Spatula vs tibls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Save recipes from the web
- Add custom recipes
- Cooking-friendly format
- Cross-device compatibility
- Social recipe discovery
- Personalized recommendations
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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.
tibls
Organize your recipes, plan weekly meals, and generate grocery lists. Follow step-by-step cooking instructions and import recipes from the web or digitize old family favorites. Optimized for both iPhone and iPad for effortless kitchen management.
- Recipe organization
- Weekly meal planning
- Grocery list creation
- Step-by-step cooking instructions
- Web recipe import
- Digital recipe preservation
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Tibls is your digital sous-chef and kitchen companion, designed to keep your recipes organized and accessible on your iPhone or iPad. Plan your weekly meals, create grocery lists, and follow step-by-step cooking instructions—all in one app. Import recipes from the web or share them with friends. For treasured family recipes stored on 3x5 index cards, tibls provides a simple way to preserve them forever. The iPad version is perfect for landscape mode, allowing you to easily manage ingredients, add notes, and follow multiple recipe steps with custom timers. The iPhone version is optimized for ease of use in the kitchen, and the shopping list view is streamlined for efficiency at the market. Tibls makes meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking fun and effortless—turning everyday tasks into a breeze.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: tibls at every 3 weeks against Spatula's every 12 months. tibls also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). Spatula's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spatula holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tibls has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Spatula's written reviews are positive against 75% of tibls's.
Spatula ships an update every 12 months, tibls every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spatula | tibls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kushal Dave | Mark Lucovsky |
Customer experience
Spatula
tibls
In-app purchases
Spatula
No in-app purchases
tibls
No in-app purchases
