Comparison

Potto vs Cafeinated

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

Head to head
About

Potto

Effortlessly plan your weekly meals based on your budget, dietary needs, and kitchen tools. Generate smart shopping lists and discover recipes using ingredients you already have. Log meals by taking photos to track calories and macros.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal plans
  • Budget-based planning
  • Dietary preference options
  • Smart, sorted shopping lists
  • Recipe suggestions from fridge ingredients
  • Calorie and macro logging via photo
  • Save favorite meals
Features
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Potto turns a few simple choices into a full week of meals — built around your supermarket, your budget, and the way you like to eat. No account, no fuss. Tell Potto your store, your weekly budget, your dietary needs and the gadgets in your kitchen, and it instantly creates a meal plan with recipes, cook times, cost estimates and a ready-to-shop grocery list. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Weekly meal plans built around your budget and preferences • Smart shopping lists, sorted and ready for your supermarket • Fridge Chef — snap a photo of your ingredients and get recipes you can make right now • Calorie Snap — photograph a meal to log calories and macros in seconds • Swap any meal you don't fancy and save your favourites • Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and more Whether you want to eat better, waste less, or simply stop asking "what's for dinner?", Potto has you covered. SUBSCRIPTION Potto is free to download. Some premium features require a subscription, which can be purchased inside the app. Your subscription unlocks the full experience and renews automatically unless cancelled. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://pottoapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://pottoapp.com/terms

About

Cafeinated

Log your coffee experiences with photos, ratings, and tasting notes. Discover new cafes and share your favorite brews with friends. Build a personal coffee journal and revisit memorable moments.

Highlights
  • Log drinks with photos and notes
  • Discover nearby cafes
  • Follow friends and share finds
  • Build a cafe passport
  • Save favorite drinks and cafes
  • Scan packaged drinks by barcode
Features
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Cafeinated is a social coffee journal for people who care about the cup—and the story around it. Log what you are drinking with a photo, rating, tasting note, flavor tags, cafe, beans, or brew method. Follow friends, see what they are enjoying, and share the good finds worth trying next. Build your cafe passport over time. Discover nearby places on the map, browse community check-ins, save favorite drinks and cafes, scan packaged drinks by barcode, or choose At Home without storing a home address. Keep recipes for drinks you want to make again, find your Top Five coffees, and revisit the moments that made an ordinary day taste better. You control your experience with profile visibility, notification, location, and privacy settings that fit the way you use the app.

Screenshots

Potto3 screens
Cafeinated4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cafeinated at 100% against Potto's 6%. Cafeinated also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Potto's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support 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. Potto sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Cafeinated asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cafeinated holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potto has 2.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Potto's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cafeinated's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Potto ships an update weekly, Cafeinated fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Potto versus Cafeinated: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPottoCafeinated
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.4K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnete ZiedinaLuke Horsch

Customer experience

Potto

All ratings2,297 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive6.1%
Neutral8.3%
Negative85.6%

Cafeinated

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Potto

Subscriptions4
  • Potto Unlimited3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Potto Unlimited3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Potto Unlimited$39.991 Year
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  • Potto Unlimited3 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Cafeinated

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Potto free?
Potto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cafeinated free?
Cafeinated is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Potto or Cafeinated?
Cafeinated is rated higher. Potto averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while Cafeinated averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Potto or Cafeinated have ads?
Neither Potto nor Cafeinated shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Potto or Cafeinated?
Potto ships an update weekly, and Cafeinated fortnightly. Most recently, Potto was updated on November 10, 2026 and Cafeinated on October 31, 2026.

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