Comparison

Chef vs Teresa's Recipes

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

Teresa's Recipes

Features
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Teresa’s Recipes brings everyday cooking inspiration, curated recipes, and wine pairings together in a warm, easy-to-use app. Browse a rotating collection of dishes, search by recipe or wine, save your favorites, and explore thoughtful pairings when you want the right bottle with dinner. Whether you’re planning tonight’s meal, looking for something new, or returning to a saved favorite, Teresa’s Recipes keeps the experience simple, beautiful, and personal. Features include: Discover recipes across breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, drinks, and more View detailed recipe pages with ingredients, timing, serving size, and difficulty Search recipes and wines from one place Save favorite recipes to your personal recipe box Explore wines by country, region, tasting notes, and food pairings Get inspired with a polished, editorial-style cooking experience Teresa’s Recipes is made for home cooks, food lovers, and anyone who wants a little more inspiration at mealtime.

Screenshots

Chef4 screens
Teresa's Recipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Teresa's Recipes at none against Chef's 1. Teresa's Recipes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 21 months). Chef's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chef sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Teresa's Recipes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef ships an update every 21 months, Teresa's Recipes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chef versus Teresa's Recipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChefTeresa's Recipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB9 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperGuillaume CendreBrent Wood

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chef

Subscriptions1
  • Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
None

Teresa's Recipes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chef free?
Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Teresa's Recipes free?
Teresa's Recipes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chef or Teresa's Recipes have ads?
Neither Chef nor Teresa's Recipes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chef or Teresa's Recipes?
Chef ships an update every 21 months, and Teresa's Recipes every 3 days. Most recently, Chef was updated on September 19, 2026 and Teresa's Recipes on October 1, 2026.

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