Comparison

Jacapo vs French Food Decoder

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

Head to head
About

Jacapo

Discover new dining and drinking spots through recommendations from friends and trusted sources. Create personalized lists of places to visit and share them with others. Enjoy a curated food guide based on trusted peer reviews, not generic ratings.

Highlights
  • Social food network
  • Friend recommendations
  • Personalized food guide
  • Create and share collections
  • Trip planning
  • Trusted peer reviews
Features
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Jacapo is a new social network for food adventurers. Find recommendations from people you know and trust: follow your friends, your favourite publications, and some of the biggest names in food to see their favourite places to eat and drink appear on your map. Jacapo is a personalised food guide, where you are the editor and all the content is from your friends and peers. Create collections to keep track of where you want to visit, plan trips abroad, or to share curated lists with your friends and followers. Invite others to share their recommendations with you, even if they don't have the Jacapo app. Never search through reviews from strangers again. No paid listings. No bad reviews. No ratings out of 5. Just solid recommendations from people that you know and trust. If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please let us know by emailing: support@jacapo.app

About

French Food Decoder

This app translates French food terms and cooking techniques into English, helping users navigate menus, shop for ingredients, and understand French culinary culture. It offers in-depth articles, regional organization, and an offline map of local specialties.

Highlights
  • Instant translation of food names and terms
  • In-depth articles on culinary culture
  • Organized by French regions and food types
  • Offline map of local specialties
  • Information on ordering in restaurants
  • Sections on allergies, vegetarians, and vegans
Features
Currently charting
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The perfect companion for any English speaker visiting or living in France, the FRENCH FOOD DECODER is the most comprehensive app of its kind. Several years in the making, it includes over 1,260 articles covering the gamut of one of the world’s greatest cuisines. With its superb ‘search’ engine the app provides instant translations of French food names, terms, and cooking techniques into English. Even if you’ve had years of French, it will help you read those excruciatingly complex menus, shop for food or try out a French recipe at home. If you’ve never studied French, it will save your bacon. But the FRENCH FOOD DECODER is far more than a mere dictionary. In-depth articles feature anecdotes and background information that put France’s culinary culture at your fingertips. The app is organised by French regions as well as headings (Pastries, Fish and Seafood, Charcuterie, Sauces etc) so you know what to look for (and what to avoid!) as you travel around France. A useful map that works offline locates the home of hundreds of local specialities. * Discover the different kinds of restaurants in France and how to order, plus a special section on food allergies, intolerances and vegetarians and vegans. * Special entries cover French cuts of beef, pork, chicken and duck, along with useful wine words, fish words and cheese terms * Learn about the Five Mother Sauces and their children, the names of everything in the kitchen, edible wild mushrooms, all about Cognac and French cheese terms — and which cheese is the smelliest (clue: its nickname is the ‘devil’s suppository’)! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dana Facaros has lived in France for over 30 years, raised two children there and co-authored with her husband Michael Pauls dozens of Cadogan, Footprint, DK and Bradt guides, most recently the Bradt Guides to the Dordogne and Lot, and to Gascony and the Pyrenees. She has also contributed to numerous UK publications, including Wanderlust, the Sunday Times, Which? and National Geographic Traveller.

Screenshots

Jacapo4 screens
French Food Decoder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: French Food Decoder at 80% against Jacapo's 29%. French Food Decoder also leads on chart position (#27 vs unranked). Jacapo's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Jacapo is free to download; French Food Decoder costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jacapo ships an update monthly, French Food Decoder every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Jacapo versus French Food Decoder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJacapoFrench Food Decoder
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating—4.2 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#27 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB444 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJacapo Technologies LtdAgorite

Customer experience

Jacapo

Written reviews14 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

French Food Decoder

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Jacapo

No in-app purchases

None

French Food Decoder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jacapo free?
Jacapo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is French Food Decoder free?
French Food Decoder costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Jacapo or French Food Decoder have ads?
Neither Jacapo nor French Food Decoder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jacapo or French Food Decoder?
Jacapo ships an update monthly, and French Food Decoder every 4 months. Most recently, Jacapo was updated on October 24, 2026 and French Food Decoder on October 25, 2026.

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