SmartKitchen+ vs What’s Cooking?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartKitchen+
This app helps you plan meals to minimize food waste. It tracks who will eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, ensuring you only buy what you need.
- Meal planning
- Consumption tracking
- Food waste reduction
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner planning
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SmartKitchen+ app help you cook food wisely by showing who will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Main goal of this app is no waste.
What’s Cooking?
Discover recipes from top creators tailored to your mood and cravings. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps and videos to make delicious meals.
- Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, occasion
- Personalized recipe recommendations
- Save favorite recipes and creators
- Step-by-step cooking videos
- Build recipe collections
- Search cooking history
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What’s Cooking brings you recipes from top creators for every meal, mood, and craving, even tonight’s dinner. Discover new dishes, save your favorites, and start cooking with easy-to-follow steps and simple videos. Find What You’re Craving Search by meal, mood, diet, or occasion. Quickly pull up your saved dishes, cooking history, favorite creators, and more. Cooking Made Personal Get recipes handpicked for your tastes. Find the creators you love and dishes you’ll want to cook again and again. Scroll, Save, Cook Endless food inspiration with no distractions. Sort by trending, save your faves, and build collections that match your cravings. Real Recipes, Real Cooks Follow step-by-step videos from real creators in real kitchens. Make their dishes your own—or create something totally new.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: What’s Cooking? at 59% against SmartKitchen+'s 0%. What’s Cooking? also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmartKitchen+ ships an update monthly, What’s Cooking? every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartKitchen+ | What’s Cooking? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.1 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 59.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Amrit Duwal | Kraft New Services, Inc. |
Customer experience
SmartKitchen+
What’s Cooking?
Bugs and requests
SmartKitchen+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
What’s Cooking?
Reported bugs
7 issues- App gets stuck on name/email subscription page
- Won't let user click continue after update
- Keeps reloading email subscription page
- Doesn't change page when 'next' is clicked
- App forces an update but no update available in App Store
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- App keeps loading
- App is asking to update but there is no update
Requested features
14 requests- Increase number of preferences per category
- More videos of different foods
- More creators
- Add new recipes more frequently
- Add a search bar
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- Add comment sections
- Add ratings
- Add more allergy filters
- Add measurement conversion options
- Add more cultural foods (Arabic, Indian, Filipino)
- Add Halal dietary restrictions
- Add more diversity in recipes and cuisines
- Add miso ramen recipe
- Add specific diet preferences
In-app purchases
SmartKitchen+
No in-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SmartKitchen+ free?
Is What’s Cooking? free?
Do SmartKitchen+ or What’s Cooking? have ads?
Which is updated more often, SmartKitchen+ or What’s Cooking??
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