What’s Cooking? vs Brownble
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
What’s Cooking?
Discover recipes from top creators tailored to your mood and cravings. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps and videos to make delicious meals.
- Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, occasion
- Personalized recipe recommendations
- Save favorite recipes and creators
- Step-by-step cooking videos
- Build recipe collections
- Search cooking history
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What’s Cooking brings you recipes from top creators for every meal, mood, and craving, even tonight’s dinner. Discover new dishes, save your favorites, and start cooking with easy-to-follow steps and simple videos. Find What You’re Craving Search by meal, mood, diet, or occasion. Quickly pull up your saved dishes, cooking history, favorite creators, and more. Cooking Made Personal Get recipes handpicked for your tastes. Find the creators you love and dishes you’ll want to cook again and again. Scroll, Save, Cook Endless food inspiration with no distractions. Sort by trending, save your faves, and build collections that match your cravings. Real Recipes, Real Cooks Follow step-by-step videos from real creators in real kitchens. Make their dishes your own—or create something totally new.
Brownble
Enhance your plant-based cooking with on-the-go access to vegan culinary classes and courses. Watch videos, view recipes, and search ingredients easily from your phone or tablet.
- Access all courses on mobile
- Watch videos and view recipes
- Search recipes by ingredient
- Mark favorite recipes
- Ask questions and comment
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Improve your plant-based cooking skills and get support on your vegan journey with easy on-the-go-access to all of Brownble's vegan cooking classes and courses. Inside the Brownble mobile app you'll be able to: - Access all your Brownble courses on your mobile device anywhere you are - Watch videos, get recipes, or quickly view the written version of a recipe - Search for the ingredients of a recipe while you're at the store - Quickly find the recipes you've marked as favorites - Ask questions or post a comment - Search for your favorite recipes by name or ingredient - Much more... The app will work on your phone or tablet so you can watch and cook wherever you are. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brownble at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.1. Brownble also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brownble holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s Cooking? has 78 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of What’s Cooking?'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Brownble's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | What’s Cooking? | Brownble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (78 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kraft New Services, Inc. | CARLOS LUIS MARRERO VALERO |
Customer experience
What’s Cooking?
Brownble
Bugs and requests
What’s Cooking?
Reported bugs
7 issues- App gets stuck on name/email subscription page
- Won't let user click continue after update
- Keeps reloading email subscription page
- Doesn't change page when 'next' is clicked
- App forces an update but no update available in App Store
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- App keeps loading
- App is asking to update but there is no update
Requested features
14 requests- Increase number of preferences per category
- More videos of different foods
- More creators
- Add new recipes more frequently
- Add a search bar
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- Add comment sections
- Add ratings
- Add more allergy filters
- Add measurement conversion options
- Add more cultural foods (Arabic, Indian, Filipino)
- Add Halal dietary restrictions
- Add more diversity in recipes and cuisines
- Add miso ramen recipe
- Add specific diet preferences
Brownble
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Brownble
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is What’s Cooking? free?
Is Brownble free?
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or Brownble?
Do What’s Cooking? or Brownble have ads?
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Brownble?
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