Comparison

Culinary Compass vs Nommy

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

Head to head
About

Culinary Compass

Discover recipes tailored to your dietary needs and restrictions. Identify food items and get instant nutritional information. Plan meals and generate shopping lists for any party size.

Highlights
  • AI-powered meal assistant
  • Global recipe search
  • Picture-based nutritional identification
  • Aggregate nutritional information
  • Customizable shopping lists
Features
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Culinary Compass is an advanced tool for finding and identifying meal, recipes, and nutritional information. Using global search for recipes based on your specific needs and restrictions to advanced picture identification for nutritional information on demand. Plan your meals with aggregate nutritional information and create weekly, daily or per meal shopping lists based on your party size. End User License Agreement is located https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ and the privacy policy for the app is located https://culinary-compass.com/privacy.html

About

Nommy

Easily log and relive your favorite food experiences by capturing photos and details of dishes. Create a visual food journal of your culinary adventures, from street food to fine dining. Discover new tastes and remember what to order again.

Highlights
  • Log favorite dishes with photos and notes
  • Rate dishes and track reorder favorites
  • Discover dishes loved by others
  • Organized visual timeline of food memories
  • Personalized collection of memorable meals
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Nommy is the easiest way to save and relive your favorite food experiences. Instead of just remembering where you ate, Nommy helps you remember what you loved, dish by dish, bite by bite. Take a photo, add your thoughts, and log your meal in seconds. Nommy turns your food memories into a beautiful visual feed, your own personal food journal, powered by the dishes you’ve actually tasted. Why Photos Matter Nommy is designed to be visual. Every post starts with a photo, it’s how you remember the look, the feel, and the moment. This isn’t a text-only food diary or a review site. Your photos bring your food stories to life and make your Nommy feed as delicious to look at as it is to remember. Features • Capture and save your favorite dishes with photos, notes, and restaurant details • Rate what you loved and keep track of what to order again • Discover dishes loved by other food explorers around the world • Your food memories are organized in one clean, visual timeline • Stay inspired by your own curated collection of meals worth remembering Nommy isn’t about clout, ratings, or social pressure, it’s about you and your real taste. From street tacos to Michelin stars, build your own map of amazing eats. Perfect For: • Travelers who want to remember incredible food finds • Food lovers who want to log their culinary adventures • Anyone tired of scrolling through restaurants without knowing what to actually order Nommy makes your food memories visual, simple, and meaningful. Because sometimes the best stories are the ones you can taste.

Screenshots

Culinary Compass4 screens
Nommy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nommy at none against Culinary Compass's 2. Nommy also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Culinary Compass's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, 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. Culinary Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Nommy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Culinary Compass against 5.0 for Nommy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Culinary Compass versus Nommy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCulinary CompassNommy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBergosoft LLCClint Finnigan

Customer experience

Culinary Compass

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nommy

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Culinary Compass

Subscriptions2
  • Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Nommy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Culinary Compass free?
Culinary Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nommy free?
Nommy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Culinary Compass or Nommy?
Culinary Compass and Nommy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Culinary Compass or Nommy have ads?
Neither Culinary Compass nor Nommy shows ads.

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