§ · Compare
Honest comparisons.No straw men.
How BiteDeck stacks up against the calorie trackers people actually ask about. Every comparison names where the other app wins, not just where BiteDeck does.
§ 01 · The comparisons
vs. MyFitnessPal
The category default. Cross-platform with a vast community database — but ads on the free tier and your data on their servers.
Compare · 02vs. Foodnoms
The other local-first iPhone tracker. Shared privacy foundation; the differences are in restaurant depth, forecasting, and fasting.
More comparisons — Cronometer, Lose It, and Zero — are on the way.
§ 02 · What every comparison covers
The same dimensions, page to page, so the trade-offs are easy to line up:
Privacy & data ownership
Where your meals, weights, and history actually live. BiteDeck keeps them on your phone, with no account.
Pricing & ads
Free tier, paid tier, and whether any tier shows ads.
Restaurant coverage
Depth and quality of chain menus. 282 chains, sorted by section on BiteDeck.
Apple Health
Read/write metric coverage and toggle granularity. BiteDeck does 5 reads / 10 writes, per-metric.
Forecasting & fasting
On-device weight forecasting and built-in intermittent fasting.
§ 03 · How to read these
No app wins every row. Each comparison has a "where they win" section because pretending otherwise wastes your time — if you split your day between iPhone and Android, BiteDeck being iPhone-only is a real cost, and the table says so.
Pick on what you log most: your data's location, the apps you eat at, the metrics you sync. The comparisons exist to make that call faster, not to sell you a foregone conclusion.