Berkeleyum vs Tastier
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Berkeleyum
Discover daily menus from various campus cafes and rate foods based on your preferences. Get personalized recommendations and notifications for your favorite dishes. Share your food experiences and track your rating history.
- Browse daily cafe menus
- Rate and compare foods
- Read student reviews
- Get favorite food notifications
- Track rating history
- Add photos and notes
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What You Can Do - Browse daily menus from Cafe 3, Crossroads, Foothill, and Clark Kerr - Rate foods by comparing them to others you've tried - Read reviews from other Berkeley students - Get notifications when your favorite foods are available - Track your ratings and preferences over time - Add photos and detailed notes to your reviews How It Works - When rating a food, you'll categorize it (bad, mid, or good) and compare it to similar foods you've rated before. This builds a personalized ranking that helps you remember what you actually liked. Berkeley Students Only - Sign in with your @berkeley.edu email address.
Tastier
Document your culinary experiences by photographing and rating dishes. Discover new restaurants and dishes through your friends' recommendations and build personalized food rankings.
- Capture and rate dishes
- Build personal food rankings
- Discover restaurants through friends
- Save dishes and restaurants to try
- Control privacy and friendships
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Your food life, ranked. Tastier is a social food app for remembering great meals, ranking your favorite dishes, and discovering restaurants through friends. CAPTURE YOUR MEALS Take photos, rate dishes, and keep your favorite food memories in one place. RANK YOUR FAVORITES Build personal food rankings and quickly find the dishes and restaurants worth coming back to. DISCOVER WITH FRIENDS See what your friends are eating, explore their restaurant recommendations, and share your own discoveries. SAVE WHAT TO TRY NEXT Bookmark dishes and organize restaurants into shared lists for your next meal out. CONTROL YOUR EXPERIENCE Choose who can see your posts, manage friendships, and control optional analytics in Settings. Tastier currently requires an invite code to create an account. Sign in with Apple or Google to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tastier at every 3 days against Berkeleyum's monthly. Berkeleyum's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Berkeleyum against 5.0 for Tastier. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Berkeleyum ships an update monthly, Tastier every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Berkeleyum | Tastier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Angad Bhargav | Brosh Investment Group LLC |
Customer experience
Berkeleyum
Tastier
In-app purchases
Berkeleyum
No in-app purchases
Tastier
No in-app purchases
