Cold Stone vs Yummy Dish Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cold Stone
Order custom ice cream creations, shakes, or cakes for pickup or delivery. Save your favorite orders, earn rewards, and enjoy exclusive birthday treats through a loyalty program.
- Order ice cream creations, shakes, and cakes
- Pickup at store or delivery to door
- Save favorite orders and re-order easily
- Unlimited customizations
- Earn points and redeem rewards
- Birthday Buy One, Get One FREE offer
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The Cold Stone Creamery® app lets you order our made-fresh Ice Cream in a Creation™, Shake or Cake and have it ready for pickup at your favorite store or delivered right to your door! Sign in to your My Cold Stone Rewards account and you can save favorite orders, earn points and redeem rewards! ABOUT MY COLD STONE CLUB REWARDS + Earn 1 point for every $1 + Receive a $5 Reward with every 50 points + Enjoy a Buy One, Get One FREE on your birthday FEATURES + Order ahead and pick up at the store + Or, get your order delivered right to your door + Easily re-order with favorites and recent orders + Enjoy The Ultimate Ice Cream Experience® in app with unlimited customizations
Yummy Dish Diary
Log meals with photos, ratings, and notes to remember every dish. Discover and share food recommendations with friends while keeping your personal diary private.
- Save meals with photos and videos
- Rate dishes and mark reorder preference
- Add notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details
- Log home-cooked or restaurant meals
- Search meals, restaurants, and tags
- Discover and share food recommendations
- Follow friends and interact
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Eat it. Rate it. Save it. Share it. Yummy Dish Diary is your personal food diary for keeping track of every dish worth remembering—whether it came from a favorite restaurant or was made at home. Save meals with photos and videos, ratings, notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details. Search your diary anytime, revisit favorite spots, and quickly remember what you ordered and whether you would get it again. Want to share your food finds? Publish selected meals as public posts, discover recommendations from other food lovers, follow friends, and join the conversation. Your personal diary stays private, and you choose what to share. Features: - Save meals with photos and videos - Rate dishes and mark whether you would order them again - Add notes, tags, prices, and restaurant details - Log restaurant meals or dishes made at home - Search meals, restaurants, cuisines, tags, and notes - Revisit favorite dishes and spots - Discover and share food recommendations - Follow friends and interact with their posts - View simple insights from your food diary - Sync your diary across devices - Control your profile and sharing privacy Whether you are saving a new favorite, exploring recommendations, or trying to remember what you ordered last time, Yummy Dish Diary keeps every delicious moment close.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yummy Dish Diary at 100% against Cold Stone's 19%. Yummy Dish Diary also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Cold Stone's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (23K vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yummy Dish Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cold Stone has 23K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Cold Stone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Yummy Dish Diary's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cold Stone | Yummy Dish Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #155 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kahala Management, L.L.C. | Alex Perez |
Customer experience
Cold Stone
Yummy Dish Diary
Bugs and requests
Cold Stone
Reported bugs
4 issues- Payment processing errors
- Inability to change pickup location
- Rewards not updating properly
- App crashes when trying to add gift cards
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to reorder previous orders
- Option to select custom ice cream flavors
- Integration with mobile wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- Easier way to apply rewards and discounts
- Clearer communication on store closures and order availability
Yummy Dish Diary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cold Stone
No in-app purchases
Yummy Dish Diary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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