Comparison

Chowit vs What's For Dinner

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

Head to head
About

Chowit

Turn everyday purchases into reward dollars and unlock exclusive discounts. Easily pay, reload, and order ahead for quick pickup. Enjoy free favorites by spending your accumulated reward dollars.

Highlights
  • Level up rewards
  • Unlock exclusive perks
  • Redeem free favorites
  • Easy mobile payments
  • Order ahead for pickup
Features
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Chowit makes every purchase feel like a win. With cutting-edge mobile payment, ordering, loyalty, and gamified rewards, you can: • Level Up Your Rewards – Turn everyday purchases into reward dollars as you shop. • Unlock Exclusive Perks – Get discounts and offers made just for you. • Redeem Free Favorites – Spend Reward Dollars on the products you love. • Pay & Reload Easily – Simple, secure, and convenient mobile payments. • Skip the Wait – Order ahead for quick pickup in the cafe. **Features vary by location. Chowit is available exclusively at REFRESH express micro markets and full-service dining venues operated by American Food & Vending and American Dining Creations.

About

What's For Dinner

This app helps you decide what to cook by randomly selecting meals from your personalized list. It tracks what you've eaten to avoid repetition and can plan a week's worth of meals. Share your meal plan with your household and get quick answers to "What's for dinner?"

Highlights
  • Random meal selection
  • Meal planning for the week
  • Tracks recently cooked meals
  • Household sharing and syncing
  • Home Screen widget
  • Voice command integration
  • Household voting system
Features
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What's For Dinner turns "I don't know, what do you want?" into an actual answer. I built this because my own kitchen was stuck in the same nightly loop: standing there with no idea what to cook, defaulting to the same five meals on repeat, or giving up and ordering takeout because deciding felt harder than cooking. So I made a small app that just picks for you, from the meals you actually make. Add the dinners you already know how to make, tag them (quick, vegetarian, kid-approved, whatever fits your house), and let the app pick one for tonight. It remembers what you've cooked recently and won't suggest it again until enough time has passed, so you're not eating the same thing three nights running. Free, with no time limit: • Picks tonight's dinner, filtered by how much time you have and which tags matter tonight • Skips anything you've cooked too recently. You set the window • Plans your whole week in one tap, then lets you reroll or swap any night • Settles it with a vote when nobody can agree: share a 4-letter code and everyone votes from their own phone. Every vote starts with three meals already picked • Surprise Me serves up a fresh recipe idea from gowhatsfordinner.com • Share tonight's dinner, a vote's winner, or a favorite meal by text or on social media • Starts you off with sample meals, with photos and links to full recipes • Puts tonight's pick on your Home Screen, and answers "Hey Siri, what's for dinner?" • Add your own photo to any meal, favorite the ones you love, or tell it to stop suggesting one • Keeps a running log of what you've actually cooked • Exports a backup of everything, because it's your list, not mine • Holds up to 9 meals What's For Dinner Premium (monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial): • Unlimited meals • One shared meal list and tonight's pick for your whole household, synced across everyone's phones. One subscription covers everyone you invite • A daily household dinner vote: pick a time, everyone gets a reminder, and each person has one veto • Vote history: which meals win most, and whose picks win • Paste a recipe link, or share one straight from Safari, and the name, time, and photo fill in automatically No account, no login, no ads, nothing tracked or sold. Your meals stay on your phone unless you turn on household sharing or start a vote. Those are the only times anything you enter leaves your device. Premium is billed through your Apple ID and works with Family Sharing. This is a one-person project: no team, no investors, just something I built to solve my own kitchen problem and decided to put out into the world. Thank you for giving it a try and trusting a small independent app with your dinner decisions. I read every review and piece of feedback. If something's confusing, missing, or just plain annoying, please let me know. It genuinely shapes what I build next. Terms of Use: https://gowhatsfordinner.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://gowhatsfordinner.com/privacy

Screenshots

Chowit3 screens
What's For Dinner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: What's For Dinner at 5.0 against Chowit's 2.2. What's For Dinner also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks). Chowit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (48 vs 2). On price, ads 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. What's For Dinner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Chowit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What's For Dinner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chowit has 48 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chowit ships an update every 6 weeks, What's For Dinner every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chowit versus What's For Dinner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChowitWhat's For Dinner
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (48 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.2 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmerican Food & Vending CorpSTEVEN BRET FARNSWORTH

Customer experience

Chowit

All ratings41 ratings
Positive19.5%
Neutral7.3%
Negative73.2%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive10.3%
Neutral10.3%
Negative79.3%

What's For Dinner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Chowit

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

What's For Dinner

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Chowit free?
Chowit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What's For Dinner free?
What's For Dinner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chowit or What's For Dinner?
What's For Dinner is rated higher. Chowit averages 2.2 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while What's For Dinner averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Chowit or What's For Dinner have ads?
Neither Chowit nor What's For Dinner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chowit or What's For Dinner?
Chowit ships an update every 6 weeks, and What's For Dinner every 6 days. Most recently, Chowit was updated on October 22, 2026 and What's For Dinner on October 27, 2026.

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