Comparison

Tastemade Cooking vs Menu Pixie

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Personalized weekly meal plans
  • Smart grocery list generation
  • Taste profile customization
  • Thousands of reliable recipes
  • Step-by-step cooking mode
  • Recipe saving and organization
Features
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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.

About

Menu Pixie

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Point your camera at a menu you can't read and get back one you can: every dish translated into your language, with a photo, the price, and what's in it. The translated menu appears in seconds — photos fill in right after. Menu Pixie was built for travelers squinting at a menu in a city they've never visited, and for anyone who wants to see the food before they order. SEE EVERY DISH BEFORE YOU ORDER A menu tells you what a dish is called. Menu Pixie shows you what it looks like. Every dish gets a photo, so you choose with your eyes instead of gambling on a name. MORE THAN WORD-FOR-WORD "Grandmother's pot" is a correct translation and a useless one. Menu Pixie explains what each dish actually is — the main ingredients, how it's prepared — so you know what's arriving at your table. WORKS ON REAL-WORLD MENUS Handwritten chalkboards, stylized fonts, a laminated page shot at an angle in a dim room. If you can photograph it, Menu Pixie can read it. DIETARY AND ALLERGEN HINTS, HONESTLY FRAMED Dishes are tagged with auto-detected dietary info — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free — plus likely allergens and estimated calories. These are estimates meant to help you scan a menu faster, not a promise: always confirm with the staff. 26 LANGUAGES Read any menu in the language you choose — from English, Spanish, and Japanese to Croatian, Thai, and Ukrainian. 26 languages in all. NO SUBSCRIPTION Credits pay per menu: scan one, spend a credit, done. New users get free starter credits, and you're never charged for a scan that fails. HONEST PHOTOS Every image is labeled Real, Representative, or AI-generated — never passed off as the restaurant's own. Made for hungry travelers. Point, scan, order like a local.

Screenshots

Tastemade Cooking4 screens
Menu Pixie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Menu Pixie at none against Tastemade Cooking's shown. Menu Pixie also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Tastemade Cooking's advantage is chart position (#60 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tastemade Cooking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Menu Pixie sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tastemade Cooking ships an update fortnightly, Menu Pixie every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Tastemade Cooking versus Menu Pixie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTastemade CookingMenu Pixie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#60 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB55 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTastemade, Inc.Comis d.o.o.

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

Menu Pixie

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tastemade Cooking

Subscriptions2
  • Tastemade Cooking Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Tastemade Cooking Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
4 purchases

Menu Pixie

One-time4
  • Mini$3.99
  • Weekend$9.99
  • Popular$19.99
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  • Value$39.99

Questions

Is Tastemade Cooking free?
Tastemade Cooking is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Menu Pixie free?
Menu Pixie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tastemade Cooking or Menu Pixie have ads?
Tastemade Cooking shows ads; Menu Pixie does not.
Which is updated more often, Tastemade Cooking or Menu Pixie?
Tastemade Cooking ships an update fortnightly, and Menu Pixie every 3 days. Most recently, Tastemade Cooking was updated on October 14, 2026 and Menu Pixie on October 13, 2026.

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