Comparison

EatWild® vs Fermentation Lab

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

Head to head
About

EatWild®

Discover and incorporate wild foods into your diet for enhanced nutrition and flavor. This guide offers recipes, tips, and tracking features to help you master foraging and enjoy a healthier, wilder lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Discover wild ingredients
  • Track wild foods in meals
  • Master new ingredients
  • Unlock recipes and tips
  • Foraging and chef insights
  • Nutrient intake tracking
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For thousands of years, we foraged for wild foods. They are still around us, often packed with higher nutrients, vitamins and minerals than farmed produce. Adding wild ingredients to your meals creates delicious flavours and increases nutrient intake. Eating a wide variety of plant species diversifies your gut microbiome and supports your health. Track the wild ingredients in your meals, master new ingredients, and unlock incredible recipes and tips from top foragers and chefs. Whether you’re just starting or a seasoned pro, EatWild® is your go-to guide for a deliciously wild lifestyle The EatWild® app requires a monthly auto-renewing subscription plan. There are 3 to choose from: - Quarterly Subscription: £26.99 for 3 months, renewing at £26.99/month. - Annual Subscription: £99.99 for 12 months, renewing at £99.99/month - Monthly Subscription: £9.99 for 1 months, renewing at £9.99/month The subscription is auto-renewable renewing as defined above. This means that it will automatically renew unless you go to your account settings to manage your subscription and turn auto-renew off. If you want to stop your subscription from auto-renewing you should do this at least 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in account settings in the App Store after purchase. The terms of use can be found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fermentation Lab

Features
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Fermentation Lab is the cellar notebook for people who ferment at home. Pick a ferment and a recipe: the app weighs the ingredients, tells you what to do each day and keeps track of temperature, pH and salt, jar by jar. Start from a recipe 95 recipes for 39 ferments – sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, miso, shoyu, koji, tempeh, cured meats, cheese, vinegar, beer, wine, mead and more – plus bread recipes and pizza styles. Ingredients arrive already weighed and stay in proportion: change how much you make, or one line, and the rest follows. Next to each ingredient you see whether it is in your pantry; what is missing goes to the shopping list. Or write your own recipe and keep it for next time. The right step, every day Each type has its own care sheet: the phases, the task of each phase and the checkpoints – minimum salt, pH by the expected day, temperature limits, humidity, weight loss. Home follows what is fermenting and reminds you of today's task, with a notification when it is due. Short ferments such as bread, koji or yogurt are counted in hours. Log it, understand it Temperature, pH, gravity, notes and photos in one tap. Every reading is read for your ferment: whether it is within the limits of its care sheet, whether it is too early to tell, what counts besides that number. Measuring guides explain how to read pH and °Brix properly. You can connect an Inkbird Bluetooth sensor for temperature and humidity. Bread and pizza Baker's percentages on total flour, hydration, sourdough starter, biga and poolish. The method is part of the recipe: autolyse, folds, a night in the fridge, the pan. Doughs made in pieces are asked in pieces – four 250 g dough balls – and the step-by-step recipe has timers. The water temperature that brings the dough to the right temperature is one tap away from Home. The Laboratory Pantry and supplies, a shopping list with a barcode scanner, your cultures, the archive of finished ferments, statistics across batches, a calendar and timers. The Library Problems and doubts ("is it mold?"), techniques and microbes, with a search that reads inside the cards. Share An Instagram story or post with the jar's photo, log or recipe, plus a link to its web page. The Community Your profile is your lab: a jar for every ferment in progress. A weekly leaderboard, daily quests, culture swaps and a swap map. Others see only the types and progress of your lab – never names, notes or photos – and you can hide it. The Brigade, for kitchens A shared lab for kitchen teams: tickets on the rail, shift handovers, the week's HACCP checks, roles. And more Eight languages, a paper or cellar theme, and a predicted flavor profile and umami score (they are estimates). Fermentation Lab helps you keep count and not skip a check. Its values are the common ones of home fermentation: a number within limits says that number is within limits, not that a food is safe or ready. When in doubt, don't taste it.

Screenshots

EatWild®4 screens
Fermentation Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fermentation Lab at none against EatWild®'s 3. EatWild®'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). On price, 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. EatWild® sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Fermentation Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
EatWild® versus Fermentation Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEatWild®Fermentation Lab
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB84 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCircadio LimitedAntonio Lice

In-app purchases

3 purchases

EatWild®

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 3 monthly7 Days trial$29.993 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

Fermentation Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EatWild® free?
EatWild® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fermentation Lab free?
Fermentation Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EatWild® or Fermentation Lab have ads?
Neither EatWild® nor Fermentation Lab shows ads.

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