Happy Snap vs Pick Your Plate!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
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.
- Global meal planning
- Nutritional guideline exploration
- Budgeting with local currency
- Alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Interactive gameplay
- Embedded tutorial
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Happy Snap | Pick Your Plate! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lumen Digital | Smithsonian Institution |
In-app purchases
Happy Snap
No in-app purchases
Pick Your Plate!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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