Comparison

Plated vs Lufa Farms

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

Head to head
About

Plated

This app helps professional chefs manage and refine recipes over time. It allows for creating and comparing dish variants, tracking revisions, and organizing all recipe details. Features include scaling, conversion, and exporting polished recipe PDFs for sharing.

Highlights
  • Create and compare dish variants
  • Track recipe revisions and history
  • Organize recipes with tags and categories
  • Scale recipes with yield controls
  • Metric/imperial conversion
  • Export polished recipe PDFs
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.

About

Lufa Farms

Access fresh, locally grown produce and a variety of artisanal food products. Customize your weekly grocery basket with seasonal items, and choose convenient delivery or pickup options.

Highlights
  • Rooftop-grown vegetables
  • Hundreds of local products
  • Seasonal food evolution
  • Customizable weekly baskets
  • Flexible delivery/pickup options
  • Sustainable food system
Features
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Fresh, local, responsible groceries at your fingertips. At Lufa Farms, we grow fresh, hyper-local vegetables on rooftops across Montreal year-round, always without synthetic pesticides. By growing food where people live and partnering with hundreds of local farmers and foodmakers, our weekly baskets are helping to build a better food system rooted in sustainability. YOUR MARKETPLACE, YOUR WAY Rooftop veg, local cheeses, morning-baked bread, responsible meats, pantry staples, and more - find hundreds of local products that evolve with the seasons all in one place. FLEXIBLE BASKETS TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS Each week, an order is activated for you. Add or remove items, change your delivery date or location, skip your order altogether, or order an extra basket with ease. DELIVERY OR PICKUP Choose from 350+ dedicated pick-up points across Quebec and Ottawa, or get your basket delivered to your door. Download the app or head to lufa.com to become a Lufavore today!

Screenshots

Plated4 screens
Lufa Farms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Plated at free against Lufa Farms's free with in-app purchases. Plated also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Lufa Farms's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. 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 Plated against 5.0 for Lufa Farms. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plated ships an update every 3 days, Lufa Farms fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Plated versus Lufa Farms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlatedLufa Farms
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—88.2% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB97 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperPolina ChernenkoLes Fermes Lufa Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Plated

No in-app purchases

None

Lufa Farms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plated free?
Plated is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lufa Farms free?
Lufa Farms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plated or Lufa Farms?
Plated and Lufa Farms are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Plated or Lufa Farms have ads?
Neither Plated nor Lufa Farms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plated or Lufa Farms?
Plated ships an update every 3 days, and Lufa Farms fortnightly. Most recently, Plated was updated on October 28, 2026 and Lufa Farms on October 28, 2026.

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