ItsChefTime vs iCook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
iCook
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iCook is a lightweight recipe manager that stores your data in iCloud. Start with create a Collection. Add recipe categories to that collection, and then add recipes. Share your collections with friends and family.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCook at none against ItsChefTime's 2. ItsChefTime's advantage is iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. ItsChefTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. iCook asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ItsChefTime | iCook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ID-DESIGN INC. | George Babichev |
In-app purchases
ItsChefTime
- Tri-Monthly$4.993 Months
- Yearly$9.991 Year
iCook
No in-app purchases









