Comparison

Urban Plates vs Cellar Notes

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

Head to head

Urban Plates

Order Ahead & Delivery

Free

🍔 Food & Drink

★ 4.7959 ratingsView app →

Cellar Notes

Structured Tasting Journal

Free

🍔 Food & Drink

No ratingsView app →

About

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.

Highlights

Easy ordering and payment
Order pickup, curbside, dine-in, delivery
Skip the line
Save previous orders
Explore and sort menu items

Features

Read full description

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

About

Cellar Notes

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Taste with intention. Keep what you learn. Cellar Notes is a private, structured wine tasting journal for people who want to practice sensory assessment and remember every wine they try. A focused guided flow moves from appearance through nose, palate, and conclusion without turning the experience into a dense form. STRUCTURED, NOT OVERWHELMING Record appearance, aroma, structure, flavor, finish, quality, readiness, confidence, enjoyment, and whether you would buy the wine again. Grouped tasting vocabulary, search, and custom descriptors keep common choices quick while leaving room for your own words. TASTE BLIND Hide the wine’s identity while you assess it, then reveal and add the bottle details at the end—or keep the entry as a blind record. NEVER LOSE YOUR PLACE Progress is saved as a clearly marked draft. Leave a tasting, return later, and resume from the same section. A USEFUL HISTORY Search completed tastings by wine, producer, grape, country, or region. Filter by category, rating, and buy-again decision, then sort by date, rating, or name. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No social feed. No analytics. No advertising. Your records and selected bottle photos are stored locally, and the complete tasting workflow works offline. Cellar Notes is an independent journal using general sensory-assessment concepts. It is not official, approved, certified, or affiliated with any educational body.

Screenshots

Urban Plates4 screens

Cellar Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Cellar Notes at none against Urban Plates's shown. Urban Plates's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level

Urban Plates versus Cellar Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	Urban Plates	Cellar Notes
Price	Free	Free
Rating	4.7 (959 ratings) — better	—
Positive reviews	21.1% of reviews	—
Number of ratings	959 — better	—
Update frequency	Every 6 days	—
Ads	Yes	No — better
In-app purchases	No	No
Monetization	Free	—
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod — better	iPhone
Requires iOS	15.6 — better	18.0
Further details — not scored
Size	73 MB	3 MB
Age rating	4+	17+
Developer	UrbanPlates	Creatix, LLC

Bugs and 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