Liner Notes vs Daily Portion Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liner Notes
This AI-powered journal transforms your daily reflections into unique visual art, personalized music recommendations, and weekly letters. It helps you capture feelings, track your mood, and see your days in context without pressure or guilt.
- AI visual art generation
- Personalized music recommendations
- Weekly summary letters
- Drafts from photos and events
- Voice and text entry
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Privacy-focused design
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Your day, journaled for you. Liner Notes is an auto diary and voice journal that drafts your day from your photos, sleep, steps, heart rate and conversations, and keeps the time you spend with the people who matter as memories. No account. Your records stay on your iPhone. PHOTOS, SLEEP, STEPS WRITE YOUR DAY Your places, photos, plans, sleep, steps and workouts are already a draft of the day. Read it, change only what you want, and keep it. On days you'd rather talk, one line into the mic is plenty. YOUR HEART RATE, TENSE OR RELAXED With Apple Watch, your heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) are compared with your usual self at that time of day, so a timeline shows when your body was tense and when it was relaxed. Plans, places, workouts and sleep sit alongside. After a workout, see how your heart rate came back down. This feature is for keeping and reflecting on your days. It is not intended for diagnosis or medical use. TIME WITH PEOPLE, IN THEIR WORDS Keep a conversation from a spoken note, and it's transcribed on your iPhone and split by speaker; summaries are made with Apple's Private Cloud Compute. The recording is deleted once it's text. Whether to tell people in the room is up to you. Conversations with people you name become part of your memories of them. FROM APPLE WATCH, TOO One press on your wrist starts recording. Your iPhone takes it from there. HEART RATE AND VOICE AS YOU TALK Your heart rate, the pitch of your voice, how much each of you talked, and laughter line up over a conversation, so you can see where it came alive. SEE HOW YOUR RELATIONSHIPS SHIFT Who you spent time with, and on what. People become glass particles and topics become capsules that shift as time plays. Liner Notes also tells you in plain words who appeared for the first time and who you haven't seen in a while. A PICTURE AND A SONG FOR EVERY DAY Each day's entry gets a picture and a song that fits. Each morning, a short note picks up from the day before, and at the end of the week, a letter to you arrives from seven days of records. YOUR RECORDS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE - There is no account - Your diary and conversations are stored on your iPhone - You choose where text is created in Settings: on your iPhone, Apple's private cloud, or OpenAI. OpenAI is used only with your consent, while you subscribe or during the preview - Export every record anytime as Markdown or as a full copy NO STREAKS, NO GUILT No streak counters, no "you missed a day" messages. While you're away, the automatic record keeps going, and it's waiting when you come back. FEATURES - A diary draft from places, photos, plans, sleep and steps - A day timeline from heart rate and HRV (tense and relaxed) - Conversation records with speakers and summaries, and recording from Apple Watch - Heart rate, voice pitch and laughter over a conversation - Workout heart rate and how it came back down afterward - Atlas: how people and topics shift over time, with highlights - The day's picture and tonight's song - A morning note and a weekly letter - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and the Action Button - Records calendar and "One year ago today" - Export as Markdown or a full copy, and a daily copy to iCloud Drive PRICING The daily diary, automatic records, drafting and polishing, and export are free forever, plus a morning note once a week. Your first 3 mornings (up to 7 days) let you try the subscription with no card and no automatic charge. The subscription adds a morning note every day, weekly letters, conversation records, the day's picture and tonight's song. Family Sharing supported. Full playback of tonight's song requires an Apple Music subscription. Keep the days that slip away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://linernotes.aves.ltd/en/privacy.html
Daily Portion Buddy
Effortlessly track your food intake by defining custom categories and serving sizes. Log portions with a single tap and visualize your daily balance. AI features help identify meals from photos or descriptions, providing calorie and macro estimates.
- Custom food categories and serving sizes
- One-tap portion logging
- AI-powered photo and voice meal identification
- Calorie and macro estimation
- Daily goal progress visualization
- Mood tracking with private notes
- Family and support circle features
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Daily Portion Buddy is portion control without the spreadsheet. Define your own food categories and serving sizes — vegetables, protein, water, or anything your own plan calls for — then tap once each time you eat a serving. No calorie database to search, no macros to calculate by hand, just a simple daily picture of whether you're eating balanced. HOW IT WORKS • Define your categories — set a serving size and a daily target for each one, worded the way you actually think about food (a cup, a palm, a glass). • Tap to log servings — every portion is one tap. Watch each category fill in as you go through the day. • Hit your daily goal — a simple progress bar shows how balanced today is. Flip back through past days anytime. AI-SUGGESTED CATEGORIES & SERVINGS Not sure where to start? Tell us your sex, age, and weight and Daily Portion Buddy suggests a starting set of categories and daily serving targets for you to adjust as you go. SNAP A PLATE — AI PHOTO FOOD ID Take a photo and Snap A Plate identifies the food, estimates which of your categories and how many servings it covers, and gives you an estimated calorie and macro (protein, carb, fat) breakdown. The AI forms an initial read, then explicitly re-examines distinguishing details — sauce, texture, hot vs. cold, mixed-in ingredients, and how mounded or deep the portion is — before finalizing, to cut down on mix-ups between similar-looking dishes. Estimates are informational only and never replace your own judgment. SPEAK A PLATE Prefer to describe your meal instead of photographing it? Speak or type what you ate and get the same category, calorie, and macro estimate. CHEF BUDDY A lighthearted way to see your progress: pick from the categories you still have room for today and watch Buddy "cook up" a plate with them. Purely cosmetic, purely for fun — a small reward for staying on track. MOOD CHECK-INS Log how you're feeling alongside your portions, with a private note field. Optionally share just your mood level (never your notes) with your Social Circle for encouragement. FAMILY & SUPPORT CIRCLE Track portions for more than one family member from a single account, or invite a supporter to your Circle for accountability and encouragement. Built for households managing portions together, not just solo tracking. KIDS MODE A simpler, kid-friendly logging view, plus optional mood & behavior notes — including on-device voice dictation for the note field, so younger or older family members can speak instead of type. Dictation is on-device speech-to-text only; nothing is sent to a server or an AI model. REPORTS, HISTORY & AI INSIGHTS Look back at any past day, see how consistently you're hitting your targets by category, export a doctor-ready PDF summary, and generate an AI-written insight that surfaces patterns between your logged mood and your portions over the last 7 or 30 days. Available in 9 languages. Daily Portion Buddy is a tracking and habit tool, not a medical device — it does not diagnose, treat, or replace advice from a physician or registered dietitian. AI-estimated calories and macros are approximations based on a single photo, description, or audio clip, not a lab or database lookup. Premium AI features (Snap A Plate, Speak A Plate, AI-suggested categories, PDF export, and AI insights) run on a monthly token allowance included with a Personal or Family subscription plan. Start tracking — it's free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Daily Portion Buddy at 15.0 against Liner Notes's 18.0. 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. Liner Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Daily Portion Buddy sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Liner Notes against 5.0 for Daily Portion Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Liner Notes ships an update weekly, Daily Portion Buddy every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Liner Notes | Daily Portion Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aves Inc. | Gregory Bell |
Customer experience
Liner Notes
Daily Portion Buddy
In-app purchases
Liner Notes
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Daily Portion Buddy
- Premium User$4.991 Month
- Premium Family$7.991 Month
- Premium User Yearly$49.991 Year
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- Premium Family Yearly$79.991 Year
- Token 30$1.99
- Token 75$3.99
- Token 120$5.99
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