Scale for food vs Kitchen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scale for food
This utility app helps users determine the weight of common food items in grams based on the container used. It's designed to assist with precise recipe creation by providing accurate measurements for ingredients like milk, flour, and sugar.
- Calculate food weight in grams
- Supports common foods (milk, flour, sugar)
- Measures for various containers (spoon, cup, glass)
- Useful for recipe creation
- Accurate ingredient measurements
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Scale for food calculate the weight in grams of the most common foods (like milk, flour, olive oil, sugar, salt and more) for a specific container (spoon, teaspoon, glass, cup, ladle and more). Useful for creating your favorite recipes. Enjoy your meal!
Kitchen
Quickly convert kitchen measurements like volume and weight. Easily handle fractions, decimals, and temperature conversions. Save custom settings for recipes.
- Volume conversions (tablespoons to milliliters)
- Weight conversions (grams)
- Temperature conversions (Celsius/Fahrenheit)
- Fraction and decimal input
- Customizable recipe settings
- Result multiplication/division
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Fastest way to convert units used in the kitchen. (Only 2 taps to convert 5 tablespoons to milliliters.) No more clumsy scrolling to pick the unit you want out of hundreds of choices. Its innovative input method allows you to enter values as fractions or decimals. Fast, easy, and flexible! Weighing ingredients instead of using spoons and cups is more accurate and easier, especially for things like honey and ketchup. The app makes the conversion to grams a breeze. Easily divide or multiply the result. Encounter recipes that use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit? It makes the conversion in a snap! Always forgetting what temperature your favorite cookie recipe calls for? You can store custom temperature settings along with baking times. This is a no-nonsense, highly streamlined app designed specifically for all your measurement needs in the kitchen. For Subscriber Agreement and other policies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ For privacy policy: https://www.old-mountain-studio.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kitchen at 5.0 against Scale for food's 2.8. Kitchen also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 months vs every 24 months). Scale for food's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.7). On price 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
Both are free to download. Kitchen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Scale for food asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively.
Scale for food ships an update every 24 months, Kitchen every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scale for food | Kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raffaele Amuso | Takehito Furuyama |
Customer experience
Scale for food
Kitchen
In-app purchases
Scale for food
No in-app purchases
Kitchen
- All Access$0.991 Month
- All Access$1.991 Year
- All Access$4.99
Questions
Is Scale for food free?
Is Kitchen free?
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