Food diary shared with your friends.

It’s Apple’s own app for trying apps before they reach the App Store. You install it once, then Plate opens like any other app.

Yes. The beta costs nothing.

Yes. Your plates stay when Plate reaches the App Store.

Plate is a food photo diary built only for iPhone (iOS 18 or newer). You save a photo, the date and a few notes for each meal, then scroll back through them like a diary. It’s in beta now on Apple’s TestFlight.

Plate is made for exactly that. Take or pick a photo of what you cooked and add notes, like who taught you the recipe or who you ate with. It stays private to you until you choose to share it with friends.

Yes. Plate has no calorie counting, macros, barcode scanning or food scores. It’s a place to remember meals and the stories behind them, not to track intake.

The simplest way is a photo and a line or two after each meal. Plate puts those photos and notes in order by date, so you can look back at what you cooked and ate weeks or years later, without filling in forms.

Yes. Add friends and you’ll see the plates they share. You can comment or send a little gift.

No. Plate (tryplate.app) is a food diary you can share with friends, made by Gülenay and Efe. It isn’t related to Plate Notes, PlateDiary, Plate Journal, PlateKeep or MyPlate, which are separate apps from other developers.