That Recipe vs What’s Cooking?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
That Recipe
Discover a practical, easy, and delicious way to cook with a wide variety of recipes. This app guides you through culinary creations with clear instructions, supported by engaging videos and photographic content.
- Practical recipe guides
- Illustrated with videos
- Photographic production
- Easy cooking methods
- Delicious meal ideas
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That Recipe is an app that combines gastronomy with simplicity, with the aim of bringing the public through our recipes a more practical, easy and delicious way of cooking, illustrated by videos and photographic production. Policy of privacy: https://thatrecipe.us/privacy-policy Terms of use EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s Cooking?
Discover new recipes from top creators for any meal or craving. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps with simple videos to start cooking. Personalize your experience with handpicked dishes and collections.
- Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, or occasion
- Save favorite recipes and creators
- Step-by-step cooking videos
- Personalized recipe recommendations
- Build custom recipe collections
- Search by trending recipes
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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 rating: What’s Cooking? at 4.0 against That Recipe's 3.1. What’s Cooking? also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). That Recipe's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price 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. That Recipe sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. What’s Cooking? asks for nothing beyond the download.
What’s Cooking? holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s Cooking? has 79 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of That Recipe's written reviews are positive against 59% of What’s Cooking?'s.
That Recipe ships an update every 26 months, What’s Cooking? every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | That Recipe | What’s Cooking? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (15 ratings) | 4.0 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 59.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Murilo Araujo | Kraft New Services, Inc. |
Customer experience
That Recipe
What’s Cooking?
Bugs and requests
That Recipe
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
That Recipe
- Premium subscription7 Days trial$0.491 Month
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is That Recipe free?
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