Mist vs Buena Vida
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mist
Easily log your food and exercise with a simple interface. Automatically calculates calories and macros, allowing you to view their impact on your health. Focuses on fast, uncomplicated tracking.
- Quick food and exercise logging
- Automatic calorie calculation
- Macro tracking
- View health impacts (sleep, weight, mental health)
- Optional calorie count hiding
- Simple, no-fuss interface
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Track food and exercise as quickly as a notes app. - No complicated menus, calories are automatically calculated - Log meals, workouts, and daily activity in seconds - Search for foods and see their macros - View how diet affects different aspects of health, including sleep, weight, and mental health - Hide calorie counts whenever you want - No complicated features. Just fast, easy food tracking Privacy policy: https://www.getmistapp.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.getmistapp.com/terms
Buena Vida
This app provides personalized running training plans and nutrition guidance. It offers real-time voice coaching, GPS tracking, and automatic adjustment of calorie and macro targets based on your workouts. Designed to consolidate multiple subscriptions into one ad-free experience.
- Personalized training plans for various goals
- Real-time voice coaching during runs
- GPS tracking with live pace and splits
- Calorie and macro targets adjust with training
- Food logging with voice input and barcode scanner
- Shoe mileage tracking
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The running app with your training plan and nutrition built in. Private by design. Ad-free. Made by a runner in Seattle. • A personal plan for your goal and your week • Every run tracked, with real-time voice coaching • Calorie and macro targets that move with your training One app in place of 3+ subscriptions. TRY IT FREE FOR 7 DAYS Preview your whole first week before your trial starts. Nothing is charged for 7 days, and you can cancel anytime in Settings. Want a heads-up? Turn on a reminder 2 days before your trial ends. WHY RUNNERS SWITCH • One app instead of Strava + MyFitnessPal + a training plan app • See your plan before you pay: know what you're getting • Nutrition that understands your training, not static, generic calorie goals • No ads, no trackers, and nothing to sell: your data stays on your phone • Independent: an app that works for you, not advertisers YOUR PERSONAL PLAN • Pick a goal: a first 5K, a faster time, a race, weight loss, a return to running, a Boston qualifier, or simply fitness • Matched to your fitness right now, using Apple Health • Train on the days that work for you, and stay in control of your calendar when life gets busy • Add strength sessions, or keep it runs only • Preview your entire first week, coaching notes included, before you commit • Every plan in our catalog is scored across 30 scientific measures, with links to the peer-reviewed studies RUNNING THAT GETS YOU • Real-time voice coaching guiding every step of your workouts • GPS tracking with live pace, splits, HR zones & cadence • Syncs with Apple Watch, Bluetooth HR & cadence sensors • Intervals, hills, race pace, fartlek, tempo, shake-outs, and more • Speed Profile predicts your race times & training paces from your data • 80+ sports supported: running, cycling, lifting, walking, pickleball, & more NUTRITION THAT MOVES WITH YOUR TRAINING • Lose weight, maintain, or bulk up, with workouts and nutrition to match • Calorie & macro targets automatically adjust after every workout • Long run today? More carbs & fat. Rest day? The targets dial back • Fast, easy food logging with voice input: "two tablespoons of peanut butter" • Barcode scanner + a catalog of 3.5M+ foods, updated regularly • Workout fueling: foods logged during runs tag to that workout • Science-backed targets. No diet fads, no fake "wellness" advice, no overdone protein A FULL CATALOG OF PLANS TOO • Unlimited access to our full catalog of training plans • Every runner and every goal: first 5K, weight loss, faster half marathon, return to running, sub-4 marathon, Boston qualifying • Beginner to competitive. Filter by goal, distance, difficulty, length and workouts per week, and see which plans fit your current fitness • View every plan in full, read every workout, and read the detailed review before you start THE TOOLS RUNNERS NEED • Shoe Rack: automatically keep track of your mileage per pair, and get an alert when it's time to replace them • Resting HR, VO2max & speed trends updated daily • Your workout calendar syncs with iOS Calendar. Make changes anywhere and your schedule stays synced PRIVACY-FIRST. AD-FREE. • Your data is stored on your phone, and never leaves it. No one but you sees it. • Zero data collection. No ads. No trackers. • We literally cannot see it. By design. Buena Vida. The good life. Apple Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Mist at 587 against Buena Vida's 6. Mist also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). Buena Vida's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Mist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Buena Vida sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Mist against 5.0 for Buena Vida. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mist has 587 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Mist's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buena Vida's.
Mist ships an update every 2 days, Buena Vida weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mist | Buena Vida |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (587 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 587 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 278 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Holograph | Buena Vida LLC |
Customer experience
Mist
Buena Vida
In-app purchases
Mist
- Mist Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Mist Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Buena Vida
- Monthly Membership7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- BVRC Annual Membership7 Days trial$99.991 Year









