Push Pull vs Meal Shield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Push Pull
This app helps users log workouts, plan strength training, and track progress with AI-powered programming and community motivation. It offers features like exercise logging, custom routines, and performance analytics, with an Apple Watch companion app for on-the-go tracking.
- Log unlimited workouts with 800+ exercises
- Create custom workout routines and templates
- Track sets, reps, and weight with progressive overload
- AI-generated workouts tailored to goals
- Muscle group balance insights and analytics
- Social squads and accountability with friends
- Apple Watch companion app
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Push Pull: Workout Tracker Push Pull is a social workout log and strength training planner built for lifters who want real structure, real progress, and real accountability. With AI-powered programming, community motivation, and a clean, intuitive interface, Push Pull helps you train smarter and stay consistent—whether you lift at the gym or train at home. Now with an Apple Watch companion app. View workouts, track sessions, and stay connected to your training right from your wrist. What You Get with Push Pull • Log unlimited workouts with 800+ strength and cardio exercises • Create unlimited workout routines, templates, and custom exercises • Track sets, reps, and weight with progressive overload support • Smart Swap — instantly replace exercises with intelligent alternatives • AI-generated workouts tailored to your goals and experience level • Recovery and fatigue indicators for smarter strength training • Personalized progression recommendations • Muscle group balance insights and performance analytics • Progress photos to visually track your transformation • Social squads, activity feeds, and accountability with friends • Detailed workout history, streaks, and training trends Subscription Pricing • Monthly: $6.99 • Annual: $49.99 (save ~40%) Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://push-pull.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://push-pull.app/privacy Built by lifters, for lifters. Push Pull focuses on consistency, clear progress, and a community that lifts together—without clutter or distractions.
Meal Shield
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Living with more than one food restriction turns every meal into a cross-referencing exercise. Gluten-free AND dairy-free AND nut-free is three labels to read, three menus to decode, three ingredient lists to second-guess. Meal Shield holds all of them at once. Set your restrictions once — 51 of them, from the top allergens to lactose, FODMAPs, histamine, halal, keto and AIP — and every screen in the app applies them automatically. WHAT IT CHECKS • Ingredient labels — point the camera at a pack and it reads the panel, then cross-checks every hidden name. Casein is dairy. Albumin is egg. Maltodextrin can be corn. • Your actual plate — photograph a meal and get each item identified, with calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre, and an allergen verdict. • Barcodes — scan a product and see whether it is safe for your profile. • Restaurant menus — photograph the menu and see which dishes are safe. BUILT FOR FAMILIES Add a profile per person and switch to Family mode. The app shows only what is safe for everyone at the table — the intersection, not the average. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS Every recognised item shows where it came from — recognised, from a label, from your description, or added by you — and how confident it is. Tap "What the model saw" for the raw evidence. Adjust a portion by hand and it stops being presented as a model estimate. An app that guesses about allergens should say when it is guessing. FREE, WITH NO ACCOUNT There is no sign-up and no login. Your profiles, meals and photos stay on your device. Free forever: your restriction profile, the safe recipe library, the ingredient label scanner, the weekly planner and the daily nutrition dashboard. Free AI meal scans: 3. MEAL SHIELD PRO — $4.99/month or $44.99/year 120 AI meal scans a month, plus family profiles, the barcode scanner, the menu analyser, the smart shopping list, recipe substitutions and the nutrition summary. MEAL SHIELD PRO+ — $9.99/month or $89.99/year Everything in Pro, with 250 AI meal scans a month. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. PRIVACY Meal photo analysis uses Google's Gemini AI, so the photo leaves your device for that one feature. The app asks before the first time and never sends it silently. Label reading, menu reading and description parsing all run entirely on your iPhone. IMPORTANT Meal Shield is an organisational tool, not a medical device. It cannot detect cross-contamination, manufacturing changes or errors on a label, and AI portion and ingredient estimates can be wrong. Never rely on it alone to decide whether a food is safe for a severe allergy. Always confirm with the manufacturer or restaurant. Privacy Policy: https://aieltokhy.com/mealshield/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://aieltokhy.com/mealshield/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Push Pull at 3 against Meal Shield's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Push Pull sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Meal Shield sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Push Pull ships an update every 5 days, Meal Shield every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Push Pull | Meal Shield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Zlatin | Ahmad Eltokhy |
In-app purchases
Push Pull
- Push Pull Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Push Pull Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Push Pull Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Push Pull Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
Meal Shield
- Pro: AI Meal Scanner Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro+: Food Scanner Monthly$9.991 Month
- Pro: AI Meal Scanner Yearly$44.991 Year
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- Pro+: Food Scanner Yearly$89.991 Year
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