Comparison

Green Kitchen vs Oh She Glows

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

Head to head
About

Green Kitchen

Discover a wide variety of healthy vegetarian recipes with beautiful photos and easy-to-follow instructions. This app offers premium recipes, many of which are gluten-free, sugar-free, and dairy-free, perfect for both vegetarians and those looking to eat more plant-based meals.

Highlights
  • 159 premium vegetarian recipes
  • Exclusive in-app purchase recipes
  • Vegan, raw, gluten-free, and whole grain options
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions
  • Smart timers
  • Shopping list generation
  • Multi-language support
Currently charting
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Regardless if you just want to eat more greens or already are a full time vegetarian - Green Kitchen is the perfect companion in your kitchen or while planning from your sofa. Green Kitchen is filled with tasty and inspiring vegetarian food with ingredients straight from nature and a bare minimum of gluten, sugar and dairy products. Enjoy and be delighted by creative recipes with drop dead gorgeous photos and detailed, easy to follow, instructions. Please help spreading the word and review the app in App Store! --- Features - A mixed variety of main courses, snacks and healthy drinks. - 159 handpicked premium recipes. - 28 additional exclusive recipes available as in-app purchases. - Switch seamlessly between supported languages. - Save your favorites so you can return to them quickly. - Several photos for each recipe! - Shopping list: Just e-mail or iMessage the ingredients within your family! - Estimated cooking time for each recipe. - All recipes are marked if they are vegan, raw, gluten free or whole grain. - Step by step cooking instructions, tap on a step to mark it as completed. - Smart timers that knows what you're cooking - Universal app - run it on both your iPhone and your iPad - Stunning Retina graphics! - Share or brag about your cookery on Facebook and Twitter! - Share recipes with friends and family over AirDrop. - Print recipes over AirPrint. --- Featured in press and media "Cookbooks don’t get more beautiful than this perfectly designed app." — Sydney Morning Herald “Proving that even wholesome vegetarian recipes can make for tantalizing food porn” — Bon Appétit "Beautiful photos and a world-class user interface will whet the appetites of vegetarians and omnivores alike as the cook the easy-to-follow recipes in this stellar app" Editors Choice – Runner Up in the Best of 2012 for iPad "Wow! The designers/developers of this app have truly put in their heart and soul into this. This is just marvelous." - beautifulpixels.com "Green Kitchen is a shining example of an interactive recipe book that makes healthy eating both easy and enjoyable." - Mac's Life --- Let´s bury the myth once and for all; healthy food does not need to be bland and boring. --- Stay in touch! http://www.greenkitchenapps.com http://www.facebook.com/greenkitchenstories http://www.twitter.com/gkstories http://www.instagram.com/gkstories

About

Oh She Glows

Discover delicious and healthy plant-based recipes from a New York Times bestselling author. This app features vibrant photography, easy-to-use search and filtering, and tools to help you cook with confidence. Enjoy offline access and customize your favorite recipes.

Highlights
  • Trending recipes
  • Seasonal and holiday recipe sorting
  • High-resolution food photography
  • Ingredient and title search
  • Dietary and allergy filtering
  • Offline recipe access
  • Customizable favorites list
Features
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New York Times bestselling cookbook author Angela Liddon, shares her most popular plant-based recipes from the award-winning recipe blog, OhSheGlows.com, and stunning, vibrant food photography for each recipe. Angela has been creating healthy, veggie-packed recipes for more than 10 years, and she only shares recipes that are hits with her family, friends, and recipe testers, so you can be confident that the recipes in this collection will win over even the biggest skeptic. One thing is for sure, this healthy recipe app will have you glowing from the inside out and bursting with cooking inspiration! Be sure to unlock the free recipe bundles on the bundles page, including a delicious Cookie Lover's holiday bundle. FEATURES: • Trending Recipes - see which recipes others are cooking right now. If a recipe is trending, you’ll see “trending” below the recipe title • Recipe list is now sorted by season and holiday so the most relevant recipes show up first in the recipe list. If you wish to see the recipes in chronological order (our previous way of displaying them), visit the Settings app, click on Oh She Glows, and tap “show newest recipes first” • Browse through beautiful full-screen high-resolution photography • Search for recipes with ease using ingredient keywords or by recipe title • Find detailed nutritional information available for each recipe located in the "tips" section • Filter your recipes based on dietary/allergy info, season, dish type, and more • Strikeout ingredients and directions as you cook so you don’t lose your place • Customize your own favorites list with your most-loved recipes • Add your own notes to the recipes if you make any changes • Take recipes with you on the go with convenient offline access • Cook without worry that your device will go to sleep with our anti-lock feature • Enjoy split view on your iOS 12+ iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4, and iPad Pro • Synchronize favorites and notes between devices using iCloud • Browse recipe thumbnails by category (e.g., view all breakfast recipe titles and photos in one spot) We hope you enjoy cooking with the Oh She Glows - Healthy Plant-Based Recipes app. For any questions please feel free to email us at app_support@ohsheglows.com, and we are happy to help! From our kitchen to yours, The Liddon Family TESTIMONIALS: “This is the GO TO app for vegan friendly recipes!!! You don't even have to be vegan to enjoy them because each recipe is so full of flavor. The app is perfectly laid out so you can make the recipes with ease. The search feature and the filters make it easy to make recipes with dietary concerns in mind or to use items you currently have on hand. Best recipe app ever!!!” ~ C.P. “This is everything I could ask for in a food app. Every recipe I have tried was absolutely delicious. The layout of the app is gorgeous and the features are on point. It is so easy to use and makes me want to cook! Thank you Oh She Glows for another amazing product!” ~ Sierra J. “I love love love this app. In my opinion it's the best recipe app out. It's easy to read and understand and the recipes are oh so good. The app makes me want to cook more. I highly recommend it.” ~ Jodie F.

