Is there a Strava for cooking?
Updated 15 November 2026.
Yes. Plateoff does for home cooking what Strava does for running: you log every meal you cook, your friends see it, and a weekly streak keeps you going. Strava measures a run in kilometres and minutes. A dish has no stopwatch, so on Plateoff other cooks judge every dish blind, and your pack of friends climbs a weekly league together.
Strava is a social app for runners and cyclists: you record an activity, it lands in your friends' feed, they give kudos, and segments and clubs give you something to race. People who search for "Strava for cooking" usually want the same loop for the kitchen: a reason to cook again tomorrow, and friends who notice when you do.
What carries over
| On Strava | On Plateoff |
|---|---|
| Record a run or a ride | Check in a meal with a photo and a title |
| Your friends' feed and kudos | Your pack's feed, with likes and comments on each dish |
| Clubs | A pack: the friends you cook with, joined by a code |
| Segments and leaderboards | A weekly board for your pack, and pack ranks from Bronze to Diamond |
| Weekly goals and streaks | A weekly streak: the weeks in a row in which you cooked at least once |
| Your training log | Your profile: every dish you shared, and a calendar of the days you cooked |
What is different
- Dishes are judged, not timed. Other cooks see your dish next to another one, with no names, and pick the one they would most like to try. Each pick is worth 10 points.
- Likes never score. Kudos-style likes are there for fun. Only blind picks count, so a cook with many friends has no edge.
- Showing up counts. Every dish is worth 100 points the moment you save it. Only your three best dishes of the week count, so three dinners a week is enough to play fully.
- One challenge for everyone, every day. The ingredient of the day is the same for all cooks. Cooking with it is worth 50 more.
- No calories. Plateoff has no calorie, macro or weight tracking. It is about cooking more, not eating less.
Start this week
- Open live.plateoff.app on your phone and sign in. There is nothing to download.
- Start a pack and send its code to the friends who would race you.
- Cook tonight, check it in, and judge five pairs. The week closes at Saturday midnight.
Questions
Is Plateoff connected to Strava?
No. Strava is a separate app from a separate company. We name it because people looking for "Strava for cooking" are looking for something like Plateoff.
Does Plateoff track what I eat?
No. It records what you cooked, as a photo and a title. It has no calorie, macro, nutrition or weight fields.
How do you compete at cooking without a time or a distance?
With blind votes. Each dish is shown to up to ten other cooks next to another dish, without your name. Each one who picks it adds 10 points, on top of 100 for cooking it and 50 for the ingredient of the day.
Is Plateoff free?
Yes. You can cook, check in, judge and play in a pack for free, in any phone browser.
You are cooking tonight anyway.
Start cooking