Comparison

Recommends.app vs Neutral Pint

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

Head to head
About

Recommends.app

Features
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See the dish, not just the restaurant. Recommends is the local food feed that shows you what to order, where to get it, and who recommended it. KEY FEATURES: Local Food Feed: Discover real plates being eaten right around the corner. Quick Dish Posting: Snap one photo of one dish to help someone else order right. Smart Collections: Save dishes you want to try, automatically sorted by distance from your location. Visual Dish Map: Explore top-rated plates on the map—one winning pin per location. Instant Dish Sharing: Send exact dish photos to friends instead of generic venue pages. Easy Group Outings: Share a spot, lock in a plan, and get eating without group-chat confusion. Stop scrolling through long restaurant reviews. Download Recommends and find your next meal.

About

Neutral Pint

Calculate the walking distance needed to burn off the calories from your planned drinks. Find nearby pubs that offer a balanced round trip, then get walking directions.

Highlights
  • Calculate drink calories
  • Determine walk distance
  • Find nearby pubs
  • Get walking directions
  • Customize drink and body type
  • No tracking or data saving
Features
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How far do you need to walk to break even on a couple of pints? Neutral Pint answers that, and then it points you at a pub exactly that far away. Set how many pints you're planning. The app does the calorie maths, checks your location, and pulls up nearby pubs sorted by how close each one is to a perfectly neutral round trip. Tap one, and Apple Maps opens with walking directions. That's it. That's the whole app. WHY IT EXISTS Most drink-tracking apps want to make you feel bad. Most walking apps want to sell you a streak. Neutral Pint just wants you to enjoy a pint, take a nice walk, and arrive back roughly where you started — physically and caloric-ally. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a pint count from 1 to 10 • Your drink calories and minimum walk distance update live • Tap Find Pubs — we query Google Places for bars nearby • Results are sorted by how close each one gets you to neutral • A green Neutral badge marks the ones that clear the threshold • Tap a pub, get walking directions in Apple Maps TUNED TO YOU, ONCE Onboarding takes about thirty seconds. Pick your usual pint (lager, ale & bitter, IPA, stout, cider), your serving size (UK pint, US pint, half litre, or a 330 ml small), a body build preset, and a walking pace. Change any of it later in Settings. No numeric weight entry, no calorie diary, no reminders. WHAT IT ISN'T • Not a health app — the numbers are honest approximations, not medical advice • Not a tracker — nothing is saved, nothing is uploaded, nothing is shared • Not a social app — no feed, no friends, no leaderboards • Not a nag — no notifications, ever PRIVACY Your location is used once, when you tap Find Pubs, to search for nearby pubs. Nothing about you leaves your phone beyond that single search. No account. No login. No analytics profile. REQUIREMENTS iOS 17 or later. Works best with location services on. Cheers.

Screenshots

Recommends.app4 screens
Neutral Pint3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Neutral Pint at none against Recommends.app's 2. Recommends.app's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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. Recommends.app sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Neutral Pint asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recommends.app ships an update fortnightly, Neutral Pint every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Recommends.app versus Neutral Pint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecommends.appNeutral Pint
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB10 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNima GOLZAR-SOUFIANIJoshua Wilburne

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Recommends.app

One-time2
  • Boost 7 days$1.99
  • Boost business for 30 days$5.99
None

Neutral Pint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recommends.app free?
Recommends.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Neutral Pint free?
Neutral Pint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recommends.app or Neutral Pint have ads?
Neither Recommends.app nor Neutral Pint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recommends.app or Neutral Pint?
Recommends.app ships an update fortnightly, and Neutral Pint every 2 weeks. Most recently, Recommends.app was updated on October 6, 2026 and Neutral Pint on October 13, 2026.

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