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There's a huge amount of time between Plato & Artistotle, and Karl Popper, so in many ways it's hard to compare Popper to either of Plato or Aristotle. But... In saying that...
If we are to make such a comparison, I'd say Popper is more closely aligned to Aristotle, given Popper - primarily being interested in philosophy of science and being very empirically minded, and Aristotle's proposing something of a philosophy of science that focused on observation and logical reasoning gives them some common ground. Plato on the other hand didn't have anything much you might describe as a philosophy of science, and his epistemology was more focused on his 'ideal forms' and the a priori.
t is difficult to even imagine Popper in the conditions of the ancient polis and the ways of reasoning that are characteristic of him. If we try to make such a comparison, we can find arguments both for Aristotle (to a greater extent) and certain points in Plato (comparing the Open Society and the State).
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