Simple Food Tracker vs Vagus Bloom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Food Tracker
Focus on your relationship with food, not numbers. Log meals with photos and ratings to understand what works for you. Build flexible habits and track your progress offline.
- Mindful food logging
- Photo and rating entries
- Daily food timeline
- Flexible habit tracking
- Offline data storage
- Quick access to common foods
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Skip the calorie tracking and unlock a healthier relationship with your food. By logging what you eat in a mindful way, you decide if your day has been a success, allowing for flexibility with your diet, helping you form a healthier and more intuitive approach to eating. All offline in one simple package, no subscriptions, no in app purchases. --- SIMPLE TRACKING Log your meals and snacks quickly and easily. Add a photo if you want, rate it as positive, neutral, or negative, and you're done. No calorie counting required. DAILY JOURNAL See your food journey at a glance with a clean, simple timeline. Each entry shows what you ate and your rating of it - helping you understand which foods work for you. FLEXIBLE HABITS Define what matters to you. Whether it's "eat enough protein" or "mindful portions," track the habits that align with your personal goals. QUICK ACCESS Frequently logged items are just a tap away. No need to type the same meals repeatedly - your common foods are ready when you need them. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE All your food journal data stays private on your phone. No account needed. No cloud storage. Just simple, offline food tracking. INTUITIVE APPROACH Focus on your relationship with food, not numbers. Rate foods based on how they work for you, without getting caught up in calories or strict rules. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://joshuaj.co.uk/simplefoodjournal/privacy
Vagus Bloom
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Vagus Bloom helps you build a calmer, more resilient nervous system to enhance stress management and overall wellness through daily vagus nerve practices. The vagus nerve — the longest nerve in your body — connects your brain to your heart, lungs, and gut. It regulates your stress response, heart rate, digestion, and inflammation. When it's working well, you recover from stress faster and feel more grounded. When it's not, everything runs a little hot. Vagus Bloom gives you the tools to train this nerve, one practice at a time. DAILY CHECK-IN Start each day by noticing how your body feels. A quick 30-second check-in assesses your nervous system state and recommends the right practice for where you are today. GUIDED PRACTICES Breathing exercises, ear-based vagal stimulation, vocal techniques, cold exposure, and movement practices — each targeting a specific branch of the vagus nerve. Choose your duration, follow the guided timer, and build your practice over days and weeks. VAGAL STATE TRACKING See your nervous system trends over time. The vagal state graph shows where you've been and how your baseline is shifting as you practice consistently. INFORMATIVE ARTICLES In-depth articles covering vagus nerve science, polyvagal theory, recent research, and practical technique guides. 5-DAY VAGUS LAUNCH New to vagus nerve practices? The guided 5-day curriculum introduces one technique per day, building your foundation step by step. TRAINING GOALS After the 5-DAY-VAGUS LAUNCH, set your own training goal: 7, 14, 30, 60, or 90 days. The app adapts your weekly practice themes based on your check-in data — calming practices when you're running hot, activating practices when you're running flat. NERVOUS SYSTEM GARDEN (Premium) A living garden that grows with your practice. 22 unique plants unlock as you hit milestones. Fourteen carefully curated scenes to arrange your garden in. Plants have a glow, they wilt when neglected, and recover when you return. Your progress, visualised as something beautiful. CAT VIDEO REWARDS (Premium) 38 collectible cat videos appear as surprise rewards after practices and check-ins. Discover named videos across 7 series, build your collection, and find them all. LATEST RESEARCH A curated news feed pulling the latest vagus nerve research from PubMed, Nature, Frontiers, and other sources. Stay current with the science. Vagus Bloom is built on research and vibes, and designed to respect your time. Most practices take 1-5 minutes. The check-in takes 30 seconds. Consistency matters more than duration. Free features: Check-in, all practices, articles, graph, training goals, news feed. Premium (Catmium): Garden, cat videos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vagus Bloom at Free against Simple Food Tracker's $3.99. Simple Food Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Vagus Bloom is free to download; Simple Food Tracker costs $3.99 up front. Vagus Bloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Food Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Simple Food Tracker | Vagus Bloom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 12+ |
| Developer | JOSHUA CHARLES JACKSON | Harri Vuori |
In-app purchases
Simple Food Tracker
No in-app purchases
Vagus Bloom
- catmium$1.99
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