Comparison

Veggies vs impasto

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

Head to head
About

Veggies

This app provides instant cooking times for a wide variety of vegetables, including common and less common types. It offers guidance for boiling, steaming, and microwaving, with times optimized for an 'al dente' result. Basic information and cooking tips are also included for each vegetable.

Highlights
  • Instant cooking time lookup
  • Boiling, steaming, and microwave methods
  • Covers common and uncommon vegetables
  • Al dente cooking time optimization
  • Basic vegetable information and tips
  • Microwave cooking guidance
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Veggies. A simple and effective app that provides you with the cooking times of vegetables. Instantly learn how long your vegetables need to cook in either boiling water, the steamer or the microwave. Included are everyday vegetables such as broccoli and carrots but also less common vegetables such as, for example, okra and parsnip. The cooking times are based on today's taste, so "al dente" if possible. Veggies also provides some basic information or cooking tip for each kind of vegetable. Veggies is particularly useful when using your microwave, as the cooking time depends heavily on the amount of vegetables and the power of your microwave. Using veggies you can quickly and easily prepare a healthy meal with fresh vegetables! For more information: http://www.permanentmarkers.nl/veggies.html

About

impasto

This app helps bakers improve their results by tracking, analyzing, and refining their baking processes. It offers tools for logging details, building recipe libraries, and measuring progress with AI-powered insights. Users can also scale recipes and connect with a community of bakers.

Highlights
  • Log bake details with timers
  • Build and organize recipe library
  • Rate bakes and upload photos
  • AI-powered crumb structure analysis
  • Dough calculator for recipe scaling
  • Share bakes and join challenges
Features
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impasto – Smarter Baking Bake better bread with data, not guesswork. Track, analyze, and improve every bake — from sourdough to pizza and beyond. Track Every Bake Log every detail with built-in timers for autolyse, bulk fermentation, proofing, and baking. Stay consistent and never miss a step. Build Your Recipe Library Save and organize recipes your way. Import from URLs or create your own with baker’s percentages, hydration, and multi-flour blends. Measure & Improve Rate your bakes, upload photos, and track progress over time. See what’s working and refine your process. AI-powered photo analysis helps evaluate crumb structure and guide your next bake. Dough Calculator Scale recipes instantly with support for preferments and multi-flour blends. No double entry required. Import calculated dough directly into your recipe — no rewriting, no friction. Bake Together Share your bakes, follow other bakers, and join challenges. Built For: Sourdough bakers Pizza & focaccia makers Home bakers chasing consistency Stop guessing. Start improving. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Veggies4 screens
impasto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Veggies at none against impasto's 2. impasto's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and device support. On price, rating and review sentiment 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

Both are free to download. impasto sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Veggies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Veggies against 5.0 for impasto. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: impasto has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Veggies versus impasto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVeggiesimpasto
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Devices—iPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPermanentMarkersWehler Digital LLC

Customer experience

Veggies

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

impasto

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Veggies

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

impasto

Subscriptions2
  • impasto Premium14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • impasto Premium14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Veggies free?
Veggies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is impasto free?
impasto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Veggies or impasto?
Veggies and impasto are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 7 ratings respectively.

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