Comparison

Green Kitchen vs America's Test Kitchen

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

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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

America's Test Kitchen

Access thousands of rigorously tested recipes, cooking videos, and expert product reviews. Enhance your culinary skills with on-demand classes taught by test kitchen professionals. Save favorites, create shopping lists, and discover new dishes for any occasion.

Highlights
  • 14,000+ tested recipes
  • Expert-led cooking classes
  • App-exclusive content
  • Product reviews and ratings
  • Save favorite recipes
  • Create shopping lists
  • Ad-free cooking episodes
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The America's Test Kitchen app delivers the best-tasting recipes, cooking videos, product reviews, and more than 30 years of test kitchen discoveries! Get every rigorously tested recipe from America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, and Cook’s Country. Recipe collections for every occasion: Weeknight recipes, healthy recipes, desserts, slow cooker recipes, and more all include “Why This Recipe Works” so you’ll know every test kitchen discovery. Save favorite recipes, cook great food, and get the recipe app that has it all. New app-exclusive feature! ATK Classes add on with expert-led cooking classes for all skill levels and personal connections with ATK instructors. Download America’s Test Kitchen today and become a culinary master! America’s Test Kitchen Features: Save Favorite Recipes - Cooking app with 14,000+ best-ever recipes - Recipes tested by test cooks and 70,000 volunteer home cooks - Recipe Collections: slow cooker recipes, seasonal picks, quick meals & more - Recipes added every month and cooking articles added every day! - Save favorite recipes, customize recipes with personal notes & get quick access on any device Kitchen Reviews - Kitchen appliance reviews and ingredient ratings at your fingertips - Save money and time with 8,000+ rigorously researched product reviews & trusted kitchen reviews Full Episodes, Ad-Free - Cooking episodes from 42 seasons of our top-rated TV shows America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country And More! - Get Fresh Pick recommendations based on your favorites with Recipe Recommendations - Find, compare, save favorite recipes & share with others - Shopping lists are created with ease and you’ll never forget anything again New Feature: Add On ATK Classes! - Focused, fun on-demand classes taught by test kitchen experts - Build your skills and refine your cooking intuition - Use “Cook Along” mode to see every step - Enjoy a personal connection with instructors - Access classes for all skill levels Try out the entire app with a free trial. - Current ATK Essential members can access this app at no additional charge after logging in - Access to the ATK app requires a monthly or annual ATK Essential membership, which also includes all the content across the America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, and Cook’s Country sites. - Bundle ATK Essential + ATK Classes and save! Privacy Policy: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/guides/corporate-pages/privacy-policy CA Privacy Notice: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/guides/corporate-pages/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/guides/corporate-pages/terms-of-use Contact Us: support@Americastestkitchen.com All subscriptions start at the end of the applicable free trial period. Free trials are only available upon an initial subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account after your free trial period or at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew each month or year 24 hours before the end of the current period and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable. All products reviewed by America’s Test Kitchen are independently chosen, researched, and reviewed by our editors. We buy products for testing at retail locations and do not accept unsolicited samples for testing. We list suggested sources for recommended products as a convenience to our readers but do not endorse specific retailers. When you choose to purchase our editorial recommendations from the links we provide, we may earn an affiliate commission. Prices are subject to change.

Screenshots

Green Kitchen4 screens
America's Test Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: America's Test Kitchen at Free against Green Kitchen's $3.99. America's Test Kitchen also leads on ratings volume (18K vs 255) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Green Kitchen's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (93% vs 64%). On rating, 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

America's Test Kitchen is free to download; Green Kitchen costs $3.99 up front. Green Kitchen sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and America's Test Kitchen sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. 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 America's Test Kitchen. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: America's Test Kitchen has 18K ratings behind it against 255, 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 64% of America's Test Kitchen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, America's Test Kitchen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Green Kitchen versus America's Test Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreen KitchenAmerica's Test Kitchen
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (255 ratings)4.9 (18K ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.5% of reviews — better64.4% of reviews
Number of ratings25518K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#54#11 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size413 MB128 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGreen Kitchen StoriesAmerica's Test Kitchen LP

Customer experience

Green Kitchen

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

America's Test Kitchen

All ratings17,618 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral0.4%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews491 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative27.9%

User reviews

Green Kitchen

From 255 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

America's Test Kitchen

From 18K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to navigate app
  • 👍 Excellent recipes and cooking tips
  • 👍 Helpful product reviews and recommendations
  • 👍 Valuable subscription worth the cost

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent login issues and app crashes
  • 🐛 Unreliable server connectivity
  • 🐛 Inconsistent app performance and bugs
  • 🔍 Limited search and organization features

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

America's Test Kitchen

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Recipes and content not loading properly
  • Inability to access account after updates
  • Syncing issues between app and website
  • Frequent log-outs and need to re-login

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to categorize and organize saved recipes
  • Improve search functionality and filtering options
  • Implement sharing capabilities to easily share recipes
  • Add support for metric measurements alongside imperial

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Green Kitchen

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

America's Test Kitchen

Subscriptions6
  • ATK Essential - Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Classes Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Essential + Classes - Monthly$19.991 Month
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  • Classes Annual$39.991 Year
  • ATK Essential - Annual$49.991 Year
  • Essential + Classes - Annual14 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Green Kitchen free?
Green Kitchen costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is America's Test Kitchen free?
America's Test Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Green Kitchen or America's Test Kitchen?
America's Test Kitchen is rated higher. Green Kitchen averages 4.8 out of 5 from 255 ratings, while America's Test Kitchen averages 4.9 from 18K ratings.
Do Green Kitchen or America's Test Kitchen have ads?
America's Test Kitchen shows ads; Green Kitchen does not.
Which is updated more often, Green Kitchen or America's Test Kitchen?
Green Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, and America's Test Kitchen every 2 weeks. Most recently, Green Kitchen was updated on September 24, 2026 and America's Test Kitchen on September 25, 2026.
Which is more popular, Green Kitchen or America's Test Kitchen?
Green Kitchen currently peaks at #54 in the App Store charts, and America's Test Kitchen at #11. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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