Tastelog vs Bitebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tastelog
This app helps you privately document your dining experiences, both out and at home. It analyzes your photo library to identify meals and prompts you for details, creating a personal diary of your culinary memories. You can also log meals manually and share them with friends.
- Scan camera roll for past meals
- Private diary for dining memories
- Log home-cooked meals as recipe cards
- Search diary by keywords or people
- Map of visited restaurants
- Share memories with friends
- Personalized taste summary
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You've photographed hundreds of meals. Could you name the restaurant behind ten? The dish? Who was at the table — or at the stove? Tastelog is a private diary of the meals worth remembering, out and at home. It starts by finding the meals already in your camera roll, and roasting you for them. GET ROASTED Tap Scan my photos and Tastelog goes through the last two years of your camera roll, reading the photos on your phone. It finds the meals, asks a few quick questions while it looks, makes you guess before the verdict — then hands down the roast: a poster with your title and the evidence, one tap from your group chat. Keep the meals, and each one lands in your diary with its place already guessed, waiting for your yes. IT KEEPS UP Took a photo of dinner? Next time you open the app it asks where it was — naming the place when it's sure — and the meal is kept in a tap. Answer once and it never asks about that meal again. Or log one by hand: tap +, or any empty day on the calendar. MORE THAN A RESTAURANT NAME The place is the least of a memory. Note what you ordered, who shared the table, and what the night was for — a birthday, a farewell, a first date you didn't know was one. Add as much or as little as a meal deserves. THE MEALS YOU MADE A Tuesday soup can mean more than a tasting menu. Every home meal is kept as a recipe card: what you made, who cooked, who you fed, what you'd tweak next time, and whether you'd make it again. No ingredient lists, no nutrition, ever. YOUR YEAR, ONE PAGE AT A TIME The diary opens on a calendar, every month filled with your own photos. Search it the way you remember: "that quiet pasta place" or "dinner with Mei" both work. And On This Day brings back meals you'd forgotten you loved. WHAT YOUR APPETITE ADDS UP TO Your taste, set in type: a card composed from your own meals — the dishes you order, the places you go back to, the person who has cooked for you most. No scores, no personality quiz. Just the facts your diary already holds, ready to share. TODAY'S TICKETS Open Today for three tickets: sometimes a place from your diary you said you'd go back to, and dishes worth trying, each with somewhere nearby to eat it. Save one for later, or reshuffle. Tell it what's off the table, and it never deals it. BETTER WITH FRIENDS Tag the friend across the table — or the one who cooked — and the memory lands in their diary too, where they can like it, write on it, and keep it. A gift, not a post. A KEEPSAKE, NOT A FEED No followers. No star ratings to perform. No calorie counting, ever. Your notes stay yours. Every place you've ever logged sits on one map that remembers what guidebooks can't: where you were happy. Your last thousand meals deserved better than a camera roll. Your next thousand start here. Tastelog — the meals worth remembering.
Bitebook
This app allows you to privately track your restaurant experiences. Save places you want to visit, log your dining history with personal ratings and notes, and organize your culinary discoveries.
- Save restaurants to try
- Track visited restaurants
- Personal ratings and notes
- Organize by city
- Filter and sort lists
- Manual restaurant addition
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Bitebook is a private restaurant journal built around your own taste. Save restaurants you want to try, keep track of the places you’ve visited, and record your own ratings and notes for future reference. With Bitebook, you can: • Search for restaurants or add them manually • Organize places by city • Mark restaurants as To Bite or Bitten • Rate restaurants you’ve visited • Record price level and personal notes • Tag restaurants by cuisine or occasion • Filter and sort your saved restaurants • Open addresses in Apple Maps or Google Maps Your taste is personal. Bitebook does not have social feeds, followers, public reviews, community ratings, or popularity rankings. Your ratings are meant for your own reference, not for an audience. Your restaurant list is stored on your device. Bitebook Pro adds iCloud sync across your devices. Location access is optional and is used only to prioritize nearby search results. Bitebook is free for up to 50 saved restaurants. An optional one-time purchase of Bitebook Pro unlocks unlimited saved restaurants and iCloud sync.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tastelog at none against Bitebook's 1. Tastelog also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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. Bitebook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tastelog asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tastelog against 5.0 for Bitebook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tastelog ships an update every 5 days, Bitebook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tastelog | Bitebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wenli Dong | Qi Han |
Customer experience
Tastelog
Bitebook
In-app purchases
Tastelog
No in-app purchases
Bitebook
- Bitebook Pro$6.99
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