Comparison

Bellybook vs SoloCook

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

Head to head
About

Bellybook

This app allows you to journal your culinary experiences, focusing on memories and emotions associated with meals rather than strict calorie counting. It uses AI to help organize your food history, create a personal recipe archive, and even track your coffee consumption.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted food journaling
  • Natural language meal recording
  • Lifetime food and recipe collection
  • Personalized coffee cup gallery
  • Capture meal memories and context
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Say goodbye to the lies and anxiety of calorie tracking. BellyBook is the app made for food lovers. Curate the world's cuisines you've savored throughout your life, with AI-assisted recording and organization. We believe true intelligence comes from human feelings, memories, and experiences. AI simply helps you organize, understand, and preserve these life moments around food. BellyBook captures more than just what you ate— it remembers where you were, who you were with, and what that meal meant to you. Core Experience Natural Food Journaling Record your daily meals in a single sentence. No forms needed—just chat about what you ate, and it's saved. AI understands your descriptions and fills in food details and stories. Lifetime Food Collection Through photos and recognition, build your personal recipe archive. From home-cooked meals to exotic flavors, gradually craft your culinary life story. Coffee Cup Collection Capture every cup of coffee you've enjoyed. AI automatically isolates and organizes them into your personal cup gallery. BellyBook Pro Unlock the complete food collection experience Expanded recording capacity Richer display options Continuous updates and member-exclusive features Subscription Terms: Subscription fees are charged to your App Store account and automatically renew 24 hours before the current period ends, unless manually canceled. Manage your subscription in App Store account settings after purchase. Current subscription periods cannot be canceled once activated, and any free trial will end upon paid subscription. Privacy Policy: https://bellybook.cn/article/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://bellybook.cn/article/user-agreement

About

SoloCook

Features
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SoloCook. Dinner, for one. Cooking apps are built for families. SoloCook isn't. No "serves 4." No meal-prep for twelve. No recipes that leave you eating the same lasagne for a week. Just dinner, for you, using what's already in your fridge. Open the app. Tap what you've got. Get the recipes you can actually cook tonight. THE QUIET CASE AGAINST DELIVERY A delivery order for one costs far more than cooking the same meal yourself. SoloCook counts every meal you make as one order you didn't place, and shows the running total on Home, in your own currency. The number is hard to ignore. WHAT'S IN THE APP • 17,000+ recipes from 20+ cuisines: Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, British, Greek, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, French, Caribbean, Filipino, Turkish, American, Polish, Russian, Portuguese and more. • Fridge-first search. Tap your ingredients, appliances and cuisines, and get a ranked list of what you can cook right now. Recipes you're one ingredient short on are flagged, so you know exactly what to pick up on the way home. • Fridge Scan. Point the camera at the open door and SoloCook ticks what it can see, from loose veg to leftovers. You confirm the list before anything changes. The photo is read, then discarded. • Say it instead. Tap the mic and list what you've got. Recognition runs on your phone and the audio never leaves it. • SoloCook Originals. Thousands of single-portion recipes written for the kit you actually own: hob, oven, microwave, air fryer, Ninja, slow cooker and more. • Cook mode. One step at a time in big type, with a timer on every step that needs one. • Recipes that scale. Cook for one, or for two with a single tap. • A streak counter. Cook a few days in a row and the app notices. Skip a day and it resets. It's a mirror, not a nag. • Share cards for Stories: dishes cooked, a weekly recap, a money-saved receipt and a streak on fire. • Bookmarks, dark mode, and a "won't eat" list so recipes with things you avoid never show up. QUIET BY DEFAULT Your pantry, streak and bookmarks live on your phone. No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No ads. No push notifications. Delete the app and everything goes with it. Data leaves your phone only when you share something through the share sheet, or choose to scan your fridge. That one photo is sent to be read, then discarded. Fridge Scan stays off until you say yes to it in the app. THE TONE The copy doesn't chirp at you. It doesn't say "You did it!" It says "Honour system, then. Logged." If that grates, this app isn't for you. EST. 2026 · FOR ONE · SOMETIMES TWO

Screenshots

Bellybook4 screens
SoloCook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SoloCook at none against Bellybook's 6. Bellybook's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bellybook sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SoloCook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bellybook ships an update every 3 days, SoloCook every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bellybook versus SoloCook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBellybookSoloCook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (111 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings111 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanghai Diyu Network Technology Co., LtdNishesh Jaiswal

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Bellybook

Subscriptions4
  • 月度会员$2.991 Month
  • 月会员$9.991 Month
  • 美食家年度会员$29.991 Year
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  • 年会员$99.991 Year
One-time2
  • 胃之书永久会员$29.99
  • 美食家永久会员$399.99
None

SoloCook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bellybook free?
Bellybook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SoloCook free?
SoloCook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bellybook or SoloCook have ads?
Neither Bellybook nor SoloCook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bellybook or SoloCook?
Bellybook ships an update every 3 days, and SoloCook every 3 months. Most recently, Bellybook was updated on October 16, 2026 and SoloCook on October 8, 2026.

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