Ratio vs 8it
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ratio
This app helps you master cooking by understanding fundamental ingredient relationships. It calculates ingredient amounts based on ratios, freeing you from strict recipes and allowing for creative variations. Explore 32 critical culinary ratios with instructions, variations, and tools to store and share your own creations.
- 32 critical culinary ratios
- Ingredient amount calculator
- Ounces-to-grams converter
- Recipe variations and ideas
- Store custom recipes and notes
- Share creations on social media
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Free yourself from recipes! The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a recipe, you know 1,000. And this application does all the calculating for you. “Cooking, like so many other creative endeavors is defined by relationships. For instance, knowing exactly how much flour to put into a loaf of bread isn’t nearly as useful as understanding the relationship between the flour and the water, or fat, or salt. That relationship is defined by a ‘ratio’ and having a ratio in hand is like having a secret decoder ring that frees you from the tyranny of recipes. ….Michael Ruhlman, in handing us mortals a power better suited to the gods, has changed the balance of kitchen power forever.” —Good Eats host Alton Brown What You Get: --THE 32 CRITICAL RATIOS that form the backbone of the culinary arts, with instructions: doughs, batters, meat preparations, custards, sauces (pasta dough and pizza dough, sponge cake and pancakes, fritters and crepes, stocks and sauces, crème caramel and chocolate sauce. --A CALCULATOR that figures out how much of each ingredient you need, no matter how many or how few people you want to serve. --An OUNCES-TO-GRAMS CONVERTER (ratios work no matter what unit you choose to use!). --DELICIOUS VARIATIONS FOR RECIPES on all the ratios, ideas for the creation of new dishes according to your tastes. --An easy way to STORE YOUR OWN RECIPES and notes that you’ve created from the basic ratios. --Quick fun ways to SHARE what your cooking with your fellow cooks, on Facebook and on Twitter. --Ratios is also a great way to understand and TWEAK YOUR OWN RECIPES, to help you make your pancakes even fluffier, your pizza dough crisper, your crème brulee richer.
8it
Discover the best NYC food experiences happening now, from pop-ups to limited-time drops. Find expert-recommended dishes near you and organize your culinary adventures.
- Food pop-ups, drops, and collabs
- Explore map for local discovery
- Dish-first food organization
- Customizable dish lists
- Expert recommendations
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8it shows you what’s worth eating in NYC - right now and near you. Dish-first food discovery for pop-ups, limited drops, collabs, and must-eat dishes, recommended by people who work in food. Why 8it - Food pop-ups, limited drops & collabs in one place What’s live, what’s limited, and what you’ll be annoyed you missed. - Explore Map for smarter discovery See expert-approved dishes near you, right now. - Dish-first discovery We organize by dish because you crave food, not a restaurant. - Custom dish lists Build lists for date night, friends in town, and your next food crawl.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 8it at Free against Ratio's $4.99. 8it also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 49%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Ratio's advantage is chart position (#80 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
8it is free to download; Ratio costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
8it holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 8it has 206 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Ratio's written reviews are positive against 83% of 8it's.
Ratio ships an update every 2 months, 8it fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ratio | 8it |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 4.5 (206 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 206 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #80 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruhlman Enterprises, Inc. | 8it, Inc. |
Customer experience
Ratio
8it
Bugs and requests
Ratio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
8it
Reported bugs
5 issues- Password authentication system malfunctioning
- Unresponsive customer support for password recovery
- Location-based search not functioning properly
- Duplicate restaurant results in different searches
- App shows restaurants far outside user's location
Requested features
6 requests- Expand to more cities nationwide
- Expand to Boston area
- Improve geographic coverage beyond NYC and LA
- Global expansion
- Increase search radius beyond 1.5 miles
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- Make app accessible to New Jersey area
In-app purchases
Ratio
No in-app purchases
8it
No in-app purchases








