Fridgely vs Plateback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fridgely
Effortlessly manage your kitchen inventory by scanning items with your camera or receipts. Get personalized meal plans, automated grocery lists, and expiry alerts to reduce food waste and track calories.
- AI-powered kitchen scanning
- Automatic receipt scanning
- Personalized weekly meal plans
- Smart grocery list generation
- Expiry date tracking and alerts
- AI-estimated calorie tracking
- Recipe customization for appliances
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Just point your camera. That's it. Fridgely scans your entire kitchen in seconds — fridge, freezer, pantry, spice cupboard, even household supplies. No barcodes, no manual entry, no hassle. It sees what you have, tracks when things expire, and turns it all into a week of meals you'll actually want to eat. FREE TO DOWNLOAD. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Download Fridgely completely free. No paywall. No hidden fees. Just a smarter kitchen starting today. POINT. SCAN. DONE. Open the app, point at your fridge or pantry, and Fridgely does the rest. Every item lands exactly where it belongs — fridge, freezer, pantry, spice cupboard, or supplies. No typing. No barcodes. Just your camera. GOT A RECEIPT? EVEN FASTER. Scan your grocery receipt the moment you get home — our AI reads it instantly and logs everything automatically, sorted into the right place before you've even put the bags down. YOUR WEEK OF MEALS, PLANNED IN 60 SECONDS. Answer a few quick questions — what cuisines you're feeling, your budget, how much time you have — and Fridgely builds your entire dinner plan for the week. Don't like something? Swap it, tweak it, or tell the AI exactly what you're craving. Not feeling any of the options? Type what you want and it generates something new on the spot. COOKED YOUR WAY. Every recipe comes with step by step instructions built specifically for the appliances you own. Have an air fryer? It'll tell you exactly how to use it. Got a Ninja Crispi or a Blackstone? Fridgely knows how to use those too. No more adapting generic recipes — just follow the steps for your kitchen. THE APP THAT LEARNS WHAT YOU LIKE. The more you use Fridgely the better it gets. It notices what you skip, what you save, and what you cook — and starts suggesting meals that feel made just for you. Within weeks it knows your taste better than any other app. It even remembers your dietary restrictions, spice tolerance, and favorite cuisines so you never have to repeat yourself. A GROCERY LIST THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE. Once your week is planned Fridgely builds your shopping list automatically. It already knows what's in your fridge and pantry so it only adds what you actually need. No duplicates. No forgetting things. Just show up and shop. NEVER LET FOOD GO TO WASTE AGAIN. Your Fridge Health Score shows you at a glance what needs to be used up before it goes bad. Expiry alerts make sure nothing gets forgotten ever again. Move something to the freezer and Fridgely automatically removes the expiry date — because frozen food plays by different rules. CALORIES, TRACKED WITHOUT THE WORK. Every meal you cook gets automatically logged with AI-estimated calories. No scanning nutrition labels. No entering numbers manually. Just cook and Fridgely handles the rest. YOUR WHOLE KITCHEN, FINALLY UNDER CONTROL. Fridge. Freezer. Pantry. Spice Cupboard. Supplies. Fridgely tracks it all in one place so you always know exactly what you have, what you need, and what to make tonight.
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
Fridgely and Plateback are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fridgely against 5.0 for Plateback. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Fridgely | 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 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HENRY INDIANA ALDEN GREEN | Daniel Lozano |
Customer experience
Fridgely
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In-app purchases
Fridgely
No in-app purchases
Plateback
No in-app purchases









