Palate vs Bon Viv
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Palate
Effortlessly log your restaurant experiences by automatically importing details from your photos and calendar. Analyze your dining habits with insightful statistics, add personal notes, and discover new culinary destinations.
- Restaurant visit tracking
- Camera roll and calendar import
- Personal notes
- Dining statistics
- Restaurant discovery
- On-device local storage
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Palate lets you track your restaurant visits, and makes it easy to do so by pulling information from your camera roll and calendar. View stats, add notes, and find new restaurants! All information is stored on device, and is fully local.
Bon Viv
Log your dining experiences with ratings, notes, and photos. Organize restaurants into custom lists and discover new places through friend recommendations and an interactive map. Save spots you want to try and easily track your culinary journey.
- Log restaurant visits with ratings and notes
- Add photos to visit logs
- Create and share custom restaurant lists
- Search millions of restaurants
- Explore restaurants on an interactive map
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Save restaurants to a 'Want to Visit' list
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Bon Viv is your personal restaurant diary — a beautiful way to track every place you've eaten, share discoveries with friends, and never forget a great meal. LOG YOUR VISITS Every restaurant deserves to be remembered. Log visits with a rating (Amazing, Great, Good, or Meh), personal notes, and photos straight from your camera roll. Build a living record of your culinary life. ORGANIZE WITH LISTS Create custom lists for any occasion — "Date Night Spots," "Best Ramen in the City," "Places to Try in Tokyo." Share your lists with friends or keep them private. EXPLORE & DISCOVER Search millions of restaurants powered by Google. See what your friends have already rated before you book. Use the interactive map to explore a neighborhood and spot hidden gems at a glance. STAY CONNECTED WITH FRIENDS Follow friends and see their latest visits, ratings, and lists in a real-time activity feed. Find a great spot? Your friends will know. WANT TO VISIT Save restaurants you're curious about to your Want to Visit list. When you finally go, log the visit in seconds. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS · Star ratings with color-coded visual cues · Map view with friend ratings overlaid · Filter visited restaurants by cuisine, price, location, and rating
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Palate at every 5 days against Bon Viv's every 2 months. 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 Palate against 5.0 for Bon Viv. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Palate ships an update every 5 days, Bon Viv every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 29, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palate | Bon Viv |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JonLuca De Caro | JACOB ROBERT DRAPER |
In-app purchases
Palate
No in-app purchases
Bon Viv
No in-app purchases
