DishCount vs Grocery Fresh Chef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DishCount
Earn points for dining at restaurants and referring friends. Get rewarded for your culinary adventures and expand your network of dining companions. Discover new places and enjoy exclusive benefits.
- Earn points for dining
- Refer restaurants to friends
- Earn points from referrals
- Track dining rewards
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Download DishCount to get points every time you dine at a restaurant! Refer your favourite restaurants to friends and earn more points when they dine in!
Grocery Fresh Chef
This app creates meal plans and shopping lists based on current sales at your local Kroger-family store. It directly adds ingredients to your virtual cart, eliminating manual list building and coupon clipping.
- Meal plans based on sales
- Directly adds ingredients to cart
- No manual list building
- No coupon clipping
- Integrates with Kroger stores
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Dinner, built around what’s already on sale. Grocery Fresh Chef checks the live weekly deals at your nearest Kroger-family store, builds a full meal plan around them, and drops every ingredient straight into your real cart. No boxes on your doorstep. No coupons to clip. No list to build by hand. Terms of Use is located at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DishCount at none against Grocery Fresh Chef's 3. Grocery Fresh Chef's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Grocery Fresh Chef sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. DishCount asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DishCount against 5.0 for Grocery Fresh Chef. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
DishCount ships an update every 2 weeks, Grocery Fresh Chef every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DishCount | Grocery Fresh Chef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zehua Xu | Upper Hand Integrations, LLC |
Customer experience
DishCount
Grocery Fresh Chef
In-app purchases
DishCount
No in-app purchases
Grocery Fresh Chef
- Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
- Single Plan (One-Time)$4.99
Questions
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