Comparison

PlateKeep vs Kibo

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

Head to head
About

PlateKeep

Features
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PlateKeep is a private visual food diary. Photograph a meal, add an optional note or tag, and keep going. Your photos stay on your iPhone. No account. No calorie counting. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Log a meal in seconds with the camera or your photo library • Browse Today and a visual calendar • Add optional meal types, tags, and reflections • See local weekly patterns without nutrition scores • Save meals you want to repeat • Export a PDF report or JSON/CSV data when you want it • Optional lifetime Pro for full history, extra tags, and data exports WHAT WE DON'T DO • No calorie or macro tracking • No food recognition or nutrition database • No account or cloud food profile • No social feed PRIVACY Meal photos, notes, custom tags, search text, and diary entries stay on your device. Core logging works offline. Product analytics are optional and never include food photos or diary content. Questions: support@platekeep.app Privacy: https://platekeep.app/privacy/

About

Kibo

This app helps families plan meals tailored to individual dietary goals and preferences. It automatically adjusts recipes for portion sizes, generates shopping lists based on pantry stock, and offers guided cooking instructions. Integrates with health tracking and supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Personalized meal plans for family members
  • Automatic recipe scaling and nutrition calculation
  • Pantry-aware automated shopping lists
  • Guided cooking sessions with step-by-step instructions
  • Integration with Apple Health and Watch
  • Multi-language support with calendar options
Features
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Kibo turns "what's for dinner?" into a week you can actually cook. Plan meals for the whole household, watch everyone's calories and macros land on target, and shop from a list that already knows what's in your pantry. ONE PLAN, EVERYONE'S PORTIONS Add each family member with their own goal — lose fat, build muscle, maintain — and Kibo works out their daily calories and macros from real formulas (Mifflin-St Jeor TDEE, protein anchored to body weight). Put a recipe on the table and every person's portion is sized for them, automatically. One dinner, four right-sized plates. ANY RECIPE, IN SECONDS Paste a link, photograph a cookbook page, or share an Instagram reel. Kibo reads it, matches every ingredient to nutrition data, and adapts it to your household — scaled to the people eating, tuned to their goals, and screened against the allergies and dietary restrictions you've set — always check the final ingredient list yourself. A KITCHEN THAT'S ALREADY STOCKED Browse 80+ photographed dishes filtered by meal, diet and goal, or write your own recipes and keep your own ingredient list. THE SHOPPING LIST WRITES ITSELF Every planned meal, summed across the week and grouped by category — minus whatever is already in your pantry. Tick something off and it goes straight into your stock. COOK IT TOGETHER Start a cooking session and everyone in the kitchen gets a lane — who's at the hob, who's at the board, whose timer just went. Steps carry their own timings, so nothing waits on somebody remembering it. And you can ask out loud for the next step or for a timer, without wiping your hands first. FOR THE WEEK YOU ACTUALLY HAVE • Apple Watch — today's meals, everyone's rings, the shopping list to tick off in the aisle, and cook mode on your wrist • Apple TV — the week on the big screen, and a cook mode the kitchen can read from across the room • Search every recipe you have by name or ingredient • Print the week as a digest, a day sheet or a recipe book • Auto-fill a day, or get dish suggestions ranked by how well they fit • See where a day is unbalanced before you cook it • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: today's menu and everyone's rings • Ask Siri "what's for dinner?" or "how many calories are left?", and open any recipe from Spotlight or a Shortcut • Apple Health: weight trend, energy, and a TDEE measured from your own data • Tick a meal as eaten and its calories and macros are written to Apple Health for you, per person • Optional on-device AI — choose Apple Intelligence and pasted recipes and ingredient lookups are handled on your iPhone: free, private, and no connection needed • Share a plan, a shopping list or a single recipe as a link or a PDF • Eleven languages — English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese and Turkish — with full right-to-left layouts and Hijri, Hebrew and Jalali calendars WHERE OUR NUMBERS COME FROM Kibo's calorie and macro targets use published equations — Mifflin-St Jeor for resting energy, protein anchored to body weight following Morton et al. (2018) and the ISSN position stand, and macronutrient ranges from the Institute of Medicine. Every formula is shown in the app with a link to its source, one tap from any figure. Kibo is a meal planner, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice — talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before changing how you eat. SUBSCRIPTION Kibo Plus is an auto-renewing subscription for your whole household, offered monthly or yearly. The price for your region is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://lumeagency.io/kibo/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PlateKeep4 screens
Kibo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kibo at weekly against PlateKeep's every 3 weeks. Kibo also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. PlateKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Kibo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlateKeep ships an update every 3 weeks, Kibo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PlateKeep versus Kibo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlateKeepKibo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB30 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOneSip Technologies Ltd.David Cenizo

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PlateKeep

One-time1
  • PlateKeep Pro Lifetime$8.99
2 purchases

Kibo

Subscriptions2
  • Kibo Plus — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Kibo Plus — Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is PlateKeep free?
PlateKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kibo free?
Kibo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PlateKeep or Kibo have ads?
Neither PlateKeep nor Kibo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlateKeep or Kibo?
PlateKeep ships an update every 3 weeks, and Kibo weekly. Most recently, PlateKeep was updated on October 10, 2026 and Kibo on October 2, 2026.

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