Comparison

Rate My Bites vs GoodEats

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

GoodEats

This app helps you track restaurants and other places you've visited or want to go. You can rate places and dishes, scan menus, and view your saved locations on a map. It's designed for privacy with no account or ads.

Highlights
  • Two shelves: 'Been' and 'Want to go'
  • Rate places and individual dishes
  • Scan menus and delivery app screenshots
  • View saved places on a color-coded map
  • Log visit history
  • Save places from other map apps
Features
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GoodEats is the fastest way to remember the places that matter to you. Like Goodreads, but for restaurants, cafes, parks, and anywhere else you go. TWO SHELVES. "Been" for places you've visited, "Want to go" for places you're saving. Move places between them with a swipe. RATE IT YOUR WAY. A simple 1 to 5 stars, plus notes on what you loved. Rate individual dishes too, so you never forget what to order. SCAN THE MENU. Point your camera at a menu (or a delivery-app screenshot) and pick out dishes to track, all processed on your device. SEE IT ON A MAP. Every place you've saved, color-coded by status, with your ratings at a glance. LOG YOUR VISITS. Keep a history of when you went and how it was. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE. Share a place from Apple Maps or Google Maps straight into GoodEats. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. No account. No tracking. No ads. Your data lives on your phone and in your personal iCloud. Nowhere else. Export everything as JSON whenever you like.

Screenshots

Rate My Bites4 screens
GoodEats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GoodEats at every 2 days against Rate My Bites's every 4 weeks. Rate My Bites's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 GoodEats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rate My Bites ships an update every 4 weeks, GoodEats every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rate My Bites versus GoodEats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRate My BitesGoodEats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJOHN CHARLES SERRANOGorish Aggarwal

Customer experience

Rate My Bites

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

GoodEats

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

In-app purchases

None

Rate My Bites

No in-app purchases

None

GoodEats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rate My Bites free?
Rate My Bites is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoodEats free?
GoodEats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rate My Bites or GoodEats?
Rate My Bites and GoodEats are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Rate My Bites or GoodEats have ads?
Neither Rate My Bites nor GoodEats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rate My Bites or GoodEats?
Rate My Bites ships an update every 4 weeks, and GoodEats every 2 days. Most recently, Rate My Bites was updated on October 13, 2026 and GoodEats on October 6, 2026.

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