Comparison

The Doctor’s Kitchen vs Nala's Kitchen

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

Head to head
About

The Doctor’s Kitchen

Discover thousands of doctor-approved recipes for healthy, balanced meals. Plan your week with personalized recommendations, automatic meal planning, and shopping lists. Support your health goals with evidence-based nutrition.

Highlights
  • Doctor-approved recipes
  • Personalized meal recommendations
  • Automatic meal planner
  • Shopping lists
  • Evidence-based health goals
  • Step-by-step images
  • Learn section on nutrition
Features
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Take the hassle out of cooking healthy, balanced meals and discover 1000s of doctor-approved, simple delicious, recipes to cook at home. Plan meals with tailored recipe recommendations, personalised to your dietary and health needs. Search high protein meals, freezable recipes and many more categories. No weird ingredients that you don’t recognise. Cook recipes that give you variety and balance and are simple to make for healthy mid-week meals, batch cooking and lots more. Try the automatic meal planner with shopping lists that makes healthy eating easy as well as saving you time and money. Use our recipes to support your health goals such as reducing inflammation, supporting your gut health and improving energy levels. Our delicious recipes help you eat more varied and balanced meals that everyone in your household will love. The Doctor’s Kitchen has got you covered. No more searching “what to eat for …”. Whether it’s eating to support your skin health, protecting your brain health or longevity, our research team have done all the hard work for you. We review 1000s of nutrition papers to determine which ingredients and dietary patterns you should be eating that align with your health goals. Eat well everyday with Doctor’s Kitchen, the app created by Dr Rupy Aujla, a medical doctor and a nutritionist, who creates delicious recipes using the latest evidence. We are on a mission to make everyone healthier and happier with delicious tasting food. Join the 10,000s of people that have committed to Doctor’s Kitchen recipes and improved their energy levels, sleep, weight and wellbeing one plate at a time. We take a different approach to nutrition and health. Instead of just counting calories or macronutrients like a lot of other apps, we focus on the overall quality of the recipe we create by paying attention to the unique combination of ingredients, the portions of vegetables in each meal as well as inflammation balance as determined by the science. You’ll learn about prebiotic rich foods, high protein foods, the importance of plant points and lots more in our “Learn” section. DOWNLOAD and get started today. Explore our delicious food for better health. Cancel anytime. WHY US? • Evidence based health goals Eating for your health has never been easier or more delicious. Simply choose your health goals and explore the library of incredible recipes to cook that have been formulated using the latest nutritional medicine evidence base. We review thousands of studies to distil the ingredients and patterns of eating that align with your health goals and are seamlessly integrated into the recipes you see • Step by step images With over 1000 recipes, each with step-by-step images, you can effortlessly cook our research backed meals. It’s as easy as healthy eating gets • New recipes We are adding 15 new recipes every month to keep it fresh and vibrant, plus creating seasonal collections of meals to keep it aligned to our principles of eating high nutrient quality ingredients that are accessible and affordable • Build favourites Our library of recipes is extensive. With collections you can build libraries of your favourite meals such as breakfasts, smoothies or even your go to snacks! • Adjustable serving sizes Cooking for more people? Simply change the serving sizes in-app for the correct ingredient amounts. • Share ingredients Share to your notes, friends or text message app the ingredients you need for your recipes in a few clicks • Search using ingredients Have an ingredient you want to use up? Simply use our search function to find recipes that use the ingredient for you to use • Filter recipes effortlessly Whatever your allergens, dislikes or dietaries you can browse our library of recipes tailored for you, as well as still out the full library at the click of a button on the screen Terms and Conditions: https://www.thedoctorskitchen.com/legal/terms.php

About

Nala's Kitchen

Organize your household with shared lists for groceries, recipes, meal plans, and inventory. Syncs across devices for seamless collaboration. Integrates with Siri for hands-free updates.

