Comparison

Farther vs Grub

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

Head to head
About

Farther

This app analyzes your walking behavior over weeks and months, providing a "Walking Baseline" and "Lifestyle Band" to understand your long-term movement patterns. It focuses on trends rather than daily goals, using your Apple Health data with a privacy-first design.

Highlights
  • Walking Baseline calculation
  • Lifestyle Bands for context
  • Long-term trend tracking
  • Privacy-first design
  • Daily movement analysis
Features
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Farther helps you understand your walking behavior over time. Most step apps focus on daily goals, streaks, and isolated high-step days. Farther looks beyond individual days to reveal the walking patterns that emerge over weeks and months. Using your Apple Health step data, Farther analyzes your recent movement history and calculates your Walking Baseline, a number that reflects your overall walking behavior. Your baseline is placed within a Lifestyle Band, helping you understand where your long-term walking pattern sits today and how it changes over time. Features: • Walking Baseline based on long-term movement patterns • Lifestyle Bands that provide context for your activity level • Daily movement analysis - steps(as of now) • Trend tracking across weeks and months • Privacy-first design using your Apple Health data Farther is not designed around streaks, badges, or daily pressure. It is designed to help you understand how you move through life. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Grub

Features
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Logging food should take five seconds, not five minutes. Grub lets you track meals by talking. Say "two scrambled eggs, a slice of sourdough and a flat white" and it's logged — calories, protein, carbs and fat, all worked out for you. THREE WAYS TO LOG • Voice — describe your meal naturally, in a full sentence • Barcode — scan any packaged food • Photo — snap your plate and let Grub identify it BUILT FOR REAL EATING • Saved meals — your regulars, logged in one tap • Custom foods — add your own recipes with exact nutrition • Serving editor — adjust portions without starting over • Backfill past days — forgot to log yesterday? Add it now SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Daily calorie and macro totals at a glance • Weekly charts that show the trend, not just the day • Physique tracking — log weight and measurements over time • Full diary history, searchable by day SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Log meals in your own language — Grub understands and converts to accurate nutrition data automatically. No endless database scrolling. No fiddly portion dropdowns. Just tell Grub what you ate.

Screenshots

Farther4 screens
Grub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grub at none against Farther's 3. Grub also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Farther's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Farther sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Grub asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Farther ships an update every 10 days, Grub monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Farther versus Grub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFartherGrub
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChetan DhowlagharZEAN MADDELA

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Farther

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.491 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99
None

Grub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Farther free?
Farther is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grub free?
Grub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Farther or Grub have ads?
Neither Farther nor Grub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Farther or Grub?
Farther ships an update every 10 days, and Grub monthly. Most recently, Farther was updated on October 31, 2026 and Grub on October 31, 2026.

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