Pacific Catch vs Urban Plates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pacific Catch
Discover nearby locations, browse the full menu, and place orders for your favorite seafood dishes. Get exclusive discounts, promotions, and coupons directly through the app. Reorder past favorites with ease.
- Browse menu and order
- Receive updates and promotions
- Exclusive discounts and coupons
- Find nearest restaurant
- Re-order favorite items
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Using our app you can: - Browse through the menu & order - Receive updates and promotions - Receive exclusive discounts and coupons - Find the nearest Pacific Catch restaurant - Re-order your favorite items
Urban Plates
Easily order delicious, craveable food made with quality ingredients for pickup, curbside, dine-in, or delivery. Save favorite orders for quick reordering and skip the line when dining in.
- Easy ordering and payment
- Order pickup, curbside, dine-in, delivery
- Skip the line
- Save previous orders
- Explore and sort menu items
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Our app makes ordering simple so real food at an honest price is just a click away. Everybody deserves to eat clean, craveable food made from quality ingredients. App Features: EASY ordering and payment FASTEST way to order pick-up, curbside, dine-in, or delivery orders SKIP the line when ordering in-restaurant with the app SAVE previous orders for quick reordering EXPLORE and sort menu items
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Urban Plates at 4.8 against Pacific Catch's 2.9. Urban Plates also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 32). Pacific Catch's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Urban Plates holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Urban Plates has 1.1K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of Pacific Catch's written reviews are positive against 22% of Urban Plates's.
Pacific Catch ships an update every 5 months, Urban Plates every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pacific Catch | Urban Plates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (32 ratings) | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 22.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appfront A.I. LTD | UrbanPlates |
Customer experience
Pacific Catch
Urban Plates
Bugs and requests
Pacific Catch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Urban Plates
Reported bugs
100 issues- App glitches and fails to process orders
- App cannot remember Plate Pass number
- App functionality disintegrates when inputting Plate Pass number
- App loses entire entered order when creating new membership
- App prompts users to accept cookies on every new page
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- App will not display gift card number for staff
- Gift card balance lookup fails
- App stops working
- App glitched and failed to process order after payment
- App is clunky
- Online orders serviced poorly in person
- App is UNUSABLE
- App never works
- App is slow loading
- App requires frequent restarts
- App cannot save CCV number
- App is not location aware
- App prevents autofill of memorized text
- Credit card entry rejected due to spaces
- Cart is empty when returning later
- Selecting location deletes cart
- App is unstable, works one day, unusable the next
- App remembers nothing
- Errors processing payment
- Add to order is grayed out
- Frequently crashes, fails to load
- App won't let user get to order screen, stuck loading
- App still charging after membership cancellation
- App rejects payment if pickup time is too soon
- App is very slow
- App doesn't apply Plate Pass discount
- App pulls up subscribe option for existing members
- App not capturing and displaying order history
- Billing total is wrong
- App is terribly frustrating, times out
- App crashes at final step
- App fails to reorder previous orders
- Pickup order time set to tomorrow
- Cannot checkout on dine-in
- Plate Pass discount not applied at checkout
- Charged for meal, but order didn't go through
- No confirmation email
- App shows order didn't go through
- App not applying Plate Pass to online orders
- App won't apply Plate Pass discount
- App pulls up subscribe option for existing members
- App doesn't let you input card payment
- App is unable to confirm payment
- App gives instructions to call for pickup that are false
- App doesn't ever work well
- App gives server error message
- App is delayed
- Status bar for mobile dine-in order doesn't move
- App gives 'Oops! Something went wrong! Please try again later!' when trying to purchase Plate Pass
- App freezes and erases order
- Website is worse than app
- App session expired and wiped order
- App cleared whole order after forgetting password
- App times out after filling out questions
- App doesn't save information
- App doesn't let you auto fill passwords or credit cards
- Take Out option not working
- Items on store menu not available in app menu
- App is slow, buggy and unreliable
- Cannot change order from take out to dine-in without starting over
- No auto complete on credit card screen
- Cannot get payment method to be saved
- App doesn't work
- App forces download and doesn't work well
- App is half baked
- App broken, asks for zip code and gives server error
- App is totally non-functional, freezes after zip code update
- App doesn't find all locations on the map
- App loses everything when an error occurs
- App stopped letting user input payment information
- App has popup ads
- App doesn't take payment services like Apple Pay
- App text entry fields don't auto-fill payment info
- App fails to send password reset email
- App doesn't work after update, cannot log in due to server error
- App crashes constantly
- App does not save previous orders
- App cannot input gift card information
- App fails at last step, doesn't take payment
- Kids menu steak doesn't allow choosing doneness
- App crashes when selecting delivery address
- App is useless when paying by gift card
- App not communicating with server to save information
- App unable to accept credit card
- App has false advertising for Plate Pass meals
- App contact option goes to Mail app
- App does not allow deletions or substitutions
- App creates 404 errors when creating accounts
- App order would not go through
- App is missing Apple Pay
- App is super slow
- App has no auto fill
- App has no error correction
- App has terrible UI
- App is unusable due to server error on login
Requested features
13 requests- Add Apple Pay option
- Add other sides than chips/fries
- Improve gift card functionality (partial payments)
- Add tech support contact
- Enable autofill for payment details
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- Add option to modify orders
- Bring back notifications for food readiness
- Add social login (Facebook/Apple)
- Allow customization of menu items (deletions/substitutions)
- Implement reward points system
- Add option to customize steak doneness
- Allow gift card payment option
- Improve UI for order button and bread selection
In-app purchases
Pacific Catch
No in-app purchases
Urban Plates
No in-app purchases
Questions
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