Chef vs GrubReel
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.
GrubReel
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GrubReel is an app for food enthusiasts. Whether you're looking for inspiration what to eat, a new restaurant to try, your next meal order via an app, there is something for all of you: - food discovery with details (price, location) from all over the world - built by our community - 3 different views to browse food posts - grid view for quick browsing - map view to see what foods are around you - reel mode for full screen scrolling - filter for dine in, to go and delivered food - filter for commercial or homemade food - filter for how far nearby you're looking - video with every posts - invoice attached, so you undertstand exactly how much the food cost - built with privacy in mind, no one can tell who posted what, invoices are anonymized - have your foodie circle, where you see each other's food posts - save a post, collect food you'd love to try The app operates under the standard Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/. The app offers an optional subscription to unlock the ad-free version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: GrubReel at every 4 months against Chef's every 21 months. Chef's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 18.6). On price, ads 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 GrubReel sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chef ships an update every 21 months, GrubReel every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chef | GrubReel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guillaume Cendre | Follow Dreamer LLC |
In-app purchases
Chef
- Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
GrubReel
- Supporter$4.991 Month









