Grandma's Tips vs Talk Dim Sum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grandma's Tips
Discover over 1200 practical tips and tricks for cooking, home management, health, beauty, and more. Learn secret ingredients, household hacks, and DIY solutions to impress your family and friends.
- Over 1200 tips and tricks
- Search functionality
- Random tip generator
- Favorites list
- Tip sharing
- 10 tip categories
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1000 TIPS AND MORE! Ever wondered what secret ingredients and tricks your grandma used to make that juicy steak, crispy fries or delicious cake? Or just want to learn about simple things like making fluffy mash potatoes, cooking the perfect egg, or peeling garlic quickly? You will find tips for all that and much more in this practical tool! More than 1200 tips how to cook super tasty meals, handle things around the kitchen, do housework and gardening, deal with small health and cosmetic problems, or make decorations and small repairs! 10 categories! Food & Drinks Housework Health Beauty Babies & Kids Decoration Do-It-Yourself Gardening & Plants Practical tips Saving tips Many features! More than 1200 tips and tricks Search function Random tips generator Favorites function Sharing function Join in! Help to improve this app! Send us your own tips and tricks. The best suggestions will be included in the next update! Impress your family and friends! Grandma's Tips is great for the whole family! This tool helps you save money, lead an eco-friendly and healthy lifestyle, and impress your friends with clever tricks!
Talk Dim Sum
Navigate Chinese and Chinese-adjacent cuisine with confidence. Hear pronunciations in Cantonese or Mandarin, search dishes in English or Chinese, and discover over 500 restaurants. Practice your speaking with speech-to-text and AI dish recognition.
- Cantonese and Mandarin pronunciation
- English and Chinese search
- Save favorite dishes
- AI camera dish recognition
- Speech-to-text pronunciation practice
- Over 500 US restaurants listed
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Love dim sum, but don't know what to order or how to order? Bring this app, find what you like, and tap the speaker icon to hear the dish pronounced in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) using iOS text-to-speech. I made this app after visiting Hong Kong and trying to crash course learn Cantonese in the food courts. The early focus was just on dim sum and Cantonese text-to-speech and my favorite restaurants, but has since expanded (based on user tips and requests and my own interests) to more broadly cover Chinese and Chinese-adjacent food (over five hundred dishes) and include features such as Mandarin (traditional and simplified), search (English and Chinese), saving favorites, AI camera recognition of dishes, speech-to-text pronunciation practice, basic phrases, and over five hundred restaurants in the US (sorry, I gave up on trying to list every restaurant in the world, it's just not feasible). Tips: If the voice is stuck in Cantonese or Mandarin even after switching the tabs in the Practice screen, go to the Settings app, select Accessibility then Spoken Content and check the Chinese voice. If it's not one of the Siri voices, try selecting Siri in Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. If you don't hear the Chinese speech 1) check the mute switch on your iPhone and make sure it isn't on. 2) text-to-speech for a particular voice sometimes seems to require an internet connect, at least on initial use (same with speech-to-text, the microphone practice button). 2) sometimes a device will have trouble accessing the text-to-speech voice (it's the Hong Kong Chinese voice used for Accessibility in Settings), so try turning your device off and on. Tapping the speaker icon plays back the Chinese pronunciation at half speed to help you learn. Tap the microphone icon to bring up more options, including adjusting the playback speed, switching between Cantonese and Mandarin, and practicing speaking (the speed and language settings are also in Settings). Aside from the default speed, the speech may sound not quite natural because the app does not play back recorded speech but instead uses iOS text-to-speech functionality, which utters one character (i.e. one syllable) at a time, which may not match how an entire compound word or phrase is normally pronounced (you can hear this effect when using Siri). The home screen shows categories of dishes. Tap each category to see the dishes. Or tap on the Search button at the top left (some vocabulary items like "takeout" are not in categories but available in via search). Talk Dim Sum is developed with: The dim sum icon from Stock Image Folio on Iconfinder.com. The technicat logo designed by Dakota Snow. Restaurant link icons from Simple Icons. Photos from many dim sum excursions. Regional map images from Wikipedia (Creative Commons License from Wikimedia). Swift open source packages: AlertToast, ImagePickerView, LinksKit, Qgrid, SQLite.swift, SwiftUIPager, and SwiftyJSON.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grandma's Tips at none against Talk Dim Sum's 1. Grandma's Tips also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 70%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). Talk Dim Sum's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 64 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Talk Dim Sum sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grandma's Tips asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Grandma's Tips against 4.8 for Talk Dim Sum. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 221 and 345 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Grandma's Tips's written reviews are positive against 70% of Talk Dim Sum's.
Grandma's Tips ships an update every 64 months, Talk Dim Sum every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grandma's Tips | Talk Dim Sum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (221 ratings) | 4.8 (345 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.3% of reviews — better | 70.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 221 | 345 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rogobete Christian | Technicat, LLC |
Customer experience
Grandma's Tips
Talk Dim Sum
User reviews
Grandma's Tips
From 221 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful tips and advice
- 🤗 Grandma-approved remedies
- 💡 Useful for everyday life
- 🙌 Informative and practical
- 😊 Positive user experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes or freezes
- ⚠️ Outdated for newer iOS versions
- 🔍 Difficulty viewing full tips
Talk Dim Sum
From 345 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for learning dim sum
- 👍 Useful for ordering food
- 👍 Helpful for non-native speakers
- 👍 Good visuals and audio
- 👍 Covers many dishes
Room to improve
- 🐛 App freezes on picture tap
- 🐛 Speech sound not working
- 🐛 Incorrect Cantonese pronunciation
- 🐛 Wrong word usage
- 🐛 Audio recordings are bad
Bugs and requests
Grandma's Tips
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incompatibility with iOS 11
- Inability to view full tips
Requested features
2 requests- Tips for new moms and infants
- More content updates and expansions
Talk Dim Sum
Reported bugs
7 issues- App freezes when tapping on food pictures
- Speech function has no sound
- Cantonese voice pronunciations are incorrect
- Wrong word usage and pronunciation (Mandarin vs. Cantonese)
- Audio recordings are laughably bad
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- All dishes displayed in Mandarin instead of Cantonese
- Sound not working, even when highlighted
Requested features
4 requests- Add Boba names and rituals
- Add conversations for ordering
- Add more Chinese food items
- Add various teas
In-app purchases
Grandma's Tips
No in-app purchases
Talk Dim Sum
- Talk Dim Sum Pro$0.99







