Comparison

Plateback vs GrillMaster

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

GrillMaster

This app creates a perfectly synchronized cooking schedule for all your grilled foods, ensuring everything is ready at the same time. It provides clear cues for when to add, flip, and remove items, making your cookouts stress-free and delicious.

Highlights
  • Synchronized timers for all foods
  • On-screen cooking cues
  • Haptic and Apple Watch alerts
  • Doneness pickers
  • Weather-smart timing adjustments
  • Custom preheat temperature
Features
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Nothing kills a cookout like cold burgers waiting on chicken that isn't done. GrillMaster times every food on your grill so it all comes off hot, safe, and ready at the same moment. Tell it what you're grilling. It builds the schedule. You just follow the cues. FREE FOREVER • Every food: burgers, hot dogs, chicken, steak, and steak tips • Perfectly staggered timers so it all finishes at the same moment • Clear on-screen cues: when to put each food on, when to flip, when to pull • Haptic taps so you feel the alerts even with the phone in your pocket • Alerts land on your Apple Watch too, so you can leave the phone by the grill • No ads. No account. No subscription. GRILLMASTER PRO: ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER • Voice cues that call out every step, so your hands never leave the tongs • Doneness pickers: rare to well done, timed to the minute • Thickness sliders for precision on thick cuts and smash burgers alike • Weather-smart timing: enter your ZIP and GrillMaster adjusts for cold, wind, and heat • Custom preheat temperature to match your actual grill, not a textbook one HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your foods and how many of each 2. GrillMaster builds one master timeline, staggering every start time 3. Follow the cues (put on, flip, pull) and everything lands together Built by a griller, for grillers. No fluff, no feeds, no login. Just a cookout that runs on time. Fire it up.

Screenshots

Plateback4 screens
GrillMaster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plateback at none against GrillMaster's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. GrillMaster sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plateback asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plateback against 5.0 for GrillMaster. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plateback ships an update every 4 weeks, GrillMaster every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Plateback versus GrillMaster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlatebackGrillMaster
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel LozanoSTEPHEN MARK SCHLESINGER

Customer experience

Plateback

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GrillMaster

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Plateback

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GrillMaster

One-time1
  • GrillMaster Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Plateback free?
Plateback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GrillMaster free?
GrillMaster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plateback or GrillMaster?
Plateback and GrillMaster are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Plateback or GrillMaster have ads?
Neither Plateback nor GrillMaster shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plateback or GrillMaster?
Plateback ships an update every 4 weeks, and GrillMaster every 5 weeks. Most recently, Plateback was updated on October 31, 2026 and GrillMaster on October 7, 2026.

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