Comparison

Sous Chef vs Kitchen Tools & Recipes

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

Head to head
About

Sous Chef

This kitchen helper offers a suite of tools for meal preparation, including multiple configurable timers that function even when the app is closed. It also features a servings calculator and a handy conversion chart to simplify cooking tasks.

Highlights
  • 5 configurable timers
  • Timers work in background
  • Servings calculator
  • Popular conversions chart
  • Stores notes and favorite websites
Features
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Kitchen Sous Chef is a set of everyday tools to assist you around the kitchen. This little kitchen helper is ready and waiting to help you serve up that delicious meal! *Note* Timers use the device notification system. Make sure notifications are turned on and that your device volume/ringer is not muted!! App Highlights • 5 Configurable timers. • Timers work even if app is not running. • Servings calculator • Chart of popular conversions. • Stores notes and favorite websites. • Available for both iPhone and iPad.

About

Kitchen Tools & Recipes

Features
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Kitchen charts that answer the question actually in front of you, and tools that do the tedious parts of cooking for you. THE CHARTS - FREE, ALWAYS Cups to grams, ounces to milliliters, and back again. Oven temperatures in Fahrenheit, Celsius and gas mark. Cake tins and pans listed by what they hold, so you can tell which ones swap for which. What a cup of each thing actually weighs, ingredient by ingredient - because a cup of flour and a cup of honey are nowhere near the same. Safe internal temperatures for every cut of meat, with the distinction that matters spelled out: a whole steak and ground beef are not the same number. Resting times, and where to put the thermometer. Cooking times for vegetables and seafood, including what "done" actually looks like. How long food keeps on the counter, in the fridge and in the freezer, and how much that changes once the packet is opened. Substitutions with the amounts, and the recipes they will not work in: oil for butter is fine in a quick bread and wrong in pastry. YOUR RECIPES Write a recipe by hand, or photograph one and have it typed out for you: ingredients, steps and timings, ready to save. From an app with no Share button, take several screenshots as you scroll and they are stitched into one recipe. If something looks missing between two photos you are told, rather than given an invented step. A page with several recipes on it comes back as several, each saved on its own. Scale any recipe to the number you are cooking for, amounts written into the steps included. Switch it between imperial and metric in either direction, amounts and oven temperatures both, landing on the fractions your measuring cups are marked in. Save a recipe from Safari or any other app: tap Share, then Kitchen Tools, and it is read into My Recipes - three a month free, more with the Recipe Reader. Share yours by message, email or AirDrop. On a computer, click Send to phone on kitchentools.app and scan the code. COOKING MODE AND TIMERS One step at a time in large type, with the screen kept on. When a step names a time, one tap starts its timer; change its length and the recipe remembers. Several timers run at once, and on iOS 26 and later they ring like alarms, even on silent. The step and its timers follow you to the Lock Screen, the Dynamic Island, a widget and Apple Watch. Kitchen timers for the egg, the pasta or the tea start with one tap, in the app or from a widget. PLANNING AND SHOPPING A week of dinners built around the recipes you have already saved, laid out as a calendar so you can replan one night without disturbing the rest. Kids' menus are part of the plan; twins get matching plates. Allergies and special diets shape the whole week. One shopping list with the quantities added up properly rather than estimated, built from a plan or from any recipes you pick. Two recipes that both want onions come out as one line, not two. SHORTCUTS AND WIDGETS Widgets open any chart or page in one tap. Pin a chart, a tab or a recipe to the app icon's press-and-hold menu or to a Siri phrase. Light or Dark, in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. The charts and your own recipes are free, with no account and no limit, and there are no ads. The monthly plans start with a 3-day free trial. SUBSCRIPTIONS The Recipe Reader, the Recipe Creator and the Meal Planner are auto-renewable subscriptions, by the week or by the month, with an Everything plan covering all three; the length and price of each are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings after buying. Privacy Policy: https://kitchentools.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://kitchentools.app/terms/

Screenshots

Sous Chef4 screens
Kitchen Tools & Recipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kitchen Tools & Recipes at none against Sous Chef's shown. Kitchen Tools & Recipes also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Sous Chef's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Sous Chef sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Kitchen Tools & Recipes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sous Chef ships an update every 3 months, Kitchen Tools & Recipes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sous Chef versus Kitchen Tools & Recipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSous ChefKitchen Tools & Recipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (338 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings338 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB151 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChuChu Train ProductionsTriangulum, Inc

Bugs and requests

Sous Chef

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently during use
  • Timer doesn't alert when phone is in lock mode
  • Accidental timer reset when phone placed in pocket
  • Pop-up ads appear during timer setup
  • Free version upgrade doesn't convert to Pro (requires repurchase)

Requested features

13 requests
  • Custom alarm sounds for each timer
  • Different ringtones/tones for different timers
  • Count-up feature after timer reaches zero
  • Larger readout/display text
  • Cooking temperature reference charts
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  • More than 5 timers available
  • Gram conversion option
  • Landscape mode support
  • Volume control for alerts
  • Number of alert repetitions option
  • Menu planning features
  • Additional sous chef functionality
  • Ability to select iPhone system ringtones

Kitchen Tools & Recipes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sous Chef

One-time4
  • KS - Remove Ad Banner$9.99
  • Unlimited Reference Entries$9.99
  • Enable All Timers$9.99
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  • All Features$24.99
8 purchases

Kitchen Tools & Recipes

Subscriptions8
  • Recipe Reader Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Recipe Creator Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Meal Planner Weekly$3.997 Days
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  • Recipe Reader Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Recipe Creator Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Everything Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Meal Planner Monthly3 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Everything Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month

Questions

Is Sous Chef free?
Sous Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kitchen Tools & Recipes free?
Kitchen Tools & Recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sous Chef or Kitchen Tools & Recipes have ads?
Sous Chef shows ads; Kitchen Tools & Recipes does not.
Which is updated more often, Sous Chef or Kitchen Tools & Recipes?
Sous Chef ships an update every 3 months, and Kitchen Tools & Recipes fortnightly. Most recently, Sous Chef was updated on November 1, 2026 and Kitchen Tools & Recipes on October 27, 2026.

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