Comparison

Happy Snap vs Pick Your Plate!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Happy Snap

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Snap is a digital camera who needs your help!! He is not feeling very happy today and wants you to find 5 things that will cheer him up. Can you find the objects he asks for - in the real world? Search around you, take a picture, and let’s make Snap happy again! Happy Snap is an adorable, intuitive, and ground-breaking app designed to help children explore and discover the world around them. With bright colors, friendly voiceovers and a “find-and-seek” approach to searching for objects in the real world - Happy Snap will inspire your child to get active and have fun whilst they learn about the everyday objects around them. Features: • Designed by Kids, for Kids. • Find-and-seek augmented reality experience inspires children to be physically active in order to find items. • Privacy focused - all the technology is done by your phone or tablet and nothing is ever sent to a server • Intuitive interface that even young children can understand and master. • Developed using cutting-edge A.I. and Machine Learning technologies. • Colorful, happy animations that are engaging for children. • Instructional voiceovers so kids of all ages and abilities can play. • Works seamlessly online or offline

About

Pick Your Plate!

Explore global cuisines and learn about nutrition by planning healthy meals from different countries. Meet daily nutritional needs and stay within budget while discovering diverse foods and cultural influences. This educational game is designed for both classroom and home use.

Highlights
  • Global meal planning
  • Nutritional guideline exploration
  • Budgeting with local currency
  • Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Interactive gameplay
  • Embedded tutorial
Features
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Travel around the world with Plato to learn about building healthy meals. Eat avocado toast in Australia, baobab fruit in Benin, and sautéed reindeer in Finland! Yum! Pick your favorite plates for morning, midday, and evening meals. Be sure to meet your daily nutritional needs while not going over your budget! Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world! Educational features: • Alignment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals • Plan a healthy meal for morning, midday, and evening through engaging gameplay • Explore food guides from Argentina, Australia, Benin, Cambodia, Finland, Lebanon, Mexico, and the United States of America • Plan around a daily budget using currency from different countries • Music from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music that is distributed by Smithsonian Folkways • Use portion points to evaluate nutritional values • An embedded tutorial to teach students how to play • Designed to be used in the classroom or at home

Screenshots

Happy Snap3 screens
Pick Your Plate!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Happy Snap at 8.0 against Pick Your Plate!'s 12.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Happy Snap ships an update every 12 months, Pick Your Plate! every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Happy Snap versus Pick Your Plate!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappy SnapPick Your Plate!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 7 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLumen DigitalSmithsonian Institution

In-app purchases

None

Happy Snap

No in-app purchases

None

Pick Your Plate!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Happy Snap free?
Happy Snap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pick Your Plate! free?
Pick Your Plate! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Happy Snap or Pick Your Plate! have ads?
Neither Happy Snap nor Pick Your Plate! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happy Snap or Pick Your Plate!?
Happy Snap ships an update every 12 months, and Pick Your Plate! every 7 months. Most recently, Happy Snap was updated on November 4, 2026 and Pick Your Plate! on November 3, 2026.

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