Comparison

What’s Cooking? vs Tastemade Cooking

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 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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Tastemade Cooking

This app creates personalized weekly meal plans and generates smart grocery lists based on your taste preferences. It offers a vast recipe library, step-by-step cooking guidance, and organization tools to simplify your cooking routine.

Highlights
  • Personalized weekly meal plans
  • Smart grocery list generation
  • Taste profile customization
  • Thousands of reliable recipes
  • Step-by-step cooking mode
  • Recipe saving and organization
Features
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Meal planning, done for you. Personalized weekly plans and smart grocery lists—tailored to your taste. Let us build you a personalized weekly meal plan, or build a plan from recipes you love – plus a smart grocery list that comes together automatically. Set your taste preferences once so every recommendation fits how you actually cook. No more guessing what to make or what to buy. SMART PERSONALIZATION Set up your Taste Profile to tell us what you love, what you avoid, and how you like to cook. Whether you build your own plan or let us build one for you, every recommendation feels relevant and doable. MEAL PLANNING, YOUR WAY Plan your week in seconds. Use the Personalized Meal Planner to build a plan for any days and meals you want, or build your own from recipes you love. Choose to minimize groceries or prioritize ingredient variety with a single tap. ONE SMART GROCERY LIST Your entire week, organized in one place. Ingredients automatically combine across recipes and group by aisle for easier shopping. Check items off as you go, move completed items to the bottom of your list, or order everything at once with Instacart. THOUSANDS OF RELIABLE RECIPES Explore a large library of tried-and-true recipes from Tastemade’s chefs and creators. Whether you’re cooking something quick or trying something new, every recipe works seamlessly with your meal plan and grocery list. COOK WITH CONFIDENCE Follow step-by-step cooking mode, view detailed nutrition info, scale serving sizes, and switch instantly between metric and imperial measurements—all designed to make cooking feel simpler and more approachable. SAVE & STAY ORGANIZED Save favorite recipes, build collections, and organize everything in your personal Recipe Box—so your go-to meals are always easy to find. ACCESS & PRICING Tastemade Cooking is free to download. Start with a 1-week free trial, then choose a subscription plan to continue access. Subscription options: – Monthly: 1-week free trial, then $5.99/month – Annual: 1-week free trial, then $49.99/year (save 30%) Cancel anytime. This app does not include our full shows and documentaries, which can be found in the Tastemade: Stream Shows & Docs app.

Screenshots

What’s Cooking?4 screens
Tastemade Cooking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tastemade Cooking at 4.8 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.0. Tastemade Cooking also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 79) and chart position (#57 vs unranked). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Tastemade Cooking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. What’s Cooking? asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tastemade Cooking holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tastemade Cooking has 1.2K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of What’s Cooking?'s written reviews are positive against 38% of Tastemade Cooking's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, Tastemade Cooking fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
What’s Cooking? versus Tastemade Cooking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s Cooking?Tastemade Cooking
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (79 ratings)4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews — better38.1% of reviews
Number of ratings791.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#57 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB101 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKraft New Services, Inc.Tastemade, Inc.

Customer experience

What’s Cooking?

All ratings79 ratings
Positive69.6%
Neutral13.9%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral18.0%
Negative23.0%

Tastemade Cooking

All ratings1,221 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive38.1%
Neutral4.8%
Negative57.1%

User reviews

What’s Cooking?

From 79 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great recipes and content
  • 👍 Easy to follow videos
  • 👍 Inspiring for new cooks
  • 👍 Well-thought-out app design
  • 👍 No ads (appreciated)

Room to improve

  • 👎 Limited number of creators
  • 👎 Lack of content diversity (cuisine types)
  • 👎 Repetitive content
  • 👎 Slow loading times
  • 👎 Scrolling issues

Tastemade Cooking

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent meal planning and grocery list features
  • 🚀 Streamlined cooking process with recipe videos
  • 💡 Personalized meal plans based on dietary needs

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Locked behind a paywall, no free access
  • 🐛 Difficult to find and navigate recipes
  • ⚠️ Questionable billing practices and lack of transparency

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

Tastemade Cooking

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Subscription not properly cancelled, continued billing
  • Recipes not loading or unavailable

Requested features

3 requests
  • More free recipe access without subscription
  • Improved recipe search and filtering
  • Clearer cancellation and refund policies

In-app purchases

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tastemade Cooking

Subscriptions2
  • Tastemade Cooking Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Tastemade Cooking Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is What’s Cooking? free?
What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tastemade Cooking free?
Tastemade Cooking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or Tastemade Cooking?
Tastemade Cooking is rated higher. What’s Cooking? averages 4.0 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Tastemade Cooking averages 4.8 from 1.2K ratings.
Do What’s Cooking? or Tastemade Cooking have ads?
Tastemade Cooking shows ads; What’s Cooking? does not.
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Tastemade Cooking?
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, and Tastemade Cooking fortnightly. Most recently, What’s Cooking? was updated on October 30, 2026 and Tastemade Cooking on October 30, 2026.

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