HeadChef vs Chefem
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeadChef
This app connects you with personal chefs who prepare weekly meals in your home kitchen. Browse recipes, select a chef, and enjoy pre-portioned, ready-to-eat meals.
- Choose from hundreds of recipes
- Add your own recipes
- Chef brings groceries
- Chef cooks and cleans
- Meals packaged for fridge/freezer
- Select chefs with specialties
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Delegate Your Weekly Meal Prep For $40/hour! Enjoy the delights of a personal chef in your own home kitchen every week, all managed through our beautiful app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose Your Chef and Recipes: Use our iPhone or iPad app to choose from hundreds of recipes or add your own 2. Chef Arrives with Groceries: Your chef arrives with fresh groceries the day of your cook date 3. Chef Cooks and Cleans: Your chef cooks in your kitchen and cleans everything after 4. Enjoy a Week of Meals! All meals are packaged in our fridge & freezer-ready boxes. OUR CHEFS Make Our Professionals Part of Your Family: Choose from our many chefs with different specialties, years of experience, training at the best culinary schools
Chefem
Discover local chefs who can prepare a variety of dishes and cuisines in your own kitchen. Choose your ingredients and enjoy fresh, home-cooked meals without restaurant delivery. Professionals and amateurs can showcase their skills to find clients.
- Find local chefs
- In-home cooking
- Customizable ingredients
- Chef profile showcase
- In-app chat for booking
- Discover recipes
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Chefem connects you to a wide variety of chefs who can cook multiple tasty dishes and cuisines in your kitchen at your convenience. Instead of getting food delivered from restaurants you can decide your own quality ingredients and have your own chef cook at your home for a fresh home cooked meal. Our app can help professional and amateur chefs to register their profile showcasing their cooking skills that includes cuisines and images of dishes. The chefs can then be discovered and contacted by customers via chat to decide on schedule and cost. As a customer you can discover and enjoy many recipes at the convenience of your home cooked fresh.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chefem at none against HeadChef's shown. Chefem also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). HeadChef's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HeadChef against 5.0 for Chefem. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | HeadChef | Chefem |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HeadChef, Inc. | Umapad Sahani |
Customer experience
HeadChef
Chefem
In-app purchases
HeadChef
No in-app purchases
Chefem
No in-app purchases









