Palate vs Mealyn
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.
Mealyn
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Mealyn is a personal food diary for people who want to remember what they ate without turning meals into spreadsheets. Take a photo, save it quickly, and revisit each day in a calm visual journal. Mealyn organizes meals by date, helps recover original capture times from your photos, and can generate optional AI-assisted descriptions when available. Use Mealyn to keep a lightweight record of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and small moments around food without calorie counting as the default experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Palate at every 5 days against Mealyn's every 3 weeks. 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.
Palate ships an update every 5 days, Mealyn every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 29, 2026 and May 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Palate | Mealyn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JonLuca De Caro | GUOHUA DING |
In-app purchases
Palate
No in-app purchases
Mealyn
No in-app purchases
