Comparison

Tiny Appetite vs Luminous Living

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Appetite

This app helps individuals on GLP-1 medication manage their eating by suggesting gentle food and drink options based on their current symptoms like nausea or low appetite. It allows users to log meals, track what works for their body, and build personalized lists of tolerated foods. The app focuses on protein intake and hydration without calorie counting or judgment.

Highlights
  • Symptom-based food suggestions
  • Personalized food tolerance lists
  • Gentle meal logging
  • Protein and hydration tracking
  • Kitchen Guide for meal ideas
  • Nourish streak and milestones
Features
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Eating on a GLP-1 is not the same as eating on a diet. Appetite may disappear, nausea may arrive without warning, and food you loved last week may smell wrong today. Tiny Appetite answers the question that keeps coming back: Given how I feel, what can I eat right now? TELL IT HOW YOU FEEL, GET SOMETHING YOU CAN MANAGE Tap what you're dealing with — nausea, low appetite, constipation, food aversions, bloating — and Eat Now returns three gentle food or drink ideas, one protein anchor, and a hydration nudge. Every idea comes with a rough protein and fiber estimate and how much effort it takes, so you can pick with the energy you actually have. LOG WHAT YOU ATE AND HOW IT SAT A few taps: what it was, roughly how much, how your appetite was before, and how it felt afterward. Never a calorie count, never a judgement. That's what teaches the app which foods work for your body. BUILD YOUR OWN LIST OF FOODS THAT WORK Foods that sat well become your personal list, tagged by the symptom they help. Foods that didn't sit well go on your Avoid list and stop appearing in suggestions. On a bad day you're choosing from things you already know are safe. PROTEIN FIRST, GENTLY Protein, fiber and water goals shown as three quiet rings and a Nourish Bowl that fills as the day goes on. A 14-day protein trend and a week-over-week change tell you whether things are heading the right way. THE KITCHEN GUIDE Ask in plain language — "I can't face anything warm, what now?" — and get a small, gentle idea grounded in your own symptoms and the foods you tolerate. GENTLE BY DESIGN A nourish streak that encourages and never punishes a missed day, milestones for real progress, and a daily practical tip. WHY I BUILT THIS I've been on a GLP-1 for several months. The constipation, the diarrhea, the days when nothing sounds edible. And the part nobody warns you about: your appetite disappears, your thirst disappears, and you still have to eat and drink to stay healthy. Every app I found wanted to count something. My question was never how many calories. It was, "What can I eat right now?" So I built it. WHAT'S FREE Eat Now suggestions, full logging, your Tolerable and Avoid lists, your goals and rings, the whole diary, streak and milestones, and the Kitchen Guide. TINY APPETITE PLUS (optional subscription) - Suggestions ranked by the foods you already tolerate - The Smoothie Builder with live protein, fiber and calorie estimates - Every mini meal plan, custom plans and auto grocery lists - Snack ideas and the protein, fiber and hydration lists - Tolerability insights: which foods sit well, which don't, and your symptom patterns $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Tiny Appetite is a general wellness and food-support tool. It offers informational food and drink suggestions only — never medical, nutritional, dietetic, or dosing advice, and never diagnosis or treatment. Nutrient figures are rough estimates and targets are general ranges. It never asks about or references your medication, its dose, or its timing. Always follow your prescriber and care team. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/501/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/501/terms

About

Luminous Living

This app provides a gentle approach to building self-care routines across physical, mental, spiritual, and rest categories. It features a unique scoring system that reflects overall well-being without judgment and celebrates small wins to encourage consistency.

Highlights
  • Build routines across four areas: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Rest
  • Customizable practices and flexible scheduling
  • Radiance Score for holistic well-being reflection
  • Streak system that avoids shame and guilt
  • Celebrate and track small wins
  • Guided reflections and mood check-ins
  • Free affirmations library
Features
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Luminous Living is a warm, non-judgmental self-care companion for anyone who keeps putting themselves last — people living with ADHD or burnout, busy caregivers, or anyone who simply wants a fuller life. Most habit apps are built for people who never miss. This one is built for real life. FOUR PARTS OF A WHOLE PERSON Build a routine across Physical, Mental, Spiritual and Rest. Start from a library of small, doable practices or add your own, set a cadence that fits your week, and reorder anything at any time. Editing is meant to be easy, because a routine you can't change is a routine you'll abandon. YOUR RADIANCE GEM One glowing gem answers the only question that matters: how am I tending my light this week? Your Radiance Score blends how evenly you're caring for all four areas, how consistently you show up, the wins you've celebrated recently, and how you've been feeling. It's a gentle reflection, never a grade. A STREAK THAT NEVER SHAMES YOU Miss a day and your streak freezes instead of resetting. Only two in a row starts you over. No guilt, no starting from zero, no all-or-nothing spiral. CELEBRATE THE SMALL WINS Capture any small victory in seconds and watch it bloom. Recent wins lift your Radiance, because progress compounds. REFLECT AND CHECK IN Write freely or follow rotating prompts drawn from gratitude, self-compassion and small-wins research. Take a two-tap mood check-in and see your trend over time. AFFIRMATIONS, ALWAYS FREE A full, categorised affirmations library with a fresh affirmation each day. Read, save your favourites, share the ones that land. This is never behind a paywall. GROUNDED IN REAL RESEARCH The scoring borrows the positively-worded shape of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, the repetition-over-perfection finding from habit-formation research, and the Never Miss Twice principle. Every claim is cited in the app. FULL RADIANCE (optional subscription) The entire daily loop above is free forever. Full Radiance adds computed depth on top: - Your weekly Radiance Report, with one kind focus for the week ahead - Mood x self-care insights that show what actually lifts you - Full history and 30-day Radiance trends Monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation; the subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple ID settings. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Luminous Living is a self-care and habit-tracking tool for everyday well-being. It is not a medical device, and nothing in it is medical, psychological or therapeutic advice or a substitute for professional care. Your Radiance Score is not a health assessment, a diagnosis, or a measure of your worth. There's a diamond inside you, already glowing. Let's tend the light. Privacy Policy: https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/473/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://preview.apppublishing.ai/legal/473/terms

Screenshots

Tiny Appetite4 screens
Luminous Living4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Luminous Living at 100% against Tiny Appetite's 67%. Tiny Appetite's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tiny Appetite sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Luminous Living sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tiny Appetite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Tiny Appetite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Luminous Living's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Appetite ships an update fortnightly, Luminous Living monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tiny Appetite versus Luminous Living: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny AppetiteLuminous Living
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKowarski CantyCarol Ho

Customer experience

Tiny Appetite

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Luminous Living

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny Appetite

Subscriptions2
  • Tiny Appetite Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Tiny Appetite Plus Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
2 purchases

Luminous Living

Subscriptions2
  • Full Radiance Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Full Radiance Annual7 Days trial$23.991 Year

Questions

Is Tiny Appetite free?
Tiny Appetite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Luminous Living free?
Luminous Living is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Appetite or Luminous Living?
Tiny Appetite is rated higher. Tiny Appetite averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Luminous Living averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Tiny Appetite or Luminous Living have ads?
Neither Tiny Appetite nor Luminous Living shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Appetite or Luminous Living?
Tiny Appetite ships an update fortnightly, and Luminous Living monthly. Most recently, Tiny Appetite was updated on October 19, 2026 and Luminous Living on October 11, 2026.

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