Culinary Compass vs Devoured
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI-powered meal assistant
- Global recipe search
- Picture-based nutritional identification
- Aggregate nutritional information
- Customizable shopping lists
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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
Devoured
This app allows users to rate individual dishes rather than entire restaurants. It helps you track your food history, discover popular dishes, and connect with other food enthusiasts. Explore a vast catalog of cuisines and earn badges for your culinary explorations.
- Rate individual dishes
- Track food history with photos and notes
- Discover trending dishes and restaurants
- Explore a catalog of 19 cuisines
- Earn badges for culinary achievements
- Social feed focused on food
- Privacy-focused with no ads or data selling
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Rate dishes, not restaurants. Devoured is the app for people who care about what's on the plate. Instead of a single star rating for a whole restaurant, Devoured lets you rate the individual dishes you love — the Sunday-morning eggs benedict, the one bowl of pho that changed your life, the perfect slice. TRACK EVERY DISH — Check in what you ate, snap a photo, rate it, leave a quick note. Ten seconds. Your food history builds automatically — a scrollable journal of every bite worth remembering. DISCOVER WHAT'S GOOD — Find restaurants near you on the map. Filter by cuisine, distance, or what's trending. See what your friends and the broader community are eating right now. 19 CUISINES, 1,700+ DISHES — A verified catalog across American, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Greek, Middle Eastern, French, Spanish, Filipino, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Caribbean, Peruvian, and Turkish. Miss something? Suggest it. EARN 99 BADGES — From "First Naan" to "Omakase Trust" to "Pitmaster" — every cuisine has its own set. SOCIAL WITHOUT THE NOISE — Follow friends and fellow food lovers. Your feed is the food — a 3-column grid of dishes. Leaderboards, global feed, QR profile sharing. PRIVACY FIRST — No ads. No data selling. No tracking. Sign in with Apple. Delete your account and all your data in one tap. Built for people who treat food like a journey worth mapping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Devoured at none against Culinary Compass's 2. Culinary Compass's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Culinary Compass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Devoured asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Culinary Compass against 5.0 for Devoured. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Culinary Compass ships an update every 6 days, Devoured every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Culinary Compass | Devoured |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bergosoft LLC | JASON DALE SANDERS |
Customer experience
Culinary Compass
Devoured
In-app purchases
Culinary Compass
- Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Devoured
No in-app purchases
