Comparison

MapBite vs Noms

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

Head to head
About

MapBite

Features
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Mapbite is your personal food map — a beautiful, simple way to save every restaurant, cafe, and bar you visit or want to try. Add notes, photos, ratings, and tags, then see all your spots on an interactive map. Share lists with your partner so you can discover and remember great places together. SAVE YOUR FAVORITE SPOTS Drop a pin on any restaurant, cafe, or bar. Add a rating, price range, photos from your camera or gallery, and personal notes so you always remember what made it special. Mark places as "Visited" or "Want to Visit" to build your personal food bucket list. SEE EVERYTHING ON A MAP All your saved places appear as color-coded pins on a full-screen map. Green for visited, orange for places you still want to try. Filter by category, status, or favorites with a single tap using the collapsible filter panel. NAVIGATE INSTANTLY Open any saved place in Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps with one tap. Start navigation directly from the app — no copying addresses, no switching between apps. ORGANIZE WITH TAGS & FAVORITES Create custom tags like "brunch", "date night", or "family-friendly". Mark your all-time favorites with a heart. Use the price range tracker to remember what fits your budget. SYNCED ACROSS ALL DEVICES Your private places sync automatically via iCloud. Open Mapbite on your iPhone or iPad and everything is always up to date. DESIGNED TO BE BEAUTIFUL Mapbite features a premium glassmorphic design — frosted glass cards, smooth animations, and a rich color palette that looks stunning in both light and dark mode. Key Features: Ā· Save restaurants, cafes, bars, and other places on a map Ā· Add notes, photos (camera + gallery), ratings, price range, and tags Ā· Color-coded map pins with smart filtering Ā· One-tap navigation with Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps Ā· Custom tags and favorites Ā· iCloud sync across all your devices Ā· Sign in with Apple — private, secure, simple Ā· Glassmorphic UI with dark and light mode support

About

Noms

Features
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Your food photos already tell the story of where you've eaten. Noms reads it for you. Noms turns the food photos sitting in your camera roll into a map of every restaurant you've been to. No check-ins, no manual entry, no effort. Snap your meal, and we'll handle the rest. HOW IT WORKS Noms scans your photo library, groups your food shots into individual restaurant visits using time and location, and matches each one to the real place you ate. You review what we found, rate it, and it lands on your personal map. That's it. AUTOMATIC, NOT MANUAL Other apps make you stop and log every meal. Noms works in the background. Your map fills itself in from photos you were already taking. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos never leave your device unless you explicitly confirm a visit. Nothing is uploaded, posted, or shared without you saying so. The whole map is yours first. YOUR FOOD DIARY See the story of how you eat: the cuisines you reach for, the spots you keep going back to, the cities you've explored, and your most-photographed meals all in one editorial recap of your taste. A MAP THAT KNOWS YOUR TASTE Every place you've visited becomes a pin with your own rating. Search any restaurant, rate spots, add notes, and keep a running record of where the good food is. DISCOVER WHERE TO GO NEXT • See what's trending near you • Find the spots your friends actually rate • Get recommendations grounded in real visits, not ads SOCIAL, IF YOU WANT IT Follow friends, see their latest meals, like and comment, and share your own map. Or keep your account private and use NOMS purely as your personal food journal. Your call. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Zero-effort tracking - your map builds itself from photos • Rate, note, and remember every meal • A gorgeous map of your personal food history • Trending and friends layers to find your next meal • Privacy-first: you confirm before anything is shared Stop forgetting the name of that incredible place from last spring. Let your photos remember it for you. Download Noms and watch your food map build itself.

Screenshots

MapBite4 screens
Noms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MapBite at every 5 days against Noms's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MapBite ships an update every 5 days, Noms every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
MapBite versus Noms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMapBiteNoms
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB37 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMarek SlaninkaShivani Desai

In-app purchases

None

MapBite

No in-app purchases

None

Noms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MapBite free?
MapBite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noms free?
Noms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MapBite or Noms have ads?
Neither MapBite nor Noms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MapBite or Noms?
MapBite ships an update every 5 days, and Noms every 4 weeks. Most recently, MapBite was updated on October 1, 2026 and Noms on October 10, 2026.

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