Comparison

Mumsa vs Shoyu

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

Head to head
About

Mumsa

Log your dining experiences with detailed reviews and photos. Keep a personal journal of visited restaurants and discover new places through friends' recommendations.

Highlights
  • Rate food, drinks, service, and atmosphere
  • Dish-by-dish and drink-by-drink reviews
  • Add photos of dishes and atmosphere
  • Tag places by cuisine and type
  • Personal journal of reviewed places
  • Search and filter by score, cuisine, price
  • Save places to 'Want to go' list
  • Follow friends for recommendations
Features
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Restaurant recommendations from people you actually know. Follow friends, explore their places on the map, and keep a journal of your own. Mumsa is a community for food lovers. Follow friends, see what they're reviewing and saving, and discover restaurants and bars through real recommendations from people you know, not anonymous ratings. Review the places you visit, capture your dishes and drinks, and build a personal journal of everywhere you've been and want to go. DISCOVER WITH FRIENDS • Follow friends and see their latest reviews and want-to-go's in your feed • See your friends' places on the map and find great spots near you • Never miss a new find: get notified when friends review a place • Comment on friends' reviews and share your own experiences • Trustworthy recommendations from people you actually know REVIEW & REMEMBER • Rate food, drinks, service, and atmosphere, and let the app calculate your overall score • Add dish-by-dish and drink-by-drink reviews, and rate them individually • Include photos to show and remember both dishes and the atmosphere • Tag places by cuisine, type, and your own preferences YOUR PERSONAL JOURNAL • Every place you've reviewed, all in one place • Search and filter by score, cuisine, price, and more to instantly find a spot again • Save places to your "Want to go" list so you never lose a recommendation • Use the map view for an overview of all your visits and want-to-go's

About

Shoyu

Features
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Share a link from Safari, Instagram, TikTok, or any app — Savor strips away the ads and life stories and gives you just the recipe. No scrolling past someone's story about their grandma. - Step-by-step cooking mode with inline timers, ingredient highlighting, and screen keep-awake - Adjust servings and every ingredient updates automatically — metric or imperial - Meal planning, shopping lists sorted by store section, scalable for servings, and Apple Reminders export - Collections, tags, nutrition info, and recipe scaling - Syncs across iPhone and iPad via iCloud Pay once for what you need. No subscription. No ads. No sign up. No 20 page onboarding nonsense.

Screenshots

Mumsa4 screens
Shoyu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mumsa at none against Shoyu's 9. Mumsa also leads on iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Shoyu sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Mumsa asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mumsa ships an update fortnightly, Shoyu every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mumsa versus Shoyu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMumsaShoyu
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKodanka ABJamie Kelly

In-app purchases

None

Mumsa

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Shoyu

One-time9
  • Recipe Pack 3$1.99
  • Unlimited Recipes — Final Pack$1.99
  • Recipe Pack 1$1.99
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  • Recipe Pack 2$1.99
  • Recipe Pack 4$1.99
  • Unlimited (3 Owned)$2.99
  • Unlimited (2 Owned)$4.99
  • Unlimited (1 Owned)$6.99
  • Unlimited Recipes$7.99

Questions

Is Mumsa free?
Mumsa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shoyu free?
Shoyu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mumsa or Shoyu have ads?
Neither Mumsa nor Shoyu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mumsa or Shoyu?
Mumsa ships an update fortnightly, and Shoyu every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mumsa was updated on October 28, 2026 and Shoyu on October 6, 2026.

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