Comparison

CHEF iQ vs Simmmer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CHEF iQ

This app acts as a culinary companion for smart cooking appliances, offering guided recipes, remote control, and ingredient shopping. It connects users with a community of home cooks and provides over-the-air updates for enhanced features.

Highlights
  • Remote appliance control
  • Thousands of pre-programmed settings
  • Guided cooking recipes with videos
  • Instacart integration for ingredient delivery
  • Save favorite recipes and configurations
  • Appliance sharing with friends and family
  • Community forum for cooks
Features
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Welcome to CHEF iQ®, your ultimate culinary companion designed to elevate your cooking experience. Embrace the art of cooking smarter, not harder, with an app that empowers seasoned chefs and kitchen novices. Join our vibrant community of home cooks and embark on a journey toward culinary mastery. COOK SMARTER, NOT HARDER At CHEF iQ®, we believe in simplifying the cooking process while enhancing your confidence in the kitchen. Our app is meticulously crafted to guide you through every step, ensuring that every meal you create is worth sharing. COOK CONTROL Take command of your CHEF iQ® smart cooking appliances effortlessly. With real-time monitoring and notifications, stay in control of your culinary creations no matter where you are. TIMES & TEMPS Unlock thousands of pre-programmed control settings to achieve optimal results with ease. From precise cooking times to ideal temperatures, our app provides the guidance you need to cook like a pro. GUIDED COOKING RECIPES Delve into a treasure trove of expertly curated recipes seamlessly integrated with CHEF iQ® appliances. With step-by-step instructions and professional videos, discover new culinary delights and master your favorite dishes with confidence. SHOP FOR INGREDIENTS Found a recipe you love but are missing a few key ingredients? No problem. Schedule a delivery through our Instacart integration and have everything you need at your doorstep in as little as one hour. FAVORITES Save your favorite recipes and cooking configurations for easy access. Track your culinary adventures and revisit past successes with just a tap. APPLIANCE SHARING Share the joy of cooking with friends and family by inviting them to collaborate on your culinary creations. With appliance sharing, cooking becomes a communal experience like never before. COMMUNITY OF COOKS Engage with fellow chefs, share your thoughts on recipes, and glean valuable tips from our growing community. Together, we can inspire and support each other on our culinary journeys. OVER THE AIR UPDATES Stay ahead of the curve by constantly improving the CHEF iQ® cooking experience. With over- the-air updates, you'll always have the latest features and enhancements. Discover the full suite of CHEF iQ® smart cooking appliances, each designed to streamline your cooking process and unlock new culinary possibilities: SMART COOKER The most capable cooker ever created. - Pressure & multi-cooker - Auto pressure release - 6-quart capacity - 1000s of presets -Built-in scale SMART THERMOMETER Never over or undercook your food again. - Speaker for audio alerts - Ambient alerts for temperature fluctuations - Live Graph display - Unlimited range connectivity over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth - Auto-calibrating sensors measure food's true lowest temp - Fast-charging hub iQ MINI OVEN Meal prep made easy for everyone. - Bake, air fry, toast, dehydrate, air sous vide, and more - Smart Thermometer interconnectivity - Guided rack lighting - Heavy-duty glide racks - Natural LED lighting - Soft-close door Ready to embark on your culinary adventure? Download the CHEF iQ® app today and join our community of passionate home cooks. Let's cook up something extraordinary together! support@chefiq.com https://chefiq.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@mychefiq https://www.instagram.com/mychefiq

About

Simmmer

This app helps you decide what to cook based on ingredients you already have. It provides step-by-step cooking instructions and can even import recipes from various online sources. Plan your meals for the week and generate organized shopping lists.

