# Nod Chef: Hands-Free Cooking

> Nod Chef: Hands-Free Cooking (iPhone/iPad app by Maksim Borovets.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nod-chef-hands-free-cooking/id6799914033 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Maksim Borovets](https://appshunter.io/developer/1854844883)
- Category: Food & Drink, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 7 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), European Spanish, Ukrainian
- Released: 2026-09-11
- Data updated: 2026-09-28

## What is Nod Chef?

Cooking with your hands full is the one moment a touchscreen fails you. Nod Chef fixes it: your recipe becomes big, one-at-a-time step cards, and you move through them with a small turn of your head. Nothing to tap. Nothing to wipe off afterwards.

HANDS-FREE COOKING MODE
• One step at a time, in large, easy-to-read type you can see from across the counter
• Turn your head slightly right for the next step, left to go back
• A small, deliberate turn moves you forward — glancing at the pan does not
• Tap zones, swipes and buttons always work too, so you are never stuck
• The screen stays awake while you cook
• Turn head control off whenever you want and cook with taps instead

A CATALOG WORTH COOKING FROM
Hundreds of recipes, written and tested for this app rather than scraped from the web.
• Browse by meal, by cuisine, or by what is popular this week
• Every recipe has real timings, a real shopping list and photographs
• Add one to your library in a tap and cook it hands-free straight away

WHAT CAN I COOK TONIGHT?
Tell Nod Chef what is in your kitchen and it answers with what those things make.
• Add a few ingredients — salt, oil, pepper and water are assumed
• "Cook now" is everything you can make already
• "Almost" is what you can make after buying one or two things, and it names them

OR BRING YOUR OWN
• Type a recipe in, or paste one you copied, and Nod Chef splits it into numbered steps
• It lands in an editable list first: fix, reorder, delete or add steps before you save
• Grandma's recipe, one dictated over the phone, or a dish you know by heart all go in the same way

SMARTER ON NEWER IPHONES
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Nod Chef can use the on-device model to turn messy recipe text into clean numbered steps and name the dish. It runs entirely on your iPhone.

YOUR RECIPES STAY ON YOUR IPHONE
No account. No sign-in. Your recipes and their photos are stored on your device, and the camera used for head control is never recorded and never uploaded. The catalog is simply downloaded, like any other page. Anonymous crash and usage reports help fix faults and tune head control, and you can switch them off in Settings.

FREE TO START
Save up to five recipes for free. One single purchase unlocks unlimited recipes — not a subscription, and never a recurring charge.

Head control requires an iPhone with a TrueDepth front camera (iPhone X or newer).

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nod Chef Pro | $2.99 | one-time |


## Is Nod Chef safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Nod Chef.

## Is Nod Chef legit?

Nod Chef: Hands-Free Cooking has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Nod Chef is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-21

If you tapped "Don't Allow" when Nod Chef asked for the camera, head control no longer disappears for good. The app now tells you exactly where to turn it back on and can take you straight there: tap "Camera off" at the top of the cooking screen. Allow it, and head control is back.

On iPhones without Face ID, the cooking screen now says plainly that head control isn't available on that model, instead of suggesting it was on.

Plus more reliable crash reporting behind the scenes, so problems get found and fixed faster.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-16

A proper introduction. Nod Chef now shows you how head control works before your first recipe: a short practice screen where you move three cards with a real turn of your head, so the first time you try it is not with wet hands over a hot pan. You can replay it any time from Settings › Head tracking.

A new install now starts with an empty library. It used to arrive with four recipes nobody had saved — leftover demo data — and because they counted against the five free recipes, saving your own first recipe could land you on the unlock screen. If those four are still in your library, you can swipe them away.

Also in this version:
• The empty library suggests dishes from the catalog, with photographs, instead of an empty screen
• Catalog cards respond to a tap anywhere on the card, including the photo
• A recipe's "start ahead" time showed a placeholder instead of the number of hours
• The unlock screen now says that it also opens the catalog's Pro recipes

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-14

Cook from a catalog of hundreds of recipes, or type in one of your own. Either way it turns into big step cards — one step at a time, large enough to read from across the counter.

A small turn of your head moves you to the next step, so you never stop to wipe your hands or hunt for the right line in a wall of text. Head control needs a TrueDepth front camera; everything also works by tap and swipe.

Five recipes are free. A one-time unlock opens the rest, with no subscription.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-11

No release notes.

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