Comparison

Pick Your Plate! vs Pasta Machine

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

Head to head
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
Read full description

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

About

Pasta Machine

Engage in a relaxing ASMR idle and clicker game. Shape dough, slice with precision, and build your pasta production line. Enjoy satisfying animations and realistic sounds for endless fun.

Highlights
  • ASMR idle gameplay
  • Clicker mechanics
  • Dough shaping
  • Precision slicing
  • Production line growth
  • Satisfying animations
  • Realistic sounds
Features
Read full description

Pasta Machine is the ultimate ASMR idle & clicker experience! Shape the dough, slice with precision, create your pasta, and grow your production line. With satisfying animations, realistic sounds, and easy one-tap controls, this game offers endless relaxing fun. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pick Your Plate!4 screens
Pasta Machine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pick Your Plate! at none against Pasta Machine's 22. Pick Your Plate! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 16%). Pasta Machine's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (8.8K vs 23). On price and device support 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. Pasta Machine sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Pick Your Plate! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pasta Machine holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pasta Machine has 8.8K 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 16% of Pasta Machine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pick Your Plate! ships an update every 7 months, Pasta Machine fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pick Your Plate! versus Pasta Machine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPick Your Plate!Pasta Machine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (23 ratings)4.6 (8.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better15.7% of reviews
Number of ratings238.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB325 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSmithsonian InstitutionLumos Games Teknoloji Yazilim ve Pazarlama Anonim Sirketi

Customer experience

Pick Your Plate!

All ratings23 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral8.7%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Pasta Machine

All ratings8,699 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews249 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative74.3%

Bugs and requests

Pick Your Plate!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pasta Machine

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes after completing level 2
  • Daily rewards not working as intended
  • Progress resets when leveling up

Requested features

3 requests
  • More variety in pasta types and visuals
  • Improved progression and leveling system
  • Ability to play offline

In-app purchases

None

Pick Your Plate!

No in-app purchases

22 purchases

Pasta Machine

Subscriptions7
  • Remove Ad Subscription$2.997 Days
  • VIP Pass 1 Week$6.997 Days
  • Starter Bundle Subscription$8.997 Days
Show 4 more
  • VIP Pass 1 Month$19.991 Month
  • Speed Bundle Subscription$19.997 Days
  • Endless Skip Subscription$49.997 Days
  • Remove Ad Bundle Subscription$54.997 Days
One-time15
  • Skip-it 10$1.99
  • Gem 2$2.99
  • Skip-it 25$2.99
Show 12 more
  • Fusulli Pasta$4.99
  • Skip-it Pack$5.99
  • Gem 3$6.99
  • Game Pass$6.99
  • Remove Ad$6.99
  • Special Offer 1$6.99
  • Halloween Pack$7.99
  • Pack Starter$8.99
  • Skip-it 100$9.99
  • Spaghetti Pasta$9.99
  • Gem 4$12.99
  • Pasta Pack$15.99

Questions

Is Pick Your Plate! free?
Pick Your Plate! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pasta Machine free?
Pasta Machine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pick Your Plate! or Pasta Machine?
Pasta Machine is rated higher. Pick Your Plate! averages 4.3 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Pasta Machine averages 4.6 from 8.8K ratings.
Do Pick Your Plate! or Pasta Machine have ads?
Pasta Machine shows ads; Pick Your Plate! does not.
Which is updated more often, Pick Your Plate! or Pasta Machine?
Pick Your Plate! ships an update every 7 months, and Pasta Machine fortnightly. Most recently, Pick Your Plate! was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pasta Machine on October 25, 2026.

Other comparisons