Comparison

Sprout vs Naya

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

Head to head
About

Sprout

This app helps users understand their food choices and build healthier habits by tracking nutrition and providing insights into food categories linked to cancer risk. It offers flexible logging options, including AI-assisted photo recognition, and allows users to set daily goals and care for a virtual pet.

Highlights
  • Manual food logging
  • AI-assisted photo food recognition
  • Food-category evidence indicators
  • Daily food-group goals
  • Virtual pet for habit building
  • Privacy controls for AI features
Features
Read full description

Log what you eat and watch your pet perk up. Sprout is a food tracker built around food groups, not calories, with a virtual pet that cheers you on. Sprout was designed and built by Heeva Alavi, a 17-year-old student developer, for people ages 13 and up. You can use every feature without creating an account. YOUR PET GROWS WITH YOUR HABITS • Pick your pet: a cat, bunny, bear, chick, pup or octopus, in nine colors, and give it a name. • Your pet gets happy when you log, gets hungry when you forget, and naps at night. • When it's hungry, it asks for a food from a group you haven't eaten yet today. • Keep your pet on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with Sprout widgets. LOG FOOD THE EASY WAY • Snap a photo of your meal and AI lists every food in it for you to check. • Or type a whole meal, like "turkey sandwich and an apple", and Sprout splits it up. • Or add foods by hand, with portions in cups, slices, ounces and more. • AI is optional. Turn it off and manual logging still works. SPROUT ON APPLE WATCH • Tap "What did you eat?" and just say it. Your note waits on your iPhone so you can check it before anything is logged. • Add a Sprout complication to your watch face to see your pet and how it's feeling. • Tap your pet on your wrist to give it a boop. FOOD GROUPS, NOT CALORIES • Daily goals for grains, vegetables, fruits, protein and dairy, based on USDA Dietary Guidelines for your age and sex. • See how each food counts toward your goals. • Track your streaks and look back over your week and month. KNOW WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS • When a food belongs to a category that cancer research organizations have studied, like processed meat, Sprout adds a note you can tap to read the evidence and its sources. • These notes come from a fixed, versioned list and fixed matching rules, never from AI. PRIVACY AND CONTROL • Choose whether to use AI features, and change your mind any time in Privacy & AI settings. • Delete any entry, or delete your account and its data in the app. • No ads, and Sprout does not track you across other apps and websites. IMPORTANT Sprout gives educational nutrition information. Evidence notes describe research about food categories, not your personal risk, and they can be wrong for homemade or unclear foods. Sprout is not a medical service and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Talk to a qualified health professional before making health decisions.

About

Naya

This app acts as a personal accountability coach, allowing you to log all aspects of your life through simple text or voice commands. It tracks nutrition, workouts, reminders, and journal entries, providing insights and adapting plans based on your progress. Everything is stored privately and securely, with no ads or data sales.

Highlights
  • Log meals with plain text or photos
  • GPS tracking for runs, walks, and rides
  • Strength training logging with PR detection
  • Customizable reminders
  • Journaling with streaks and lists
  • Weight tracking and calorie targets
  • Apple Health integration
Features
Read full description

For everyone who starts tracking and quits by week two. Naya is the coach who keeps you on track. Text it what you ate, what you lifted, what you can't forget. Naya keeps track, then checks in that evening, before you'd have remembered to. One conversation, no forms, no tabs. Say "log my chipotle bowl" and it's tracked with calories and protein. Send a photo of your plate and the macros come back. Say "start a run" and your phone records the route, pace and mile splits. Say "remind me Thursday" and it's handled, and if Thursday comes and goes, Naya asks. YOU COMMIT. NAYA HOLDS YOU TO IT. Tell Naya a goal and you get a real plan back, built from your own numbers rather than a template. Then it watches whether you're actually moving toward it. A morning brief with the day ahead. A nudge when dinner's unlogged. A Sunday recap connecting what you ate, how you trained, and what the scale did. Most people's tracking goes quiet in week two. Naya's whole job is making sure yours doesn't. WHAT NAYA DOES • Nutrition: log meals in plain words or with a photo, with calories, protein, carbs and fat estimated instantly, plus daily totals and weekly averages • Runs, walks, rides and hikes: GPS tracking with live pace, mile splits, and your route on a map • Strength training: log sets by voice or text, PR detection, and progress charts for every lift • Goals: set one in a sentence, get a plan, and see exactly where you stand this week • Reminders that actually come back: one-time, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly • Weight tracking with trends, plus calorie targets that adapt to your real progress • Lists, a journal with streaks, and a place for anything worth saving • Calendar: Naya sees your week and adds or moves events only when you ask • Apple Health: steps, active energy and weight sync both ways • Share anything to Naya from any app, including links, photos and notes, and ask about it later ONE PLACE FOR ALL OF IT Most of what matters never fits neatly in a form, so Naya doesn't give you one. Say it however it comes out: a sentence, a photo, a voice note on the walk home. Naya files it, connects it to everything else you've told it, and brings it back when it's useful. The longer you use it, the more it has to work with. Six months in, it knows what your good weeks look like. Everything you tell Naya stays yours: owner-scoped storage, no ads, no data sales, and one-tap account deletion that erases everything. Text it like a friend. It holds you to it like one too. Terms of Use: https://meetnaya.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://meetnaya.com/privacy

Screenshots

Sprout4 screens
Naya4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sprout at none against Naya's 3. Sprout also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Naya's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Naya sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Sprout asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sprout against 5.0 for Naya. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sprout ships an update weekly, Naya every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sprout versus Naya: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSproutNaya
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB69 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAli AlaviAadhrik Kuila

Customer experience

Sprout

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Naya

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sprout

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Naya

Subscriptions3
  • Naya Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Naya Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Naya Pro Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Sprout free?
Sprout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Naya free?
Naya is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sprout or Naya?
Sprout and Naya are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Sprout or Naya have ads?
Neither Sprout nor Naya shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sprout or Naya?
Sprout ships an update weekly, and Naya every 2 days. Most recently, Sprout was updated on October 29, 2026 and Naya on October 29, 2026.

Other comparisons