Next Meal App vs WhichCraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Next Meal App
Access the latest dining hall menus for King Hall. View upcoming meals and the current week's offerings. Features background updates and offline access via P2P fallback.
- View current week's menu
- See next three meals
- Background menu fetching
- P2P internet fallback
- Today widget support
- Watch app support
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Get the latest menu for your next meal at King Hall with Next Meal! Next Meal shows you the next three meals and the current week's menu. Background Fetch makes sure you have the latest menu before you open Next Meal. Built in P2P fallback allows menu retrieval from nearby iOS devices when you have no internet. Next Meal also comes with Today widget and Watch app. Next Meal web app available at www.nextmeal.tk Open source iOS app code, accessory apps, and menu API available at www.github.com/NextMeal.
WhichCraft
Easily track the beers you've tried with a simple logging system and extensive catalog. Build a personal collection, tag tasting locations, and view your history on a map. Designed for speed and privacy, it focuses solely on your brewlist without ads or social features.
- Fast beer search
- Personal brewlist creation
- Simple tasting logs (like/dislike)
- Location tagging for breweries/bars
- Map view of tasting history
- Private iCloud syncing
- Ad-free experience
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WhichCraft is the fastest way to track the beers you drink. No ads, no social features, no noise—just you and your brewlist. WHAT YOU GET • Fast Search Find any beer from a comprehensive catalog of hundreds of thousands of brews worldwide. • Your Brewlist Every tasting gets saved to your personal collection. Filter by liked, disliked, or browse everything you've tried. Sort by date, name, or rating—whatever makes sense to you. • Log Tastings Thumbs up or down. Add notes. That's it. We don't make you fill out a form or rate things on a 10-point scale. You tried a beer. You liked it or you didn't. Move on. • Location Tagging Add the brewery, bar, or couch where you tried a beer. It suggests where you are, so most of the time you don't have to type anything. • Your Places Every spot you've had a beer, as a list or a map. Rename them, give them an icon, merge the duplicates, archive the ones you're done with. Tap any place to see everything you've drunk there. • Private by Design Your tastings sync via iCloud. They're yours. We don't see them, we don't sell them, and we can't lose them in a data breach. Your brewlist lives in your iCloud account, not on some company's server. • Actually Fast Built for iPhone. No web wrappers, no lag, no waiting for things to load. Open the app, search, log, done. • No Ads, Ever We're not selling your attention to advertisers. You paid for the app (or you will). That's the business model. Clean and simple. WHY WHICHCRAFT? Because you shouldn't need a social network to remember which IPA you liked. You shouldn't have to scroll past ads to see your own data. And you definitely shouldn't trust a startup with your beer preferences when they're just going to get acquired and shut down in three years. WhichCraft is simple, fast, and private. It does one thing well: helps you remember the beers you've tried so you can find them again or avoid them next time. Download it. Log a few tastings. See if you like it. If you don't, we're not going to send you push notifications begging you to come back. We're not that kind of app. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 18 or later • iCloud account (for syncing across devices) SUPPORT Questions? Issues? Email us at support@whichcraft.beer We actually read our email.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WhichCraft at 5.0 against Next Meal App's 4.7. Next Meal App's advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 4) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WhichCraft holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Next Meal App has 78 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Next Meal App's written reviews are positive against 100% of WhichCraft's.
Next Meal App ships an update every 2 months, WhichCraft every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Next Meal App | WhichCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (78 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Anson Liu | Eric Cecchi |
Customer experience
Next Meal App
WhichCraft
In-app purchases
Next Meal App
No in-app purchases
WhichCraft
No in-app purchases
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