Comparison

Palate 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

Palate

Effortlessly log your restaurant experiences by automatically importing details from your photos and calendar. Analyze your dining habits with insightful statistics, add personal notes, and discover new culinary destinations.

Highlights
  • Restaurant visit tracking
  • Camera roll and calendar import
  • Personal notes
  • Dining statistics
  • Restaurant discovery
  • On-device local storage
Features
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Palate lets you track your restaurant visits, and makes it easy to do so by pulling information from your camera roll and calendar. View stats, add notes, and find new restaurants! All information is stored on device, and is fully local.

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

Palate3 screens
Palate Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Palate at none against Palate Journal's 2. Palate also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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. Palate Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Palate asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Palate Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Palate ships an update every 5 days, Palate Journal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 29, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Palate versus Palate Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPalatePalate Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonLuca De CaroThe Ivy Studios LLC

In-app purchases

None

Palate

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Palate Journal

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

Questions

Is Palate free?
Palate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Palate Journal free?
Palate Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Palate or Palate Journal?
Palate and Palate Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Palate or Palate Journal have ads?
Neither Palate nor Palate Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Palate or Palate Journal?
Palate ships an update every 5 days, and Palate Journal every 4 days. Most recently, Palate was updated on June 29, 2026 and Palate Journal on September 13, 2026.

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