Gordon Now vs Cookshack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gordon Now
Track your current food service delivery with real-time updates on estimated arrival, truck contents, and out-of-stock alerts. Access past orders and request chemical and beverage services. Links to online ordering are also provided.
- Real-time truck arrival estimates
- View truck contents
- Out-of-stock and short-ship alerts
- Access past orders
- Request chemical and beverage service
- Quick links to online ordering
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Got a Gordon Food Service business account? Gordon Now is your ordering app. Search the catalog or start from your order guide, then build your order and check out from your phone. See when your truck will get there, what is on it, and which items are out of stock or coming up short. Pull up past orders to check what you bought. Gordon Now is another way that Gordon Food Service is always at your table to help you run your operation. Shopping a Gordon Food Service Store for your home? Please use gfsstore.com
Cookshack
Monitor and control your smart smoker in real-time. Set custom alerts and track historical temperature data to perfect your cooking.
- Real-time temperature monitoring
- Custom alerts and notifications
- Historical data tracking
- Cooker control system
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Take control of your Cooker with the Cookshack App - the ultimate cooker monitoring and control system. Features: - Real-time temperature monitoring - Custom alerts and notifications - Historical data tracking Perfect your Cookshack cooker control and monitoring.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cookshack at 5.0 against Gordon Now's 2.6. Cookshack also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Gordon Now's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (42 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Cookshack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gordon Now has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gordon Now ships an update every 4 weeks, Cookshack monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gordon Now | Cookshack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gordon Food Service, Inc. | Collins Research Inc. |
In-app purchases
Gordon Now
No in-app purchases
Cookshack
No in-app purchases
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