Pukono vs Vivifrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pukono
This app helps individuals with hypertension or renal disease identify safe and dangerous foods. It offers a food database, tips for reducing risks, and user-shared recipes and menus to make dieting safer and more varied.
- Food safety checker
- Dietary risk reduction tips
- Recipe and menu database
- User-submitted recipes
- Intuitive food search
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Do you have hypertension or renal disease? Or do you take care of patients with these problems? PuKono is an application that will make it very easy for you to know which food is safe and which is dangerous. How many times have you avoided eating something that you really like because you didn’t know if it had too much salt? Or too much potassium, or phosphorus? How many times have you taken unnecessary risks by eating dangerous food without knowing? Make your diet varied and safe, just with a touch of your fingers, as easy as looking at a traffic light, write down any type of food that you can think about and PuKono will tell you if you can eat it safely, or better not, or if there is a way to make it safer if you want it so much. You will also be able to consult recipes and menus, and even send your own recipes to share them with other users around the world. PuKono is a free tool designed by prestigious health and food professionals with a great experience in managing patients with chronic kidney disease and hypertension. It contains an intuitive searcher with a huge database of food, a useful section with tips to reduce the danger of risky food and also a section where you can find recipes and menus elaborated by a professional team, or by other users that want to share their specialties. Cheer up and send us your own creation! If it is validated by a professional nurse team, everybody will be able to prepare it and say how do they like it! You will never have a boring diet again, or take unnecessary risks. With PuKono your diet (and your life also!) will be more fun and safe.
Vivifrail
This app helps healthcare professionals and trainers assess the risk of functional decline, dependency, and falls in individuals over 70. It then generates personalized, multicomponent physical training programs to prevent frailty and falls, featuring exercise explanations and videos.
- Risk assessment for functional decline, dependency, and falls
- Personalized multicomponent exercise programs
- Exercise videos and explanations
- Track multiple individuals
- Frailty and fall risk screening
- Physical exercise program monitoring
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Vivifrail App está dirigida a monitores, preparadores físicos, profesionales en el ámbito de la salud, personal médico y no médico de residencias de ancianos, así como a profesionales en el ámbito de las Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte, Enfermería y Fisioterapia encargados del cuidado de mayores de 70 años. Esta App permite clasificar a las personas mayores, basándose en las conclusiones realizadas en el marco del proyecto Erasmus+ denominado Vivifrail (www.vivifrail.com), en función de su riesgo de pérdida de capacidad funcional, dependencia y riesgo de caídas. Una vez el anciano ha sido categorizado, la App propone la realización de un programa individualizado de entrenamiento físico multicomponente para la prevención de la fragilidad y caídas en mayores de 70 años (© Mikel Izquierdo. Programa multicomponente de ejercicio físico para la prevención de la fragilidad y el riesgo de caídas, 2017) El programa de entrenamiento físico multicomponente está basado en una serie de ejercicios que permitirán, dependiendo del nivel de capacidad funcional del anciano (limitación grave, limitación moderada y limitación leve), y permitirá desarrollar: • La fuerza y la potencia, tanto de brazos como de piernas. • El equilibrio y la marcha, con el fin de evitar las caídas. • La flexibilidad. • La resistencia mediante ejercicios de cardiovascular. Siguiendo estos sencillos programas, un anciano puede mejorar la capacidad funcional, así como evitar el síndrome de fragilidad y riesgo de caídas. Esta App permite: - Trabajar con varios ancianos. - Cribado de la fragilidad y riesgo de caídas. - Seguimiento de programa de ejercicio físico multicomponente. - Realizar correctamente los ejercicios gracias a sus completas y sencillas explicaciones, así como a los vídeos que acompañan cada ejercicio." The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pukono at 44% against Vivifrail's 33%. Vivifrail's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pukono | Vivifrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fundació Althaia | Universal Projects and Tools S.L. |
Customer experience
Pukono
Vivifrail
In-app purchases
Pukono
No in-app purchases
Vivifrail
No in-app purchases









