Comparison

Cooktop vs MyRecipesPlus

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

Head to head
About

Cooktop

This app simulates a glass ceramic cooktop, allowing users to plan their kitchen layout or use their device as a virtual hob. Interact with the simulated controls using touch gestures or device shaking for entertainment.

Highlights
  • Glass ceramic cooktop simulation
  • Virtual hob avatar
  • Kitchen planning tool
  • Interactive controls
  • Pinch and shake gestures
Features
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Simulates a glass ceramic cooktop. Use your device as a hob avatar e.g. for kitchen planning. You can control the hob by pressing the buttons, use the pinch gesture or shake the device. This app is intended for entertainment purposes only and does not provide true glass ceramic cooktop functionality.

About

MyRecipesPlus

Features
Currently charting
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With MyRecipesPlus keep your cooking recipes close at hand, and synchronized across all your devices that share the same Apple ID. Write your recipe, insert a link to a video, or identify a book with your favorite recipe. Create a shopping list with the ingredients needed for your recipe and share it with anyone you want. Characteristics: • Three types of recipe entry. Write, speak, or scan the text, write or paste a link to a video on the internet, indicating that in which book and page is your favourite recipe. • When doing a scan, it is automatically converted to text. • When dictating your recipe, it is automatically converted into text. (Internet connection required) • In addition to being able to read your recipe, you can now also listen to it while you are cooking. • Search by recipe name or ingredient used. • Share your recipe, either by text message or by email. • Save your recipe as a text file. • Create and share a shopping list with the ingredients needed for your recipe. • Edit your recipe, being able to change your name, your photo, change ingredients, or change your text. • Synchronization of recipes, ingredients and units of measure, between your mobile devices, as long as they share the same Apple ID.

Screenshots

Cooktop4 screens
MyRecipesPlus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cooktop at Free against MyRecipesPlus's $2.99. Cooktop also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 26.0). MyRecipesPlus's advantage is chart position (#53 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Cooktop is free to download; MyRecipesPlus costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooktop ships an update every 12 months, MyRecipesPlus every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Cooktop versus MyRecipesPlus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooktopMyRecipesPlus
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank—#53 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiet JonasPaulo Correia

In-app purchases

None

Cooktop

No in-app purchases

None

MyRecipesPlus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cooktop free?
Cooktop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyRecipesPlus free?
MyRecipesPlus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cooktop or MyRecipesPlus have ads?
Neither Cooktop nor MyRecipesPlus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooktop or MyRecipesPlus?
Cooktop ships an update every 12 months, and MyRecipesPlus every 6 months. Most recently, Cooktop was updated on October 21, 2026 and MyRecipesPlus on September 3, 2026.

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