What’s Cooking? vs BakingSchool
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.
BakingSchool
Master modern pastry with video tutorials and ingredient science. Learn techniques for mousses, glazes, and textures, from beginner to advanced. Connect directly for support and enjoy secure authentication.
- Video tutorials
- Ingredient science
- Step-by-step guidance
- Pastry techniques
- Direct support via WhatsApp
- Secure authentication
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Discover the art of modern pastry—layer by layer. This app is your gateway to mastering layered desserts through beautifully crafted video tutorials, ingredient science, and step-by-step guidance for every skill level. Whether you're a curious beginner or a seasoned baker, you'll learn the techniques behind mousses, glazes, inserts, and textures that elevate your creations. Our lessons are rooted in real pastry science and delivered with warmth, clarity, and precision. To support users across different countries and currencies, we manage subscriptions and account creation exclusively through our website. This ensures a secure and consistent experience, especially in regions with varying inflation and payment systems. Key features: - Video tutorials currently in Spanish - Multilingual support coming soon—including English voice dubbing and subtitles - Ingredient insights, visual breakdowns, and guided workflows - Need help? Tap the WhatsApp button in the main catalog to chat directly with us - Your data is safe. We use Auth0 for secure authentication and never misuse your information - Created by a bilingual pastry educator and developer with a passion for teaching and community
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: What’s Cooking? at 59% against BakingSchool's 0%. What’s Cooking? also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (79 vs 3). BakingSchool's advantage is device support (3 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.
What’s Cooking? holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. 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 0% of BakingSchool's.
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, BakingSchool every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | What’s Cooking? | BakingSchool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (79 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kraft New Services, Inc. | Arash Fattahi |
Customer experience
What’s Cooking?
BakingSchool
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
BakingSchool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
BakingSchool
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is What’s Cooking? free?
Is BakingSchool free?
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