Comparison

ItsChefTime vs Recipe Keeper

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

Head to head
About

ItsChefTime

Manage your recipes with ease, create custom entries with photos and steps, and share them as PDFs or in-app links. Enjoy an immersive cooking mode with automatic ingredient check-off and organize your collection with folders. This app offers a seamless culinary experience without ads or internet dependency.

Highlights
  • Create and customize recipes with photos and steps
  • Share recipes via PDF or in-app links
  • Immersive cooking mode with ingredient check-off
  • Organize recipes with folders
  • Offline access
Features
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Discover Culinary Freedom with ItsChefTime: Your Ultimate Recipe Management App. Craft beautiful recipes effortlessly, share with friends and family in-app or as PDFs. Enjoy an immersive cooking mode that checks off ingredients as you go. Organize your recipes with folders. Zero ads. Zero waiting for the internet to load. Embrace your inner chef. It's Chef Time! Key Features 1. Make and Customize Your Recipes Load up your recipe with photos, including steps for a beautiful presentation. Describe your recipe in the about, add ingredients, and even assign ingredients to steps. 2. Share Recipes In-App or as PDF Share your recipes as PDFs through message apps, airdrop, or even save to your device or cloud. Share your recipes as links through message apps, that open the app and automatically download and install right into your recipes. 3. Enter Immersive Cooking Enter a mode for cooking your recipe, with auto-ingredient and step checkoff along the way. 4. Organize Your Recipes Create and compose folders to house your recipes. Scroll through all your recipes, favorites, or recently deleted with automatically generated folders. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.id-design.com/cheftime_legal/use_of_terms.html

About

Recipe Keeper

Features
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Sautéed is a recipe keeper app built for home cooks who collect dishes from everywhere. Paste a single link from a food blog or YouTube video and Sautéed instantly turns it into a clean, step-by-step guide that stays readable on your phone while you cook. Why home cooks pick Sautéed as their recipe keeper - Save any single recipe from across the web without ads or clutter. - Turn cooking videos into time-stamped steps you can follow at the stove. - Tag, favorite, and organize recipes into collections for easy weeknight planning. - Switch to cooking mode to zoom ingredients, tick off steps, and keep the screen awake. Perfect for - Busy cooks who screenshot recipes today and want a smarter recipe keeper. - Creators who follow along with YouTube chefs and need a quick summary. - Meal planners who want favorites in one place, ready to share. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://sauteed.app/en/privacy

Screenshots

ItsChefTime4 screens
Recipe Keeper3 screens

Verdict

The call

ItsChefTime and Recipe Keeper are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. ItsChefTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months and Recipe Keeper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ItsChefTime versus Recipe Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterItsChefTimeRecipe Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperID-DESIGN INC.Botisan AI Pte. Ltd.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ItsChefTime

Subscriptions2
  • Tri-Monthly$4.993 Months
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
3 purchases

Recipe Keeper

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is ItsChefTime free?
ItsChefTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recipe Keeper free?
Recipe Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ItsChefTime or Recipe Keeper have ads?
Neither ItsChefTime nor Recipe Keeper shows ads.

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