Comparison

Breve vs MealMarks

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

Head to head
About

Breve

Learn to make café-quality coffee drinks at home with step-by-step guides and adaptable recipes. Explore a vast collection, pin favorites, and discover new creations. Works offline, perfect for any brewing method or equipment.

Highlights
  • Café-style drink recipes
  • Adaptable to home equipment
  • Step-by-step brewing guides
  • Built-in timers
  • Latte art tutorials
  • Offline access
Features
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Don’t buy coffee, make café-style drinks at home. From classics like cappuccino, latte, and mocha to modern favorites and iced creations, there’s always something to enjoy. You don’t need expensive equipment. Breve adapts recipes to what you already have at home. Brew with an espresso machine, AeroPress, French press, or moka pot, and froth milk with a steam wand, French press, whisk, or even a jar. Explore a large collection of coffee recipes. Pin your go-to drinks for quick access, try new creations, and discover coffee in a whole new way. Follow step by step guides that show you how to brew and froth with confidence. Use built-in timers to stay on track, and follow latte art tutorials to pour beautiful designs. Once recipes are loaded, everything works offline. Breve is perfect for making coffee anywhere. Upgrade to Breve Unlimited to unlock the complete recipe collection, with new recipes and guides added regularly. Bring the café experience home with Breve. The app and all in-app purchases are licensed under the standard Apple terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

MealMarks

This private food journal uses photos to help you understand your eating habits without judgment. Add context with tags and notes, then explore patterns in your diet through simple summaries. Your data stays on your device for complete privacy.

Highlights
  • Photo-first food journaling
  • Customizable meal and location tags
  • Optional notes and 'would eat again' rating
  • Automatic date and time stamping
  • Pattern analysis based on tags
  • On-device data storage
  • Accessibility features
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MealMarks is a private, photo-first food journal that helps you notice your eating patterns without counting calories, scoring food, or giving nutrition advice. Take a photo or choose one from your library, then add as much or as little context as you want. Use reusable meal and location tags, write an optional note, and record whether you would have the meal again. MealMarks automatically keeps the date and time with every entry. Your journal puts photos first and organizes meals by day. Browse your history, switch between journal layouts, filter by one or more tags, and open any entry to update its details or delete it. The Patterns view turns your journal into simple, descriptive summaries. Explore daily, weekly, and monthly activity, see your most-used tags, and discover tags that often appear together. MealMarks reports only what you recorded, with no judgment or health claims. Your journal stays on your device. MealMarks has no account, ads, tracking, analytics, or cloud sync. When you choose, you can export a complete ZIP archive, import a MealMarks archive, or erase all app data. MealMarks supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, light and dark appearances, increased contrast, and reduced motion. Take a photo. Add a few tags. Understand your eating patterns.

Screenshots

Breve4 screens
MealMarks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MealMarks at none against Breve's 2. MealMarks also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Breve's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Breve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. MealMarks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Breve against 5.0 for MealMarks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breve has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Breve versus MealMarks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreveMealMarks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (27 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNil Coalescing LimitedNevv Atlantis LLC

Customer experience

Breve

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MealMarks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Breve

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Unlimited$24.991 Year
None

MealMarks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Breve free?
Breve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MealMarks free?
MealMarks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Breve or MealMarks?
MealMarks is rated higher. Breve averages 4.9 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while MealMarks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Breve or MealMarks have ads?
Neither Breve nor MealMarks shows ads.

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