Osmo World vs Pick Your Plate!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo World
This app serves as a central hub for a collection of educational games designed to foster creativity, problem-solving, and social interaction in children. It allows users to launch into various Osmo games and collect virtual rewards.
- Launch Osmo games
- Explore game library
- Win collectible stickers
- Hands-on learning
- Promotes creativity
- Encourages problem-solving
- Fosters social interaction
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This is the home for Osmo! Launch into Osmo to explore all your favorite Osmo games, and win collectible stickers along the way. Osmo is connecting over 1 million kids around the world to a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving, and social interaction. Find out more at www.playosmo.com
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 rating: Pick Your Plate! at 4.3 against Osmo World's 3.9. Pick Your Plate! also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Osmo World's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 23) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Pick Your Plate! holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo World has 1.4K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Osmo World's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pick Your Plate!'s.
Osmo World ships an update every 2 months, Pick Your Plate! every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmo World | Pick Your Plate! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.4K ratings) | 4.3 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 347 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | Smithsonian Institution |
Customer experience
Osmo World
Pick Your Plate!
Bugs and requests
Osmo World
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Camera recognition problems
- Saved progress/data loss
- Incompatibility with certain iPad models
Requested features
4 requests- More game content and updates
- Improved account/progress syncing
- Simplified setup and onboarding
- Better support for newer hardware
Pick Your Plate!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Osmo World
No in-app purchases
Pick Your Plate!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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