Potto vs BiteFax
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
BiteFax
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Scan the barcode on a packaged food, or type its name. BiteFax shows which of 36 tracked food additives are in it, and how the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada each treat them. The same ingredient can be allowed in one country, need a warning label in another, and be off the approved list in a third. BiteFax lines those rules up side by side, so you can read them at a glance. FOR EVERY ADDITIVE - Four countries side by side: allowed, allowed with limits, warning label required, being phased out, or not on the approved list - The rule in plain words - The regulator's own words, a link to the source, and the date we last checked it - US state laws where they differ, including laws a court has put on hold MORE TO DO - Compare two products: what's only in one, and what they share - Others in the same aisle, matched to the flavor - How processed a product is, key nutrition facts, and California's Prop 65 list - Photograph an ingredient list when a barcode isn't found - Reminders when a rule changes for something you scanned - Share a result as a picture - English, Spanish, and French; text size that follows your iPhone WHAT THIS IS NOT BiteFax is not health advice. It doesn't score, rank, or judge food. "Not on the approved list" is a legal status in one country, not a claim that anything is harmful. PRIVACY No account. No ads. No tracking. The barcode is read on your phone, and your scans stay on your phone. We count how many scans happen each day, with nothing that identifies you or what you scanned. THE DATA 36 additives and 144 rules, each checked against the regulator that made it, each with its own date. Ingredients come from Open Food Facts (Open Database License) and the USDA's FoodData Central; both can be incomplete or out of date.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BiteFax at none against Potto's 4. BiteFax also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). Potto's advantage is chart position (#13 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Potto sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. BiteFax asks for nothing beyond the download.
Potto ships an update weekly, BiteFax every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Potto | BiteFax |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 6.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anete Ziedina | Zach Brown |
In-app purchases
Potto
- 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
BiteFax
No in-app purchases









