Comparison

Garden Plate vs Food Monster

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

Head to head
About

Garden Plate

Discover a wide variety of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free recipes with beautiful photos and clear instructions. Save favorites, create shopping lists, and share your culinary creations.

Highlights
  • Over 65 green recipes
  • Visual recipe browsing
  • Detailed ingredient and instruction pages
  • Social sharing options
  • Save favorite recipes
  • Shopping list creation
Features
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Tons of tasty clean and green vegetarian recipes at your fingertip! Whether you're vegetarian, vegan, gluten intolerant, or just looking for healthy and tasty green dishes, this app is perfect for you. Browse beautiful pictures of delicious food and make the dish yourself using our recipe instructions on either iPhone or iPad. Recipes in the following categories: vegan, gluten-free, raw, salads, snacks, side dishes, or the delicious and essential line of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert! Our app is highly visual. Our goal was to offer a wide variety of recipes and a highly usable and visually appealing application, and we have delivered. FEATURES > Over 65 green recipes (and growing) including tons of delicious desserts, salads, and raw foods. > Beautiful views of recipes on both iPad and iPhone, a very photo-centric approach > Well designed ingredient and instruction pages on both iPhone and iPad to make the best use of screen space > Share your delicious creations on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, email or text > Save your favourites to refer to later > Add ingredients to your shopping list This app contains additional recipes which require an in-app purchase to unlock. This is not required to enjoy the app and access many recipes. SUPPORT support@burleighcreative.com

About

Food Monster

Discover over 20,000 plant-based recipes with step-by-step instructions. Access one free recipe daily or subscribe for unlimited access to premium features like advanced filtering and recipe bookmarking. Engage with a community and easily purchase ingredients for your favorite dishes.

Highlights
  • Thousands of plant-based recipes
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Recipe bookmarking
  • Advanced category filters
  • Ingredient purchasing
  • Community sharing and tips
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One Green Planet's Food Monster app gives you once free recipe per day and instant access to 20,000+ plant-based, vegan, meatless, and dairy-free recipes that are sure to satisfy all taste buds! By subscribing to our monthly and yearly subscription options you can unlock our premium features like accessing 600+ category filters, bookmarking recipes, and more! Enjoy endless scrolling through mouthwatering high-definition images of recipes that contain no meat, dairy, or eggs and are fabulously planet-friendly. Share tips, ask questions, and join our thriving community of Food Monsters! Get ready for a drool-worthy experience! APP FEATURES: - FREE Instant access to thousands of recipes with step-by-step instructions via our homepage + in-app subscription plans available for unlimited access to our premium features - You will have access to 1 free recipe per day. To unlock full app features, you can opt in for a 3-day free trial. - New recipes added every month. SCORE! - Quick sign in through Facebook or email – takes less than 30 seconds to sign up! - Ability to bookmark recipes by meal and diet type for easy access. In addition, bookmarked recipes can be pinned to the top and favorited! - Share recipes with friends via email and social media. - Browse recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type, occasion, ingredient, special themes, season, and cooking method. - Explore recipes by popular themes like dairy-free cheeses, raw vegan desserts, veggie burgers, as well as seasonal favorites. - Access recipe "Features" that make cooking choices easy by showcasing the greatest and most popular recipes, carefully handpicked by One Green Planet’s editorial team for every single food holiday, food type, and theme. - Discover specially curated “Collections” like Decadent Desserts, American Fusion, Nutrient-Dense, Umami, etc. - You can now effortlessly purchase all the ingredients you need for your favourite recipes directly from the app.

Screenshots

Garden Plate4 screens
Food Monster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Garden Plate at none against Food Monster's shown. Garden Plate also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (52% vs 38%). Food Monster's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Garden Plate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Food Monster sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Garden Plate holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.5K and 1K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Garden Plate's written reviews are positive against 38% of Food Monster's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garden Plate ships an update every 3 months, Food Monster monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Garden Plate versus Food Monster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarden PlateFood Monster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.5K ratings) — better4.4 (1K ratings)
Positive reviews51.6% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3.5K — better1K
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBurleigh CreativeOne Green Planet LLC

Customer experience

Garden Plate

All ratings3,508 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral4.7%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive51.6%
Neutral11.6%
Negative36.8%

Food Monster

All ratings1,005 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews232 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.9%
Negative49.6%

User reviews

Garden Plate

From 3.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy recipes
  • 🍽️ Wonderful recipe options
  • 🌱 Great variety of gluten-free vegan recipes
  • 📋 Helpful for shopping and meal planning
  • 🍴 Lovely recipes

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Recipes locked behind paywall
  • 🔍 Difficult to read, text not resizable
  • 🧾 Often missing ingredients
  • 📝 Lacking nutritional information
  • 💰 Pay for Premium Recipes

Food Monster

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🍴 Delicious recipes
  • 🌱 Great for vegans and vegetarians
  • 📚 Huge variety of recipes
  • 🌟 Inspiring and creative dishes
  • 🤩 Obsessed with the app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 💰 Paywall for full recipe access
  • 🔍 Limited free content
  • 🤯 Frustrating user experience
  • 🔍 Search and filtering issues

Bugs and requests

Garden Plate

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Recipes don't match the images
  • Restore purchases not working
  • App crashes frequently
  • Doesn't work with iOS 9
  • Recipes contain non-vegan ingredients

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to toggle shopping list by recipe or by aisle
  • Option to exclude recipes with certain ingredients
  • Provide cooking times and oven temperatures
  • Include calories and macronutrient breakdown
  • Add more recipes
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  • Improve navigation and usability

Food Monster

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login and subscription issues
  • Recipes disappearing after updates
  • Crashes when trying to view recipes
  • Inability to access paid content after subscription

Requested features

5 requests
  • Print recipe option
  • Improved recipe organization and bookmarking
  • Nutritional information for recipes
  • Offline access to recipes
  • Better search and filtering capabilities

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Garden Plate

One-time1
  • Unlock all recipes!$2.99
8 purchases

Food Monster

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Food Monster Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$6.991 Month
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  • Half Year Subscription3 Days trial$29.996 Months
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Food Monster Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • #5Under5 Recipes$0.99

Questions

Is Garden Plate free?
Garden Plate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Food Monster free?
Food Monster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Garden Plate or Food Monster?
Garden Plate is rated higher. Garden Plate averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Food Monster averages 4.4 from 1K ratings.
Do Garden Plate or Food Monster have ads?
Food Monster shows ads; Garden Plate does not.
Which is updated more often, Garden Plate or Food Monster?
Garden Plate ships an update every 3 months, and Food Monster monthly. Most recently, Garden Plate was updated on September 24, 2026 and Food Monster on September 22, 2026.

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