Sous Chef vs Vibes Kitchen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 5 configurable timers
- Timers work in background
- Servings calculator
- Popular conversions chart
- Stores notes and favorite websites
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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.
Vibes Kitchen
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Vibes Kitchen is a recipe management & food-costing app for restaurants, cafés and bars. Keep your recipes organized with photos, and from costing dishes to building the shopping and order lists you actually need, the tedious calculator-and-spreadsheet work is handled for you. Save your recipes and ingredients, and the math and tallying are done automatically, so pricing and ordering get much easier. ■ What it does ● Recipe management: keep recipes organized in one list, save with photos, archive the ones you don't use ● Idea notes: capture dish ideas anywhere—ingredients like “- chicken 250g” are recognized as you type, then converted to a recipe in one tap ● Food cost: per-serving and total, calculated for you ● Cost ratio & price: ratio from a price, or a suggested price from a target ratio ● Shopping & order lists: needed purchases and order quantity, totaled from how much you're making ● Ingredient management with price history ● Natural units: cost by g, ml and pieces—or straight in tbsp, tsp and pinches ● Prep (sub-recipes): build sauces and stocks into your costs ● Prep calculator: ingredient amounts convert automatically to however much you're making (one-tap ×2 / ×3) ● Recipe sharing: send recipes as a file to another Vibes Kitchen. Hand staff view-only copies — re-sending updates them in place ● Allergen management: set allergens per ingredient and each recipe totals them automatically, with a chart formatted for your region ● Ingredient labels: auto-generate an ingredient label from any recipe (text / PDF / image), print via AirPrint or label printers — great for packaged and takeout items ● Tax: switch tax-included / tax-excluded ● Multiple stores, with copy between them ● iCloud sync across devices on the same Apple ID ● PDF / CSV / text export, multilingual & multi-currency Organizing recipes, recalculating when an ingredient price changes, tallying up an order—the app does it right away, so you spend less time on math and more on cooking. Terms of Use (EULA): https://hosimo.net/vibeskitchen/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://hosimo.net/vibeskitchen/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Vibes Kitchen at none against Sous Chef's shown. Vibes Kitchen also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Sous Chef's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). 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
Both are free to download. Sous Chef sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Vibes Kitchen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sous Chef ships an update every 3 months, Vibes Kitchen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sous Chef | Vibes Kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (338 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 338 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChuChu Train Productions | Ryosuke Nishida |
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
Vibes Kitchen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sous Chef
- KS - Remove Ad Banner$9.99
- Unlimited Reference Entries$9.99
- Enable All Timers$9.99
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- All Features$24.99
Vibes Kitchen
- Vibes Kitchen Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Vibes Kitchen Pro Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Questions
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