Comparison

Chomps vs Sous

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

Head to head
About

Chomps

Discover recipes with step-by-step videos, track nutrition by scanning food barcodes, and plan meals effortlessly. Connect with a community of food lovers, share your creations, and get personalized cooking recommendations.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery with cooking videos
  • Food barcode scanner for nutrition info
  • AI-powered recipe recommendations
  • Meal planning and prep tools
  • Social community for food sharing
  • Personalized nutrition tracking
Features
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Chomps is where cooking, groceries and nutrition finally live in one app. Import a recipe from anywhere, plan your week, check what's actually in the food, build the shopping list, get it delivered. MEAL PLANNER - Plan breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks on a week or month view - Add any recipe to your plan, then drag a meal to another day or move it to another slot - See meals, recipes and calories per day at a glance, using the nutrition each recipe carries - Build lists with your own sections, colors and icons, drag to reorder, pin the one you use most and check things off as you go - Open a recipe and Chomps shows you which ingredients you already have on a list - Send a recipe's ingredients to any list, with pantry items left off - Track your pantry: tick off what you already have and Chomps ranks your recipes by what you can cook now - Cook mode walks you through the steps, with a timer on each one - Keep a recipe box: write your own, import from a link or bookmark a post, and scale the servings up or down - Share a list by link so someone else can pick it up - Make your dashboard your own with tiles for your pinned list, this week's meals and saved posts - Everything works with no signal and syncs the moment you're back online IMPORT ANY RECIPE, FROM ANYWHERE 1. Import a recipe by sharing it straight to Chomps from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Pinterest, or paste a link from any recipe site 2. Chomps pulls out the ingredients, the steps, the cook time and the servings 3. Choose what happens next: start a post, start a new list, or add it to a list you already keep Several recipes in one post? Pick the one you want. KNOW WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN YOUR FOOD Scan a barcode and get a 0-100 health score with a plain-English verdict. - Calories, protein, carbs and fat per serving - Sugar, added sugar, sodium, saturated fat, fiber and cholesterol, each rated good or bad instead of dumped on you as a table - Additives counted and risk-rated, allergens flagged, full ingredient list - Nutri-Score grade and NOVA group where available - Every scan saved to your history, so you can favorite the ones you buy again - Share a scan as a post, so friends see the score too - No barcode handy? Search the product by name SHOP IT AND GET IT DELIVERED - Build a cart across Kroger and its family of banners, Walmart, H-E-B and Central Market, with real store-level pricing - Filter by On Sale, 20%+ Off, Under $5 and Under $10 - Hand the cart to Instacart for checkout and delivery, with your store already selected - Find nearby stores on the Store Map, with hours and open status A FEED WORTH COOKING FROM - Two home feeds, For You and Following, plus a full-screen vertical video feed - Post photos and videos with ingredients, numbered steps, prep time, servings and allergy tags - Crop, trim and add text overlays without leaving the app - Threaded comments and replies, likes, saves, hashtags and @mentions - Picture-in-picture keeps a recipe playing while you cook FOR THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY EAT Twenty-minute weeknight dinners. Sunday batch cooking. High-protein meals when you're training. Budget shops where the list matters more than the recipe. Reading a label before it goes in the cart. Feeding a family without four apps open at once. Chomps is fully translated into English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Polish, and you can tap to translate any post into around 100 more. Private accounts, blocking and reporting, granular notification controls, dark mode, and account deletion you can actually find. Sign in with Apple or Google. Free to download. Start cooking, planning, scanning and shopping today. Terms of Service: https://chompsapp.com/tos.pdf Privacy Policy: https://chompsapp.com/privacy.pdf

About

Sous

This AI-powered culinary assistant generates hyper-personalized recipes based on your preferences, pantry, and skill level. Chat with your recipes to adjust ingredients or dietary needs, and even get suggestions from photos of your fridge. Plan your meals effortlessly and reduce food waste.

Highlights
  • Hyper-personalized recipes
  • Chat-based recipe customization
  • Image to recipe generation
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Pantry ingredient tracking
  • Recipe saving and rating
Features
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Sous is your AI cooking assistant for real-life meals: ask cooking questions, create personalised recipes, plan your week and cook hands-free. Use Sous before, during and after cooking. Ask what to make with the ingredients you have, what to substitute, how to prep ahead, how long something should cook, how to rescue a recipe that has gone wrong or how to adapt dinner for the people you are feeding. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SOUS • Ask free-form cooking questions • Generate personalised recipes • Create recipe ideas from ingredients • Use your camera to scan ingredients or a meal • Save, rate, favourite and share recipes • Scale recipes to different serving sizes • Edit recipes with AI • Plan meals across the week • Build shopping lists from planned recipes • Create menus for multi-recipe cooking • Use Cook Mode for step-by-step guidance • Hear instructions read aloud while you cook • Use voice controls to move through recipe steps • Keep your screen awake during cooking ASK SOUS THINGS LIKE “What can I make with chicken, rice and leeks?” “What can I use instead of crème fraîche?” “How do I rescue a sauce that split?” “Can you make this recipe vegetarian?” “How should I prep this meal in advance?” “What should I cook this week in under 30 minutes?” PERSONALISED RECIPES Set your skill level, dietary needs, preferred servings, dislikes, goals and kitchen setup so Sous can suggest recipes that fit how you actually cook. PLANNING AND SHOPPING Add recipes to your weekly planner, get meal ideas and create shopping lists from what you plan to cook. COOK MODE Follow recipes one step at a time, hear instructions read aloud, use voice controls and keep your screen awake while cooking. MENUS Group recipes together for dinners, batch cooking or multi-recipe meals. Open menu cook mode and switch between recipes while keeping your place. Sous helps you move from idea to dinner: inspiration, recipe creation, planning, shopping and cooking in one place. Sous is a cooking assistant, not medical or nutritional advice. Always follow appropriate food safety guidance. Terms Apple’s Standard License Agreement https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription Plans We offer two paid auto-renew subscription plans, both entitle the user to Sous Pro with: * Unlimited Recipes * Unlimited Recipe Edits * Unlimited Recipe History * Unlimited Favourites * No ads shown in the Sous app Plan 1 - Name: Monthly - Length of subscription: 1 Month - Price of subscription: £4.79 per month - Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Plan 2 - Name: Annual - Length of subscription: 1 year - Price of subscription: £47.99 per year saving of 17% compared to Monthly) - Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Chomps4 screens
Sous4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chomps at every 5 days against Sous's every 2 months. Sous's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Chomps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Sous sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chomps ships an update every 5 days, Sous every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Chomps versus Sous: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChompsSous
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRoutes Technologies LLCApp Collective Limited

Customer experience

Chomps

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sous

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

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Chomps

Subscriptions2
  • Chomps MAX: Standard$4.991 Month
  • Chomps MAX: Plus$9.991 Month
One-time4
  • Small Contribution$2.99
  • Medium Contribution$9.99
  • Large Contribution$24.99
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  • Generous Contribution$49.99
2 purchases

Sous

Subscriptions2
  • Sous Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Sous Pro (Yearly)$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Chomps free?
Chomps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sous free?
Sous is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chomps or Sous have ads?
Both Chomps and Sous show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chomps or Sous?
Chomps ships an update every 5 days, and Sous every 2 months. Most recently, Chomps was updated on November 4, 2026 and Sous on November 5, 2026.

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