Comparison

Take Root vs LeftoverMate

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

Head to head
About

Take Root

This app helps users develop and manage intentional evangelism and discipleship programs. It allows for tracking contacts, actions, and teams, facilitating better follow-up and search capabilities for past ministry activities.

Highlights
  • Manage contacts
  • Track actions
  • Organize teams
  • Improve follow-up
  • Search past actions
  • Safe tracking environment
Features
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Develop an intentional evangelism program. Take Root helps you engage in intentional evangelism and discipleship. With Take Root you can manage, contacts, actions and teams, do better follow-up and search for past actions. The purpose of the tool is to provide a safe and accessible place to track the people you are ministering to, and the conversations you're having.

About

LeftoverMate

This app helps you track leftovers and groceries to reduce food waste. It provides reminders before food expires, organizes items with emojis and dates, and allows for quick logging and searching.

Highlights
  • Quickly log leftovers and groceries
  • Receive smart expiration date reminders
  • Visually track food urgency with color-coding
  • Organize items with emojis and dates
  • Get grouped daily summaries of expiring food
  • Customize notification settings
Features
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Reduce food waste. Stay organized. Eat smarter. LeftoverMate is your friendly food-saving companion that helps you track leftovers, avoid spoilage, make the most of your meals, reduce food waste, and stay organized. Whether it's last night's dinner or a half forgotten meal sitting in the back of the fridge along with a few other leftovers you might also have forgotten about, LeftoverMate keeps everything in one place. Helps you organize with emojis, expiration dates, and helpful reminders. LeftoverMate can also be for groceries not just leftovers. It can help you track your groceries or leftover groceries you haven't used or cooked with. Key Features: - Quick Add: Log leftovers in seconds with a name, emoji, cooked date, and expiration date. - Smart Notifications: Get personalized reminders before your food expires - never forget a meal again! - Color-Coded Urgency: Easily spot which items are urgent, expiring soon, or already expired. - Grouped Alerts: Get a simple, daily summary of items nearing expiration. - Custom Settings: Set your preferred reminder time and how many days in advance you want to be notified. - Emoji Picker: Give your food personality with fun, categorized emojis! - Search & Filter: Find items fast by name, emoji, cooked date, or urgency, etc. Whether you're meal-prepping, saving dinner leftovers, or just hate wasting food, LeftoverMate helps you stay on top of what's in your fridge and reduce waste while you're at it. Built for people who care: If you've ever opened the fridge and found something you meant to eat... LeftoverMate is for you. FAQ: Q: Do I need to enter everything manually? A: Nope! Just add a name, pick a cooked or purchased date, choose estimated expiration date, and pick when to be reminded about your leftovers. LeftoverMate will handle the rest with reminders and urgency sorting. Q: Can I turn off notifications? A: Yes! You can disable reminders in the iPhone settings. Q: What happens when food expires? A: Expired items are clearly marked in red, faded out, and crossed out so you can decide what to toss or change. Q: How LeftoverMate handles reminders after you add a leftover: A: - You choose the cooked or purchased date and the estimated expiration date. - In Settings, you choose how many days in advance you want to be notified (e.g., 3 days before expiry). - Based on this, LeftoverMate schedules a grouped notification like: "You have 2 items expiring in 2 days."

Screenshots

Take Root4 screens
LeftoverMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Take Root at 15.1 against LeftoverMate's 18.2. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Take Root against 5.0 for LeftoverMate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Take Root ships an update every 5 days, LeftoverMate every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Take Root versus LeftoverMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTake RootLeftoverMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRooted SoftwareStephanie Liew

Customer experience

Take Root

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LeftoverMate

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Take Root

No in-app purchases

None

LeftoverMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Take Root free?
Take Root is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LeftoverMate free?
LeftoverMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Take Root or LeftoverMate?
Take Root and LeftoverMate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Take Root or LeftoverMate have ads?
Neither Take Root nor LeftoverMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Take Root or LeftoverMate?
Take Root ships an update every 5 days, and LeftoverMate every 3 days. Most recently, Take Root was updated on September 27, 2026 and LeftoverMate on October 1, 2026.

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