Comparison

Recipes vs ItsChefTime

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Recipes4 screens
ItsChefTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recipes versus ItsChefTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipesItsChefTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (47 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB34 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperEthan HannahID-DESIGN INC.

Customer experience

Recipes

All ratings47 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ItsChefTime

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Recipes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
2 purchases

ItsChefTime

Subscriptions2
  • Tri-Monthly$4.993 Months
  • Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Recipes free?
Recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ItsChefTime free?
ItsChefTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recipes or ItsChefTime?
ItsChefTime is rated higher. Recipes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while ItsChefTime averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Recipes or ItsChefTime have ads?
Neither Recipes nor ItsChefTime shows ads.

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