Comparison

What’s Cooking? vs Doughly

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Doughly

Digitize your favorite recipes from photos and websites with smart AI importing. Generate shopping lists based on your recipes and share your collection with friends and family. Discover new culinary inspiration from a curated selection of public recipes.

Highlights
  • AI-powered recipe importing from photos
  • URL importing for online recipes
  • Automated recipe-based shopping lists
  • Pantry inventory checking for shopping
  • Social sharing of recipe collections
  • Discover curated public recipes
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Doughly brings loved ones together through the joy of recipes. FAST IMPORTING Snap photos of your dusty recipe cards for incredibly smart importing of your treasured recipes. Doughly uses powerful AI systems to read source images and give them new life through visually clear, organized recipes with full tie in to your digital pantry. FROM WEBSITES TOO The joy of cooking is quickly forgotten when having to scroll past ads and articles in the search for tasty recipes online. Now, simply paste a URL into Doughly to digitize public recipes to your App collection in a snap. Navigate directly back to the credited source from the generated recipe. It's time to ditch the notepad full of recipe website links! RECIPE-BASED SHOPPING LISTS Know what's for dinner next week? Tap to add each recipe and Doughly will build the combined ingredient list for you. Optionally, enable inventory checking to only shop for items your pantry doesn't already have. SHARE THE LOVE Still sending recipes to family over email? Let that be a distant memory. With Doughly, friends and family can add you to their network, popping in to view your recipe collection any time they feel hungry or nostalgic. Get notified when users you follow author a new public recipe, and see which of your recipes get the most attention. DELEGATE THE CHORES Want to give your friends more than just recipes? There's always the groceries needing shopping! Invite your in-App friends to complete your shopping list for you. Needing items from multiple stores? Split up and keep track of what items are still outstanding! DISCOVER NEW FAVORITES Doughly has curated hundreds of public recipes from around the world, ready to give you inspiration and motivation. Find one you like, then Subscribe to connect it to your pantry and add it to your collection. A clean interface allows for easy Category-based browsing. Welcome to your modern recipe Rolodex. Let Doughly simplify your life and return the warmth and connection to recipes. App Privacy Policy: https://doughly.co/privacy App Terms of Use: https://doughly.co/terms

Screenshots

What’s Cooking?4 screens
Doughly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Doughly at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.1. Doughly also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and device support (3 vs 1). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Doughly sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. What’s Cooking? asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doughly 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 Doughly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What’s Cooking? ships an update every 3 weeks, Doughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
What’s Cooking? versus Doughly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s Cooking?Doughly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (78 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB67 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKraft New Services, Inc.Joshua Brusse Merrell

Customer experience

What’s Cooking?

All ratings78 ratings
Positive70.5%
Neutral14.1%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral18.0%
Negative23.0%

Doughly

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 9 more
  • 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

Doughly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Doughly

One-time2
  • Doughly AI Credits (10)$2.99
  • Doughly Lifetime$11.99

Questions

Is What’s Cooking? free?
What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Doughly free?
Doughly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or Doughly?
Doughly is rated higher. What’s Cooking? averages 4.1 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Doughly averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do What’s Cooking? or Doughly have ads?
Doughly shows ads; What’s Cooking? does not.
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Doughly?
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 3 weeks, and Doughly fortnightly. Most recently, What’s Cooking? was updated on October 4, 2026 and Doughly on October 5, 2026.

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