What’s Cooking? vs Forkful Mobile
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.
Forkful Mobile
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Forkful Mobile is a private, local-first cooking companion built for real home kitchens. Save recipes, organize them into collections, plan your week, and turn ingredients into a grocery list you can actually shop from. Forkful keeps everything on your device by default, with simple desktop pairing for sharing data across your own Macs and iPhone on your local network. With Forkful, you can: Browse and search your recipe library View rich recipe details with ingredients, instructions, notes, and source links Organize recipes into collections Plan meals across the week Add recipe ingredients directly to your grocery list Manage a grocery list grouped by shopping sections Import and export your data Pair with Forkful Desktop to sync recipes, menu, grocery items, and collections on your own network Forkful is designed to feel calm, clear, and useful while cooking, planning, and shopping. No account required. No cloud required. Your kitchen data stays yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: What’s Cooking? at Free against Forkful Mobile's $1.99. What’s Cooking? also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Forkful Mobile's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
What’s Cooking? is free to download; Forkful Mobile costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 3 weeks, Forkful Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | What’s Cooking? | Forkful Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (79 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kraft New Services, Inc. | Thomas Kramer |
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
Forkful Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Forkful Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is What’s Cooking? free?
Is Forkful Mobile free?
Do What’s Cooking? or Forkful Mobile have ads?
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Forkful Mobile?
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