Umami vs Cooked.wiki
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Umami
Collect, organize, and share recipes from any device. Create collaborative recipe books, import from websites, and plan meals with interactive cooking modes and shared grocery lists. Export your data in various formats.
- Recipe import from websites
- Collaborative recipe books
- Organize with tags
- Interactive cook mode
- Shared grocery lists
- Meal planning calendar
- Web access and export
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Umami is a beautifully designed app to collect, organize, and share recipes from any device. Collaborate Create a recipe book of your favorite family recipes and invite your family members to work on it with you. Or, start a recipe book with a friend so you can share the pastries and desserts you've made together over the years. Organize and Manage Tag your recipes with things like "Vegetarian", "Dessert", or "Baking" so you can easily find the perfect recipe for any occasion. Browse and Import Open the recipe browser to automatically import recipes from popular sites or paste the URL of a recipe you want to add. Cook Mode Get in the zone by tapping the "Start Cooking" button on any recipe to see an interactive checklist of ingredients as well as step-by-step directions. Grocery Lists Create shared lists with family and friends, add groceries directly from your recipes, and automatically organize items by aisle or by recipe. Meal Plans Schedule your recipes in a dynamic calendar view. Pull down to see meals for the whole month, or swipe up to collapse the calendar into a single week. Access and Edit Online Manage all of your recipes from any computer by going to umami.recipes on your web browser. Export Your data is yours. You can export your recipes as PDF, Markdown, HTML, Plain Text, or Recipe JSON Schema. Share Easily create links to share recipes with friends. They will be able to read your recipe online, even if they don't have the app! Pricing Umami is free for the first 30 days. After the trial period, you can purchase a monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscription. You can always view and export your recipes, even after your trial has expired. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Cooked.wiki
Learn to cook with visual guides and voice instructions. This app offers personalized recipe notes and a social feed to share your culinary creations with friends and discover new dishes.
- Step-by-step diagrams
- Voice-guided instructions
- Personal recipe notes
- Follow friends
- Discover user recipes
- Accessibility tools
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Cooked helps you learn how to cook through step-by-step diagrams, voice-guided instructions, and many other smart accessibility tools. You can also add personal notes to your recipes. Cooked is social too: follow friends, explore their takes on your recipes, and discover what others are cooking. Designed for learning and accessibility in mind, Cooked is the cooking app for curious home cooks. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cooked.wiki/terms/pp.txt
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Verdict
Umami and Cooked.wiki both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Umami's written reviews are positive against 73% of Cooked.wiki's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Umami sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Cooked.wiki sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Umami against 4.9 for Cooked.wiki. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 483 and 377 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Umami's written reviews are positive against 73% of Cooked.wiki's.
Umami ships an update every 2 weeks, Cooked.wiki every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Umami | Cooked.wiki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (483 ratings) | 4.9 (377 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.4% of reviews — better | 72.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 483 — better | 377 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #81 — better | #136 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strange Quark LLC | Eduardo Ferreira Constancio Bentes Goncalves |
Customer experience
Umami
Cooked.wiki
Bugs and requests
Umami
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional issues with recipe import and syncing
- Trouble accessing account after device change
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to rate recipes
- Option to view full-screen recipe on tablet/iPad
- Ability to create sub-folders within cookbooks
- Improved TikTok/Instagram recipe import
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- Customizable ingredient measurements
Cooked.wiki
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Umami
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual$9.991 Year
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- Annual$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime$59.99
Cooked.wiki
- Patron Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Patron Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Patron Monthly$8.991 Month
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- Patron Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Patron Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Patron Yearly$54.001 Year
