Pick Your Plate! vs First To Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
First To Life
Guide swimmers through challenging levels, collecting units to create and customize your own babies. Battle armies and bosses in a fun, satisfying experience with many levels.
- Create and customize babies
- Swim through obstacles
- Collect units
- Battle armies and bosses
- Challenging levels
- Satisfying gameplay
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Join together and make your own babies! -Swim through obstacles, collect units, and reach the eggs! -Customize your own babies, and play as them! -Battle formidable armies and bosses -Lots of fun and challenging levels -Satisfying gameplay with lots of swimmers
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pick Your Plate! at none against First To Life's 1. Pick Your Plate! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 39%). First To Life's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. First To Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pick Your Plate! asks for nothing beyond the download.
First To Life holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First To Life has 26K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Pick Your Plate!'s written reviews are positive against 39% of First To Life's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pick Your Plate! ships an update every 7 months, First To Life fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pick Your Plate! | First To Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 4.7 (26K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 39.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 26K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 1.3 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Smithsonian Institution | SUPERSONIC STUDIOS LTD |
Customer experience
Pick Your Plate!
First To Life
Bugs and requests
Pick Your Plate!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
First To Life
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game resets progress after updates
- Ads causing game to freeze or crash
- Inability to progress past certain levels
Requested features
3 requests- Reduce number of ads
- Improve game stability and performance
- Add option to disable ads for a fee
In-app purchases
Pick Your Plate!
No in-app purchases
First To Life
- No Ads$2.99
Questions
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