Comparison

ItsChefTime vs ReciPics

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

ReciPics

Effortlessly capture and organize your favorite recipes from anywhere. Scan ingredients, identify dishes from photos, or use voice commands to create structured recipes. Generate smart grocery lists and adapt meals to dietary needs with an AI assistant.

Highlights
  • Scan ingredients and identify recipes
  • Extract recipes from photos
  • Voice-guided cooking instructions
  • Generate organized grocery lists
  • AI-powered recipe adaptation
  • Editable recipe details
  • Multiple user profiles
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ReciPics is your smart recipe saver. Save, organize, and revisit recipes you love — all in one place. Use ReciPics to scan ingredients, identify recipes, and extract recipes instantly. ReciPics helps you store and manage your personal recipe collection without effort. Instead of typing or copying recipes manually, ReciPics lets you capture recipes from the real world and turn them into a structured, easy-to-use cookbook. With ReciPics, you can extract recipes by scanning ingredients with your camera, identify recipes from photos of finished dishes, or simply ask by voice. ReciPics understands what you have and what you want to cook, then turns it into clear, usable recipes. ReciPics makes adding recipes fast and intuitive. Take a photo of ingredients to get recipe suggestions, scan a cooked dish to identify the recipe and explore variations, or speak ingredients or meal ideas to create recipes instantly. ReciPics removes friction from recipe creation and saving. Every recipe in ReciPics includes practical cooking details such as estimated cooking time, difficulty level, estimated calories, and dish origin. Ingredient lists are clear and editable, with options to swap ingredients and adjust serving sizes. Step-by-step cooking instructions keep everything easy to follow, with optional voice guidance while cooking. ReciPics is designed for real people and real households. Create multiple profiles for yourself or your family, set allergies, dietary preferences, and health considerations, and activate profiles for each recipe generation. ReciPics takes them into account in every recipe; always check ingredients yourself if you have allergies. Your recipe library in ReciPics grows with you. Save favorite recipes, quickly access recently cooked dishes, and keep everything organized in one place. ReciPics is built to be your long-term recipe keeper, not just another recipe browsing app. Need a grocery list? ReciPics builds one for you. The new grocery list is organized into store-friendly sections (produce, dairy, pantry, and more), so you can shop without backtracking. Share your list with family or roommates in one tap — no account, no friction. Check items off as you go, edit on the fly, and keep your list in sync with your saved recipes. Found a recipe you want to keep? ReciPics imports it in one tap. Paste any recipe link, or share directly from your browser or social apps — ReciPics reads the page, caption, or video description and turns it into a fully structured recipe with ingredients, steps, and photo, ready to cook and organize alongside everything else in your cookbook. Every saved recipe is now fully editable. Change ingredient names, amounts, and units — even down to ½ and ¼ portions — rewrite or reorder steps, and update nutrition or the description by hand. Stuck mid-recipe? Ask the in-recipe AI assistant by text or voice to swap an ingredient, adapt for a diet, or fix a step that isn't working, and it applies the change directly to your recipe. When you're done, choose to overwrite the original or save your edit as a new copy. FREE AND PREMIUM ReciPics is free to download and includes a limited free allowance of AI recipes. Unlimited AI recipes need ReciPics Premium (weekly or yearly). Only the yearly plan has a 3-day free trial, for eligible new subscribers; it then renews as a paid yearly subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. The weekly plan has no trial. Prices are shown in the app and in the App Store for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://recipics.app/privacy-page.html Feedback: https://recipics.app/contact-page.html

Screenshots

ItsChefTime4 screens
ReciPics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ItsChefTime at 17.5 against ReciPics's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. ItsChefTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months and ReciPics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ItsChefTime versus ReciPics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterItsChefTimeReciPics
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperID-DESIGN INC.Vladimir Skromny

Customer experience

ItsChefTime

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ReciPics

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ItsChefTime

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

ReciPics

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

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

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