Quick Cooks vs What’s Cooking?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Cooks
Discover simple recipes requiring minimal equipment, perfect for those with limited time or space. Ideal for students, busy professionals, and beginners learning to cook.
- Quick recipes
- Simple instructions
- Minimal kitchen equipment
- Beginner-friendly
- Time-saving meals
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Quick Cooks provides quick and simple recipes using minimal kitchen equipment. It is designed for anyone who wants to have the control of preparing their own meals, but has limited time and/or minimal space. Target audience includes students, young professionals, retirees, busy parents, and those just learning to cook for the first time.
What’s Cooking?
Discover recipes from top creators tailored to your mood and cravings. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps and videos to make delicious meals.
- Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, occasion
- Personalized recipe recommendations
- Save favorite recipes and creators
- Step-by-step cooking videos
- Build recipe collections
- Search cooking history
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What’s Cooking brings you recipes from top creators for every meal, mood, and craving, even tonight’s dinner. Discover new dishes, save your favorites, and start cooking with easy-to-follow steps and simple videos. Find What You’re Craving Search by meal, mood, diet, or occasion. Quickly pull up your saved dishes, cooking history, favorite creators, and more. Cooking Made Personal Get recipes handpicked for your tastes. Find the creators you love and dishes you’ll want to cook again and again. Scroll, Save, Cook Endless food inspiration with no distractions. Sort by trending, save your faves, and build collections that match your cravings. Real Recipes, Real Cooks Follow step-by-step videos from real creators in real kitchens. Make their dishes your own—or create something totally new.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Cooks at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.1. Quick Cooks also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and device support (3 vs 1). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (78 vs 13). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quick Cooks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s Cooking? has 78 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Quick Cooks's written reviews are positive against 59% of What’s Cooking?'s.
Quick Cooks ships an update every 13 months, What’s Cooking? every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Cooks | What’s Cooking? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | 4.1 (78 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 59.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Plants Over Animals, LLC | Kraft New Services, Inc. |
Customer experience
Quick Cooks
What’s Cooking?
Bugs and requests
Quick Cooks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
What’s Cooking?
Reported bugs
7 issues- App gets stuck on name/email subscription page
- Won't let user click continue after update
- Keeps reloading email subscription page
- Doesn't change page when 'next' is clicked
- App forces an update but no update available in App Store
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- App keeps loading
- App is asking to update but there is no update
Requested features
14 requests- Increase number of preferences per category
- More videos of different foods
- More creators
- Add new recipes more frequently
- Add a search bar
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- Add comment sections
- Add ratings
- Add more allergy filters
- Add measurement conversion options
- Add more cultural foods (Arabic, Indian, Filipino)
- Add Halal dietary restrictions
- Add more diversity in recipes and cuisines
- Add miso ramen recipe
- Add specific diet preferences
In-app purchases
Quick Cooks
No in-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Quick Cooks free?
Is What’s Cooking? free?
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