Plate Journal vs FlareFind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plate Journal
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Plate Journal is your personal food journal — photograph every meal and capture how it made you feel. - Photo-first logging for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and unlimited Snacks - Rate each meal and track your mood — happy, neutral, sad, or disgusted - Add a meal name and notes about how the food made you feel - Browse your full history in a log grouped by day - Filter your log by meal type, mood, or minimum rating - Weekly Story card: see your top meals, mood summary, and streak for the past 7 days - Everything stays private on your device — no accounts, no cloud, no tracking Built with love for anyone who wants a simple, beautiful record of what they eat and how food affects them.
FlareFind
Easily log meals, ingredients, and symptoms to identify potential food allergies and sensitivities. Connect reactions to meals to uncover triggers and share detailed reports with your doctor. Track pollen, stress, and medications with premium features.
- Meal and ingredient logging
- Symptom tracking
- Allergen flagging
- Trigger identification
- Customizable allergen profile
- PDF export
- Medication tracking
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Whether it's eczema, food allergies, bloating, GI issues, or hives — FlareFind helps you connect the dots between what you eat and how you feel. Simple enough to use in the moment. Detailed enough to bring to your doctor. - Meal and ingredient logging with allergen flagging (always free) - Symptom tracking with severity scale (always free) - Connect reactions to meals to uncover your triggers (always free) - Customizable allergen profile for known and suspected allergens or sensitivities (always free) - PDF export, medication tracking, pollen and stress logging (Premium) No account needed. Your data stays on your phone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plate Journal at none against FlareFind's 1. FlareFind's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. FlareFind sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year. Plate Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Plate Journal | FlareFind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vikram Badrinarayanan | Aimee LaCosta |
In-app purchases
Plate Journal
No in-app purchases
FlareFind
- FlareFind Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$2.991 Year









