Comparison

What’s Cooking? vs Flavors Lab

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

Flavors Lab

Engage with a food-focused community through trivia, photo contests, and content sharing. Test your culinary knowledge, showcase your dishes, and discover new recipes and cuisines.

Highlights
  • Food trivia challenges
  • Photo contests
  • Community sharing
  • Curated food content
  • Leaderboard
  • Rush Mode challenges
Features
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Flavor Labs — Where Food Lovers Play, Share & Compete! Discover a vibrant community built around the love of food. Flavor Labs brings together food trivia, photo contests, community sharing, and curated food content — all in one app. Test Your Food Knowledge Challenge yourself with timed food trivia questions and climb the leaderboard. How well do you really know your food? Compete in Photo Contests Enter exciting food photography contests, showcase your best dishes, and win prizes. Browse submissions from fellow foodies and vote for your favorites. Join the Community Share your culinary creations, discover new dishes, and connect with food enthusiasts. Like and engage with posts from food lovers around the world. Explore Food Categories Browse curated categories featuring dishes, recipes, and ingredients. Discover new cuisines and find your next favorite meal. Share Your Content Submit your own food content to be featured in the Showcase — a curated feed of the best community submissions. Rush Mode Jump into fast-paced food challenges and put your skills to the test. Whether you're a home cook, a foodie, or just someone who loves great food — Flavor Labs is your playground.

Screenshots

What’s Cooking?4 screens
Flavors Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Flavors Lab at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.0. What’s Cooking?'s advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flavors Lab 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
What’s Cooking? versus Flavors Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s Cooking?Flavors Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (79 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings79 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB59 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKraft New Services, Inc.William Lowe

Customer experience

What’s Cooking?

All ratings78 ratings
Positive70.5%
Neutral14.1%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral18.0%
Negative23.0%

Flavors Lab

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Flavors Lab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

None

Flavors Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What’s Cooking? free?
What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flavors Lab free?
Flavors Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or Flavors Lab?
Flavors Lab is rated higher. What’s Cooking? averages 4.0 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Flavors Lab averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do What’s Cooking? or Flavors Lab have ads?
Neither What’s Cooking? nor Flavors Lab shows ads.

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