PizzaPal vs Cooking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PizzaPal
This app helps you calculate the exact ingredient weights for Neapolitan pizzas. Easily adjust quantities based on your preferred baker's percentages and use the keep-awake feature to prevent screen timeouts while you cook.
- Calculate ingredient weights for pizzas
- Adjust for pizza size (small, medium, large)
- Customize with baker's percentages
- Keep awake feature for uninterrupted use
- Supports flour, water, salt, and yeast calculations
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PizzaPal is a simple app to calculate the weights of the ingredients required to make great Neopolitan pizza. Select your number of pizzas, whether you'd like them small, medium or large and the app will calculate the required quantities of flour, water, salt and yeast. You can tweak these quantities using your own bakers percentages and the keep awake feature will allow you to get everything weighed before your screen times out whilst your hand are covered in flour.
Cooking
Simplify meal preparation by coordinating multiple dishes to be ready simultaneously. Input your desired mealtime and individual cooking durations, and the app generates a precise schedule for starting each item. Avoid juggling multiple timers and ensure perfectly cooked food for any occasion.
- Synchronize multiple dish cooking times
- Set desired meal completion time
- Input individual ingredient cooking durations
- Generate start/finish time plan
- Create custom alerts for each step
- Ideal for holidays and dinner parties
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Cooking multiple dishes for Christmas, a Sunday roast or a big family meal? CookingTimer takes the maths and stress out of meal preparation by ensuring all your food is ready at the same time. Add all your dishes in one place, set when you want to eat, and let the app tell you when to start each one. Perfect for: • Christmas dinner • Sunday roasts • Dinner parties • Meal prep and batch cooking Simply follow these 4 simple steps for a stress free evening of cooking: 1. Enter the time you want to eat. 2. Add all your ingredients and their cooking times. 3. Click the create time plan button to see the start/finish times for each ingredient. 4. Create alerts so you don't miss a thing! Never juggle multiple timers again - CookingTimer ensures perfectly timed meals every time! Download now and take control of your kitchen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PizzaPal at 100% against Cooking's 64%. PizzaPal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Cooking sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. PizzaPal asks for nothing beyond the download.
PizzaPal ships an update every 3 weeks, Cooking every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PizzaPal | Cooking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 63.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Callaghan | Alexander Richardson |
Customer experience
PizzaPal
Cooking
In-app purchases
PizzaPal
No in-app purchases
Cooking
- Go Ad Free$0.991 Month
