Comparison

Fork'd vs Plated

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

Head to head
About

Fork'd

Features
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Fork’d is a social cooking app for home cooks. Share your personal cookbook. Discover real, home-cooked recipes from a growing community. Post your creations, save your favourites, follow creators you love, and cook with confidence using clean, step-by-step instructions. With Fork’d, you can: • Browse and save recipes shared by real people • Follow friends and creators • Post your own recipes with photos and clear instructions • Keep all your favourite recipes in one place • Cook step-by-step with an easy-to-follow layout • Use the “Feeling Lucky” feature to let Fork’d randomly pick your next meal when you can’t decide what to cook Fork’d Premium (Auto-Renewable Subscription) Fork’d offers an optional auto-renewing subscription called Fork’d Premium (Monthly). Subscription length: 1 month Price: $4.99 per month (price may vary by region) Fork’d Premium includes: • Unlimited recipe search results • Unlimited trending recipe discovery • Advanced multi-filter search and smart tag exclusions • Unlimited Cook Mode for distraction-free cooking, automatic unit conversion, timers, and always-on display • Voice dictation with AI formatting to quickly create recipes • Additional cooking tools designed for home cooks If a free trial is available, access to Premium features begins immediately. At the end of the trial period, the subscription will automatically renew at $4.99 per month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the trial. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.forkd.io/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Whether you’re cooking for yourself or sharing your best dishes with friends, Fork’d helps you find recipes worth stealing.

About

Plated

Features
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Plated is built for professional chefs who refine dishes over time. Keep every recipe, revision, and service decision in one place. Create variants without overwriting the original, compare versions as a dish evolves, and keep each one tied to its own notes, ingredients, and yield logic. Whether you are developing a tasting menu course, adjusting for a different service format, or simplifying a pickup version, Plated helps you preserve the full history of the dish. Scale recipes with confidence using yield controls and metric or imperial conversion. Search by dish or ingredient, organize with tags and categories, and find what you need fast in the middle of service or prep. Save dish ideas before they disappear, document techniques worth repeating, add photos for plating and reference, and export polished recipe PDFs when it is time to share or print. Plated is not a recipe app for home cooks. It is a working library for chefs who test, revise, organize, and return to great dishes. Every dish. Every version. Refined over time.

Screenshots

Fork'd4 screens
Plated4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plated at none against Fork'd's 1. Fork'd's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Fork'd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Plated asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fork'd ships an update weekly, Plated every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Fork'd versus Plated: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFork'dPlated
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB6 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperNYKAN MIRCHIPolina Chernenko

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fork'd

Subscriptions1
  • Fork'd Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
None

Plated

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fork'd free?
Fork'd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plated free?
Plated is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fork'd or Plated have ads?
Neither Fork'd nor Plated shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fork'd or Plated?
Fork'd ships an update weekly, and Plated every 3 days. Most recently, Fork'd was updated on October 1, 2026 and Plated on October 10, 2026.

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