Comparison

Plate Journal vs FlareFind

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

Head to head
About

Plate Journal

Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Meal and ingredient logging
  • Symptom tracking
  • Allergen flagging
  • Trigger identification
  • Customizable allergen profile
  • PDF export
  • Medication tracking
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Plate Journal4 screens
FlareFind4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plate Journal versus FlareFind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlate JournalFlareFind
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVikram BadrinarayananAimee LaCosta

In-app purchases

None

Plate Journal

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

FlareFind

Subscriptions1
  • FlareFind Premium (Annual)1 Month trial$2.991 Year

Questions

Is Plate Journal free?
Plate Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FlareFind free?
FlareFind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plate Journal or FlareFind have ads?
Neither Plate Journal nor FlareFind shows ads.

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