Plated vs Lufa Farms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Rooftop-grown vegetables
- Hundreds of local products
- Seasonal food evolution
- Customizable weekly baskets
- Flexible delivery/pickup options
- Sustainable food system
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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!
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Plated ships an update every 3 days, Lufa Farms fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Plated | Lufa Farms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 88.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Polina Chernenko | Les Fermes Lufa Inc. |
In-app purchases
Plated
No in-app purchases
Lufa Farms
No in-app purchases









