HomeCooked Recipes vs GoToMeals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeCooked Recipes
Easily save, organize, and discover recipes from various sources, including websites and manual input. Enjoy a hands-free cooking experience with innovative hand-tracking technology. Share your culinary creations and explore new flavors from a community of food lovers.
- Save recipes from web, images, PDFs, or manual input
- Hands-free cooking with hand-tracking
- Organize recipes with tags
- Discover and favorite recipes from others
- Edit and personalize saved recipes
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Discover HomeCooked Recipes, your ultimate destination for recipes of all types! Whether you’re a foodie, a home chef, or just love trying new dishes, our app lets you share, save, and discover incredible recipes with ease. Key Features: • Save recipes your way – as images, PDFs, or straight from a website, or type them in manually. • Hands-free cooking with our innovative hand-tracking feature for a seamless kitchen experience. • Organize & edit recipes using tags for easy discovery and personalization. • Explore new flavors by searching for recipes shared by others, and favorite them for future use. Bring the world’s best recipes right to your kitchen with HomeCooked Recipes – the home for all your culinary creations!
GoToMeals
Simplify meal planning with AI assistance. Generate weekly meal plans and grocery lists tailored to your family's preferences, pantry, and schedule. Reduce food waste and save time with smart automation.
- AI-powered meal planning
- Automated grocery list generation
- Customizable to family preferences
- Pantry and schedule integration
- Reduces food waste
- Saves time
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Take the stress out of meal planning with GoToMeals — the AI-powered way to plan weekly meals, create instant grocery lists, and keep your family happy at the dinner table. GoToMeals uses smart automation to help busy households save time and reduce food waste. Just pick your meals (or let the app suggest them), and we’ll generate a plan and grocery list in seconds — tailored to your family’s preferences, pantry, and schedule. GoToMeals is free to download but requires a monthly or yearly subscription (both include a 2 week free trial if you have not previously redeemed a free trial offer). Payment is charged to your App Store account at confirmation and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. Unused portions of a free trial or subscription period are non-refundable. Terms of Use: https://www.go-to-meals.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GoToMeals at 5.0 against HomeCooked Recipes's 4.1. GoToMeals also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). HomeCooked Recipes's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. HomeCooked Recipes sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and GoToMeals sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GoToMeals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of HomeCooked Recipes's written reviews are positive against 100% of GoToMeals's.
HomeCooked Recipes ships an update every 3 weeks, GoToMeals every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeCooked Recipes | GoToMeals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | — | #195 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kent Brady | THE PACIFIC COAST APPLICATION COMPANY LLC |
Customer experience
HomeCooked Recipes
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In-app purchases
HomeCooked Recipes
- HomeCooked Donation$0.991 Month
- Subscription Donation (Tier 2)$1.991 Month
- Subscription Donation (Tier 3)$2.991 Month
- One-Time Donation$0.99
- One-Time Donation (Tier 2)$1.99
- One-Time Donation (Tier 3)$2.99
GoToMeals
- Go To Meals Monthly Subscription$2.001 Month
- Go To Meals Annual Subscription14 Days trial$20.001 Year
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