Pick Your Plate! vs Pasta Machine
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
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.
- ASMR idle gameplay
- Clicker mechanics
- Dough shaping
- Precision slicing
- Production line growth
- Satisfying animations
- Realistic sounds
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Pick Your Plate! | Pasta Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 4.6 (8.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 15.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 8.8K — 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 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 325 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Smithsonian Institution | Lumos Games Teknoloji Yazilim ve Pazarlama Anonim Sirketi |
Customer experience
Pick Your Plate!
Pasta Machine
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
Pick Your Plate!
No in-app purchases
Pasta Machine
- Remove Ad Subscription$2.997 Days
- VIP Pass 1 Week$6.997 Days
- Starter Bundle Subscription$8.997 Days
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- 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
- Skip-it 10$1.99
- Gem 2$2.99
- Skip-it 25$2.99
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- 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
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