Comparison

SevenRooms vs Sous Chef

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

Head to head
About

SevenRooms

This app offers exclusive hospitality experiences, currently accessible by invitation only. It aims to provide users with memorable dining and entertainment opportunities.

Highlights
  • Exclusive hospitality experiences
  • Invitation-only access
  • Memorable dining opportunities
  • Unforgettable entertainment
Features
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Step into the world of unforgettable hospitality experiences. The SevenRooms app is currently by invitation only.

About

Sous Chef

Features
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Sous Chef keeps track of what's in your kitchen and helps you cook with it, together with the people you live with. PANTRY, FRIDGE AND FREEZER • Track items with brands, amounts and expiry dates, using quick durations or a calendar • Scan a barcode to fill in product details from Open Food Facts • Scan a package label for products it doesn't know, including the nutrition panel • An optional daily reminder lists food that expires soon • See how much food you used up or threw away this month RECIPES • Keep your recipe library in one place • Import recipes from a link, pasted text or a photo of a cookbook page • See which recipes you can make with what you already have • Nutrition per serving and easy sharing PLAN AND COOK • Plan meals by day and see what each one needs from your pantry • Drag recipes onto breakfast, lunch or dinner, and planned meals to another day • Add the week's missing ingredients to your shopping list • Recipes ranked by what's in your pantry, with food that expires soon first • Cook mode with step timers that ring like alarms, even in silent mode and Focus • Running timers count down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Ingredients are deducted from your pantry when you're done SHOPPING • An aisle-grouped shopping list • Put purchases straight into your pantry SHARE YOUR KITCHEN • Invite the people you cook with from your contacts. They get a link in Messages that opens only for them • Everyone sees and edits the same pantry, recipes, shopping list and meal plan • Changes sync through iCloud in moments. No server or extra account needed; each person uses their own Apple Account MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • Unfold it and your week sits beside what you can cook • Recipes, Shopping and Pantry open with everything at a glance • Prop it half open and the steps stand up while ingredients and timers lie flat • Hold it upright and read on the top half, tap on the bottom WIDGETS • Tonight's meal, food to use soon and your shopping list on your Home Screen and Lock Screen APPLE INTELLIGENCE • Recipe ideas from what you have, or from anything you describe • Reads package labels and recipe text for you • Ask questions while you cook YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY • Everything is stored on your device and syncs through your own iCloud • No account, no ads, no tracking • Deleted something by mistake? Shake your iPhone to bring it back • Optionally sync with your own self-hosted Sous Chef server (open source) • Browse and save community recipes Works on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad.

Screenshots

SevenRooms4 screens
Sous Chef4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sous Chef at daily against SevenRooms's every 2 weeks. SevenRooms's advantage is iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SevenRooms ships an update every 2 weeks, Sous Chef daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SevenRooms versus Sous Chef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSevenRoomsSous Chef
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB12 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSEVENROOMS, Inc.George Vina

In-app purchases

None

SevenRooms

No in-app purchases

None

Sous Chef

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SevenRooms free?
SevenRooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sous Chef free?
Sous Chef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SevenRooms or Sous Chef have ads?
Neither SevenRooms nor Sous Chef shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SevenRooms or Sous Chef?
SevenRooms ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sous Chef daily. Most recently, SevenRooms was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sous Chef on October 31, 2026.

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