Comparison

What’s Cooking? vs DinnerClarity

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 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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

DinnerClarity

Simplify weekly meal planning by creating custom dinner schedules based on household members' dietary needs and available time. Generate organized grocery lists, track pantry inventory, and access recipes in a distraction-free cooking mode.

Highlights
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Customizable dietary restrictions
  • Automated grocery lists
  • Pantry inventory tracking
  • Distraction-free cook mode
  • Recipe library
  • Household sharing
Features
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Dinner is a decision you make every single day, usually at the worst possible moment: 5:40 PM, everyone is hungry, and the fridge has half an answer. DinnerClarity makes that decision once for the whole week, around the household you actually have. PLAN A WEEK THAT FITS YOUR LIFE Tell DinnerClarity who is eating, what they will not eat, and how much time you have on a Tuesday versus a Sunday. It builds a week of dinners that fits your schedule. Allergens and dietary restrictions are treated as hard rules, not preferences. If someone in your household cannot have dairy, dairy does not appear. SHOP FROM ONE LIST Everything your week needs, minus what is already in your kitchen, is organized into one grocery list by aisle, complete with a running estimated total. Prices are estimates and are clearly labeled as such. They refresh daily using published supermarket shelf prices for store-brand products. Name brands may cost more. A number you can check is worth more than a number that flatters us. YOUR PANTRY, COUNTED Check items off as you put groceries away and your pantry updates itself. Cook a meal and those ingredients come out of your pantry. Nothing is deducted behind your back. When an amount is ambiguous, DinnerClarity asks instead of guessing, and every change can be undone. Filter by pantry, fridge, or freezer, or switch off amounts and simply track what you have. SWAP ANY NIGHT Wednesday not appealing? Swap Wednesday. Pick from three fresh ideas or browse every recipe. "Not feeling it" puts a dinner away for a few weeks; "Don't like it" means you never see it again. Pin the nights that work, or drag a dinner to another night. Your plan and grocery list follow. IT LEARNS YOUR HOUSEHOLD DinnerClarity learns from what you cook, pick, and pass on, not just what you rate. Skipped dinners stop coming back, favorites return every few weeks, and an optional weekly reminder helps you plan ahead. COOK MODE Ingredients and directions appear together on one focused screen, with no ads and no interruptions while you are cooking. That is a promise, not a setting. REAL FOOD FOR REAL WEEKNIGHTS Real weeknight cooking, not restaurant projects. Filter recipes by cooking time, diet, protein, cuisine, kind of dish, or how likely the kids are to eat it. Add your own family recipes and they get planned, shopped, and cooked just like everything else. SHARE YOUR KITCHEN Optionally sync DinnerClarity across two phones, so whoever is at the store has the same grocery list as whoever is at home. DinnerClarity works completely without an account. Signing in is only needed for backup and household sharing. FREE, AND CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS The core DinnerClarity experience is free, including: • This week's and next week's meal plans • Pantry tracking • Grocery lists • Cook Mode • The complete recipe library DINNERCLARITY+ Upgrade to DinnerClarity+ for: • Plan a month ahead with four weeks instead of two • Swap any night, as often as you like • Save every recipe you love • Add unlimited recipes of your own • Remove all ads DinnerClarity+ is available as a weekly or yearly subscription. The yearly plan begins with a free trial. Pricing and any applicable trial offer are shown before purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jestermedia.app/dinnerclarity/privacy.html App Terms: https://jestermedia.app/dinnerclarity/terms.html

Screenshots

What’s Cooking?4 screens
DinnerClarity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DinnerClarity at 5.0 against What’s Cooking?'s 4.0. DinnerClarity also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks). What’s Cooking?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. DinnerClarity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. What’s Cooking? asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DinnerClarity 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, DinnerClarity every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
What’s Cooking? versus DinnerClarity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s Cooking?DinnerClarity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (79 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings79 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB28 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKraft New Services, Inc.Joshua Adkins

Customer experience

What’s Cooking?

All ratings79 ratings
Positive69.6%
Neutral13.9%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive59.0%
Neutral18.0%
Negative23.0%

DinnerClarity

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
Show 9 more
  • 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

DinnerClarity

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

What’s Cooking?

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DinnerClarity

Subscriptions2
  • DinnerClarity+ Weekly$2.997 Days
  • DinnerClarity+ Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is What’s Cooking? free?
What’s Cooking? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DinnerClarity free?
DinnerClarity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, What’s Cooking? or DinnerClarity?
DinnerClarity is rated higher. What’s Cooking? averages 4.0 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while DinnerClarity averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do What’s Cooking? or DinnerClarity have ads?
DinnerClarity shows ads; What’s Cooking? does not.
Which is updated more often, What’s Cooking? or DinnerClarity?
What’s Cooking? ships an update every 4 weeks, and DinnerClarity every 10 days. Most recently, What’s Cooking? was updated on November 3, 2026 and DinnerClarity on November 10, 2026.

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