Tastemade Cooking vs Simmmer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tastemade Cooking
This app creates personalized weekly meal plans and generates smart grocery lists based on your taste preferences. It offers a vast recipe library, step-by-step cooking guidance, and organization tools to simplify your cooking routine.
- Personalized weekly meal plans
- Smart grocery list generation
- Taste profile customization
- Thousands of reliable recipes
- Step-by-step cooking mode
- Recipe saving and organization
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Meal planning, done for you. Personalized weekly plans and smart grocery lists—tailored to your taste. Let us build you a personalized weekly meal plan, or build a plan from recipes you love – plus a smart grocery list that comes together automatically. Set your taste preferences once so every recommendation fits how you actually cook. No more guessing what to make or what to buy. SMART PERSONALIZATION Set up your Taste Profile to tell us what you love, what you avoid, and how you like to cook. Whether you build your own plan or let us build one for you, every recommendation feels relevant and doable. MEAL PLANNING, YOUR WAY Plan your week in seconds. Use the Personalized Meal Planner to build a plan for any days and meals you want, or build your own from recipes you love. Choose to minimize groceries or prioritize ingredient variety with a single tap. ONE SMART GROCERY LIST Your entire week, organized in one place. Ingredients automatically combine across recipes and group by aisle for easier shopping. Check items off as you go, move completed items to the bottom of your list, or order everything at once with Instacart. THOUSANDS OF RELIABLE RECIPES Explore a large library of tried-and-true recipes from Tastemade’s chefs and creators. Whether you’re cooking something quick or trying something new, every recipe works seamlessly with your meal plan and grocery list. COOK WITH CONFIDENCE Follow step-by-step cooking mode, view detailed nutrition info, scale serving sizes, and switch instantly between metric and imperial measurements—all designed to make cooking feel simpler and more approachable. SAVE & STAY ORGANIZED Save favorite recipes, build collections, and organize everything in your personal Recipe Box—so your go-to meals are always easy to find. ACCESS & PRICING Tastemade Cooking is free to download. Start with a 1-week free trial, then choose a subscription plan to continue access. Subscription options: – Monthly: 1-week free trial, then $5.99/month – Annual: 1-week free trial, then $49.99/year (save 30%) Cancel anytime. This app does not include our full shows and documentaries, which can be found in the Tastemade: Stream Shows & Docs app.
Simmmer
This app helps you decide what to cook based on ingredients you already have. It provides step-by-step cooking instructions and can even import recipes from various online sources. Plan your meals for the week and generate organized shopping lists.
- Ingredient-based recipe suggestions
- Step-by-step cooking guidance
- Recipe import from web and media
- Weekly meal planning
- Aisle-sorted shopping lists
- Allergy filtering
- Recipe customization
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Cooking was never the hard part. Deciding was. Simmmer decides dinner with you, from what's already in your fridge. Snap the fridge, the cupboard and the counter, or just type what you've got, and Simmmer finds real dishes you can make tonight. Pick one, and it walks you through cooking it, one calm step at a time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Start from your kitchen. What can I make? turns a photo of your fridge, or a few typed words, into five dishes for tonight. Pick one and the full recipe is ready in about half a minute, checked against your allergies before you see it. • Decide by the night you're having. Tell Simmmer how much time, energy and cleanup you have, and it ranks recipes by how well they fit. • Cook one step at a time. Cooking mode shows each step with exactly what it uses, timers that can run side by side, and a screen that stays awake while your hands are busy. Stuck on a substitution? Ask Simmmer mid-recipe and get a straight answer. • Plan the week (Premium). Plan my week fills your dinners from your saved recipes, new ideas or both, and Swap changes one in a tap. • Shop from one list. A recipe or a planned week becomes one shopping list, sorted in the order you walk the store. • Bring your recipes in. Paste a link from a recipe blog, TikTok, YouTube, or an Instagram video whose caption has the recipe, and it becomes a clean, follow-along recipe that's yours. Snap a cookbook page, a handwritten card or a screenshot, and Simmmer reads that too. • Make any recipe yours. Spicier, lighter, vegetarian or dairy-free, as a new recipe of your own. Snap what you made and your photo becomes that recipe's picture, just for you. • Set allergies once. Recipes with your allergens simply don't appear, and anything you open by link says plainly what's in it. Dishes eaten raw carry a clear warning, and every meat and fish step in the library says how to tell it's done. • Real recipes. Over 1,000 of them, each with a photo and nutrition from USDA data. Log what you ate from a photo of your plate or its label. FREE AND PREMIUM Simmmer is free to use: search the whole library ten times a day, save up to 30 recipes, keep a 40-item shopping list sorted by aisle, and bring in 8 recipes of your own. The free plan also gives you a taste of what Simmmer can do for you: a few recipes cooked up from what you have, fridge scans and cooking questions. Simmmer Premium lifts the free plan's limits, plans your week, cooks up more recipes from what you have, and adds offline recipes, your whole cooking history, deeper nutrition and accent colors. Premium starts with a free two-week trial, so you can try all of it before paying anything. Simmmer Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. It begins with a 14-day free trial, then renews at $6.99/month or $59.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when the free trial ends (or at purchase, if you've had a Simmmer trial before), and each period renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel during the trial and you are not charged. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.simmmer.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.simmmer.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simmmer at none against Tastemade Cooking's shown. Simmmer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Tastemade Cooking's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Tastemade Cooking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Simmmer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simmmer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tastemade Cooking has 1.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tastemade Cooking ships an update fortnightly, Simmmer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tastemade Cooking | Simmmer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #58 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tastemade, Inc. | Simmmer LLC |
Customer experience
Tastemade Cooking
Simmmer
Bugs and requests
Tastemade Cooking
Reported bugs
2 issues- Subscription not properly cancelled, continued billing
- Recipes not loading or unavailable
Requested features
3 requests- More free recipe access without subscription
- Improved recipe search and filtering
- Clearer cancellation and refund policies
Simmmer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tastemade Cooking
- Tastemade Cooking Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Tastemade Cooking Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Simmmer
- Simmmer Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Simmmer Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$59.991 Year









