CHEF iQ vs Plateback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CHEF iQ
This app acts as a culinary companion for smart cooking appliances, offering guided recipes, remote control, and ingredient shopping. It connects users with a community of home cooks and provides over-the-air updates for enhanced features.
- Remote appliance control
- Thousands of pre-programmed settings
- Guided cooking recipes with videos
- Instacart integration for ingredient delivery
- Save favorite recipes and configurations
- Appliance sharing with friends and family
- Community forum for cooks
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Welcome to CHEF iQ®, your ultimate culinary companion designed to elevate your cooking experience. Embrace the art of cooking smarter, not harder, with an app that empowers seasoned chefs and kitchen novices. Join our vibrant community of home cooks and embark on a journey toward culinary mastery. COOK SMARTER, NOT HARDER At CHEF iQ®, we believe in simplifying the cooking process while enhancing your confidence in the kitchen. Our app is meticulously crafted to guide you through every step, ensuring that every meal you create is worth sharing. COOK CONTROL Take command of your CHEF iQ® smart cooking appliances effortlessly. With real-time monitoring and notifications, stay in control of your culinary creations no matter where you are. TIMES & TEMPS Unlock thousands of pre-programmed control settings to achieve optimal results with ease. From precise cooking times to ideal temperatures, our app provides the guidance you need to cook like a pro. GUIDED COOKING RECIPES Delve into a treasure trove of expertly curated recipes seamlessly integrated with CHEF iQ® appliances. With step-by-step instructions and professional videos, discover new culinary delights and master your favorite dishes with confidence. SHOP FOR INGREDIENTS Found a recipe you love but are missing a few key ingredients? No problem. Schedule a delivery through our Instacart integration and have everything you need at your doorstep in as little as one hour. FAVORITES Save your favorite recipes and cooking configurations for easy access. Track your culinary adventures and revisit past successes with just a tap. APPLIANCE SHARING Share the joy of cooking with friends and family by inviting them to collaborate on your culinary creations. With appliance sharing, cooking becomes a communal experience like never before. COMMUNITY OF COOKS Engage with fellow chefs, share your thoughts on recipes, and glean valuable tips from our growing community. Together, we can inspire and support each other on our culinary journeys. OVER THE AIR UPDATES Stay ahead of the curve by constantly improving the CHEF iQ® cooking experience. With over- the-air updates, you'll always have the latest features and enhancements. Discover the full suite of CHEF iQ® smart cooking appliances, each designed to streamline your cooking process and unlock new culinary possibilities: SMART COOKER The most capable cooker ever created. - Pressure & multi-cooker - Auto pressure release - 6-quart capacity - 1000s of presets -Built-in scale SMART THERMOMETER Never over or undercook your food again. - Speaker for audio alerts - Ambient alerts for temperature fluctuations - Live Graph display - Unlimited range connectivity over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth - Auto-calibrating sensors measure food's true lowest temp - Fast-charging hub iQ MINI OVEN Meal prep made easy for everyone. - Bake, air fry, toast, dehydrate, air sous vide, and more - Smart Thermometer interconnectivity - Guided rack lighting - Heavy-duty glide racks - Natural LED lighting - Soft-close door Ready to embark on your culinary adventure? Download the CHEF iQ® app today and join our community of passionate home cooks. Let's cook up something extraordinary together! support@chefiq.com https://chefiq.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@mychefiq https://www.instagram.com/mychefiq
Plateback
This app helps you privately track restaurants and food experiences. Save places you've visited or want to try, add notes and photos, and organize them with custom tags. Share recommendations privately with friends.
- Save restaurants from maps and social media
- Track visited and desired places
- Add photos and personal dish notes
- Organize with built-in and custom tags
- Discover nearby saved restaurants
- Share recommendations privately with friends
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Plateback is your private restaurant tracker and food journal. Remember the restaurants you loved, the dishes worth ordering again, and the places you still want to try. Save restaurants directly from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos. Add pictures and personal notes about what you ordered, then mark what you would have again, what you want to try next, and what you would skip. When hunger strikes, discover restaurants you have already visited nearby and quickly find that great place whose name you forgot. Organize your collection with tags for pizza, pasta, coffee, burgers, bakeries, and more. You can also create your own tags and filter your restaurants whenever you are deciding where to go. Recommendations are more meaningful when they come from people you trust. Share restaurant and dish recommendations with the friends you choose, without publishing reviews for everyone to see. Your food history stays private unless you decide to share it. With Plateback, you can: • Save restaurants from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos • Keep track of places you have visited and want to try • Find previously visited restaurants near you • Add photos and personal notes about individual dishes • Remember what you loved, want to try, or would skip • Organize restaurants with built-in and custom food tags • Browse all your food photos in one gallery • Share recommendations privately with friends • Keep your personal collection private by default Whether you are remembering the perfect plate of pasta, deciding which pastry to order again, or building a restaurant list for your next trip, Plateback gives your food memories a place to live.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plateback at 100% against CHEF iQ's 43%. Plateback also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). CHEF iQ's advantage is ratings volume (35K vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Plateback holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CHEF iQ has 35K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of CHEF iQ's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plateback's.
CHEF iQ ships an update every 3 weeks, Plateback every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CHEF iQ | Plateback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (35K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RJ Brands, LLC | Daniel Lozano |
Customer experience
CHEF iQ
Plateback
Bugs and requests
CHEF iQ
Reported bugs
4 issues- Firmware update failures
- Inability to connect to WiFi
- Incorrect temperature conversions
- Cooking time and liquid amount miscalculations
Requested features
5 requests- Live Activity support for cooking status
- Ability to adjust temperature and time during cooking
- Cooking history and data tracking
- Landscape mode support for iPad
- More generic cooking options beyond recipes
Plateback
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CHEF iQ
No in-app purchases
Plateback
No in-app purchases









