Comparison

Chef vs Wok Tonight

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

Wok Tonight

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What can I make with what's in the fridge? Wok Tonight answers that question for Asian home cooks. Snap a photo of your fridge. Wok Tonight identifies your ingredients with real Asian-pantry literacy — it knows the difference between Thai basil and sweet basil, gochujang and tomato paste, daikon and parsnip — and gives you three authentic Vietnamese, Thai, or Chinese recipes you can make right now, using only what you photographed. No "and pick up some fresh basil on the way home." No Westernised takeout knock-offs. Just real home cooking from what you already have. How it works 1. Open your fridge, snap a photo 2. Pick a cuisine: Vietnamese, Thai, or Chinese 3. Get three recipes in seconds, with authentic technique notes What's in v1 - Vietnamese, Thai, and Chinese home-cooking recipes - Asian-tuned ingredient recognition (no more daikon-called-parsnip) - No-shop guarantee: every recipe uses only what's visible in your photo (plus salt, oil, sugar, water, rice) - Australian English, metric measurements Pricing Free: 3 photos to get you started. Photo packs: starter ($1.99 / 20 photos), traveller ($9.99 / 150 photos), explorer ($19.99 / 400 photos). No subscription, no auto-renew. Coming in v1.1: Japanese and Korean cuisines, regional sub-styles (Sichuan vs Cantonese, Northern vs Southern Thai), saved favourites.

Screenshots

Chef4 screens
Wok Tonight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wok Tonight at every 2 months against Chef's every 21 months. Chef's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chef sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Wok Tonight sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef ships an update every 21 months, Wok Tonight every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chef versus Wok Tonight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChefWok Tonight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGuillaume CendreQuyen Ngo

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chef

Subscriptions1
  • Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month
3 purchases

Wok Tonight

One-time3
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Cook Pack$9.99
  • Chef Pack$19.99

Questions

Is Chef free?
Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wok Tonight free?
Wok Tonight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chef or Wok Tonight have ads?
Neither Chef nor Wok Tonight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chef or Wok Tonight?
Chef ships an update every 21 months, and Wok Tonight every 2 months. Most recently, Chef was updated on September 19, 2026 and Wok Tonight on October 19, 2026.

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