Comparison

Culinary Compass vs Bon Viv

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

Bon Viv

Log your dining experiences with ratings, notes, and photos. Organize restaurants into custom lists and discover new places through friend recommendations and an interactive map. Save spots you want to try and easily track your culinary journey.

Highlights
  • Log restaurant visits with ratings and notes
  • Add photos to visit logs
  • Create and share custom restaurant lists
  • Search millions of restaurants
  • Explore restaurants on an interactive map
  • Follow friends and see their activity
  • Save restaurants to a 'Want to Visit' list
Features
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Bon Viv is your personal restaurant diary — a beautiful way to track every place you've eaten, share discoveries with friends, and never forget a great meal. LOG YOUR VISITS Every restaurant deserves to be remembered. Log visits with a rating (Amazing, Great, Good, or Meh), personal notes, and photos straight from your camera roll. Build a living record of your culinary life. ORGANIZE WITH LISTS Create custom lists for any occasion — "Date Night Spots," "Best Ramen in the City," "Places to Try in Tokyo." Share your lists with friends or keep them private. EXPLORE & DISCOVER Search millions of restaurants powered by Google. See what your friends have already rated before you book. Use the interactive map to explore a neighborhood and spot hidden gems at a glance. STAY CONNECTED WITH FRIENDS Follow friends and see their latest visits, ratings, and lists in a real-time activity feed. Find a great spot? Your friends will know. WANT TO VISIT Save restaurants you're curious about to your Want to Visit list. When you finally go, log the visit in seconds. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS · Star ratings with color-coded visual cues · Map view with friend ratings overlaid · Filter visited restaurants by cuisine, price, location, and rating

Screenshots

Culinary Compass4 screens
Bon Viv3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bon Viv at none against Culinary Compass's 2. Culinary Compass's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Bon Viv 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 Bon Viv. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Culinary Compass ships an update every 6 days, Bon Viv every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Culinary Compass versus Bon Viv: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCulinary CompassBon Viv
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBergosoft LLCJACOB ROBERT DRAPER

Customer experience

Culinary Compass

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

Bon Viv

All ratings2 ratings
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

Bon Viv

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Culinary Compass free?
Culinary Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bon Viv free?
Bon Viv is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Culinary Compass or Bon Viv?
Culinary Compass and Bon Viv are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Culinary Compass or Bon Viv have ads?
Neither Culinary Compass nor Bon Viv shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Culinary Compass or Bon Viv?
Culinary Compass ships an update every 6 days, and Bon Viv every 5 weeks. Most recently, Culinary Compass was updated on October 8, 2026 and Bon Viv on October 13, 2026.

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