Chef vs That Recipe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
That Recipe
Discover a practical, easy, and delicious way to cook with a wide variety of recipes. This app guides you through culinary creations with clear instructions, supported by engaging videos and photographic content.
- Practical recipe guides
- Illustrated with videos
- Photographic production
- Easy cooking methods
- Delicious meal ideas
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That Recipe is an app that combines gastronomy with simplicity, with the aim of bringing the public through our recipes a more practical, easy and delicious way of cooking, illustrated by videos and photographic production. Policy of privacy: https://thatrecipe.us/privacy-policy Terms of use EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chef at 4.7 against That Recipe's 3.1. Chef also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 25%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and That Recipe sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chef holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Chef's written reviews are positive against 25% of That Recipe's.
Chef ships an update every 21 months, That Recipe every 26 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chef | That Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) — better | 3.1 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months — better | Every 26 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Guillaume Cendre | Murilo Araujo |
Customer experience
Chef
That Recipe
In-app purchases
Chef
- Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
That Recipe
- Premium subscription7 Days trial$0.491 Month
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