Comparison

What’s Cooking? vs Forkful Mobile

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

Forkful Mobile

Features
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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.

Screenshots

What’s Cooking?4 screens
Forkful Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
What’s Cooking? versus Forkful Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s Cooking?Forkful Mobile
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.0 (79 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings79 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB28 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKraft 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

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

None

Forkful Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What’s Cooking? free?
What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forkful Mobile free?
Forkful Mobile costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do What’s Cooking? or Forkful Mobile have ads?
Neither What’s Cooking? nor Forkful Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or Forkful Mobile?
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 3 weeks, and Forkful Mobile every 3 months. Most recently, What’s Cooking? was updated on October 25, 2026 and Forkful Mobile on October 11, 2026.

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