Highlights
  • Shared shopping lists
  • Household recipe library
  • Meal planning
  • Pantry inventory tracking
  • Family calendar integration
  • Siri integration
  • Bin day reminders
Features
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Nala is the shared home organiser for the people you actually live with. One household, one set of lists and recipes, kept in step on everyone's devices. EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF Shopping, recipes, meal plans, pantry inventories, family calendars and the bin days — in one place, shared with everyone in the house. A RECIPE BOOK FOR THE WHOLE HOUSEHOLD Keep every dish you cook in one shared library. Write a recipe, paste a link to a recipe page, or open one someone sent you from Nala. Sort recipes into collections, mark favourites, and scale any recipe up or down — every amount changes with it. Put a recipe on the meal plan, or send its ingredients to the shopping list in a tap. A LIST THAT SORTS ITSELF Type the way you'd say it. Nala reads the quantity, fixes the odd typo, and files each item under the right aisle. Add "2 lemons" and it lands under Produce, already counted. MEAL PLANS THAT SURVIVE REAL LIFE Drop meals onto days and drag them around when plans change. Attach a recipe and a note to any meal. Flag a meal as frozen and Nala reminds you the night before. KEEP TRACK OF THE CUPBOARD Count the cupboard, fridge and freezer. Run something down to zero and it's on the shopping list with a tap. EVERYONE, IN SYNC Invite the people you live with and everything appears on their devices too. Add milk in the kitchen and it's on their list before they reach the shop. Everyone uses their own Apple Account — there's no Nala account to make. ASK SIRI "What's for dinner?" "Add pasta to the Costco list." Nala answers and acts through Siri, and your lists, meals, inventory and recipes turn up in Spotlight. Type or say several things at once — "eggs, bread and two milk" — and each lands on the list on its own. BINS AND CALENDARS Set your collection schedule once and see what goes out tonight on the home screen, beside events from the family calendars you choose. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD A home screen widget for today's meals, a share extension for recipes you find on the web, and five accent colours to make it yours. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Nala has no accounts, no analytics and no ads. Everything syncs through your own private iCloud, using Apple's CloudKit — we can't see any of it. Smart features use Apple Intelligence, on your device wherever possible, with no third-party services. NALA PRO Nala is free, and everything above stays free, including the recipe library, unlimited households and sharing with everyone you live with. Nala Pro is one optional payment that unlocks seven extras, for the lifetime of the app. No subscription: • Cook now — follow a recipe step by step with the screen kept awake, and step timers that ring like the Clock app and run on your Lock Screen. • Scan recipes — photograph a cookbook page and Nala reads the title, ingredients and method into a recipe, and lets you fix anything it got wrong. • Bring your recipes — move your collection over from Paprika, collections and photos included, or import recipes from PDFs. • Nutrition — calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving, worked out from each recipe's ingredients on your iPhone. • Siri & Reminders — two-way sync with Apple Reminders, so "Hey Siri, add milk to my shopping list" works everywhere, including HomePod. • Meals in your calendar — mirror the meal plan into its own calendar. • Talk to your list — say everything in one go, fix it as you talk ("actually, make that three"), and check it before it goes on the list. Try Pro free for 14 days — no payment details, nothing renews. Family Sharing is supported, so one purchase covers your whole family group. Nala needs an iCloud account to sync between devices and household members. Camera access is used only for scanning recipes, the microphone only for voice input (recognised on your device), Alarms only so cooking timers can ring, and Reminders and Calendar only for the Pro sync features. All are optional and asked for only when you use the feature.

Screenshots

The Doctor’s Kitchen4 screens
Nala's Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nala's Kitchen at every 5 days against The Doctor’s Kitchen's every 2 months. Nala's Kitchen also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%). The Doctor’s Kitchen's advantage is chart position (#39 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. The Doctor’s Kitchen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Nala's Kitchen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Doctor’s Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, Nala's Kitchen every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
The Doctor’s Kitchen versus Nala's Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Doctor’s KitchenNala's Kitchen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (291 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings291 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#39 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDoctor's Kitchen Digital LtdFred Whitten

Customer experience

The Doctor’s Kitchen

All ratings272 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative11.9%

Nala's Kitchen

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

The Doctor’s Kitchen

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App frequently shows offline when user is online
  • Issues with saving dietary preferences and filters
  • Subscription charges not always processed correctly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add ability to add own notes to recipes
  • Improve recipe search and filtering options
  • Implement meal planning and shopping list features
  • Expand breakfast and snack recipe selection
  • Include more recipes with eggs and dairy
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  • Add sodium information for health-conscious users

Nala's Kitchen

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

The Doctor’s Kitchen

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Quarterly subscription7 Days trial$37.993 Months
  • Annual subscription7 Days trial$109.991 Year
1 purchases

Nala's Kitchen

One-time1
  • Nala Pro$4.99

Questions

Is The Doctor’s Kitchen free?
The Doctor’s Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nala's Kitchen free?
Nala's Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Doctor’s Kitchen or Nala's Kitchen have ads?
Neither The Doctor’s Kitchen nor Nala's Kitchen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Doctor’s Kitchen or Nala's Kitchen?
The Doctor’s Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, and Nala's Kitchen every 5 days. Most recently, The Doctor’s Kitchen was updated on October 30, 2026 and Nala's Kitchen on October 17, 2026.

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