Comparison

Tended vs Food Group

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

Head to head
About

Tended

This health journal helps you track chronic illness symptoms, pain, and daily well-being. Log entries quickly, even on difficult days, and identify potential patterns to better prepare for doctor appointments. It's designed for fluctuating conditions and prioritizes your privacy.

Highlights
  • Log symptoms, pain, energy, mood, and more
  • Identify patterns and potential triggers
  • Prepare for doctor appointments with reports
  • Condition-specific starter sets
  • On-device AI for descriptions
  • Privacy-focused with no data collection
Features
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Track chronic illness without turning your health into homework. Tended is a privacy-first health journal and symptom tracker for people living with long-term symptoms, pain, fatigue, flares, and appointments that never quite fit into ten minutes. Log in seconds, notice possible patterns, and prepare for doctor appointments without streaks, guilt, accounts, analytics, data collection, or external servers. LOG IN SECONDS, EVEN ON HARD DAYS When thinking is hard, Tended keeps logging light. Record a day rating, symptoms, pain, medications, energy, sleep, mood, bowel changes, food, triggers, activities, periods, photos, and notes at your own pace. Use Apple Watch, widgets, Siri, the Lock Screen, or the full app when opening your phone feels like too much. Duplicate yesterday, edit only what changed, or describe your day in your own words with optional on-device AI. BUILT FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS Tended is made for fluctuating conditions where a normal habit tracker does not fit. Use it as a chronic illness journal, symptom tracker, pain tracker, medication tracker, flare tracker, energy tracking tool, sleep tracking companion, and body map. Condition starter sets help you begin with relevant symptoms and triggers for fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, lupus, endometriosis, PMOS / PCOS, POTS, EDS, migraine, MS, IBD, PMDD, and many more. SEE PATTERNS IN YOUR OWN DATA Your journal can become more useful over time. Tended may help you notice possible links between symptoms, medications, food, sleep, activity, weather, Apple Health averages, menstrual cycle phases, flares, and better days. Insights are based on what you log yourself. They are self-reported observations, not clinical findings, so you stay in charge of what feels useful. PREPARE FOR APPOINTMENTS When brain fog arrives before your appointment, Tended helps you bring the important parts with you. Use Doctor Mode, appointment notes, body map history, medication adherence, symptom trends, focused visual reports, and PDF health reports to explain what has been happening. Tended+ unlocks longer history, deeper pattern insights, trigger experiments, appointment-ready PDF health reports, focused evidence and care PDFs, and CSV export for people who want to go deeper. STAY CONNECTED, WITHOUT OVERSHARING If you choose, Tended can help you share small practical updates with someone you trust through Supported, the carer companion app. Send a quiet check-in, a quick need, or a regular summary without exposing your whole private journal. FREE FOREVER. NO GUILT. Every tracking feature is free and unlimited. There are no streaks, no shame, and no "you missed a day" messages. Tended+ is for people who want longer-term insight and appointment-ready reports. The free journal stays useful on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No data collection. No external server. Your journal lives on your device or in your personal iCloud. Apple Health data is read only when you allow it. Optional on-device AI features run on your device where available; your journal is not sent to Cocoacorn servers. Use Tended gently, at your own pace. Bring what helps. Leave the rest. MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Tended is a personal health journal, not a medical device or clinical tool. It is not a substitute for medical advice or emergency support. Content is based on what you log yourself and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions. Tended does not monitor journal entries for distress. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency or crisis support. Terms of Use: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cocoacorn.com/tended/privacy

About

Food Group

Features
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Food Group is an Australian macro and micronutrient tracker. It uses the nutrient targets dietitians use, the food data the government publishes, and kilojoules alongside calories. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT All 23 micronutrients, free. Most trackers stop at calories and three macros. Food Group also tracks iron, calcium, folate, B12, magnesium and more, against NHMRC targets for your age and sex. Built for Australia. 1,588 foods from the Australian Food Composition Database, plus everyday staples, supermarket products and chain items, named the way you search. Private by default. Everything stays on your device. No account, no ads, no analytics. The only thing that leaves your phone is an anonymous food lookup. LOGGING Meal sections for breakfast, lunch and dinner, with extra meals when you need them. One-tap re-logging for repeat foods, and save whole meals as templates. Barcode scanning and on-device label scanning. Recipes with quick scaling. INSIGHTS A weekly summary shows which micronutrients you run low on. Daily targets from the science: Mifflin-St Jeor energy and NHMRC reference values. Every number traces to a public source: AFCD, USDA, NHMRC and Open Food Facts, all credited in the app. Food Group is free during beta. A subscription arrives at full launch, and anything you log now stays with you. Food Group is a tracking tool, not medical advice. For dietary or medical decisions, see your GP or an Accredited Practising Dietitian.

Screenshots

Tended4 screens
Food Group4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Food Group at none against Tended's 1. Tended's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tended sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Food Group asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tended ships an update every 5 days, Food Group every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tended versus Food Group: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTendedFood Group
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoff DavisMaximilien Bode

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tended

One-time1
  • Lifetime$34.99
None

Food Group

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tended free?
Tended is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Food Group free?
Food Group is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tended or Food Group have ads?
Neither Tended nor Food Group shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tended or Food Group?
Tended ships an update every 5 days, and Food Group every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tended was updated on October 24, 2026 and Food Group on October 9, 2026.

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