Rate My Bites vs Restaurant Journal_
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rate My Bites
This app helps you remember and share your favorite dining experiences. Log meals, drinks, and restaurants with photos and ratings. Discover new places through trusted friends and family, building a personal food journal.
- Log meals with photos, ratings, and notes
- Track favorite drinks
- Save and rate restaurants
- Create private recommendation feeds
- Get smart recommendations from trusted sources
- Build a personal food memory journal
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Never forget another amazing meal. Rate My Bites helps you remember the restaurants, meals, drinks, desserts, and experiences you'll want to enjoy again. Unlike public review apps, Rate My Bites is designed around the people you trust. Share recommendations with family and friends, discover places your circle loves, and build your own personal food journal. FEATURES Log Meals - Save photos, rate dishes, add notes, and remember exactly what you ordered. Track Drinks - Keep track of cocktails, coffee, beer, wine, and your favorite beverages. Save Restaurants - Build your personal collection of favorite restaurants and places, complete with ratings, photos, and notes. Private Feeds - Create invite-only groups for family and friends to share trusted recommendations, vacation plans, and favorite discoveries. Smart Recommendations - Discover restaurants based on your own experiences and recommendations from the people you trust—not strangers. Food Memories - Capture every great meal with photos, ratings, and notes so you can easily find them again. Bite Buddies - Choose a fun Bite Buddy to help discover your next favorite restaurant. Whether you're planning your next vacation, searching for the perfect local restaurant, or simply trying to remember that incredible meal from last month, Rate My Bites keeps all your favorite food memories in one place. Your favorite meals, places, and memories, shared with people you trust.
Restaurant Journal_
This app automatically creates a private map and journal of your dining experiences using your existing food photos. It identifies meals, organizes them by location, and allows you to add ratings, notes, and voice memos without manual check-ins or accounts.
- Automatic journal from photos
- Private dining map
- Meal ratings (Yay, Okay, Meh)
- Add notes and voice memos
- Photo and video storage per visit
- Optional iCloud backup
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Eat. Experience. Remember. Restaurant Journal turns the food photos you already have into a private, beautiful map and journal of everywhere you've eaten — automatically. No typing. No check-ins. No account. You have thousands of photos from meals out — birthdays, first dates, that hole-in-the-wall taco place — and no easy way to remember where any of them were. Restaurant Journal fixes that. It quietly scans your library on your device, recognizes your dining moments, and organizes them into a journal you'll actually want to revisit. A private map of your dining life • See every restaurant you've visited on a beautiful map — from your neighborhood to every city you've explored • Zoom from your street to "everywhere I ate in Italy" • Browse your whole history by month and year Effortless and automatic • Builds itself from photos you already took — nothing to log • Detects visits, groups them by place, and finds the restaurant for you • New meals appear on their own Capture what made it special • Rate every meal : Yay, Okay, Meh • Add notes and voice memos • Keep your photos and videos from each visit • Correct a place, or hide spots you'd rather not track Private by design • Your library is scanned on your device — your photos never leave your phone • No account required • Optional: back up privately to your own iCloud and sync across your iPhones, so you never lose a memory Rediscover your favorites Revisit spots you forgot you loved, and see how your tastes have changed over the years. Perfect for food lovers, travelers, photographers, and anyone who believes a great meal is a memory worth keeping. Your memories are more than photos. They're stories. Restaurant Journal helps you keep them alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Restaurant Journal_ at every 4 days against Rate My Bites's every 4 weeks. Rate My Bites's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rate My Bites against 5.0 for Restaurant Journal_. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Rate My Bites ships an update every 4 weeks, Restaurant Journal_ every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Rate My Bites | Restaurant Journal_ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | JOHN CHARLES SERRANO | Timothy Brandt |
Customer experience
Rate My Bites
Restaurant Journal_
In-app purchases
Rate My Bites
No in-app purchases
Restaurant Journal_
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Rate My Bites free?
Is Restaurant Journal_ free?
Which has better reviews, Rate My Bites or Restaurant Journal_?
Do Rate My Bites or Restaurant Journal_ have ads?
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