Comparison

ItsChefTime vs iCook

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

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.

Screenshots

ItsChefTime4 screens
iCook3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
ItsChefTime versus iCook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterItsChefTimeiCook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperID-DESIGN INC.George Babichev

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ItsChefTime

Subscriptions2
  • Tri-Monthly$4.993 Months
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
None

iCook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ItsChefTime free?
ItsChefTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iCook free?
iCook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ItsChefTime or iCook have ads?
Neither ItsChefTime nor iCook shows ads.

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