Comparison

Smarty Chef vs BlueList

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

Head to head
About

Smarty Chef

Features
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Unleash your culinary creativity with Smarty Chef, your AI-powered recipe generator! Whether you're a seasoned chef or a kitchen newbie, Smarty Chef helps you create the perfect dish using whatever ingredients, tools, and time you have available. Simply input what you have on hand, choose your expertise level, and type of meal, or even select a cuisine, and Smarty Chef will whip up the ideal recipe for you. Running short on time? No worries! Smarty Chef also tailors recipes to fit your schedule. Already know what you want to make? Just enter the name of the dish, and Smarty Chef will provide the exact recipe you need. Features: Generate recipes based on ingredients, cooking tools, and expertise. Tailor meals to fit your time constraints. Explore different cuisines and meal types. Enter a dish name and get a step-by-step recipe instantly. Perfect for all skill levels, from beginners to professionals. Download Smarty Chef today and turn your kitchen into a world of delicious possibilities! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://globalaxiomtechnologies.com/privacy-policy-smarty-chef/

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BlueList

Features
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Your recipe book and your shopping list, finally in the same app. Save your recipes, send the ingredients to your shopping list in one tap, plan the week's menu and carry your supermarket loyalty cards on your iPhone. RECIPES YOUR WAY • Create recipes with a cover photo, time, servings, ingredients with amount and unit, and numbered steps. • Split a recipe into parts (dough, filling, sauce) when things get serious. • Import by pasting a link: BlueList reads recipe pages and YouTube videos and fills in the fields for you with AI. • Search by name or by ingredient — and find your recipes straight from iOS search too. NUTRITION, PER SERVING • Calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre, shown as a ring on the recipe. • Three sources, and BlueList tells you which one it used: read from the source website when you import, typed in by hand, or estimated from the ingredients. • Approximate values: they don't replace labelling or professional advice. A SHOPPING LIST YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE • Send a recipe's ingredients to a list in one tap: all of them, or only the part you're missing. • Catalogue with more than 340 everyday products in 14 categories, with search and per-item notes ("brand X", "the big one"). • Tick off what's already in the trolley and watch the progress: pending and bought. • Give each list its supermarket's logo and recognise it at a glance: more than 300 chains across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia. COOKBOOKS AND WEEKLY MENU • Group your recipes into cookbooks with a photo or colour cover. • Plan breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in the calendar, by week or by month. LOYALTY CARDS • Scan the barcode of your supermarket loyalty cards, or type the number in by hand. • Show them full screen at maximum brightness: the scanner catches them first time. ON YOUR WATCH (Apple Watch) • Open your shopping lists on the watch and tick off what you pick up. • Show the barcode of your supermarket cards on your wrist. SHARE WITH WHOEVER COOKS WITH YOU (Premium) • Send a recipe, a cookbook or a shopping list as a link. • Shared lists update in real time: when someone at home ticks off the milk, you see it. • Receiving and importing what other people share with you is free. FREE AND PREMIUM, NO SMALL PRINT Free: unlimited recipes, lists, cookbooks, calendar and cards, stored on your iPhone, plus up to 100 AI imports a month, shared between recipes and list photos. Zero ads, always. Premium: up to 500 AI imports a month (recipes and list photos), cloud backup and sync across your devices, and sharing recipes, cookbooks and lists. THE AI IMPORT, IN DETAIL Paste the link of a recipe page or a YouTube video and BlueList fills in the title, the photo, the time, the servings, the ingredients with their amounts and the numbered steps. The reading is done by a cloud AI, through our servers: it only receives the page's text, never your name or your email; it doesn't use that text to train models and deletes it within 30 days. It works on every compatible iPhone and iPad with an internet connection, and the app tells you how many imports you have left this month. ALSO 19 languages, light or dark theme, Siri shortcuts to open your lists or add an item, and not a single ad in any version. A free account is required (email, Google or Apple). You can delete it, with all your data, from inside the app. BlueList Premium has two plans: EUR 1.99/month or EUR 14.99/year in Spain, a 37% saving (the app shows the price for your country before you buy). Both renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://bluelist.uk/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://bluelist.uk/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Smarty Chef4 screens
BlueList4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BlueList at none against Smarty Chef's shown. Smarty Chef's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.2). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Smarty Chef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and BlueList sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Smarty Chef versus BlueList: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmarty ChefBlueList
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSarun A KPedro Antonio Flores Casquet

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Smarty Chef

Subscriptions1
  • 3 Days Free Trial3 Days trial$6.991 Month
One-time1
  • Generate Single Recipe$0.99
2 purchases

BlueList

Subscriptions2
  • BlueList Premium$1.991 Month
  • BlueList Premium Annual$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Smarty Chef free?
Smarty Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlueList free?
BlueList is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smarty Chef or BlueList have ads?
Smarty Chef shows ads; BlueList does not.

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