Comparison

CraveCart vs Empty Boat

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

Head to head
About

CraveCart

This app simulates food delivery orders to help you resist impulse purchases and save money. Browse menus, build realistic orders, and track your savings without spending a dime.

Highlights
  • Browse realistic restaurant menus
  • Build and customize virtual orders
  • Live delivery simulation
  • Track lifetime savings
  • Review order history
  • Monitor current streak
Features
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CraveCart helps you beat delivery cravings without white-knuckling it. Browse a familiar food-delivery style experience, build a cart, feel the craving pass, and watch your CraveScore grow every time you resist an order. CraveCart turns the moment you almost ordered takeout into a small win you can actually see. Now with a much richer recipe experience, CraveCart helps you move from “I want delivery” to “I could make something good.” Explore craveable recipes, save favorites, discover ideas tied to the foods you already wanted, and build a better fallback for the nights when delivery apps are calling. Track your lifetime savings, orders resisted, streaks, and CraveScore as you build momentum. CraveCart is part craving interrupter, part savings tracker, part recipe companion, and part fake delivery app for your better judgment. Crave the order. Skip the checkout. Keep the win.

About

Empty Boat

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Something happened. You're about to do something about it. Empty Boat is what you open in that gap. You write what happened. You get one story from Zhuangzi - a Taoist text from the 4th century BC - set against your situation, a question, and one thing to stop doing. Not "do this instead." One subtraction. Want another angle, you ask for it. Most people stop at one. Some nights there is nothing to reframe. You are tired and you are reading it correctly. When that is the case the app says so, and tries to name what you are carrying instead of handing you a parable that would only argue with you. Seven days later it asks one question about what you wrote. That is what makes the log worth keeping - not a diary, a record of which things still mattered a week on. WHAT IT ISN'T A chatbot. There is nothing here to have a conversation with. A meditation app. No timers, no breathing, no sounds. A course in Taoism. It will not explain wu wei. A streak. There is nothing to keep up. WHAT IT WON'T DO It will not tell you what to do. It will not comfort you. It will not say everything happens for a reason. It has nothing to say about your body, your eating, or your drinking, and it will tell you that rather than guess. Your log stays on your phone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CraveCart4 screens
Empty Boat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CraveCart at none against Empty Boat's 2. CraveCart also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Empty Boat's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and iOS requirement 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. Empty Boat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. CraveCart asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CraveCart ships an update weekly, Empty Boat every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CraveCart versus Empty Boat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCraveCartEmpty Boat
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJosh BakerNguyen Manh

In-app purchases

None

CraveCart

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Empty Boat

Subscriptions2
  • EmptyBoat_Monthly$14.991 Month
  • EmptyBoat_yearly$69.991 Year

Questions

Is CraveCart free?
CraveCart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Empty Boat free?
Empty Boat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CraveCart or Empty Boat have ads?
CraveCart shows ads; Empty Boat does not.
Which is updated more often, CraveCart or Empty Boat?
CraveCart ships an update weekly, and Empty Boat every 11 days. Most recently, CraveCart was updated on October 31, 2026 and Empty Boat on October 31, 2026.

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