Comparison

Kitchen Stock vs What’s Cooking?

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

Head to head

Kitchen Stock

Meals, shopping & inventory!

Crave it, find it, make it.

Free

🍔 Food & Drink

★ 4.079 ratingsView app →

About

Kitchen Stock

Features

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KItchen Stock - a better way to manage your cooking supplies and meal planning!

About

What’s Cooking?

Discover new recipes from top creators for any meal or craving. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps with simple videos to start cooking. Personalize your experience with handpicked dishes and collections.

Highlights

Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, or occasion
Save favorite recipes and creators
Step-by-step cooking videos
Personalized recipe recommendations
Build custom recipe collections
Search by trending recipes

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What’s Cooking brings you recipes from top creators for every meal, mood, and craving, even tonight’s dinner. Discover new dishes, save your favorites, and start cooking with easy-to-follow steps and simple videos. Find What You’re Craving Search by meal, mood, diet, or occasion. Quickly pull up your saved dishes, cooking history, favorite creators, and more. Cooking Made Personal Get recipes handpicked for your tastes. Find the creators you love and dishes you’ll want to cook again and again. Scroll, Save, Cook Endless food inspiration with no distractions. Sort by trending, save your faves, and build collections that match your cravings. Real Recipes, Real Cooks Follow step-by-step videos from real creators in real kitchens. Make their dishes your own—or create something totally new.

Screenshots

Kitchen Stock4 screens

What’s Cooking?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: What’s Cooking? at Free against Kitchen Stock's $1.99. What’s Cooking? also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). Kitchen Stock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

What’s Cooking? is free to download; Kitchen Stock costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kitchen Stock ships an update every 2 months, What’s Cooking? every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level

Kitchen Stock versus What’s Cooking?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	Kitchen Stock	What’s Cooking?
Price	$1.99	Free — better
Rating	—	4.0 (79 ratings) — better
Positive reviews	—	59.0% of reviews
Number of ratings	—	79 — better
Update frequency	Every 2 months	Every 4 weeks — better
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	No	No
Monetization	—	Free
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod — better	iPhone
Requires iOS	15.6 — better	16.4
Further details — not scored
Size	8 MB	114 MB
Age rating	4+	12+
Developer	Omni-Soft, Inc.	Kraft New Services, Inc.

Bugs and requests

Kitchen Stock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

What’s Cooking?

Reported bugs

7 issues

App gets stuck on name/email subscription page
Won't let user click continue after update
Keeps reloading email subscription page
Doesn't change page when 'next' is clicked
App forces an update but no update available in App Store

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App keeps loading
App is asking to update but there is no update

Requested features

14 requests

Increase number of preferences per category
More videos of different foods
More creators
Add new recipes more frequently
Add a search bar

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Add comment sections
Add ratings
Add more allergy filters
Add measurement conversion options
Add more cultural foods (Arabic, Indian, Filipino)
Add Halal dietary restrictions
Add more diversity in recipes and cuisines
Add miso ramen recipe
Add specific diet preferences

In-app purchases

None

Kitchen Stock

No in-app purchases

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kitchen Stock free?

Kitchen Stock costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.

Is What’s Cooking? free?

What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Do Kitchen Stock or What’s Cooking? have ads?

Neither Kitchen Stock nor What’s Cooking? shows ads.

Which is updated more often, Kitchen Stock or What’s Cooking??

Kitchen Stock ships an update every 2 months, and What’s Cooking? every 4 weeks. Most recently, Kitchen Stock was updated on November 3, 2026 and What’s Cooking? on November 3, 2026.