What’s Cooking? vs Carte
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.
Carte
Easily save and organize places discovered on social media. This app transforms posts from Instagram and TikTok into a usable map, complete with details like distance, ratings, and hours. Plan your visits by searching, filtering, and getting directions.
- Save places from Instagram & TikTok
- View saves on a live map
- Organize places into lists
- Add notes and categories
- Search and filter saved locations
- Get directions to saved places
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Carte turns places you see on Instagram and TikTok into a map you actually use. Share a post into Carte. We find the places, pin it, and keep the post with it — so you remember why you saved it. EVERY POST, PINNED TO YOUR MAP See all your saves on a live map with distance, ratings, hours, and photos. Search, filter, and open directions when you’re ready to go. SAVE FROM INSTAGRAM & TIKTOK Add Carte to your iOS share sheet. Tap share on a post and choose Carte ORGANIZE YOUR FINDS Group places into lists, add notes and categories, and share lists with friends. Keep “want to try” separate from places you’ve already visited. SORT EACH FIND IN SECONDS New saves show up in Sort Posts so you can confirm the venue, add it to a list, or clean up duplicates — without losing the original post. MADE FOR REAL PLANS Use your location to see what’s nearby, check what’s open now, and pull up place details before you head out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Carte at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.0. Carte also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (79 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Carte holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s Cooking? has 79 ratings behind it against 2, 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 Carte's.
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, Carte every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | What’s Cooking? | Carte |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kraft New Services, Inc. | ERIC LIN |
Customer experience
What’s Cooking?
Carte
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
Carte
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
What’s Cooking?
No in-app purchases
Carte
No in-app purchases
