Comparison

Bellybook vs Mealsphere

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

Mealsphere

Features
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Mealsphere helps you organize familiar food choices and decide what to eat next. Create a Mealsphere for school, work, home, or anywhere you often eat. Add frequent places and dishes, then browse a personalized recommendation feed shaped by your budget, recent history, distance, service speed, and current mood. The feed progressively reveals the eligible choices in a stable order. Your private food library: - Organize Mealspheres, frequent places, and menu items - Save dish prices, serving specifications, photos, emoji evaluations, and personal reviews - Track tasting progress for each Mealsphere and place - Add dishes manually, paste menu text, or use the optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription to scan or import a menu photo - Review and edit recognized menu items before saving - Search from a dedicated tab and remove individual search-history entries - Capture menu and dish photos with one camera flow, pinch to zoom, orientation handling, and clear review actions - Record meals and edit an existing history entry's evaluation, review, photo, date, or time - Edit Mealspheres and frequent places directly from their detail pages - Reuse recent locations and set places with Apple Maps - Keep your private library available locally and synchronized through your private iCloud account Mealsphere community: - Browse and download public Mealspheres without signing in - Discover nearby or recently published collections - Preview places and dishes before adding a Mealsphere to your private library - Merge later community updates while preserving your personal history, evaluations, reviews, and local choices - Sign in with Apple when you want to publish or manage community activity - Report inappropriate content, block publishers, and delete your community account in the app Optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription: Use cloud recognition to extract dish names, prices, and specifications from menu photos. Every result appears as an editable list before it is saved. Mealsphere combines a personal food memory with a community of reusable menus, so your next meal can start with choices that already make sense. Campus Community: Optionally choose your university to prioritize shares from the same university. Search the university list on your device and manage the choice from Me. Non-student and unlisted choices use regular community discovery. Navigation adapts to iPhone Duo folding and rotation. Clear detail cards show counts and tasting progress with a direct edit button.

Screenshots

Bellybook4 screens
Mealsphere4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bellybook at every 3 days against Mealsphere's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Bellybook sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mealsphere sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bellybook ships an update every 3 days, Mealsphere every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bellybook versus Mealsphere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBellybookMealsphere
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (111 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings111 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanghai Diyu Network Technology Co., Ltd威伦 钱

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
1 purchases

Mealsphere

Subscriptions1
  • Menu Photo Recognition$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Bellybook free?
Bellybook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mealsphere free?
Mealsphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bellybook or Mealsphere have ads?
Neither Bellybook nor Mealsphere shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bellybook or Mealsphere?
Bellybook ships an update every 3 days, and Mealsphere every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bellybook was updated on October 16, 2026 and Mealsphere on October 16, 2026.

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