Comparison

Piatto vs Palate Journal

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

Head to head
About

Piatto

Log dining locations, food, and drinks consumed. Rate your meals to remember your favorites and make future dining decisions easier. Includes weather forecasts for your chosen spots.

Highlights
  • Log dining locations
  • Track food and drinks
  • Rate entries
  • Add photos
  • Select food types
  • Hourly weather forecast
  • iCloud Sync
Features
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Piatto (meaning "plate") is an app to help track all the dining locations you go to and what foods or drinks you consume! Now, when trying to decide where to go, just look at your saved entries in Piatto! You can even rate the food or drink you had consumed, to help you remember whether or not you enjoyed the item you had the last time when you visited that dining location. You can also see the current hourly weather forecast for the location to help decide whether to eat at that location or not. Features: - iCloud Sync - Rate entries - Add or take photos - Select the type of food - Add ingredients* - Use current location* or type the address of a location - See the hourly forecast* *Some features require an In-App Purchase. Multiple options are available so you can choose whats best for you! Privacy Policy: https://github.com/JTostitos/piatto-enhancements-bugs/blob/b778227105dd7cad4f62dc5aeb79bb666d5d9708/privacypolicy.md License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Palate Journal

Create a private, personal guide to your favorite dining experiences. Log meals, dishes, and companions with custom tier marks. Generate an annual PDF summary of your culinary year.

Highlights
  • Editorial tier system
  • Visit log with details
  • Dish-of-the-year highlighting
  • Annual PDF guide generation
  • Cross-device sync
  • Private by design
Features
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Palate Journal is a private restaurant journal — a place to keep a record of the meals worth remembering, the dishes that surprised you, and the rooms you'd return to. No reviews to publish. No followers. Just your own quiet guide to the places you love. Each restaurant earns a tier mark — three stars for a journey, two for a detour, one for a very good meal in its category, plus Bib, Plate, Watching, and a private Blocklist. The system is yours; the marks are yours; nobody else sees them. Add a place in seconds: tap +, find the restaurant from a search or a dropped pin, give it a tier, and write as much or as little as you like. Photograph the dishes. Tag the companions. Note the occasion. Each visit becomes a card in your guide. Every December, Palate Journal renders your year as a beautifully typeset PDF — a print-ready volume of the restaurants you visited, the dishes of your year, and the patterns hidden in twelve months of eating. Print it. Share it. Shelve it. FEATURES • Editorial tier system: three star, two star, one star, Bib, Plate, Watching, Blocklist • Visit log with companions, occasions, photos, and per-visit tier marks • Dish-of-the-year highlighting • Map view across every city you've eaten in • Annual PDF guide auto-generated each December • Trips: group restaurants by city and dates • Cross-device sync via iCloud • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email • Private by design — your guide is never published, ranked, or shared without your asking Palate Journal is for people who keep track of where they've eaten the way they used to keep ticket stubs and theatre programs. A guide to the places you love — by you, for you. Terms of Use: https://www.palate-journal.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.palate-journal.app/privacy

Screenshots

Piatto4 screens
Palate Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Palate Journal at free against Piatto's free with in-app purchases. Piatto's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Piatto sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Palate Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Piatto against 5.0 for Palate Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Piatto versus Palate Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiattoPalate Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan TsistinasThe Ivy Studios LLC

Customer experience

Piatto

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

Palate Journal

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

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Piatto

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Purchase$0.991 Month
  • Monthly - Family Sharing$1.491 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
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  • Yearly - Family Sharing$15.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Purchase$15.99
  • Lifetime - Family Sharing$21.99
2 purchases

Palate Journal

Subscriptions1
  • Palate Pro$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • The 2026 Edition$9.99

Questions

Is Piatto free?
Piatto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Palate Journal free?
Palate Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Piatto or Palate Journal?
Piatto and Palate Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Piatto or Palate Journal have ads?
Neither Piatto nor Palate Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piatto or Palate Journal?
Piatto ships an update every 4 days, and Palate Journal every 4 days. Most recently, Piatto was updated on October 24, 2026 and Palate Journal on October 14, 2026.

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