Cafe U vs Tastemaker Recipes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cafe U
Order your favorite coffeehouse and bistro items ahead of time to skip the line. Choose from convenient pick-up options like counter, curbside, or drive-thru.
- Order ahead
- Skip the line
- Counter pickup
- Curbside pickup
- Drive-thru pickup
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We love seeing your smiling faces but sometimes we need to be in a hurry. Use our app to skip the line and order ahead. We conveniently offer counter, curbside or drive-thru pick up options!
Tastemaker Recipes
Record every dish and drink you prepare, complete with ratings and notes for future reference. Easily save recipes from the web or cookbooks, and generate organized shopping lists for the week. Discover your cooking habits and patterns.
- Log and rate every dish
- Save recipes from web or camera
- Generate organized shopping lists
- Track cooking patterns and streaks
- Cocktail mode for home bars
- AI recipe image generation
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Tastemaker is your kitchen's memory: every dish and drink you make, rated and ready for next time. TRACK WHAT YOU COOK Log each cook with a rating out of 5, what you changed, and what you'd do differently. Future-you, standing in the kitchen wondering whether that shortcut worked last time, will be grateful. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a recipe to Tastemaker straight from Safari and it lands on your to-make list with the ingredients already extracted. Cooking from a paper cookbook? Point your camera at the page and the dish imports itself. PLAN THE WEEK Flag dishes for this week, then compile every ingredient across every recipe into one tidy shopping list, organized by store section. SEE YOUR PATTERNS Cooking streaks, top-rated dishes, favorite sources, and a heatmap of every night you cooked. TASTEMAKER PRO Cocktail mode (a whole parallel universe for your home bar), compiled shopping lists, camera scanning, and AI recipe images are part of Tastemaker Pro: $2.99/month or $24.99/year after a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Core recipe tracking is free, forever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tastemaker.recipes/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cafe U at none against Tastemaker Recipes's 2. Cafe U also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Tastemaker Recipes's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Tastemaker Recipes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Cafe U asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Cafe U against 5.0 for Tastemaker Recipes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cafe U has 84 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cafe U ships an update every 3 months, Tastemaker Recipes every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Cafe U | Tastemaker Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Craver Solutions Inc. | JACOB GALGINAITIS BARRETT |
Customer experience
Cafe U
Tastemaker Recipes
In-app purchases
Cafe U
No in-app purchases
Tastemaker Recipes
- Tastemaker Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Tastemaker Pro — Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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