Comparison

Food log app vs MealMarks

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

Head to head
About

Food log app

Easily log your daily meals with photos and detailed notes. This app acts as a personal food diary to help manage your health, track eating habits, and recall past meals.

Highlights
  • Record multiple photos per meal
  • Categorize meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack)
  • Add date and time details
  • Memo function for ingredients and locations
  • List function for reviewing past meals
  • Supports health management and habit improvement
Features
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Record your daily meals in a smart way!
 A simple app that allows you to easily record your daily meals along with photos. You can use it as your own personal food diary and never share it with anyone. 【Features】 「Record multiple photos at the same time.」
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals and snacks can be recorded by leaving a photo. You can also add date and time to record in detail. 「One-touch operation for meal categorization」
With a simple operation, you can specify whether you eat out or cook for yourself, and whether you eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. 「Keep track of meal details with the memo function.」
Ingredients, places where meals were eaten, and who was with whom can be recorded in the memo field. You can also use it as your own personal memo to manage your health and look back on your memories. 「List function for easy review」
The list function allows you to view a list of your past meals, which is useful for periodic review and meal management. 【This function solves problems such as the following】 「I tend to forget what I ate in the past...”」
If you have a food log, you can go back and check your meals with photos! 「I want to manage my health through food records.」
Daily records support health management and improvement of eating habits. 「To manage food for children and babies」
It is easy to use to keep track of food as your child grows, and is also convenient for childcare. It can also be used as a food record during treatment of illness! 「Health Care Dietary Management」
It can be used as a food record to show to a doctor, and can be easily utilized by the elderly. 【Roadmap】 Future additions will include calorie calculation, meal balance graph display, AI advice, and more. Please wait with anticipation! With 『food log』, your eating habits will be richer and simpler. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

MealMarks

This private food journal uses photos to help you understand your eating habits without judgment. Add context with tags and notes, then explore patterns in your diet through simple summaries. Your data stays on your device for complete privacy.

Highlights
  • Photo-first food journaling
  • Customizable meal and location tags
  • Optional notes and 'would eat again' rating
  • Automatic date and time stamping
  • Pattern analysis based on tags
  • On-device data storage
  • Accessibility features
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MealMarks is a private, photo-first food journal that helps you notice your eating patterns without counting calories, scoring food, or giving nutrition advice. Take a photo or choose one from your library, then add as much or as little context as you want. Use reusable meal and location tags, write an optional note, and record whether you would have the meal again. MealMarks automatically keeps the date and time with every entry. Your journal puts photos first and organizes meals by day. Browse your history, switch between journal layouts, filter by one or more tags, and open any entry to update its details or delete it. The Patterns view turns your journal into simple, descriptive summaries. Explore daily, weekly, and monthly activity, see your most-used tags, and discover tags that often appear together. MealMarks reports only what you recorded, with no judgment or health claims. Your journal stays on your device. MealMarks has no account, ads, tracking, analytics, or cloud sync. When you choose, you can export a complete ZIP archive, import a MealMarks archive, or erase all app data. MealMarks supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, light and dark appearances, increased contrast, and reduced motion. Take a photo. Add a few tags. Understand your eating patterns.

Screenshots

Food log app4 screens
MealMarks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MealMarks at none against Food log app's 3. MealMarks also leads on ads (none vs shown). Food log app's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment 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 log app sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. MealMarks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Food log app versus MealMarks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFood log appMealMarks
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer可茂IT塾Nevv Atlantis LLC

Customer experience

Food log app

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MealMarks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Food log app

Subscriptions2
  • 食べプロ月額プラン3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • 食べプロ年額プラン3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

MealMarks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Food log app free?
Food log app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MealMarks free?
MealMarks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Food log app or MealMarks have ads?
Food log app shows ads; MealMarks does not.

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