Comparison

JLBR Cooks vs thinnan

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

Head to head
About

JLBR Cooks

Access a collection of 431 recipes and hosting tips from an award-winning cookbook. Organize your culinary endeavors with search, sorting, and personalized lists. Share your creations and enjoy beautiful dish imagery, even offline.

Highlights
  • 431 recipes and hosting tips
  • Search recipes and ingredients
  • Sort by cuisine, method, and course
  • Save favorite recipes and shopping lists
  • Share recipes via email and social media
  • Offline recipe access
  • Beautiful dish imagery
Features
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The James Beard award-winning Cookbook from the Junior League of Boca Raton, Florida now has an app! Loaded with 431 recipes and tips to host the perfect dining experience. This elegant app is a must for Junior League members and home entertaining enthusiasts. Enjoy quick access to saved recipes for on-the-go planning. •Search all recipes and ingredients •Sort recipes by cuisine, method of cooking, meal course and cooking tips •Save your favorite recipe •Save a shopping list to create your favorite recipe •Share entire recipes through email •Post your favorite recipe on Facebook •Post to Twitter your meal for the night •No internet connection needed to view all the fantastic recipes •Enjoy beautiful pictures for each dish If you are a Junior League member that would like to make your local League’s cookbook into an iPhone/iPad app, contact RAM4LLC below through App Support to be directed to the website RAM4LLC.com.

About

thinnan

Features
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thinnan is a food-only social platform that turns cravings with your closest friends into real-life meals together. Add only the friends you actually want to hang out with. Scroll food, not noise. When something looks delicious, hit Crave. If your friends crave the same thing and have time, thinnan shows you a match and helps you turn it into a cosy cookout at home or a simple eat-out spontaneously, without endless group chats or planning fatigue. No swiping. No follower chase. No doomscrolling. Just real friends, real food, and real plans. thinnan is where cravings become plans, and plans become memories.

Screenshots

JLBR Cooks3 screens
thinnan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: thinnan at Free against JLBR Cooks's $4.99. thinnan also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

thinnan is free to download; JLBR Cooks costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

JLBR Cooks ships an update every 3 months, thinnan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
JLBR Cooks versus thinnan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJLBR Cooksthinnan
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB57 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperIn Rem Solutions, Inc.Jathikka Oy

In-app purchases

None

JLBR Cooks

No in-app purchases

None

thinnan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is JLBR Cooks free?
JLBR Cooks costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is thinnan free?
thinnan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do JLBR Cooks or thinnan have ads?
Neither JLBR Cooks nor thinnan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, JLBR Cooks or thinnan?
JLBR Cooks ships an update every 3 months, and thinnan every 4 days. Most recently, JLBR Cooks was updated on November 1, 2026 and thinnan on November 4, 2026.

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