Highlights
  • Ingredient-based recipe suggestions
  • Step-by-step cooking guidance
  • Recipe import from web and media
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Aisle-sorted shopping lists
  • Allergy filtering
  • Recipe customization
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Cooking was never the hard part. Deciding was. Simmmer decides dinner with you, from what's already in your fridge. Snap the fridge, the cupboard and the counter, or just type what you've got, and Simmmer finds real dishes you can make tonight. Pick one, and it walks you through cooking it, one calm step at a time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Start from your kitchen. What can I make? turns a photo of your fridge, or a few typed words, into five dishes for tonight. Pick one and the full recipe is ready in about half a minute, checked against your allergies before you see it. • Decide by the night you're having. Tell Simmmer how much time, energy and cleanup you have, and it ranks recipes by how well they fit. • Cook one step at a time. Cooking mode shows each step with exactly what it uses, timers that can run side by side, and a screen that stays awake while your hands are busy. Stuck on a substitution? Ask Simmmer mid-recipe and get a straight answer. • Plan the week (Premium). Plan my week fills your dinners from your saved recipes, new ideas or both, and Swap changes one in a tap. • Shop from one list. A recipe or a planned week becomes one shopping list, sorted in the order you walk the store. • Bring your recipes in. Paste a link from a recipe blog, TikTok, YouTube, or an Instagram video whose caption has the recipe, and it becomes a clean, follow-along recipe that's yours. Snap a cookbook page, a handwritten card or a screenshot, and Simmmer reads that too. • Make any recipe yours. Spicier, lighter, vegetarian or dairy-free, as a new recipe of your own. Snap what you made and your photo becomes that recipe's picture, just for you. • Set allergies once. Recipes with your allergens simply don't appear, and anything you open by link says plainly what's in it. Dishes eaten raw carry a clear warning, and every meat and fish step in the library says how to tell it's done. • Real recipes. Over 1,000 of them, each with a photo and nutrition from USDA data. Log what you ate from a photo of your plate or its label. FREE AND PREMIUM Simmmer is free to use: search the whole library ten times a day, save up to 30 recipes, keep a 40-item shopping list sorted by aisle, and bring in 8 recipes of your own. The free plan also gives you a taste of what Simmmer can do for you: a few recipes cooked up from what you have, fridge scans and cooking questions. Simmmer Premium lifts the free plan's limits, plans your week, cooks up more recipes from what you have, and adds offline recipes, your whole cooking history, deeper nutrition and accent colors. Premium starts with a free two-week trial, so you can try all of it before paying anything. Simmmer Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. It begins with a 14-day free trial, then renews at $6.99/month or $59.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when the free trial ends (or at purchase, if you've had a Simmmer trial before), and each period renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel during the trial and you are not charged. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.simmmer.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.simmmer.com/privacy

Screenshots

CHEF iQ4 screens
Simmmer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CHEF iQ at none against Simmmer's 2. CHEF iQ also leads on ratings volume (35K vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Simmmer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Simmmer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. CHEF iQ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simmmer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CHEF iQ has 35K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CHEF iQ ships an update every 3 weeks, Simmmer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CHEF iQ versus Simmmer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCHEF iQSimmmer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (35K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings35K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRJ Brands, LLCSimmmer LLC

Customer experience

CHEF iQ

All ratings34,437 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews604 reviews
Positive42.5%
Neutral11.9%
Negative45.5%

Simmmer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

CHEF iQ

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Firmware update failures
  • Inability to connect to WiFi
  • Incorrect temperature conversions
  • Cooking time and liquid amount miscalculations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Live Activity support for cooking status
  • Ability to adjust temperature and time during cooking
  • Cooking history and data tracking
  • Landscape mode support for iPad
  • More generic cooking options beyond recipes

Simmmer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CHEF iQ

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Simmmer

Subscriptions2
  • Simmmer Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Simmmer Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is CHEF iQ free?
CHEF iQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simmmer free?
Simmmer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CHEF iQ or Simmmer?
Simmmer is rated higher. CHEF iQ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 35K ratings, while Simmmer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CHEF iQ or Simmmer have ads?
Neither CHEF iQ nor Simmmer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CHEF iQ or Simmmer?
CHEF iQ ships an update every 3 weeks, and Simmmer every 2 months. Most recently, CHEF iQ was updated on October 27, 2026 and Simmmer on October 25, 2026.

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