Comparison

Dish Log vs Tastetale

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

Head to head
About

Dish Log

Features
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Main Features: • Recipe Management: Add recipes, display recipes in card format, and export recipes as long images. • Food Log: Record your daily meals and creative ideas. • Menu Planning: Plan your upcoming dishes. Suitable Scenarios: • Saving and sharing recipes. • Learning new recipes and recording your cooking experiences. Welcome to download and start your culinary creation journey!

About

Tastetale

Instantly identify recipes from photos, organizing ingredients and steps. Personalize recipes to your taste and keep a culinary diary. Manage your favorite dishes and plan meals with ease.

Highlights
  • Photo recipe recognition
  • Automatic ingredient and step organization
  • Editable recipe customization
  • Recipe collection and management
  • Daily cooking log
  • AI-powered dish identification
Features
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Open Tastetale and start with one dish—slowly build your cooking into a recipe collection of your own. You can add recipes manually. Or, if you’re a lazy cook, just take a photo of a dish and quickly recognize the name, ingredients, steps, taste, cooking time, difficulty, and calories. In a few taps, it’s saved to your recipe box—no more tedious typing of every ingredient and step. Every dish can become a sticker, saved to your calendar and cooking wall (use the Home Screen widget to show this month’s saves and cooking overview, log homemade recipes and baking formulas, and track your cooking). You’ll also get a weekly cooking report—a gentle reminder that this week, you actually made quite a few delicious things. Core features - Photo recipe recognition: Take a photo or pick one from your library to quickly recognize the dish name, ingredients, and method—great for lazy cooks who still want to log what they make. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner; healthy, fat-loss, or low-sugar meals; Cantonese, Northeastern, Fujian, Chinese, Western, or baking; pregnancy recipes or baby food—recognize them all with ease and build your own recipes more easily. - Discover menus: Personalized recipe recommendations based on your dietary preferences, including breakfast, home-style dishes, world cuisine (French, Spanish, Western), traditional Chinese cuisine (Cantonese, Shanghai, Beijing, Shaanxi, Sichuan), soups, and staples like rice, noodles, and dumplings. - Shopping cart: Add ingredients to a shopping cart as a shopping checklist / memo. - Food stickers: Photos automatically become food stickers to capture everyday life. - Food wall: Add a widget on your iPhone Home Screen to browse your sticker wall. - Calendar review: See what you cooked by date and plan meals more easily. - Cloud sync: iCloud sync so you can browse recipes on iPhone and iPad. - Text recognition: In camera mode, quickly recognize printed or handwritten recipes—handy for importing old handwritten formulas and bringing all your recipes together. - Share recipes: Share ingredients and steps so friends can learn your signature dishes. - Editable: Adjust amounts and steps to your taste and create your own version. - Save & manage: Save go-to recipes; automatically organized by ingredients for easy finding. Who it’s for - Food lovers who want a system for collecting everyday recipes - Food creators who cook but don’t want to type everything out - Kitchen beginners learning to cook, logging what they made this month, and improving over time - Chefs / food developers documenting formulas and new dishes Subscriptions Upgrade to unlock more recognition uses, plus benefits like iCloud sync and watermark-free recipe sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be canceled in your App Store account settings. Privacy To power recognition, your food photos and text descriptions are sent to third-party AI services for processing. We do not share your name, phone number, email, or other personal information with third parties. See the in-app Privacy Policy for details. Accounts This app creates an account with Sign in with Apple (Shijian ID). You can delete your account in Agreements / Account / About → Delete Account. After deletion, your account and data are removed and cannot be recovered.

Screenshots

Dish Log3 screens
Tastetale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dish Log at none against Tastetale's 1. Tastetale's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tastetale sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Dish Log asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dish Log ships an update every 4 months, Tastetale every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Dish Log versus Tastetale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDish LogTastetale
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer江泉 王TasteQuest Technologies Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Dish Log

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tastetale

Subscriptions1
  • 食见PRO(按月订阅)$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Dish Log free?
Dish Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tastetale free?
Tastetale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dish Log or Tastetale have ads?
Neither Dish Log nor Tastetale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dish Log or Tastetale?
Dish Log ships an update every 4 months, and Tastetale every 2 weeks. Most recently, Dish Log was updated on November 5, 2026 and Tastetale on November 9, 2026.

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