Comparison

Chef vs Well Nourished

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

Head to head
About

Chef

Discover and cook thousands of recipes with a modern interface. Create your own recipes, generate shopping lists, and analyze nutritional values. Offers premium features for unlimited recipe creation and private recipes.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Automated shopping lists
  • Nutritional value analysis
  • Recipe scheduling
  • Modern design
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Chef® helps you discover thousands of recipes and to schedule and cook them, from shopping to serving. • Discover a new way to explore flavors with Chef®'s modern design. • Create your own recipes to schedule them. They will also be analyzed by our unique algorithm to estimate their nutritional values. • Simplify groceries by automatically generating shopping lists, and add your own items. The Chef® Plus subscription allows you to create as many recipes and shopping lists as you want, and to create private recipes. With the Chef® Max subscription, enjoy all the benefits of Chef® Plus, but also get the nutritional values of your recipes and enhance your recipe images. Renewed monthly, these subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the one-month period, unless you have disabled this feature, your subscription will automatically renew for your iTunes account. You will be charged the subscription price within 24 hours after the end of the validity of the initial purchase. You can cancel the automatic renewal at any time before these 24 hours. No refund can be made for the unused period of a subscription. For more information on the terms of use and privacy policy of Chef®, visit https://the-chef.app/policy. By using the app, you accept its terms of use, available at https://the-chef.app/terms.

About

Well Nourished

Discover a vast collection of healthy, quick, and delicious recipes designed for ease of cooking. Find options for various dietary needs and preferences, with Thermomix® and conventional methods included. Exclusive content and planning tools are available for members.

Highlights
  • Over 300 healthy recipes
  • Dietary variation options
  • Thermomix® and conventional methods
  • Categorized recipe selection
  • Customizable meal planner
  • Event and reset plans
Features
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Welcome to the NEW Well Nourished App, full of delicious, healthy recipes we know you'll love cooking. We're excited to help you nourish yourself and your family with ease!. New recipes added regularly. All recipes use easy to shop for ingredients and are rigorously tested so they work every time and always taste delicious. “I just love love love what you do and you’ve given me so many delicious recipes that I now cook weekly for my family. You make eating well really simple and that’s just what my busy family needs. I just can’t thank you enough." Olivia (Well Nourished fan). The recipes are categorised to help you find exactly what you are after including super nourishing breakfasts, meals, soups, sides and salads, healthy lunchbox ideas, after school snacks and guilt-free sweet treats (that may also include a veggie or two). Recipes also include Thermomix® and conventional methods, time saving tips and variations to suit your dietary requirements and tastes. Common variations included where possible… - Gluten-free - Dairy-free - Nut-free - Wheat-free - Vegetarian - Low-sugar - Fructose-friendly - Egg-free - and more! For Well Nourished Family members there are also exclusive recipes plus: - a done for you and fully customisable meal planner and shopping list which will really help to reduce your time spent planning and cooking meals. - the ‘Event Plan’ is where you’ll find comprehensive plans to help you cook for a group with confidence and complete ease. It’s also where you’ll find reset plans to reboot healthy habits. - and the ‘Success Plan’ will help you to create systems and routines to support a healthy lifestyle and the Video Vault is where you’ll find instructions to use the inbuilt meal planning technology. Features: - Over 300 healthy, quick and easy to make delicious recipes. - Recipe variations to adapt recipes to suit your dietary needs. - Thermomix® and conventional methods are included. - Easy to follow cooking instructions. - Recipes categorised to make selecting what to cook next easy. - Search bar function to help you to find recipes quickly. - Stunning photos for every recipe. - Save your favourite recipes so you can return to them quickly - Members also have access to exclusive recipes, meal plans, shopping list, event plans and more. If you need any help or have any suggestions, please email support@wellnourished.com.au We’d love to hear from you! If you have a minute, we’d really appreciate it if you could rate the app.

Screenshots

Chef4 screens
Well Nourished4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chef and Well Nourished both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Well Nourished's written reviews are positive against 50% of Chef's. Well Nourished also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 21 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Chef sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Well Nourished asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Chef against 4.8 for Well Nourished. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Chef's written reviews are positive against 93% of Well Nourished's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef ships an update every 21 months, Well Nourished every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chef versus Well Nourished: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChefWell Nourished
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (21 ratings)4.8 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1313.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB60 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGuillaume CendreWell Nourished Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Chef

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Well Nourished

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chef

Subscriptions1
  • Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
None

Well Nourished

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chef free?
Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Well Nourished free?
Well Nourished is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chef or Well Nourished?
Well Nourished is rated higher. Chef averages 4.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Well Nourished averages 4.8 from 10 ratings.
Do Chef or Well Nourished have ads?
Neither Chef nor Well Nourished shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chef or Well Nourished?
Chef ships an update every 21 months, and Well Nourished every 3 months. Most recently, Chef was updated on October 24, 2026 and Well Nourished on October 10, 2026.

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