Dinny vs Restaurant Journal_
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dinny
Log your favorite restaurants and dishes, create a dining wishlist, and share culinary discoveries with friends and family. Organize your food journey with smart search and map views.
- Personal food journal
- Track favorite dishes
- Explore on map
- Collaborate with friends
- Smart search and filters
- Sync across devices
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Dinny is the personal restaurant journal built for food lovers — log your favorite spots and dishes, build your dining wishlist, and collaborate with your loved ones. Never forget an extraordinary meal or what to order when you return. Whether you're curating your favorite neighborhood spots, remembering a standout dish, or planning your next dinner date, Dinny keeps your food journey beautifully organized. • Your Personal Food Journal Effortlessly organize your dining life. Keep a log of places you’ve experienced and build a bucket list of spots to explore next. • Track Dishes with Photos Go beyond basic ratings. Snap photos of standout dishes, save tasting notes, and never forget what to order on your next visit. • Explore on the Map Switch between a sleek list view and an interactive map to see all your saved places at a glance. • Collaborate with Friends & Family Discover and save places together. Invite your partner, friends, or family to build a joint food journal and curate lists in real time. • Smart Search & Filters Find what you're craving in seconds. Filter by location, cuisine, price, opening hours, or dining options. • Sync Across All Your Devices Start exploring immediately as a guest — no account required. Create an account whenever you're ready to back up your journal and sync seamlessly across devices. Start building your personal culinary journal with Dinny today! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 in-app purchases: Restaurant Journal_ at none against Dinny's 2. Restaurant Journal_ also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Dinny's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Dinny sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Restaurant Journal_ asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dinny against 5.0 for Restaurant Journal_. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Dinny ships an update weekly, Restaurant Journal_ every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinny | Restaurant Journal_ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | YUHAN NIU | Timothy Brandt |
Customer experience
Dinny
Restaurant Journal_
In-app purchases
Dinny
- Dinny Premium$1.991 Month
- Dinny Premium$14.991 Year
Restaurant Journal_
No in-app purchases








