Comparison

Pick Your Plate! vs Idle Civilizations

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
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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

About

Idle Civilizations

Build and grow civilizations from the dawn of humanity to the future in this idle strategy game. Earn money, hire workers, and customize your character as you progress through different historical eras. Relax and watch your empire expand without pressure.

Highlights
  • Build and grow civilizations
  • Idle progression
  • Time travel mechanics
  • Resource management
  • Character customization
  • Tower building
Features
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Welcome to the future! … Or is it the past? You start off your empire building adventure as a worker in the distant future who, thanks to a rather unfortunate mistake, finds themselves thrown back in time all the way to the beginning of humanity. This fun strategy game will test your business acumen and tycoon tendencies as you build the world’s cities and civilizations from the ground up. History in the making After you’re thrown back in time, you’ll need to meet and work with locals to build and grow your way to the top and return to the future – you’ll also need to keep an eye out for time crystals to collect at the end of each level to keep moving through the ages. Experience the evolution of civilization in this fantastic idle style game as you get a feel for history up close and personal. Get your business plan on – At each step of your journey, you’ll need to earn money by selling items or resources to the locals. As you progress through the eras those items will change, evolving as you move up in time to reflect modernization. You’ll need to strike the right balance and find the best strategy to maximize profits while also hiring more workers and expanding your offerings each time to progress as fast as possible. Staycation time – While your character may have been haplessly thrown back in time and is now working in a Medieval town or prehistoric society, you’re able to just sit back and relax all while leveling up, no matter where you are. Chart your rise from your couch, from the train, or even from your work desk (shh, we won’t tell anyone!) – this is a chill game where there’s no crazy pressure to fight off invaders, timers that need to be beat, or anything stressful of the sort. Go down in history – Not only do you get the fun of experiencing different eras of civilization, but you also get to customize your character to enhance their abilities! Along the way, as you fashionably work through time, you’ll also take part in building a fantastic tower – don’t forget to click that build button every time you see it appear so that your momentum and tower keep rising. After all, you want to be remembered in history as the one who got it all done, right? And the rest is history Get ready to take a blast to the past and experience civilization and humanity’s evolution up close and personal – you’re the one leading it! Put Earth on the right path forward and leave your mark on history: Idle Civilizations ticks all the boxes for fun, relaxation, and excitement, so you won’t want to miss it. Privacy Policy: https://say.games/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://say.games/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Pick Your Plate!4 screens
Idle Civilizations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pick Your Plate! at none against Idle Civilizations's 10. Pick Your Plate! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). Idle Civilizations's advantage is ratings volume (3.2K vs 23) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). 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. Idle Civilizations sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pick Your Plate! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Civilizations holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Civilizations has 3.2K 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 33% of Idle Civilizations'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, Idle Civilizations every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pick Your Plate! versus Idle Civilizations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPick Your Plate!Idle Civilizations
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (23 ratings)4.7 (3.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better32.8% of reviews
Number of ratings233.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — 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 MB557 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmithsonian InstitutionSayGames LTD

Customer experience

Pick Your Plate!

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

Idle Civilizations

All ratings3,205 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive32.8%
Neutral10.2%
Negative57.0%

Bugs and requests

Pick Your Plate!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Idle Civilizations

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to craft higher rarity event items
  • Offline progress not working
  • Purchased ad removal not working

Requested features

3 requests
  • More levels and content updates
  • Save/load game progress
  • Improved balance and progression

In-app purchases

None

Pick Your Plate!

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle Civilizations

One-time10
  • Mini Gem Package$0.99
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Fortune Wheel Pack 1$0.99
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  • Better Starter Pack$1.99
  • Piggy Bank$2.99
  • Welcome pack$2.99
  • Piggy Bank 2$4.99
  • Remove ADS$5.99
  • Income Boost x2$5.99
  • Free Rewards Pack$19.99

Questions

Is Pick Your Plate! free?
Pick Your Plate! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Civilizations free?
Idle Civilizations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pick Your Plate! or Idle Civilizations?
Idle Civilizations is rated higher. Pick Your Plate! averages 4.3 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Idle Civilizations averages 4.7 from 3.2K ratings.
Do Pick Your Plate! or Idle Civilizations have ads?
Idle Civilizations shows ads; Pick Your Plate! does not.
Which is updated more often, Pick Your Plate! or Idle Civilizations?
Pick Your Plate! ships an update every 7 months, and Idle Civilizations every 6 weeks. Most recently, Pick Your Plate! was updated on November 3, 2026 and Idle Civilizations on November 3, 2026.

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