Comparison

Spatula vs TuCoock

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

Head to head
About

Spatula

Organize your favorite recipes from across the web or add your own. This app presents recipes in a cooking-friendly format, accessible on any device. Discover new dishes through recommendations and what your friends are saving.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from the web
  • Add custom recipes
  • Cooking-friendly format
  • Cross-device compatibility
  • Social recipe discovery
  • Personalized recommendations
Features
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Spatula is a smart and social recipe box. - Save recipes from anywhere on the web, or add your own. - Open in a cooking-friendly format on any device. - Get inspired by friends and recommendations.

About

TuCoock

Organize your personal recipes digitally, eliminating the need for paper notes. Easily create, share, and manage your culinary creations with features like ingredient recalculation and step-by-step voice guidance.

Highlights
  • Write and share personal recipes
  • Ingredient recalculation
  • Step-by-step reading with voice commands
  • Link recipes together
  • Export recipes to PDF
  • Classify and search recipes
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Are you a kitchen enthusiast and have an archive of your favorite dishes? No more running papers and notes, TuCoock is your recipe book! - write your recipes and share them with whomever you want through the app you prefer; - no registration or authentication required; - more than 270 ingredients already entered; - recalculates the ingredients of your recipes based on the number of people or the quantity of a specific ingredient; - step by step reading of your recipe with voice commands; - link your recipes together; - create a PDF of your recipe and send it or store it as you like; - classify your recipes according to their characteristics, for example if they are gluten-free or vegetarian, and performs targeted searches; - remove the advertising with the new in-app purchase. Coockoo is the app that does not contain recipes but allows you to better create and organize yours and exchange them with whomever you want.

Screenshots

Spatula4 screens
TuCoock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spatula at 100% against TuCoock's 0%. TuCoock's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Spatula ships an update every 12 months, TuCoock every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Spatula versus TuCoock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpatulaTuCoock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB16 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKushal DaveDot-Zot

Customer experience

Spatula

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TuCoock

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Spatula

No in-app purchases

None

TuCoock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spatula free?
Spatula is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TuCoock free?
TuCoock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spatula or TuCoock have ads?
Neither Spatula nor TuCoock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spatula or TuCoock?
Spatula ships an update every 12 months, and TuCoock every 2 months. Most recently, Spatula was updated on October 3, 2026 and TuCoock on October 12, 2026.

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