Comparison

Kitchen Buddy vs Cook Units

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

Head to head
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.

About

Cook Units

This app helps you convert cooking measurements between weight and volume, adjust recipe servings, and manage your recipes. It supports over 1,100 ingredients and allows for easy sharing of your culinary creations.

Highlights
  • Weight to volume conversions
  • Recipe serving adjustment
  • Ingredient database with images
  • Recipe creation and management
  • Recipe sharing
  • Multi-language support
  • Light/dark mode and orientation support
Features
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You need 200g of sugar but you don’t have a scale—just a measuring cup? You need 1.5 tbsp of baking powder, but you only have a scale? You need to know how many strawberries you can expect in a 250g container? You need to cook for 7 people, but your recipe is for 2 servings? You need to mark your recipe ingredients as you’re cooking? You need to share your favorite recipes with friends? We got you covered! Cook Units is a measure converter for cooking ingredients designed with usability in a kitchen context. It features a growing set of 1,220+ ingredients with images, and a recipe manager. It works great in light or dark mode, portrait/landscape mode, and in iPad’s Split View/Slide Over layouts. The app can switch between 5 languages (English, French, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish) without changing the language of the device. CONVERT QUANTITIES Conversions of measures can be carried out between weight and volume (e.g. grams to/from cups) and displayed with fractions. Units of measurement automatically adjust to the order of magnitude of the quantities being measured. For example: 8 tbsp (tablespoons) will also show as ½ c (cup,) and 1,000 g (grams) will be displayed as 1 kg (kilogram.) While calculations are exact between weight units or volume units and displayed with up to 2 decimals, they are approximated across weight/volume—depending on an average volumetric mass for the measured ingredient. Conversions also make reasonable approximations in order to display closest fractions, when applicable. CREATE / SHARE / RECEIVE RECIPES Ingredients are browsable as a cover flow, grid, or searchable tagged list. Measured ingredients can be assembled into a recipe with an associated number of servings. Recipes live in iCloud when your account is connected, and so they will appear on any device connected to the same account. Recipes can be associated with notes, locked to avoid mishaps, and shared via Messages, email, AirDrop, etc. in (filtered) bulk or individually. You can also send them to yourself to create backups. ENJOY COOKING! Adjust the number of servings for your recipe and the quantities will automatically resize accordingly with appropriate measuring units. Mark the ingredients in your recipes as you are cooking or shopping for groceries. Just tap a recipe ingredient to see its equivalent measures in weight and volume on the fly. Happy Cooking!

Screenshots

Kitchen Buddy4 screens
Cook Units4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cook Units at 5.0 against Kitchen Buddy's 3.8. Cook Units also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cook Units holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Kitchen Buddy's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cook Units's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kitchen Buddy ships an update every 6 months, Cook Units every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Kitchen Buddy versus Cook Units: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKitchen BuddyCook Units
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating3.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#148 — better#197
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB102 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJan-Wouter ArendsenDidier Burton

Customer experience

Kitchen Buddy

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

Cook Units

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Kitchen Buddy

No in-app purchases

None

Cook Units

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kitchen Buddy free?
Kitchen Buddy costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cook Units free?
Cook Units costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kitchen Buddy or Cook Units?
Cook Units is rated higher. Kitchen Buddy averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Cook Units averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Kitchen Buddy or Cook Units have ads?
Neither Kitchen Buddy nor Cook Units shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kitchen Buddy or Cook Units?
Kitchen Buddy ships an update every 6 months, and Cook Units every 2 weeks. Most recently, Kitchen Buddy was updated on October 14, 2026 and Cook Units on October 8, 2026.
Which is more popular, Kitchen Buddy or Cook Units?
Kitchen Buddy currently peaks at #148 in the App Store charts, and Cook Units at #197. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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