Five Bars vs Kneaded
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Five Bars
Discover and log your favorite chocolate bars with this app. Keep a personal record of chocolates you've tried and find new ones to enjoy.
- Track chocolate bars
- Discover new chocolates
- Personal chocolate log
- Food & Drink category
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Obsessed with good chocolate? Track and discover bars with Five Bars!
Kneaded
This platform allows recipe creators to share and monetize their culinary creations. Home cooks can discover new recipes, organize their own, and simplify meal preparation with features like serving scaling and grocery list generation.
- Share and monetize recipes
- Discover recipes from creators
- Organize personal recipes
- Scale servings
- Add ingredients to grocery list
- Search recipes
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Kneaded is a platform for recipe creators to share and monetize their recipes with home cooks. Use Kneaded to learn from the best and organize all your recipes, whether they be from your favorite chef, a website, or a family classic, in a single place. Kneaded allows users to easily search their recipes, scale servings, add ingredients to a grocery list, and make cooking easier. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Five Bars at none against Kneaded's 2. Five Bars also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). 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. Kneaded sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Five Bars asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Five Bars against 5.0 for Kneaded. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Five Bars ships an update every 5 weeks, Kneaded every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Bars | Kneaded |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephanie Obodda | Gala Closet Share, LLC |
Customer experience
Five Bars
Kneaded
In-app purchases
Five Bars
No in-app purchases
Kneaded
- jack.schneider Monthly$2.991 Month
- jack Annual$29.991 Year
