Comparison

Plateback vs Spots

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

Spots

Features
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Spots is your personal restaurant guide: save the places you want to try, rank what you've Tasted and find your next table in one swipe. YOUR OWN SHOWCASE Home is a showcase of your collection: recently visited, newly added, near you, your Wishlist and your top picks — full screen, with your own photos. SHARE FROM INSTAGRAM Spot a restaurant on Instagram? Share the profile to Spots and it lands on your Wishlist. Spots fills in the name, location, photos and opening hours for you. SPOTS ASSISTANT Can't decide? Ask the assistant: "pick something for tonight" or "what's nearby on my Wishlist?" It knows your whole collection, knows what's open right now and even searches Google when needed. ALWAYS READY • Map with all your spots, zoomed in on where you are • Opening hours, filled in automatically • Scores out of 10, notes and who tipped you off • Share a card as an image via WhatsApp or Messages • Light and dark theme SPOTS PRO Your first 30 days are free. After that, Spots Premium ($2.99 a month or $22.99 a year) gets you unlimited spots, automatic Instagram enrichment, your own photos and the Spots Assistant. Privacy: your collection is yours and stays yours. Read more at https://resto.studioplanb.be/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Plateback4 screens
Spots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plateback at none against Spots's 2. Spots's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. Spots sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Plateback asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plateback ships an update every 2 weeks, Spots every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Plateback versus Spots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlatebackSpots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel LozanoBram Bollen

In-app purchases

None

Plateback

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Spots

Subscriptions2
  • Spots Pro1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Spots Pro (jaar)1 Month trial$22.991 Year

Questions

Is Plateback free?
Plateback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spots free?
Spots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plateback or Spots have ads?
Neither Plateback nor Spots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plateback or Spots?
Plateback ships an update every 2 weeks, and Spots every 2 days. Most recently, Plateback was updated on October 11, 2026 and Spots on October 14, 2026.

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