Chef vs Marked Chef
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.
Marked Chef
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Stop fighting restrictive recipe apps and take control of your kitchen. Marked Chef is a lightweight, high-performance cookbook that uses the power of Markdown to store and display your recipes exactly how you want them. No proprietary formats—just your food, your way. Whether you’re a professional chef or a home cook who loves documentation, Marked Chef bridges the gap between raw text and a beautiful cooking experience. Import your existing Markdown files or create new ones with ease. CLEAN MARKDOWN RENDERING: View your recipes in a beautiful, distraction-free interface. FILE-BASED FREEDOM: Your data stays yours. No "walled gardens" or complex databases. EFFORTLESS SEARCH: Find that one specific ingredient or cooking method in seconds. BUILT FOR SPEED: A Flutter-powered experience that is as fast as a professional kitchen. OFFLINE ACCESS: No internet? No problem. Your recipes are always available. Marked Chef was designed for those who value simplicity and data ownership. By using Markdown as the foundation, your recipes remain future-proof and compatible with any text editor in the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Marked Chef at none against Chef's 1. Chef's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 26.2). On price, 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 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Marked Chef asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Chef | Marked Chef |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guillaume Cendre | Carl Mosca |
In-app purchases
Chef
- Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
Marked Chef
No in-app purchases









