Comparison

Space Chef vs Every Planet

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

Head to head
About

Space Chef

This fast-paced game challenges you to quickly sort ingredients and build healthy meals against the clock. Discover new recipes, unlock food facts, and learn about nutrition with over 60 healthy options.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced ingredient sorting
  • Build healthy recipes
  • Unlock food factoids
  • Over 60 healthy recipes
  • Race against the clock
  • Discover new robots
Features
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Have you tried Hawaiian Turkey Sliders? Quesadilla Con Huevos? How about a Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Shake? Space Chef has and he wants you to try them too! Space Chef, developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, is a fast-paced action game designed to provide the starting point needed to build healthy meals using simple, readily-available, and nutritious ingredients. Space Chef requires quick thinking and even quicker fingers as you race against the clock to sort through an array of ingredients and construct healthy recipes. Along the way, you’ll unlock food factoids, discover new Space Chef robots, and have access to over 60 healthy recipes. Start your intergalactic grocery list today...those Sweet Potato Blueberry Squares won’t make themselves! All recipes used in Space Chef were modeled from the healthy recipe collection at the “What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl” website. To help kids learn more about health and the human body, try out the other apps from the Lawrence Hall of Science funded by the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award program.

About

Every Planet

Features
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Every Planet turns the whole observable universe into something you can hold in your hand. Tap once and the World Forge builds a planet that has never existed before: an ocean world wrapped in cloud, a ringed gas giant, a lava world cracked with light, a frozen wanderer far from its star. Every world is unique and generated from a single seed, so the one you just made is one you will never see again unless you keep it. The worlds are imagined. The physics behind them is not. Every planet carries an honest science dossier. Its year is computed with Kepler's third law. Its warmth comes from the real luminosity of its star and the greenhouse effect of its air. You see its distance from Earth, the year your light would arrive, the length of its day, its host star's temperature, and whether liquid water is even possible. Estimates carry honest uncertainty, the way real astronomy does. WHAT YOU CAN DO Forge a world Make a new world in a tap, or aim the Forge toward what you want to find: water, a giant, two suns, or simply something strange. Keep the ones worth keeping Save a world to your Archive, give it a name, and write a note about why you stopped there. Unsaved worlds are gone the moment you move on, so the good ones are worth catching. Read the real science Open any world's dossier for a plain, careful explanation of its orbit, star, mass, and light, tied back to the methods astronomers actually use. Learn the universe, and remember it The Observatory holds short daily recall questions built on spaced repetition, so real ideas actually stick. Track a gentle streak and watch how much of the sky feels familiar. Travel outward Every discovery carries you about eight percent deeper into space, past real landmarks, all the way to the edge of the observable universe. Go deeper in the Observatory An orbit lab to move a world through space, a field guide to the stars that make planets possible, an atlas of twelve genuinely strange real worlds, a guide to how we find planets we cannot see, and the big numbers that put it all in scale. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Everything you make stays on your device. Optional ambient audio for the long trip outward. Built to be calm, factual, and yours. There are around seven hundred quintillion rocky planets out there. Humanity has confirmed about six thousand. Every Planet is a small, honest way to feel that scale, one world at a time.

Screenshots

Space Chef4 screens
Every Planet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Space Chef at every 3 months against Every Planet's every 18 months. Space Chef also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Space Chef ships an update every 3 months, Every Planet every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Space Chef versus Every Planet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace ChefEvery Planet
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Lawrence Hall of ScienceTIBOR CZEKAY

In-app purchases

None

Space Chef

No in-app purchases

None

Every Planet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Space Chef free?
Space Chef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Every Planet free?
Every Planet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Space Chef or Every Planet have ads?
Neither Space Chef nor Every Planet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Space Chef or Every Planet?
Space Chef ships an update every 3 months, and Every Planet every 18 months. Most recently, Space Chef was updated on October 24, 2026 and Every Planet on October 25, 2026.

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