Vimini vs Restaurant Journal_
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vimini
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The all-in-one app for restaurant aficionados: share reviews with friends and save your favorite places. No login required. Easily save your favorite restaurants. Ever forgot a cool place you just visited once? Ever recommended the same three places again, because you couldn't remember that hidden gem? That's why we created vimini: a calm, curated and personal space to save all your favorite restaurants and remember what made them special. But it's not all. Manage your lists. Easily. Import your lists from your notes or Google Maps directly on vimini, to have them all in a single, easy to use and to share place. And with automatic lists, whenever you'll review a restaurant you like, we'll add it automatically to themed lists. Of course, only if you want: it's always you in charge of the whole thing. You can also, with a tap, save new places from Google, Instagram or TikTok. Recommendations from friends, not endless or AI-first results. The Netflix effect for restaurants is real: we lose more time browsing through endless search results, and lots of anonymous reviews, reading just 4/5 of them per restaurant, for then to go back to your classic spots. On vimini, you can just browse all your friends favorite places and read their reviews. Less options? Maybe. Faster, better and more interesting discovery? Absolutely. A little friendly competition never hurts. Settle once and for all who is the Pizza King, or who is the authority for Greek restaurants. As you add places, you'll earn badges for the categories & countries where you eat the most. This way, you'll know in no time who to ask for tips for your holiday in Italy or for that special occasion. Since everyone loves bullet points, here's at a glance all you can do inside vimini: - Save your restaurant experiences and keep track of every place worth remembering. - Read your friends reviews and choose in a 1/10th of the time where to eat next. - Build curated lists you can share with anyone. - Use our super-powered chat to exchange recommendations, organise dinners, and run polls when the group cannot agree. - Share your reviews and lists even with friends who are not on vimini.
Restaurant Journal_
This app automatically creates a private map and journal of your dining experiences using your existing food photos. It identifies meals, organizes them by location, and allows you to add ratings, notes, and voice memos without manual check-ins or accounts.
- Automatic journal from photos
- Private dining map
- Meal ratings (Yay, Okay, Meh)
- Add notes and voice memos
- Photo and video storage per visit
- Optional iCloud backup
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Eat. Experience. Remember. Restaurant Journal turns the food photos you already have into a private, beautiful map and journal of everywhere you've eaten — automatically. No typing. No check-ins. No account. You have thousands of photos from meals out — birthdays, first dates, that hole-in-the-wall taco place — and no easy way to remember where any of them were. Restaurant Journal fixes that. It quietly scans your library on your device, recognizes your dining moments, and organizes them into a journal you'll actually want to revisit. A private map of your dining life • See every restaurant you've visited on a beautiful map — from your neighborhood to every city you've explored • Zoom from your street to "everywhere I ate in Italy" • Browse your whole history by month and year Effortless and automatic • Builds itself from photos you already took — nothing to log • Detects visits, groups them by place, and finds the restaurant for you • New meals appear on their own Capture what made it special • Rate every meal : Yay, Okay, Meh • Add notes and voice memos • Keep your photos and videos from each visit • Correct a place, or hide spots you'd rather not track Private by design • Your library is scanned on your device — your photos never leave your phone • No account required • Optional: back up privately to your own iCloud and sync across your iPhones, so you never lose a memory Rediscover your favorites Revisit spots you forgot you loved, and see how your tastes have changed over the years. Perfect for food lovers, travelers, photographers, and anyone who believes a great meal is a memory worth keeping. Your memories are more than photos. They're stories. Restaurant Journal helps you keep them alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Restaurant Journal_ at every 4 days against Vimini's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vimini ships an update fortnightly, Restaurant Journal_ every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vimini | Restaurant Journal_ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | RICCARDO BETTIO | Timothy Brandt |
In-app purchases
Vimini
No in-app purchases
Restaurant Journal_
No in-app purchases








