: Build consistent, healthy habits with gentle nudges and personalized feedback.
BeanThere
This app helps you understand your diet by tracking 41 essential nutrients through AI-powered photo analysis of meals and food labels. It provides insights into your daily balance, allows for personalized goal setting, and offers an AI guide for nutrition questions.
- AI food identification from photos
- Tracks 41 essential nutrients
- AI nutrition guide (Beanjamin)
- Customizable dashboard
- Daily Health Score
- Connect with friends for motivation
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Nutrition is more than counting calories. BeanThere tracks 41 essential nutrients to build awareness around your dietary habits, and it's as easy as taking a photo. Now with Beanjamin, your AI nutrition guide, to help you make sense of it all. Photograph any meal, nutrition label, or ingredients list, or type in your ingredients directly. Either way, BeanThere's AI reads your input, matches it against the USDA FoodData Central database for verified values, and fills in any gaps with smart estimates. LOG YOUR FOOD • Photograph a meal, a packaged product, a nutrition label, or type your ingredients in directly • AI identifies your food and portions in seconds • Verified values from the USDA FoodData Central database • Results read like a Nutrition Facts label, with % of your own goals NOT JUST CALORIES • 41 essential nutrients: macros, 13 vitamins, 12 minerals, and more • Watch your daily totals build with every meal you log • Know where you're running low, from iron to fiber to omega-3 YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • A daily Health Score shows how balanced your day is • Track your water against a daily goal • See each day as a timeline, with a monthly calendar of your scores • Keep your streak going and collect stamps in your Bean passport MEET BEANJAMIN, YOUR AI NUTRITION GUIDE • Ask anything about your food and get answers based on what you've actually logged • Tap a suggestion to check how today is going, get ideas for what to eat next, or rate your last meal • Analyze the last week, month, or year to spot gaps and wins • Make him yours: choose his personality, answer length, and emojis, and tell him foods you dislike and cuisines you love • Respects your dietary restrictions, and you decide whether he talks about calories and weight A CUSTOMIZABLE DASHBOARD • Choose exactly which nutrients you want to see, or start from a ready-made layout • View any date range, from a single day to a full year • Drag and rearrange your widgets FRIENDS • Connect with friends and follow each other's progress to stay motivated • You decide what's visible, with privacy controls, blocking, and reporting QUICK ADDS • Turn meals you eat often into one-tap buttons • Save any past entry and re-log it in seconds • Build a library of your go-to foods BEANTHERE PRO The free version includes 2 food scans and 3 quick adds a day, plus 2 days of history. Upgrade to BeanThere Pro for: • Unlimited scans and manual entries • Beanjamin, your AI nutrition guide • Your full nutrition history, not just the last 2 days • A fully customizable progress dashboard • Unlimited quick-add templates Start with a 7-day free trial. Monthly, yearly, or one-time lifetime. BeanThere is a wellness and awareness tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Beanjamin's answers are AI-generated and are not medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your dietary needs. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BeanThere at every 3 weeks against Mindful bites's every 4 months. Mindful bites's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Mindful bites sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BeanThere sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mindful bites ships an update every 4 months, BeanThere every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mindful bites | BeanThere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 嘉琦 宁 | Adam Glantz |
In-app purchases
Mindful bites
- Lifetime access$4.99
BeanThere
- BeanThere Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- BeanThere Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- BeanThere Pro Lifetime$149.99









