Comparison

HealthStack vs Basic Intake

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

Head to head
About

HealthStack

This app helps you manage your vitamin and supplement routine. It analyzes your specific products to identify potential risks and interactions, offering personalized AI-driven insights for safer and more effective supplementation.

Highlights
  • Intelligent AI assistant for personalized insights
  • Automatic safety checks for nutrient intake
  • Comprehensive view of total nutrient breakdown
  • Precision tracking of inventory and schedules
  • Doctor-ready PDF reports
  • Shareable supplement regimen
Features
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HealthStack brings clarity to your supplement routine. It combines precision tracking with intelligent analysis to ensure your regimen is effective, consistent, and safe. Supplements are complex; managing them shouldn’t be. HealthStack analyzes your specific brands and dosages to spot hidden overlaps and potential risks. With a context-aware AI assistant built right in, you don’t just track your data—you understand it. Features: Intelligent Assistant Get answers tailored to your specific stack. Ask about interactions, timing, or side effects, and receive insights based on the actual inventory you have logged—not generic advice. Safety Checks Automatically detect when you exceed Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL). HealthStack aggregates nutrient data across every pill in your routine to warn you of high dosages before they become a problem. Share Your Stack Keep friends, family, or trainers in the loop. Send your full regimen with a single tap for accountability, or to simply help others discover what works for you. The Full Picture View your total nutrient breakdown on a single screen. See exactly how much Magnesium, Vitamin D, or Zinc you are getting from all your supplements combined. Precision Tracking Organize your inventory by brand, dosage, and form. Create custom schedules—morning, night, or with food—and build a streak with the dedicated daily journal. Doctor-Ready Reports Generate professional PDF summaries of your regimen instantly. Perfect for keeping your healthcare provider informed during checkups without the guesswork. Disclaimer HealthStack is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. Always consult a physician before changing your supplement routine. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Get in touch: contact@gethealthstack.com

About

Basic Intake

This app helps you track your pills, vitamins, and medications. It provides reminders, analyzes your supplement stack with AI, and generates reports for your doctor. You can also track medications for family members and pets.

Highlights
  • AI supplement stack analysis
  • Pill and vitamin reminders
  • Barcode scanning for supplements
  • Adherence tracking and streaks
  • Printable medication reports
  • Family and pet medication tracking
  • Lab report analysis
Features
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Track every pill, vitamin, and medication you take for free. Scan a barcode or type it in, then get reminders, streaks, and sync across your devices. The AI advisor is optional and needs your OK. Most supplement apps just remind you to swallow pills. Basic Intake tells you which ones to keep, which to adjust, and which to stop paying for. No bro science. No 47-pill stacks. A tracker that earns its place. REVIEW MY STACK Tap once and your AI advisor audits everything you take, then ranks each item KEEP, ADJUST, or DROP, with a plain-English reason and a confidence level. It weighs real adherence from your check-offs, your own "is it working?" answers, how your lab values moved, your mood and energy trend, and with Apple Health, your sleep and activity. Hand any suggestion to the assistant and it makes the change for you, then marks it done once your stack reflects it. Clinical calls go to your doctor. SOMETHING TO HAND YOUR DOCTOR One tap turns your regimen into a printable PDF: every supplement and medication, the dose, the schedule, and how consistently you have taken it. Bring that to an appointment instead of trying to remember the name of the thing in the blue bottle. The people you care for go on the same report. FOR THE PEOPLE YOU CARE FOR Track a parent's medications, a kid's vitamins, and the dog's heartworm pill alongside your own, each with its own schedule, reminders, and history. The AI advisor works for their lists too. If you are the one who keeps everyone else's pills straight, this is built for you. TOOK IT, FORGOT TO TAP IT Open your adherence history, tap any day in the past week, and fill in what you took. Your streak survives, and your stack review stops counting a forgotten tap as a missed dose. A HEADS UP BEFORE IT COSTS YOU With Pro, add anything and Basic Intake re-checks the whole stack. If it finds an absorption clash (calcium blocking iron), a duplicate pushing one nutrient past its upper limit, or a timing conflict costing you effectiveness, a card names the items, the consequence, and the fix. READ YOUR BLOODWORK Import a lab report as a PDF. Your advisor pulls your biomarkers (vitamin D, B12, ferritin), charts each over time against its reference range, flags anything out of range, and ties it to your stack. WHAT ELSE YOU GET • Scan a barcode and the name, brand, and dose fill in. Not recognized? Snap or pick a photo of the Supplement Facts panel and the AI reads it. Barcodes and tracking never cost an AI interaction. • Schedules that fit real life: vitamin D on weekends, a B12 shot on Mondays, every few days, or a 10-day course. Anything not due stays hidden, so an off day never breaks your streak. • Skipping on purpose is its own thing: long-press to mark the day handled without logging a dose you did not take. • Take all logs the rest of a time of day, in the app with Undo or from a reminder. • Once a month it asks whether something is helping, and each week a short read on which time of day your doses slip. • Nutrient Totals: every vitamin and mineral against the RDA, gaps and limits flagged • Weight tracking: your weekly trend shows green toward your goal, amber away from it • Restock Reminders track your supply, refill in one tap • iCloud sync across iPhone and Apple Watch, plus backup and restore • Apple Health: your doses send the vitamins and minerals Health tracks, weigh-ins send weight, and sleep and activity feed the advice • Interactive widget, full VoiceOver, unlockable streak flames Basic Intake is an informational tool, not medical advice. Always consult your doctor before starting or changing any supplement regimen. SUBSCRIPTION Free 7-day trial includes up to 15 AI chat interactions and 15 label photo scans. Barcode scans are always unlimited and free. After the trial, Basic Intake Pro is $59.99/year or $7.99/month. Cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://basicapps.tech/privacy

Screenshots

HealthStack4 screens
Basic Intake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Basic Intake at none against HealthStack's shown. Basic Intake also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. HealthStack sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Basic Intake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HealthStack against 5.0 for Basic Intake. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Basic Intake has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HealthStack ships an update every 2 weeks, Basic Intake every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HealthStack versus Basic Intake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHealthStackBasic Intake
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB53 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperpurpurasalgadaSean Trapani

In-app purchases

4 purchases

HealthStack

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$5.997 Days
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99
2 purchases

Basic Intake

Subscriptions2
  • Basic Intake Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Basic Intake Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is HealthStack free?
HealthStack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Basic Intake free?
Basic Intake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HealthStack or Basic Intake?
HealthStack and Basic Intake are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do HealthStack or Basic Intake have ads?
HealthStack shows ads; Basic Intake does not.
Which is updated more often, HealthStack or Basic Intake?
HealthStack ships an update every 2 weeks, and Basic Intake every 3 days. Most recently, HealthStack was updated on October 20, 2026 and Basic Intake on October 31, 2026.

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