What's The Dish? vs Batch Recipe Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
What's The Dish?
Discover and save recipes shared by a community of users and developers. Organize your favorite dishes for quick access from the home screen after signing in.
- Access community recipes
- Save favorite recipes
- Quick recipe access
- User-generated content
- Developer contributions
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A recipe application. Have access to everyone's recipes that uses the application. Keep your favorites, and have quick access to all your recipes from the home screen if you Sign In. Only users input recipes and sometimes the Devs. Keep an eye out on What's the Dish.
Batch Recipe Box
Easily save recipes from any source, including social media and text messages. Organize your cooking with a hands-free cook mode, integrated grocery lists, and a weekly meal planner. Share recipes as vintage cards or collaborate with family.
- Save recipes from any source
- Hands-free cook mode
- Automatic grocery list generation
- Weekly meal planning calendar
- Shareable vintage recipe cards
- Family sharing and collaboration
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Description Batch is a recipe box built for how people actually cook today pulled from TikTok, Instagram, a friend's text, or your own kitchen notes. SAVE ANY RECIPE Add a title, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions. Attach photos to the finished dish or to individual steps. Paste text you copied from anywhere and Batch automatically splits it into a clean ingredient or instruction list — no retyping bullet points by hand. COOK MODE Step through a recipe hands-free with large, easy-to-read steps, photos for each stage, and built-in timers. Batch notifies you the moment something's ready, even if your phone is locked. GROCERY LIST Pull ingredients straight from any saved recipe into one shopping list. Check items off as you shop, edit anything by hand, and clear the list when you're done. MEAL SCHEDULE Plan your week across an actual calendar view — pick recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, Monday through Sunday. SHARE A RECIPE Turn any recipe into a vintage-styled recipe card you can save, text to a friend, or print. FAMILY MODE Share your entire recipe box, grocery list, and meal calendar with up to 4 people, live — perfect for a household planning meals together. Everyone sees the same recipes and the same week, updated in real time. Prefer to keep things private? Solo Mode keeps everything on your device only, no account needed. Batch is free to use, in both modes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Batch Recipe Box at every 2 days against What's The Dish?'s every 7 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. 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 What's The Dish? against 5.0 for Batch Recipe Box. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
What's The Dish? ships an update every 7 months, Batch Recipe Box every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | What's The Dish? | Batch Recipe Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tara Cellery | IAN JOSEPH CHIODO |
Customer experience
What's The Dish?
Batch Recipe Box
In-app purchases
What's The Dish?
No in-app purchases
Batch Recipe Box
No in-app purchases
Questions
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