Comparison

Recommends.app vs OnPlate AI

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

Head to head
About

Recommends.app

Features
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See the dish, not just the restaurant. Recommends is the local food feed that shows you what to order, where to get it, and who recommended it. KEY FEATURES: Local Food Feed: Discover real plates being eaten right around the corner. Quick Dish Posting: Snap one photo of one dish to help someone else order right. Smart Collections: Save dishes you want to try, automatically sorted by distance from your location. Visual Dish Map: Explore top-rated plates on the mapβ€”one winning pin per location. Instant Dish Sharing: Send exact dish photos to friends instead of generic venue pages. Easy Group Outings: Share a spot, lock in a plan, and get eating without group-chat confusion. Stop scrolling through long restaurant reviews. Download Recommends and find your next meal.

About

OnPlate AI

Features
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OnPlate turns the Instagram posts you save into an organized, searchable, mappable collection β€” with an AI that answers from your own saves. Stop losing great spots in an endless list of saved posts. Paste any Instagram link β€” or share straight from the Instagram app β€” and OnPlate's AI reads the caption, media, and details to pull out the place name, location, category, and tags automatically. Everything lands in one clean, private collection that's actually useful. PASTE & EXTRACT Paste an Instagram URL or use the share sheet. AI extracts title, location, category, price, and hashtags for you β€” no manual tagging. BROWSE & FILTER All your saves in one searchable grid. Filter by category β€” Food, Travel, Events, Shopping β€” and by city or country. SEE IT ON THE MAP Every geolocated save is pinned on a live map. Tap a pin for the summary, then jump straight to the original post or open directions in Maps. ASK YOUR COLLECTION ANYTHING Chat with an AI that knows everything you've saved. "Recommend ramen in Tokyo." "Best spots for Mount Fuji views." "CafΓ©s in Hong Kong." It answers using only your own saved places. SHARE EXTENSION Share a post directly from Instagram and OnPlate extracts it in the background while you keep scrolling. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your collection is tied to your account and isolated per user. Nobody else can read your saves. Sign in with Google or Apple and start building your personal food & travel brain today. Privacy Policy: https://onplate-app.web.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Recommends.app4 screens
OnPlate AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recommends.app and OnPlate AI are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Recommends.app sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and OnPlate AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recommends.app ships an update fortnightly, OnPlate AI monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Recommends.app versus OnPlate AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecommends.appOnPlate AI
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly β€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size42 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNima GOLZAR-SOUFIANIPo Fai Tam

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Recommends.app

One-time2
  • Boost 7 days$1.99
  • Boost business for 30 days$5.99
2 purchases

OnPlate AI

Subscriptions1
  • OnPlate Pro$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • 100 Extract Credits$9.99

Questions

Is Recommends.app free?
Recommends.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OnPlate AI free?
OnPlate AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recommends.app or OnPlate AI have ads?
Neither Recommends.app nor OnPlate AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recommends.app or OnPlate AI?
Recommends.app ships an update fortnightly, and OnPlate AI monthly. Most recently, Recommends.app was updated on November 4, 2026 and OnPlate AI on November 5, 2026.

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