Chewz vs Plateback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chewz
This app helps groups decide on restaurants together in New York City. Start a session, share a code, and everyone votes on places simultaneously. It reveals matches when the group agrees on a location, perfect for planned or spontaneous dining.
- Group voting in real time
- Restaurant matching
- Customizable filters (cuisine, price, rating)
- Dining journal
- Friends feed
- Session history
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Chewz helps groups decide where to eat in New York City. Start a session, share a 6-digit code, and everyone votes on restaurants at the same time. When the group picks the same place, Chewz shows the match. Use it for dinner plans you set up ahead of time or when you need to decide right now. You can also browse restaurants on your own, save places, and log visits in your journal. How it works • Host a session and choose NYC neighborhoods • Friends join with a 6-digit code • Set preferences for cuisine, price, rating, and more • Swipe through restaurants and vote together • See a match when everyone picks the same place Features • Group voting in real time • Planned or same-day sessions • Filters for cuisine, price, rating, and neighborhood • Photos, hours, ratings, and directions • Dining journal with ratings, photos, and notes • Friends feed to see where friends have been and what they liked • Add friends and follow their restaurant activity • Session history Optional subscriptions and in-app purchases are available. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://chewz.web.app/privacy Support: https://chewz.web.app/support Terms of Use: https://chewz.web.app/terms
Plateback
This app helps you privately track restaurants and food experiences. Save places you've visited or want to try, add notes and photos, and organize them with custom tags. Share recommendations privately with friends.
- Save restaurants from maps and social media
- Track visited and desired places
- Add photos and personal dish notes
- Organize with built-in and custom tags
- Discover nearby saved restaurants
- Share recommendations privately with friends
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Plateback is your private restaurant tracker and food journal. Remember the restaurants you loved, the dishes worth ordering again, and the places you still want to try. Save restaurants directly from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos. Add pictures and personal notes about what you ordered, then mark what you would have again, what you want to try next, and what you would skip. When hunger strikes, discover restaurants you have already visited nearby and quickly find that great place whose name you forgot. Organize your collection with tags for pizza, pasta, coffee, burgers, bakeries, and more. You can also create your own tags and filter your restaurants whenever you are deciding where to go. Recommendations are more meaningful when they come from people you trust. Share restaurant and dish recommendations with the friends you choose, without publishing reviews for everyone to see. Your food history stays private unless you decide to share it. With Plateback, you can: • Save restaurants from Apple Maps, Google Maps, Instagram, and Photos • Keep track of places you have visited and want to try • Find previously visited restaurants near you • Add photos and personal notes about individual dishes • Remember what you loved, want to try, or would skip • Organize restaurants with built-in and custom food tags • Browse all your food photos in one gallery • Share recommendations privately with friends • Keep your personal collection private by default Whether you are remembering the perfect plate of pasta, deciding which pastry to order again, or building a restaurant list for your next trip, Plateback gives your food memories a place to live.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plateback at none against Chewz's 7. Plateback also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.2). Chewz's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Chewz sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Plateback asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chewz against 5.0 for Plateback. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Chewz ships an update every 2 days, Plateback every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Chewz | Plateback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Kratsios | Daniel Lozano |
In-app purchases
Chewz
- Chewz Premium - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Chewz Foodie - Monthly$7.991 Month
- Chewz Premium - Annual$29.991 Year
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- Chewz Foodie - Annual$59.991 Year
- 2 Premium Credits$0.99
- 5 Premium Credits$2.99
- 10 Premium Credits$4.99
Plateback
No in-app purchases








