Comparison

Find Craft Beer vs Kitchen Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Find Craft Beer

Discover craft beer locations near you using your device's GPS or by searching a specific city. Filter by location type, sort by distance or ratings, and read or submit reviews and photos. Share your finds on social media.

Highlights
  • GPS location search
  • City-specific search
  • Filter by location type
  • Sort by distance or ratings
  • Read and submit reviews
  • Upload photos
  • Social media sharing
Currently charting
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Find Craft Beer allows you to use your iPhone or iPad to easily find a place near you to get a Craft Beer. Find Craft Beer uses the GPS to determine your current location and searches a database of Craft Beer locations within your specified distance. You can also provide Find Craft Beer with a specific city to search. Find Craft Beer searches a database of Brew Pubs, Breweries, Beer Bars, Beer Stores and Homebrew Shops. Limit your list to only those types of locations you are interested in. Search with a specific distance, sort by distance or ratings, read reviews of locations and submit your own reviews and pictures! Post to Facebook or Twitter about your current location so your friends can have a beer with you! Check-in comments and Untappd beer check-ins for a location right on the review screen. Find Craft Beer was a finalist in the 2009 BestAppEver awards in the Best Feel Like a Local App! Find Craft Beer is the ideal app when you want to find a place to get a Craft Beer. --- We need your help! Please report locations that are closed or have moved and add any place that other users would find great Craft Beer! All location updates are checked by a moderator so changes will not show immediately, but by having moderator approval, we prevent bad data from getting into the system. --

About

Kitchen Buddy

Easily convert cooking measurements, find ingredient substitutions, and adapt recipes for different pan sizes. This app offers a vast database of ingredients and conversions to help bakers and cooks overcome common kitchen challenges.

Highlights
  • Measurement conversion
  • Ingredient substitution
  • Pan size adaptation
  • Extensive ingredient database
  • Ingredient descriptions and alternate names
Features
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Ever had a recipe call for 100 grams of flour but you’re using measuring cups? Or you have run out of a spice and you want to know what you can use instead? Or perhaps you have a recipe calling for a square cake pan but you want to use two round pans. The Kitchen Buddy has you covered. In one application you can convert measurements, determine how to substitute different sizes and shapes of pans, even how to replace one ingredient with another. Kitchen Buddy includes more than 2500 different ingredients with descriptions, alternate names, and potential substitutions in addition to managing a myriad of conversions. Kitchen Buddy is the baker’s best friend.

Screenshots

Find Craft Beer4 screens
Kitchen Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Find Craft Beer at 4.6 against Kitchen Buddy's 3.8. Find Craft Beer also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 33%) and monetization model (free vs paid). On price, ads, in-app purchases and chart position 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

Find Craft Beer costs $0.99 and Kitchen Buddy $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Find Craft Beer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Find Craft Beer has 639 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Find Craft Beer's written reviews are positive against 33% of Kitchen Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Find Craft Beer ships an update every 3 months, Kitchen Buddy every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Find Craft Beer versus Kitchen Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFind Craft BeerKitchen Buddy
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating4.6 (639 ratings) — better3.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings639 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#54 — better#139
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB116 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMicro Integration Services, Inc.Jan-Wouter Arendsen

Customer experience

Find Craft Beer

All ratings638 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative21.7%

Kitchen Buddy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Find Craft Beer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keyboard covers save button when writing reviews
  • Location search feature doesn't always work
  • Crashes when searching by current location

Requested features

3 requests
  • Update app more frequently to keep up with new breweries
  • Add ability to search by beer type
  • Integrate with more beer review sites

Kitchen Buddy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Find Craft Beer

No in-app purchases

None

Kitchen Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Find Craft Beer free?
Find Craft Beer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kitchen Buddy free?
Kitchen Buddy costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Find Craft Beer or Kitchen Buddy?
Find Craft Beer is rated higher. Find Craft Beer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 639 ratings, while Kitchen Buddy averages 3.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Find Craft Beer or Kitchen Buddy have ads?
Neither Find Craft Beer nor Kitchen Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Find Craft Beer or Kitchen Buddy?
Find Craft Beer ships an update every 3 months, and Kitchen Buddy every 6 months. Most recently, Find Craft Beer was updated on October 27, 2026 and Kitchen Buddy on October 26, 2026.
Which is more popular, Find Craft Beer or Kitchen Buddy?
Find Craft Beer currently peaks at #54 in the App Store charts, and Kitchen Buddy at #139. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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