CampusFuel vs BearWalks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CampusFuel
This app simplifies calorie and nutrition tracking for Virginia Tech students by providing instant access to VT dining hall menus and nutritional data. Log meals in seconds, set personalized goals, and monitor your progress with detailed dashboards and summaries.
- Instant logging of VT dining hall meals
- Full nutritional data for all dining hall items
- Barcode scanning for packaged foods
- Personalized calorie and macro goal setting
- Daily nutrition dashboard
- Weight and progress photo tracking
- Weekly and monthly nutrition summaries
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CampusFuel is a calorie and macro tracker built around your dining hall. Not a generic food database. It has the actual menu, at your actual school, updated daily. Generic trackers make you guess. Was that chicken 4oz or 6oz? Which of the 40 "grilled chicken" entries is the right one? CampusFuel already knows what's being served at your dining hall today, with real nutrition data attached. Pick the hall, pick the item, done. YOUR CAMPUS, ALREADY IN THE APP • 300+ campuses covered, with over 200,000 menu items • Every dining hall and station on your campus, with menus that update daily • Full nutrition for each item: calories, protein, carbs, and fat • Log a full meal in three taps LOG ANYTHING, ANYWHERE • Snap a photo of your plate and get an instant estimate • Scan barcodes for packaged food • Scan nutrition labels straight off the box • Search millions of foods for meals off campus • Build custom foods and multi-ingredient meals • Save your regulars for one-tap logging AI COACH THAT KNOWS TONIGHT'S MENU Ask "what should I eat to hit my protein today?" and get an answer based on what's actually being served, right now, at your dining hall — and what you've already logged. No other nutrition app can do this. TARGETS BUILT AROUND YOU • Calorie and macro targets from your age, height, weight, activity level, goal, and pace • Calculated with the Mifflin-St Jeor equation, the standard used in clinical nutrition • Adjust targets any time as your goals change TRACK PROGRESS YOUR WAY • Daily dashboard for calories and macros at a glance • Weight log with trends over time • Progress photos that never leave your phone — stored on your device, never uploaded • Streaks to keep momentum • Calorie rollover and Apple Health integration for burned calories GENTLE MODE Tracking numbers isn't right for everyone, and it isn't right all the time. Gentle Mode hides calorie counts and targets entirely, so you can keep logging what you eat without a single number on screen. Switch it on or off whenever you want. There's also a Safety Center with resources, one tap away from anywhere in the app. BUILT BY A STUDENT CampusFuel started because no nutrition app had dining hall data, and eating on a meal plan meant guessing at every meal. It now covers hundreds of campuses — but it's still built by someone who eats in a dining hall. Whether you're trying to lose weight, put on muscle, hit your protein, or just eat a bit more deliberately, CampusFuel works with the food that's actually in front of you. CampusFuel is an independent, student-created app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any university. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://campusfuel.app/privacy
BearWalks
Compete with your campus by tracking your daily steps. See your rank, streaks, and daily winners. Create private groups with friends and view your progress on your home screen widget. Your privacy is protected with optional profile details and the ability to go dark.
- Campus-wide step leaderboard
- Private group creation
- Daily winner determination
- Home screen widget
- Optional profile customization
- Privacy controls
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Your steps. Everyone's board. One winner a day. BearWalks reads your step count from Apple Health and ranks you against your whole campus. The board locks at midnight. Whoever walked the most takes it. WALK WITH FRIENDS Make a private group. Send a code or a QR. They're in. SEE WHERE YOU LAND Your rank, your streak, your best day, and how you sit against everyone who actually walked today. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the widget for your steps, your rank and your percentile without opening the app. NO SETUP No login. No password. No email. Open it, you're on the board. YOU CONTROL WHAT SHOWS A photo and an Instagram handle are optional. Go dark removes you from every board while your steps keep counting. Delete your account and everything goes with it. Steps come from Apple Health. Nothing else is read. Made for university students. BearWalks is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BearWalks at 5.0 against CampusFuel's 4.1. BearWalks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). CampusFuel's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and monetization model 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. CampusFuel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. BearWalks asks for nothing beyond the download.
BearWalks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CampusFuel has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CampusFuel ships an update every 6 weeks, BearWalks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CampusFuel | BearWalks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PlateSync LLC | BENJAMIN GRAHAM GOODHART |
Customer experience
CampusFuel
BearWalks
In-app purchases
CampusFuel
- VT Cals Monthly Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- VT Cals Annual Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
BearWalks
No in-app purchases
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