Comparison

Dish vs Food Photo Log

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

Head to head
About

Dish

Log your culinary experiences by rating dishes, noting if you'd reorder them, and adding personal comments and photos. This app helps you keep a detailed record of your meals.

Highlights
  • Record dishes eaten
  • Rate dishes
  • Track reorder preference
  • Add special notes
  • Attach photos
  • Log culinary experiences
Features
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Dish-It-Out lets you record the dishes you eat. You can rate the dish, whether you would order it again, and optionally add any special notes and a picture.

About

Food Photo Log

Easily log photos of your meals, adding names, comments, and locations. Organize your food history with tags, create shortcuts, and export your data in various formats. Automatically log recurring meals like breakfast.

Highlights
  • Log food photos from camera or gallery
  • Name and comment on logged food
  • Save and view food locations on a map
  • Automatic import from photo albums
  • Export/import data (CSV, PDF, ZIP)
  • Create custom tags and color-code food
  • Automatic recurring meal logging
Features
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Log photos of what you eat, from your camera or photo gallery and optionally name and comment on the food. Also: * Swipe to log previously logged food or meals, on your watch or phone, and to mark foods as favorites. * Swipe down to search your previously logged food. * Save the location where you ate the food, either your current location, or if importing from the photo gallery, the location where the photo was taken. View a map showing what you ate where. * No time to launch an app? Just snap a photo and import later. You can even automatically import a designated photo album. * Export and import your data in a machine readable ZIP file with an excel-compatible CSV and all your photos - it is YOUR DATA, you can export it and import it whenever you want. * We also let you export a human readable PDF. * Create shortcuts to log your food with one click. * Create tags and tag items with tags that you create (e.g. "Unprocessed", "Treat", "Excellent"), and highlight food with a colored border based on the tag. * View all the foods you've previously logged at a particular location. * Automatically log breakfast, (since we often eat the same thing each day for breakfast), with the ability to pause it, for example when on holiday. The app is free, with a Tip Jar, which does not change the app's behavior. The EULA is here: https://foodphotolog.com/eula

Screenshots

Dish2 screens
Food Photo Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dish at none against Food Photo Log's 4. Food Photo Log's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Food Photo Log sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Dish asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dish against 5.0 for Food Photo Log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Food Photo Log has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dish ships an update every 11 months, Food Photo Log monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dish versus Food Photo Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDishFood Photo Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid CutterAtadore

Customer experience

Dish

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Food Photo Log

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dish

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Food Photo Log

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock premium features$4.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small thanks$2.99
  • Thanks$4.99
  • Big Thanks$9.99

Questions

Is Dish free?
Dish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Food Photo Log free?
Food Photo Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dish or Food Photo Log?
Dish and Food Photo Log are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Dish or Food Photo Log have ads?
Neither Dish nor Food Photo Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dish or Food Photo Log?
Dish ships an update every 11 months, and Food Photo Log monthly. Most recently, Dish was updated on June 7, 2026 and Food Photo Log on August 13, 2026.

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