Screenshots

Green Kitchen4 screens
Oh She Glows4 screens

Verdict

The call

Green Kitchen and Oh She Glows both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Green Kitchen's written reviews are positive against 72% of Oh She Glows's. Oh She Glows's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 256) and chart position (#14 vs #54). On rating, update cadence, 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

Green Kitchen costs $3.99 and Oh She Glows $2.99 up front. Green Kitchen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Oh She Glows sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Green Kitchen against 4.9 for Oh She Glows. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oh She Glows has 12K ratings behind it against 256, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Green Kitchen's written reviews are positive against 72% of Oh She Glows's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, Oh She Glows every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Green Kitchen versus Oh She Glows: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreen KitchenOh She Glows
Price$3.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.8 (256 ratings)4.9 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews — better71.9% of reviews
Number of ratings25612K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#54#14 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size413 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreen Kitchen StoriesGlo Bakery Corporation

Customer experience

Green Kitchen

All ratings255 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.7%

Oh She Glows

All ratings12,302 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews303 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral6.6%
Negative21.5%

User reviews

Green Kitchen

From 256 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌟 Delicious and healthy recipes
  • 👍 Easy to follow instructions
  • 💫 Beautiful and inspiring visuals
  • 🧠 Unique and creative meal ideas
  • 🍴 Great for vegetarian/vegan diets

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Lack of advanced filtering/search options
  • 💰 Paid add-on content
  • 🐛 Occasional app crashes or glitches
  • 🕰 Infrequent updates with new recipes

Oh She Glows

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💕 Beautiful design
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🍔 Delicious recipes
  • 🌱 Great for vegans/vegetarians
  • 🔖 Ability to save favorites

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes/bugs
  • 📥 Limited recipe selection
  • 💰 Paid app with limited content
  • 🔍 Difficult to search/find recipes

Bugs and requests

Green Kitchen

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to print recipes from the app
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add shopping list functionality
  • Include nutritional information for recipes
  • Expand recipe categories (e.g. gluten-free, quick meals)
  • Provide more frequent content updates

Oh She Glows

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recipes fail to download
  • App freezes when opening
  • Recipes disappear after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more recipes
  • Improve search functionality
  • Include nutrition information
  • Add a shopping list feature

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Green Kitchen

One-time2
  • Green & Clean 2015$0.99
  • Smoothies Reinvented$0.99
5 purchases

Oh She Glows

One-time5
  • Free Bonus BundleFree
  • Spring BonusFree
  • Cookie Lover’s BundleFree
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  • Oh She Glows Salads PreviewFree
  • Get Glowing$0.99

Questions

Is Green Kitchen free?
Green Kitchen costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Oh She Glows free?
Oh She Glows costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Green Kitchen or Oh She Glows?
Oh She Glows is rated higher. Green Kitchen averages 4.8 out of 5 from 256 ratings, while Oh She Glows averages 4.9 from 12K ratings.
Do Green Kitchen or Oh She Glows have ads?
Neither Green Kitchen nor Oh She Glows shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Green Kitchen or Oh She Glows?
Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, and Oh She Glows every 3 months. Most recently, Green Kitchen was updated on October 26, 2026 and Oh She Glows on October 26, 2026.
Which is more popular, Green Kitchen or Oh She Glows?
Green Kitchen currently peaks at #54 in the App Store charts, and Oh She Glows at #14. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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