Comparison

Kitchenese vs The Recipe Noteboook

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kitchenese

Discover recipes based on your available ingredients and reduce food waste. Manage your pantry, create your own recipes, and even plan a food business with financial tools.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery based on pantry items
  • Food inventory tracking
  • Recipe creation tool
  • Household profiles for shared databases
  • Food business financial planning tools
  • Menu designer
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Match your pantry and perishables, such as meat and produce, to recipes! Kitchenese is a unique tool that helps you reduce food waste. With a combination of recipe searching and food inventory tracking, users can both explore new cuisines and learn ways to use up perishable ingredients such as meat, vegetables, fruits, and staple pantry ingredients. Do you cook with others? Household profiles allow you to to keep separate user accounts but share a recipe and inventory database. Do you create your own recipes? Kitchenese has a recipe creation tool that allows you to keep either a private database of recipes or publish them to share with other users. Have you ever wanted to start your own food business? Kitchenese has unique tools for current and aspiring food business owners to financially plan out a new venture. Whether it's a food truck, coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or any other food business, Kitchenese helps you estimate your profit using recipe costing tools, labor and wage tools, and a menu designer. Create an account today to start learning new recipes and explore new cuisines!

About

The Recipe Noteboook

Easily store, search, and access your favorite recipes in one convenient place. Sync your collection across devices using iCloud for seamless cooking in the kitchen. Once purchased, all your recipes are yours to keep with no extra charges.

Highlights
  • Store recipes digitally
  • Search and find recipes quickly
  • Use recipes in the kitchen
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • One-time purchase, no subscriptions
Features
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The Recipe Notebook lets you just cook in the kitchen instead of hunting for recipes. The app lets you easily store, search, and use your recipes.  This app uses iCloud syncing: so add a recipe on your iPhone and then view it on your iPad's larger screen! Our promise to you is once you buy our app it is yours. We don't charge anything beyond the app purchase to access your recipes. There are no microtransactions or subscriptions.

Screenshots

Kitchenese4 screens
The Recipe Noteboook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Kitchenese at Free against The Recipe Noteboook's $1.99. Kitchenese also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). The Recipe Noteboook's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Kitchenese is free to download; The Recipe Noteboook costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kitchenese against 5.0 for The Recipe Noteboook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kitchenese ships an update fortnightly, The Recipe Noteboook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kitchenese versus The Recipe Noteboook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKitcheneseThe Recipe Noteboook
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating9++4
DeveloperKitchenese, LLCJosh's Software LLC

Customer experience

Kitchenese

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Recipe Noteboook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Kitchenese

No in-app purchases

None

The Recipe Noteboook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kitchenese free?
Kitchenese is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Recipe Noteboook free?
The Recipe Noteboook costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kitchenese or The Recipe Noteboook?
Kitchenese and The Recipe Noteboook are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Kitchenese or The Recipe Noteboook have ads?
Neither Kitchenese nor The Recipe Noteboook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kitchenese or The Recipe Noteboook?
Kitchenese ships an update fortnightly, and The Recipe Noteboook every 2 months. Most recently, Kitchenese was updated on November 4, 2026 and The Recipe Noteboook on October 30, 2026.

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