Comparison

Palate vs Plateback

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

Head to head
About

Palate

Log restaurant visits, dishes, and memorable meals with ratings, photos, and notes. Discover new dishes by scanning menus and gain insights into your personal taste preferences over time. Plan your next dining experience with interactive maps and custom lists.

Highlights
  • Log restaurant visits and dishes
  • Save photos, ratings, and notes
  • Scan menus for dish insights
  • Build a personal taste profile
  • Explore restaurants on a map
  • Save places to custom lists
Features
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Save places you want to try. Remember everywhere you've eaten. Found a restaurant on TikTok? Saw a must-try dish on Instagram? Had an amazing meal you want to remember? Palate is your personal restaurant tracker, wishlist, and food diary—all in one place. No more lost screenshots, scattered notes, or forgotten restaurant recommendations. Save the places that catch your eye, keep track of your visits, and remember what made every meal special. SAVE IT NOW. TRY IT LATER. Your next favorite restaurant could be anywhere. Keep all the places you want to try in one organized space. • Save restaurants, cafés, bars, and other spots in seconds • Add Instagram posts, TikTok videos, or reviews so you remember what caught your attention • Leave notes about dishes you want to try or recommendations from friends • Organize saved places and explore them on your personal map • Find your saved spots whenever you're deciding where to go LOG YOUR VISITS IN SECONDS Keeping a food diary shouldn't feel like homework. Palate makes it quick to remember where you've been and how you felt about it. • Quickly mark a visit as Loved, Liked, Indifferent, or Disliked • Add the dishes you ordered and rate them individually • Scan a menu to find your dishes without typing everything out • Add photos and videos from your visit • Tag friends you ate with and capture notes about the food, service, or experience • Start from a photo to help identify where you ate • Pick up where you left off with automatically saved drafts Whether it's a quick bite or a special occasion, log as little or as much as you'd like. REMEMBER EVERY GREAT MEAL What was that incredible dish you ordered last summer? Which spot did your friend recommend? Where should you go back? Palate keeps your dining memories organized so you can: • Revisit restaurants you've tried • Remember your favorite dishes and what you ordered • Look back at photos, videos, and personal notes • See everywhere you've eaten on a map • Build a personal history of your food experiences EXPLORE THROUGH PEOPLE YOU TRUST Find new places through friends and the Palate community. See what people are saving, discover restaurants on the map, and find your next favorite spot. SAVE MORE. EXPERIENCE MORE. FORGET LESS. From the restaurants on your wishlist to the meals you'll never forget, keep your food life organized with Palate.

About

Plateback

This app helps you privately track restaurants and food experiences. Save places you've visited or want to try, add notes and photos, and organize them with custom tags. Share recommendations privately with friends.

Highlights
  • Save restaurants from maps and social media
  • Track visited and desired places
  • Add photos and personal dish notes
  • Organize with built-in and custom tags
  • Discover nearby saved restaurants
  • Share recommendations privately with friends
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Plateback is your private restaurant tracker and food journal. Remember the restaurants you loved, the dishes worth ordering again, and the places you still want to try. Save restaurants directly from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos. Add pictures and personal notes about what you ordered, then mark what you would have again, what you want to try next, and what you would skip. When hunger strikes, discover restaurants you have already visited nearby and quickly find that great place whose name you forgot. Organize your collection with tags for pizza, pasta, coffee, burgers, bakeries, and more. You can also create your own tags and filter your restaurants whenever you are deciding where to go. Recommendations are more meaningful when they come from people you trust. Share restaurant and dish recommendations with the friends you choose, without publishing reviews for everyone to see. Your food history stays private unless you decide to share it. With Plateback, you can: • Save restaurants from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos • Keep track of places you have visited and want to try • Find previously visited restaurants near you • Add photos and personal notes about individual dishes • Remember what you loved, want to try, or would skip • Organize restaurants with built-in and custom food tags • Browse all your food photos in one gallery • Share recommendations privately with friends • Keep your personal collection private by default Whether you are remembering the perfect plate of pasta, deciding which pastry to order again, or building a restaurant list for your next trip, Plateback gives your food memories a place to live.

Screenshots

Palate4 screens
Plateback4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Plateback at none against Palate's shown. Plateback also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.4). 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 Palate against 5.0 for Plateback. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Palate ships an update every 11 days, Plateback every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Palate versus Plateback: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPalatePlateback
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHiHi Co.Daniel Lozano

Customer experience

Palate

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

Plateback

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Palate

No in-app purchases

None

Plateback

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Palate free?
Palate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plateback free?
Plateback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Palate or Plateback?
Palate and Plateback are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Palate or Plateback have ads?
Palate shows ads; Plateback does not.
Which is updated more often, Palate or Plateback?
Palate ships an update every 11 days, and Plateback every 2 weeks. Most recently, Palate was updated on October 24, 2026 and Plateback on October 11, 2026.

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