Home Cooked AI vs PLATE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Home Cooked AI
Scan your fridge contents with AI to get instant recipe suggestions. This app provides step-by-step cooking guidance, adaptive meal planning, and generates grocery lists. Reduce food waste and save money by utilizing ingredients you already have.
- AI ingredient detection from fridge photos
- Customizable recipes based on diet and allergies
- Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
- Weekly meal planning and easy meal swapping
- Automated grocery list generation
- Food waste reduction
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Snap your fridge. The AI detects what you've got, no typing. Get real recipes you can make right now with those ingredients Cook Mode walks you through every step with timers + an AI coach Plan your whole week and swap any meal in one tap Turn your plan into a grocery list and order what's missing Set your skill, diet, allergies, household size. Every recipe adapts to you. Basically your fridge tells you what to cook, and you stop wasting food and money.
PLATE
This social app allows users to share photos and details of their meals with friends. Users can categorize meals, tag friends, and create a visual history of their food experiences, fostering connection through shared dining moments.
- Share daily meal photos
- Categorize meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.)
- Tag friends in posts
- Add optional ratings
- Include location details
- Create a visual food history
- Connect with friends through food
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PLATE is a social app for sharing everyday meals with friends. Capture breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, or drinks, add details, and keep a visual history of what you eat. Post a meal photo, choose a meal type, add an optional rating, tag friends, include a location, and share the moment with your circle. PLATE makes food sharing simple, personal, and social. Whether you are sharing a homemade meal, a quick coffee, a restaurant plate, or a favorite snack, PLATE helps you save the moment and connect with people through food. What you can do on PLATE Share Daily Meals Post meal photos and organize them by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, or Drink. Connect With Friends Send and accept friend requests, view friends’ posts, tag friends, and interact with their meals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PLATE at none against Home Cooked AI's 2. PLATE also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Home Cooked AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. PLATE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Home Cooked AI against 5.0 for PLATE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively.
Home Cooked AI ships an update monthly, PLATE every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Home Cooked AI | PLATE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHRISTOPHER BRAXTON SOHAN DASARI | Aidan Giacobello |
Customer experience
Home Cooked AI
PLATE
In-app purchases
Home Cooked AI
- Home Cooked Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Home Cooked Pro (Yearly)$59.991 Year
PLATE
No in-app purchases
