Comparison

Mindful Chef vs SoloCook

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

Head to head
About

Mindful Chef

Easily manage your healthy meal deliveries and subscription preferences. Choose recipes, adjust delivery dates, and update your details to receive fresh ingredients and delicious meals at your doorstep.

Highlights
  • Manage deliveries
  • Choose recipes
  • Skip deliveries
  • Manage subscription
  • Edit delivery details
  • Update personal info
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Eating healthy gets even easier with the Mindful Chef app. Manage your upcoming deliveries and subscription preferences in a few taps and we'll take care of getting healthy ingredients for delicious recipes to your doorstep. What’s possible on the app? - Choose recipes for your upcoming deliveries - Change the date or skip an upcoming delivery up to 4 weeks in advance - Manage all your delivery and food preferences and pause your subscription if needed - Edit your personal details, delivery address and contact preferences. Don't have a Mindful Chef account yet? Visit www.mindfulchef.com and sign up first before you can use this app. What makes Mindful Chef different? - UK’s highest rated recipe recipe box (compared to Hello Fresh, Green Chef and Gousto) - All recipes are 100% free from gluten and refined carbs, with many dairy-free options - We only use 100% British free-range chicken and sustainably caught fish - The UK's first recipe box to cater for vegans- Recipes for 1 person, 2 people and Families - Proud B Corp, working on sustainable packaging, reducing your food waste and donating meals to children living in poverty - and that's just the start!

About

SoloCook

Features
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SoloCook. Dinner, for one. Cooking apps are built for families. SoloCook isn't. No "serves 4." No meal-prep for twelve. No recipes that leave you eating the same lasagne for a week. Just dinner, for you, using what's already in your fridge. Open the app. Tap what you've got. Get the recipes you can actually cook tonight. THE QUIET CASE AGAINST DELIVERY A delivery order for one costs far more than cooking the same meal yourself. SoloCook counts every meal you make as one order you didn't place, and shows the running total on Home, in your own currency. The number is hard to ignore. WHAT'S IN THE APP • 17,000+ recipes from 20+ cuisines: Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, British, Greek, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, French, Caribbean, Filipino, Turkish, American, Polish, Russian, Portuguese and more. • Fridge-first search. Tap your ingredients, appliances and cuisines, and get a ranked list of what you can cook right now. Recipes you're one ingredient short on are flagged, so you know exactly what to pick up on the way home. • Fridge Scan. Point the camera at the open door and SoloCook ticks what it can see, from loose veg to leftovers. You confirm the list before anything changes. The photo is read, then discarded. • Say it instead. Tap the mic and list what you've got. Recognition runs on your phone and the audio never leaves it. • SoloCook Originals. Thousands of single-portion recipes written for the kit you actually own: hob, oven, microwave, air fryer, Ninja, slow cooker and more. • Cook mode. One step at a time in big type, with a timer on every step that needs one. • Recipes that scale. Cook for one, or for two with a single tap. • A streak counter. Cook a few days in a row and the app notices. Skip a day and it resets. It's a mirror, not a nag. • Share cards for Stories: dishes cooked, a weekly recap, a money-saved receipt and a streak on fire. • Bookmarks, dark mode, and a "won't eat" list so recipes with things you avoid never show up. QUIET BY DEFAULT Your pantry, streak and bookmarks live on your phone. No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No ads. No push notifications. Delete the app and everything goes with it. Data leaves your phone only when you share something through the share sheet, or choose to scan your fridge. That one photo is sent to be read, then discarded. Fridge Scan stays off until you say yes to it in the app. THE TONE The copy doesn't chirp at you. It doesn't say "You did it!" It says "Honour system, then. Logged." If that grates, this app isn't for you. EST. 2026 · FOR ONE · SOMETIMES TWO

Screenshots

Mindful Chef4 screens
SoloCook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mindful Chef at every 2 weeks against SoloCook's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindful Chef ships an update every 2 weeks, SoloCook every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mindful Chef versus SoloCook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindful ChefSoloCook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindful Chef LtdNishesh Jaiswal

Bugs and requests

Mindful Chef

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App constantly crashes
  • App crashes on startup
  • App won't open
  • App expires sessions too quickly
  • Password reset functionality through app doesn't work
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  • App fails to load Plenish Milks
  • App asks for login details frequently
  • Online chat doesn't understand/can't help
  • Error in recipe instructions

Requested features

10 requests
  • Ability to favorite recipes
  • Option to favorite recipes
  • Improve recipe readability (item by item)
  • Show selected meals at top when choosing date
  • Display recipe time with description
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  • Add option to double protein portion for single servings
  • Offer a delivery service for returning boxes
  • All ingredients to be organic
  • Improve packaging for fresh produce
  • More transparency on ingredients/recipes

SoloCook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mindful Chef

No in-app purchases

None

SoloCook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mindful Chef free?
Mindful Chef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SoloCook free?
SoloCook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mindful Chef or SoloCook have ads?
Neither Mindful Chef nor SoloCook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindful Chef or SoloCook?
Mindful Chef ships an update every 2 weeks, and SoloCook every 3 months. Most recently, Mindful Chef was updated on October 14, 2026 and SoloCook on October 8, 2026.

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