Comparison

Palmful vs Portion Fit

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

Head to head
About

Palmful

This app helps you track your daily nutrition using a hand-portion method, eliminating the need for calorie counting or barcode scanning. It visualizes your intake at a glance and adjusts targets for different activity levels, all while keeping your data private on your device.

Highlights
  • Hand-portion nutrition tracking
  • No calorie counting
  • Visual daily intake summary
  • Adjustable targets for activity days
  • Weekly eating pattern overview
  • Private local data storage
  • No streaks or nagging reminders
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You are already carrying a better instrument. Palmful is a daily nutrition journal built on the hand-portion method — no calorie counting, no barcode scanning, no hand-entering every ingredient in the meal you just cooked. Your hand is the ruler: • Palm = a serving of protein (about 4 oz, or 2 eggs) • Cupped hand = a measure of carbs (about ½ cup of rice, or a slice of bread) • Fist = a portion of vegetables (about a cooked cupful) • Thumb = a thumb of fat (a tablespoon of oil, or an ounce of cheese) The ruler scales with you. Bigger hands, bigger portions — the measure is the body itself. WHY THE NUMBERS FAIL Log a home-cooked meal in a calorie app and you're typing in every ingredient by hand. The more you vary what you eat, the more tedious it gets — so the app quietly nudges you back toward the same safe, packaged meals. But you cook. And the precision was never real anyway; the labels are estimates. Palmful drops the false precision and keeps the part that works: a simple, repeatable portion you can eyeball anywhere, with any meal, in any kitchen. TODAY, AT A GLANCE Open Palmful and see what you've still got room for — two palms of protein short, a fist of veg to go. It answers the only question you actually have at six in the evening: what should I eat next? A few taps to log, then get on with your day. TARGETS THAT MOVE WITH YOUR DAY Training days aren't all the same, so your targets aren't either. Palmful shifts your protein, carb, veg, and fat goals for Hard, Easy, and Rest days — more fuel when you're working, less when you're recovering. And if you already know your numbers, set them yourself: any portion, on any day type. Anything you don't touch keeps following your profile. THE WEEK, AS ONE PAGE Each day is a row; the week is a page you can read at a glance. See the shape of how you've been eating without digging through a feed. QUIET ON PURPOSE No streaks. No "good job!" No red numbers shaming you at midnight. Palmful is the tool a good coach hands you so you can stop obsessing — log a few taps, then put it down. Miss a week and nothing breaks. Nothing resets, nothing nags. Come back when you want to. SETUP IS OPTIONAL Open the app and start logging. Sex, activity level, weight, and goals can all be left blank — tap Skip for now to jump straight in with general targets, and personalize anytime in Settings if you want targets tuned to you. YOUR FOOD LOG STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Everything you log — every portion, every day — stays on your device, in a local database on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up. No server ever sees your food. To make Palmful better, the app sends anonymous, aggregate usage analytics — which screens you open and a few basic actions, nothing more. It never includes your journal entries and is never tied to your identity. If you choose to send feedback from Settings, your message — and a reply address, if you add one — goes to us so we can write back. Nothing else you enter ever leaves the phone. See our privacy policy for exactly what is and isn't collected. Made for iPhone. — Palmful is a tracking journal, not medical advice. Portion estimates are general guidance. Talk to a qualified professional about your own nutrition and health needs. Questions, bugs, or feedback: support@nsquaredlabs.com

About

Portion Fit

Features
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Point Portion Fit at a restaurant menu and every dish gets a score for your day. Not a generic chart: your calories left, your protein to go, your goal, and what you actually eat. WHAT IT DOES Scores the menu. Scan a menu or pick a chain and each dish gets a Fit Score from 0 to 100. Tap Why and it shows the maths: protein per calorie, how it fits this meal, how far it moves your day. Verified chain data is marked, estimates are marked too. Tells you how to order. One tap writes the sentence you say at the counter: what to swap, what to skip, and what it does to the numbers. Learns what fits you. The home card knows the meal you are in, what you have left, and offers one of your own usuals that fits. The more you log, the better it fits. Turns a reel into a recipe. Share an Instagram reel to Portion Fit and it becomes a recipe with steps, macros, and a photo in your cookbook. Browse recipes other people turned in, rated by the people who cooked them. Logs food fast. Search any food, weigh it, log several at once. Say what you ate out loud. Snap a plate. Scan a barcode. Log a usual in one tap. Coaches and friends. A coach sends a week of meals in minutes. Friends see each other's streaks, or as much as each person chooses to share. Pick a place where everyone at the table has a real meal. Sees your day. Weekly nutrition, weight trend, water, and a recap of how the week and month went. Connect Apple Health for steps, burn, and sleep, and the day's budget adjusts to what you actually did. Portion Fit is invite only for now. Follow @iam_madhusudhanreddy on Instagram and send a message for an access code.

Screenshots

Palmful4 screens
Portion Fit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Portion Fit at weekly against Palmful's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Palmful ships an update every 3 weeks, Portion Fit weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Palmful versus Portion Fit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPalmfulPortion Fit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNishal NarechaniaMadhusudhanreddy Bhumireddy

In-app purchases

None

Palmful

No in-app purchases

None

Portion Fit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Palmful free?
Palmful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Portion Fit free?
Portion Fit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Palmful or Portion Fit have ads?
Neither Palmful nor Portion Fit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Palmful or Portion Fit?
Palmful ships an update every 3 weeks, and Portion Fit weekly. Most recently, Palmful was updated on November 10, 2026 and Portion Fit on October 31, 2026.

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