Comparison

Rate My Bites vs Restaurant Journal_

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Rate My Bites4 screens
Restaurant Journal_4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rate My Bites ships an update every 4 weeks, Restaurant Journal_ every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rate My Bites versus Restaurant Journal_: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRate My BitesRestaurant Journal_
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB7 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJOHN CHARLES SERRANOTimothy Brandt

Customer experience

Rate My Bites

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Restaurant Journal_

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Rate My Bites

No in-app purchases

None

Restaurant Journal_

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rate My Bites free?
Rate My Bites is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Restaurant Journal_ free?
Restaurant Journal_ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rate My Bites or Restaurant Journal_?
Rate My Bites and Restaurant Journal_ are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Rate My Bites or Restaurant Journal_ have ads?
Neither Rate My Bites nor Restaurant Journal_ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rate My Bites or Restaurant Journal_?
Rate My Bites ships an update every 4 weeks, and Restaurant Journal_ every 4 days. Most recently, Rate My Bites was updated on October 31, 2026 and Restaurant Journal_ on October 31, 2026.

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