BeanThere vs Slab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeanThere
This app helps you understand your diet by tracking over 40 essential nutrients, not just calories. Easily log meals by taking photos or typing ingredients, and receive AI-powered health tips tailored to you.
- AI food identification from photos
- Tracks 41 essential nutrients
- USDA FoodData Central database integration
- Personalized AI health tips
- Customizable nutrient dashboard
- Social progress sharing with friends
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Nutrition is more than counting calories. BeanThere tracks 41 essential nutrients to build awareness around your dietary habits, and it's as easy as taking a photo. Now with Beanjamin, your AI nutrition guide, to help you make sense of it all. Photograph any meal, nutrition label, or ingredients list, or type in your ingredients directly. Either way, BeanThere's AI reads your input, matches it against the USDA FoodData Central database for verified values, and fills in any gaps with smart estimates. LOG YOUR FOOD • Photograph a meal, a packaged product, a nutrition label, or type your ingredients in directly • AI identifies your food and portions in seconds • Verified values from the USDA FoodData Central database • Results read like a Nutrition Facts label, with % of your own goals NOT JUST CALORIES • 41 essential nutrients: macros, 13 vitamins, 12 minerals, and more • Watch your daily totals build with every meal you log • Know where you're running low, from iron to fiber to omega-3 YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • A daily Health Score shows how balanced your day is • Track your water against a daily goal • See each day as a timeline, with a monthly calendar of your scores • Keep your streak going and collect stamps in your Bean passport MEET BEANJAMIN, YOUR AI NUTRITION GUIDE • Ask anything about your food and get answers based on what you've actually logged • Tap a suggestion to check how today is going, get ideas for what to eat next, or rate your last meal • Analyze the last week, month, or year to spot gaps and wins • Make him yours: choose his personality, answer length, and emojis, and tell him foods you dislike and cuisines you love • Respects your dietary restrictions, and you decide whether he talks about calories and weight A CUSTOMIZABLE DASHBOARD • Choose exactly which nutrients you want to see, or start from a ready-made layout • View any date range, from a single day to a full year • Drag and rearrange your widgets FRIENDS • Connect with friends and follow each other's progress to stay motivated • You decide what's visible, with privacy controls, blocking, and reporting QUICK ADDS • Turn meals you eat often into one-tap buttons • Save any past entry and re-log it in seconds • Build a library of your go-to foods BEANTHERE PRO The free version includes 2 food scans and 3 quick adds a day, plus 2 days of history. Upgrade to BeanThere Pro for: • Unlimited scans and manual entries • Beanjamin, your AI nutrition guide • Your full nutrition history, not just the last 2 days • A fully customizable progress dashboard • Unlimited quick-add templates Start with a 7-day free trial. Monthly, yearly, or one-time lifetime. BeanThere is a wellness and awareness tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Beanjamin's answers are AI-generated and are not medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your dietary needs. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Slab
This app focuses solely on tracking your daily protein intake, displaying it as a single, prominent number. It simplifies logging with quick-tap options for frequently eaten foods and offers barcode scanning for packaged items. The app emphasizes consistency by tracking streaks of hitting your protein target.
- Protein-only tracking
- Visualized daily progress blocks
- One-tap food logging
- Barcode scanning
- Custom food saving
- Streak tracking for consistency
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Slab is a protein tracker that never shows you a calorie. Not buried in settings. Not calculated in the background. One number, all day: grams of protein, and how far you are from your target. Slab requires a subscription to use. Your first month is free, then $29.99 a year or $5.99 a month. THE STACK Everything you log drops in as a block, sized by the protein it added. A dashed line marks your target. You can read your whole day from across the room. ONE TAP The foods you actually eat sit on the home screen, most-logged first. Chicken breast, whey, Greek yogurt, eggs. Tap once and the block drops in. Most days you never leave this screen. FOR EVERYTHING ELSE • Search a catalog built from USDA data and curated by hand, not scraped from restaurant menus • Scan a barcode for anything packaged • Save your own foods once and log them forever • Type any amount, anywhere, and everything is in grams WHAT HISTORY LOOKS LIKE No charts to interpret. Slab answers the only question worth asking: how often do you hit your target. Hit target 24 of the last 30 days. The streak counts days you logged, not days you were perfect, because one bad Sunday shouldn't erase three weeks. WHAT IS NOT IN HERE No calories. No macro wheels. No food photography. No feed. No account to make. No ads. And no premium tier above the subscription you already have — search and barcode are part of the app, not an upsell. Your data stays on your phone and syncs through your own iCloud. It never reaches a server of ours, because we don't have one. Your first month is free. If Slab isn't the fastest way you have ever logged protein, cancel before the month ends and pay nothing. — Slab, yearly: $29.99 per year, with one month free Slab, monthly: $5.99 per month, with one month free Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: BeanThere at freemium against Slab's subscription. BeanThere also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). Slab's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, 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. BeanThere sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Slab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Slab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
BeanThere ships an update monthly, Slab every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeanThere | Slab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Adam Glantz | One Step Forward Ventures |
Customer experience
BeanThere
Slab
In-app purchases
BeanThere
- BeanThere Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- BeanThere Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- BeanThere Pro Lifetime$149.99
Slab
- Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
- Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year









