Bevel vs Cronometer

They only really overlap on food

It is worth being blunt about this, because the comparison is often framed as two rivals when it is closer to two different tools that share one feature.

Cronometer's entire proposition is the food diary and what it can tell you about it. Everything else it does — importing workouts, activity, energy expenditure and sleep — exists so those numbers show up next to your intake. Its Gold tier scores your nutrition; nothing in it scores your physiology, and it never tells you how to train.

Bevel's proposition is the daily physiological picture: six scores, an age, a strength programme, your lab results. Meal logging is one tile in that dashboard rather than the point of the app.

So the real question is not "which is better" but "which half of the problem am I trying to solve".

Nutrition: 95 nutrients versus 6 million foods

These two numbers get compared constantly, and they are not the same kind of number.

Bevel's 6 million+ is database size. Cronometer's 1.1 million is a deliberately smaller, curated set it describes as "verified foods, including analyzed entries" — and its differentiating claim is depth per entry: up to 95 nutrients and compounds, versus a nutrient count Bevel does not publish at all.

Practically: if you are chasing a specific micronutrient — potassium, magnesium, B12, iron, omega-3 — Cronometer is the app making the falsifiable claim, and it is the one to buy. If you are counting calories and three macros, both will do it, and a bigger database will find your supermarket sandwich more often.

Worth pinning down, because this number moves around: Cronometer's own pages say up to 95 nutrients and compounds on the individual plans, and up to 92 on the professional tier. If you want the science on why the composition of what you eat matters more than the calorie total, our longevity diet guide and the piece on protein intake and longevity cover it.

Physiology: the half Cronometer does not do

Bevel builds six scores on top of your wearable data — Recovery, Sleep, Strain, Stress, Nutrition, and an Energy Bank that combines them into a single battery — plus a Biological Age it calculates "using key health markers like sleep, activity, resting heart rate, and more".

That "and more" is doing a lot of work. We found no formula, no full input list, no citation and no validation study on any Bevel page, so treat the number as a directional trend line rather than a measurement. Our explainer on what biological age actually means is a reasonable sanity check before you take any app's version of it too seriously.

Cronometer does not compete here at all. It ingests workouts, activity, energy expenditure and sleep and lets you correlate them with what you ate — genuinely useful if you want to know what a late glass of wine does to your sleep — but it scores none of that, and no age output appears anywhere on its pages.

Bevel also carries features Cronometer has no equivalent for: Health Records import for lab results and clinical notes, a Strength Builder with 700+ exercises, cycle tracking, and a smart alarm.

Where your data comes from

Cronometer is the more explicit of the two. Its App Store listing names its integrations outright: sync with Apple Health and Apple Watch; connect Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, Whoop "and more"; import workouts, activity, energy expenditure and sleep.

Bevel names fewer, and mostly visually. Its homepage carries a "Works with" row showing Apple Watch, Oura, Garmin and Amazfit logos, and a health-records section showing lab providers (Labcorp among them). Beyond those, its own copy stays at the level of "from wearables to bloodwork". We could not verify from Bevel's pages whether it writes anything back to Apple Health.

Two practical gaps: Bevel requires iOS 18, while Cronometer still supports iOS 15.5 and has an iPad app; and Cronometer has a Google Play listing, while we could not confirm an Android version of Bevel from any primary source. Blogs claim both, contradict each other, and none of them is Bevel.

Pricing

Cronometer publishes its tiers on its own site: Basic at $0, Gold at $10.99/month or $59.99/year (which it advertises as $4.99/month billed annually), and a separate professional tier at $39.99/month including ten client seats, with extra seats at $2.50 each. Barcode scanning is explicitly free.

Bevel publishes no prices anywhere on bevel.health — its /pricing URL returns a 404. The US App Store lists Bevel Pro at $14.99/month and $99.99/year, plus four Bevel Intelligence credit packs: 350 credits for $4.99, 750 for $9.99, 1,550 for $19.99 and 4,200 for $49.99. How many credits, if any, come with a Pro subscription, and which actions consume them, is not stated publicly.

So Bevel is about $40/year more than Cronometer Gold before you buy a single credit pack — which is defensible given how much more it does, as long as you will actually use the physiology half.

Trials are the one place where the published record is thin. Cronometer advertises a trial only on its professional tier — the /pro page's buttons read "Start 30-Day Free Trial" — and says nothing about one for Gold on its pricing page, its App Store listing or its Subscription Types help article. Bevel is odder: its visible homepage copy only offers "Get started with Bevel for free today", while the same page's structured data describes the offer as a "7-day free trial" — so the terms exist in the markup but not in the copy a buyer reads. Neither vendor states trial terms for its consumer tier anywhere prominent, so read the paywall before you tap.

One more piece of small print: Bevel's own App Store description says subscriptions "renew on a weekly or yearly basis" while the in-app purchases on the same listing are named "Bevel Pro - Monthly" and "Bevel Pro - Annual" — check what your paywall says before you tap. Every price above is a 2026-07-29 US-storefront snapshot read off the vendors' own pages and App Store listings; older Cronometer figures are still in circulation elsewhere and no longer match cronometer.com.

Cronometer vs Bevel: the short version

From the Cronometer side: it is cheaper, more precise about food, more transparent about both its pricing and its data sources, and it runs on more devices. It will never tell you whether to train today.

From the Bevel side: it tells you whether to train today, tracks the recovery and sleep that decide it, and pulls your bloodwork in alongside — but its food logging is a feature rather than a discipline, and its age score comes with no published method.

Running both is a legitimate answer, and not an expensive one if you keep Cronometer on the free Basic tier for food and pay for Bevel for physiology. Both sit in the Apple Health ecosystem, though neither vendor documents a direct link between the two apps.

If the age number is the part you care about

Full disclosure: we make a third app, so read this with that in mind.

Bevel gives you a Biological Age without saying how it is calculated. Cronometer does not give you one at all. Sarvita takes the opposite approach to Bevel's: the age is the product, not a tile — split into VO2 Max Age, HRV Age and Body Composition Age from your Apple Health data, with Sar turning it into a weekly plan across the four pillars of longevity training, plus photo-based meal logging for the nutrition side.

To be straight about it: Sarvita will not match Cronometer's 95-nutrient depth, and it does not import clinical records the way Bevel does. If you need a nutritionist-grade food diary, buy Cronometer. If you want a full physiological dashboard with bloodwork, Bevel is the broader product. Our own head-to-heads are here: Sarvita vs Bevel and Sarvita vs Cronometer.