Lucky Panda vs Chef Mag
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucky Panda
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Welcome to Lucky Panda Takeaway You can now relax at home and order your favourite, freshly prepared Soup, Duck Dishes, Chow Mein Dishes, Beef Dishes,Chicken Dishes and King Prawn Dishes at Lucky Panda.You can even pay online! Lucky Panda Portsmouth will always be offering great food at affordable prices.
Chef Mag
This digital publication offers insights and knowledge for culinary professionals. It connects chefs, business owners, and industry suppliers, fostering networking and skill-sharing within the hospitality sector. Access current and back issues, or subscribe for continuous content.
- Industry insights for chefs
- Networking opportunities
- Skill-sharing content
- Access to current and back issues
- Digital and print publication
- User registration and account protection
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What does it mean to be a Chef? Aside from creating fantastic food you must be many other things. A businessperson, a mentor, an influencer with great PR skills, a relationship builder and above all else, an employer working with your brigade to bring the best out of them so they can progress with confidence. Chef magazine is published for you. With support and contributions from Chef’s across all areas and at the top of their game, our core values are to provide you, our reader, with relevant, informative and exciting content. To network, through print and digital publication with your counterparts and to understand and appreciate how others in your trade are influencing the hospitality scene today. We share knowledge and skills. Our contributors are keen to “pay it forward”. This is a large industry, yet an all-inclusive one. Whether chef, business owner, front of house, or supplier/manufacturer, please join us on our journey, get in touch with news, keep us informed of your own activity and become part of the Chef Magazine family. We look forward to welcoming you on board. ---------------------------------------------- This is a free app download. Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues. Subscriptions are also available within the application. A subscription will start from the latest issue. -The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product. -You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. -Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased. Bundles of single issues can be also be bought within the application. To use purchased credits, simply click on the issue price and select ‘use credit’. This allows you to purchase back issues at reduced prices. Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account. We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved. If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update, please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store Help and frequently asked questions be accessed in-app and on pocketmags. If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: help@pocketmags.com -------------------- You can find our privacy policy here: http://www.pocketmags.com/privacy.aspx You can find our terms and conditions here: http://www.pocketmags.com/terms.aspx
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lucky Panda at none against Chef Mag's 10. Chef Mag's advantage is iOS requirement (11.2 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Chef Mag sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $30.99 per year. Lucky Panda asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lucky Panda ships an update every 43 months, Chef Mag every 29 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lucky Panda | Chef Mag |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 43 months | Every 29 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fusion Innovative Limited | Jellyfish Connect Limited |
In-app purchases
Lucky Panda
No in-app purchases
Chef Mag
- Chef1 Month trial$30.991 Year
- July 2027 (pp:1157202)$4.99
- June 2027 (pp:1157204)$4.99
- August 2027 (pp:1157200)$4.99
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- May 2027 (pp:1157206)$4.99
- November 2027 (pp:1157194)$4.99
- September 2027 (pp:1157198)$4.99
- April 2027 (pp:1157208)$4.99
- February 2027 (pp:1157212)$4.99
- January 2027 (pp:1157214)$4.99
Questions
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