CIA Summits vs Leanpath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CIA Summits
This app provides industry leaders and culinary professionals with insights and tools to anticipate and shape future food trends. It covers a range of events from professional conferences to cultural immersions and digital media production.
- Industry thought leadership
- Trend anticipation
- Professional conferences
- Cultural immersions
- Digital media production
- Editorial resource development
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From professional conferences to invitational retreats, sector collaboratives, tastings and cultural immersions, operational research, award-winning digital media production, editorial resource development, custom content solutions and more, the CIA’s thought leadership initiatives give chefs, high-volume menu decision makers, industry business leaders, and experts from around the globe the tools they need to anticipate and help shape what will be on our plates in the next year, next decade, and beyond.
Leanpath
Access your food waste data, insights, and recommendations to help prevent food waste. This mobile tool is part of a larger intelligent platform for businesses.
- Access food waste data
- View insights and recommendations
- Prevent food waste
- Part of an intelligent platform
- Requires customer login
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This app requires a Leanpath customer login. Part of the Leanpath intelligent food waste prevention platform, this app allows you to access your food waste data, images, insights and recommendations to reduce food waste.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Leanpath at every 9 days against CIA Summits's every 2 months. Leanpath also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CIA Summits against 5.0 for Leanpath. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
CIA Summits ships an update every 2 months, Leanpath every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and July 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CIA Summits | Leanpath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Culinary Institute of America (Apps) | Leanpath |
Customer experience
CIA Summits
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In-app purchases
CIA Summits
No in-app purchases
Leanpath
No in-app purchases
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