Comparison

Cooked.wiki vs PlateJar

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

Head to head
About

Cooked.wiki

Learn to cook with visual guides and voice instructions. This app offers personalized recipe notes and a social feed to share your culinary creations with friends and discover new dishes.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step diagrams
  • Voice-guided instructions
  • Personal recipe notes
  • Follow friends
  • Discover user recipes
  • Accessibility tools
Features
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Cooked helps you learn how to cook through step-by-step diagrams, voice-guided instructions, and many other smart accessibility tools. You can also add personal notes to your recipes. Cooked is social too: follow friends, explore their takes on your recipes, and discover what others are cooking. Designed for learning and accessibility in mind, Cooked is the cooking app for curious home cooks. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cooked.wiki/terms/pp.txt

About

PlateJar

Features
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The week's dinners, planned in five minutes, shopped in one trip. PlateJar turns "what's for dinner" into a filled board and a single grocery list. Plan seven dinners, point one night at leftovers, and walk into the store with everything merged, counted, and grouped by aisle. A BOARD FOR THE WEEK - Seven dinner slots, plus an optional lunch row when you want it. - Tap a slot, pick a recipe, done. Today is always highlighted. - Leftovers planning: aim any night at a meal cooked earlier in the week. Cook once, eat twice, buy nothing extra. ONE TAP, ONE LIST - Make grocery list merges ingredients across every planned meal: 1 cup here and 2 tbsp there become one clean line. - Grouped by aisle in store-walk order: produce, dairy, meat and fish, pantry, frozen, bakery, other. - Check items off in the store with a satisfying strike-through. - Add your own extras; they survive every rebuild of the list. - Share the list as plain text or export a printable PDF. A RECIPE BOX THAT STARTS FULL - 12 family classics with real ingredient lists are included, so your first week plans itself. - Quick entry for your own meals: name, servings, ingredients with quantity, unit, and aisle, optional steps, a photo, and tags. - Search and tag filters find the right meal fast. PANTRY AND PORTIONS (PRO) - Mark the staples you already have; in-stock items never land on your list. - Set your family size once and every list scales to it, with clean kitchen fractions like 1 1/2 cups. PLAN FASTER, COOK CALMER - Plan my week fills your empty dinner slots from the recipe box in one tap, favorites first. - Star your favorites so the meals you love lead the box and the auto plan. - Cook mode turns any recipe into full screen, keep-awake steps with the scaled ingredients on hand. - Kitchen insights show how much you cooked this month, your household staple, and your variety. - Back up your recipes, plan, and pantry to a file you keep, and restore anytime. FREE AND PRO Free forever: plan one week at a time and keep up to 15 of your own recipes (the starter pack never counts against you). PlateJar Pro unlocks unlimited recipes, unlimited weeks, pantry staples tracking, family portion scaling, and Kitchen insights. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock; the current price is shown in the app before you buy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Cooked.wiki1 screens
PlateJar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Cooked.wiki at #87 against PlateJar's unranked. Cooked.wiki also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Cooked.wiki sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PlateJar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooked.wiki ships an update every 3 weeks, PlateJar every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Cooked.wiki versus PlateJar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooked.wikiPlateJar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (365 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings365 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#87 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEduardo Ferreira Constancio Bentes GoncalvesInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Cooked.wiki

Subscriptions6
  • Patron Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Patron Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Patron Monthly$8.991 Month
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  • Patron Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Patron Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Patron Yearly$54.001 Year
3 purchases

PlateJar

Subscriptions2
  • PlateJar Pro$3.991 Month
  • PlateJar Pro$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • PlateJar Lifetime$2.99

Questions

Is Cooked.wiki free?
Cooked.wiki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PlateJar free?
PlateJar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cooked.wiki or PlateJar have ads?
Neither Cooked.wiki nor PlateJar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooked.wiki or PlateJar?
Cooked.wiki ships an update every 3 weeks, and PlateJar every 10 days. Most recently, Cooked.wiki was updated on October 28, 2026 and PlateJar on October 10, 2026.

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