Recipes vs ItsChefTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recipes
Consolidate your favorite recipes and grocery lists into a single, organized digital cookbook. Easily import recipes from the web and create smart shopping lists categorized by aisle for faster, stress-free meal planning and preparation.
- Save and organize recipes
- Import recipes from the web
- Create smart grocery lists
- Sync across devices with iCloud
- Light & Dark Mode support
- Customizable recipe folders
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Save recipes from websites, social posts, cookbooks, and cooking videos in one personal cookbook. Organize your favorites, follow each cooking step, and turn ingredients into a grocery list—all on iPhone and iPad. SAVE THE RECIPES YOU WANT TO COOK • Import recipes from websites and supported public links, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest • Save recipes from screenshots, photos, and saved cooking videos • Scan printed recipes, recipe cards, and cookbook pages—even across multiple pages • Share content directly to Recipes from other apps, or paste copied recipe text • Review and edit imported recipes before saving MAKE YOUR COOKBOOK YOUR OWN • Create recipes with photos, ingredients, directions, cooking times, servings, and notes • Organize your collection into folders with custom colors and icons • Find recipes by title, author, ingredient, or words in the directions • Keep your cookbook synced between iPhone and iPad with iCloud COOK WITH LESS BACK-AND-FORTH • Adjust servings and scale ingredient quantities • Check off ingredients and directions as you cook • Tap ingredient names in directions to see their amounts • Tap cooking times to start timers, with support for multiple timers • Follow timers from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Keep your screen awake while viewing a recipe FROM RECIPE TO GROCERY LIST • Add selected ingredients, including scaled quantities, directly to your list • Find groceries automatically grouped into familiar categories • See which recipe each item belongs to • Add your own items, check them off while shopping, and share your list READY WHEN YOU NEED IT Find recipes with Spotlight, open them with Siri, and use Shortcuts to add groceries or begin an import. Share or print complete recipes, and cook comfortably in Light or Dark Mode. Bring your saved recipes together—and make your next meal easier to plan, shop for, and cook. Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/therecipesapp/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/therecipesapp/privacy-policy
ItsChefTime
Manage your recipes with ease, create custom entries with photos and steps, and share them as PDFs or in-app links. Enjoy an immersive cooking mode with automatic ingredient check-off and organize your collection with folders. This app offers a seamless culinary experience without ads or internet dependency.
- Create and customize recipes with photos and steps
- Share recipes via PDF or in-app links
- Immersive cooking mode with ingredient check-off
- Organize recipes with folders
- Offline access
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Discover Culinary Freedom with ItsChefTime: Your Ultimate Recipe Management App. Craft beautiful recipes effortlessly, share with friends and family in-app or as PDFs. Enjoy an immersive cooking mode that checks off ingredients as you go. Organize your recipes with folders. Zero ads. Zero waiting for the internet to load. Embrace your inner chef. It's Chef Time! Key Features 1. Make and Customize Your Recipes Load up your recipe with photos, including steps for a beautiful presentation. Describe your recipe in the about, add ingredients, and even assign ingredients to steps. 2. Share Recipes In-App or as PDF Share your recipes as PDFs through message apps, airdrop, or even save to your device or cloud. Share your recipes as links through message apps, that open the app and automatically download and install right into your recipes. 3. Enter Immersive Cooking Enter a mode for cooking your recipe, with auto-ingredient and step checkoff along the way. 4. Organize Your Recipes Create and compose folders to house your recipes. Scroll through all your recipes, favorites, or recently deleted with automatically generated folders. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.id-design.com/cheftime_legal/use_of_terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Recipes at 47 against ItsChefTime's 2. ItsChefTime's advantage is iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads 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. Recipes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and ItsChefTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ItsChefTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipes has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Recipes | ItsChefTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ethan Hannah | ID-DESIGN INC. |
Customer experience
Recipes
ItsChefTime
In-app purchases
Recipes
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$9.991 Year
ItsChefTime
- Tri-Monthly$4.993 Months
- Yearly$9.991 Year









