Comparison

SmartCooking vs PlanBite

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

Head to head
About

SmartCooking

Features
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- Du hast bestimmte Zutaten und weißt nicht was du damit kreieren kannst? SmartCooking findet Rezepte basierend auf deinen ausgewählten Zutaten und deinen persönlichen Präferenzen. - Verwirrung beim Kochen? SmartCooking zeigt dir was beim Kochen zu tun ist - Schritt für Schritt durch das Rezept. - Dir fehlen Zutaten? SmartCooking erstellt dir automatisch deine Einkaufsliste! Sei dabei und teile deine Kreationen mit deinen FreundInnen!

About

PlanBite

Discover and create delicious recipes from home. This app helps you plan meals, generate shopping lists, and follow visual cooking guides. Share your culinary creations and connect with a community of home cooks.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery and creation
  • Automatic shopping list generation
  • Visual step-by-step cooking guides
  • Meal planning
  • Recipe sharing with friends and family
  • Community recipe exploration
Features
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Home cooking. Only a few things are so impactful on your health and wellbeing. We think you can cook anything from the comfort of your home. You just need an assistant and PlanBite is here for you. Explore, experiment and enjoy delicious recipes from our inspiring creators. You're cooking creative and amazing meals? Then show the world your recipes through PlanBite. • Know what your food contains. Avoid foods with high sugar, fat and salt content. Skip on preservatives by preparing most things by yourself. • Buy local, seasonal and sustainably-sourced foods. Reduce food waste by being in control of the groceries you buy and the foods you prepare. • Spend quality time with friends and family while enjoying healthy and delicious dishes prepared together. But why aren’t all people cooking at home and enjoying those and many more benefits? And the real question: how does PlanBite solves those problems? • It’s hard to decide what to cook. So many options on so many websites and it's hard to search for criterias you would like. You often forget recipes. • Hard to find again that one recipe you cooked 2 months ago and tasted real good. • You don’t know wh - Recipes. Add your favorite recipes to PlanBite. Share recipes with friends and family. Explore recipes from our creators. Coming soon: Support creators directly inside the app. • You don’t know which groceries to buy for the recipes you want. • It is time consuming and you still keep forgetting stuff when in the grocery store. - Automatic shopping list with images for all your planned recipes. Add non-food related items too. Everybody in a household can edit this shopping list. Just go in the store and buy everything without much thinking. Coming soon: Online groceries shopping. • You don’t know how to prepare the food. • You don’t want to scroll through a website with ads or use a heavy cookbook while cooking. • You don’t know if you are properly following the steps because there are no images to compare with. - Visual step-by-step guides to properly prepare every dish, no matter how hard. • It’s hard sharing the home cooking and grocery shopping tasks between household members. • You need to call someone while grocery shopping to know if you are buying the right items. - Share recipes, week plans, shopping lists and more with your friends and family by creating groups. Our journey is just starting. Join us. Use the PlanBite app. Upload your recipes. Go grocery shopping with PlanBite. Share recipes with the community.

Screenshots

SmartCooking4 screens
PlanBite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SmartCooking at none against PlanBite's 2. SmartCooking also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads and device support 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. PlanBite sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SmartCooking asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartCooking ships an update every 6 days, PlanBite every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
SmartCooking versus PlanBite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartCookingPlanBite
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften St. Polten GmbHStojanov Ventures UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

None

SmartCooking

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PlanBite

Subscriptions2
  • PlanBite Premium 1 Month$4.991 Month
  • PlanBite Premium 1 Year$48.991 Year

Questions

Is SmartCooking free?
SmartCooking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlanBite free?
PlanBite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SmartCooking or PlanBite have ads?
Neither SmartCooking nor PlanBite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartCooking or PlanBite?
SmartCooking ships an update every 6 days, and PlanBite every 2 weeks. Most recently, SmartCooking was updated on October 10, 2026 and PlanBite on October 8, 2026.

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