Kitchen Buddy vs Tarrific
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Measurement conversion
- Ingredient substitution
- Pan size adaptation
- Extensive ingredient database
- Ingredient descriptions and alternate names
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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.
Tarrific
This app helps home cooks and bakers quickly calculate ingredient weights by storing the tare weights of common kitchen containers. It also assists in dividing ingredients into equal portions for consistent results.
- Store tare weights of containers
- Quickly subtract container weight
- Divide ingredients into equal portions
- Calculate portion weight
- Supports split-screen on iPad
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Do you use a kitchen scale? If you do, you need Tarrific! Kitchen scales, and their handy tare feature, make baking and cooking so much easier. But, sometimes you need to know the weight of your ingredients, and you forgot to zero out your scale first! Tarrific is designed to help you solve that problem quickly and easily. Store the empty weights of the most commonly used bowls and dishes in your kitchen in Tarrific. When you need to subtract out the weight of a container, Tarrific does the work for you. Want to divide your ingredients into equal portions? Tarrific can help! Just enter in the number of portions you need, or the portion weight, and Tarrific will help you remove just the right amount each time. No more uneven cookies, or running out of muffin batter before you've filled the last one! Tarrific is a universal iOS app that runs on all devices. If you use split-screen on a newer iPad, Tarrific can run right next to your favorite recipe app. Try Tarrific today - you'll wonder how you ever cooked without it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tarrific at Free against Kitchen Buddy's $0.99. Tarrific also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Kitchen Buddy's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 2.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads 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
Tarrific is free to download; Kitchen Buddy costs $0.99 up front. Tarrific sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kitchen Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitchen Buddy holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Kitchen Buddy's written reviews are positive against 67% of Tarrific's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Kitchen Buddy ships an update every 6 months, Tarrific every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kitchen Buddy | Tarrific |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | 2.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #142 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan-Wouter Arendsen | Little Potato Software |
Customer experience
Kitchen Buddy
Tarrific
In-app purchases
Kitchen Buddy
No in-app purchases
Tarrific
- Tarrific Unlimited$0.99









