What’s Cooking? vs Ckcat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
What’s Cooking?
Discover new recipes from top creators for any meal or craving. Save your favorites and follow easy-to-understand steps with simple videos to start cooking. Personalize your experience with handpicked dishes and collections.
- Recipe discovery by meal, mood, diet, or occasion
- Save favorite recipes and creators
- Step-by-step cooking videos
- Personalized recipe recommendations
- Build custom recipe collections
- Search by trending recipes
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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.
Ckcat
Instantly discover recipes from food images. Save and organize your culinary creations with details like title, photos, and dates. Perfect for home cooks of all skill levels.
- Image-based recipe discovery
- Save recipes with details
- Organize culinary creations
- Track recipes with images and dates
- Suitable for all ages
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The ultimate recipe app for people of all ages. Upload or take an image and get the recipe of the food in a matter of seconds, track your recipe with title, images, date, and so on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ckcat at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.0. Ckcat also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and device support (3 vs 1). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 3). 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.
Ckcat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s Cooking? has 79 ratings behind it against 3, 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 Ckcat's.
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, Ckcat fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | What’s Cooking? | Ckcat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kraft New Services, Inc. | Coding Minds, Inc. |
Customer experience
What’s Cooking?
Ckcat
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
Ckcat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Ckcat
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is What’s Cooking? free?
Is Ckcat free?
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or Ckcat?
Do What’s Cooking? or Ckcat have ads?
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Ckcat?
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