Chomps vs Rexa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Rexa
Easily find campus dining hall menus, track your nutrition, and log meals without manual entry. Filter by dietary needs and allergens, save favorite dishes, and monitor your progress towards health goals. Supports multiple languages and accessibility features.
- Live dining hall menus
- Full nutrition facts and allergen info
- Dietary and allergen filtering
- Easy meal logging
- Daily nutrition dashboard
- Save favorite dishes
- Barcode scanning for packaged foods
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Rexa is the fastest way to eat well on campus. See exactly what's being served today, find dishes that fit your goals, and track your nutrition without the tedious data entry. It's all in one clean, fast app. LIVE DINING HALL MENUS • Browse today's menus for every campus Housing dining hall, by station and meal • A health grade on every dish, with full nutrition facts and allergen info • Filter for vegetarian, vegan, halal, and common allergens • Sort by grade or protein, and see the top picks for your goal • Tap any dish to see calories, macros, and ingredients TRACK NUTRITION THE EASY WAY • Log a dish straight from the menu, no searching or typing • See your day's calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, and key micronutrients • Set goals and watch your progress with a clear daily dashboard and weekly trends • See what to eat next to close a nutrient gap • Scan packaged-food barcodes to log anything (powered by Open Food Facts) • Add custom foods and build reusable "plates" for meals you eat often FAVORITES & REMINDERS • Save the dishes you love and get notified when they're back on the menu • Get a heads-up before a dining hall closes so you never miss a meal MORE THAN A MENU • Log water and weight to keep your whole routine in one place • Track your sustainability habits and reusable-container returns • Designed for accessibility, with large-text and high-contrast support Use it as a guest with no account, or sign in with Apple or email to back up and sync your data across devices. Rexa is available in English, Español, Français, हिन्दी, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, 日本語 and العربية, with dish names translated and shown next to the English name on the menu. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rexa.world/privacy Rexa is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison or its dining services. Menu data is sourced from the publicly available Nutrislice menu service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Rexa at none against Chomps's shown. Rexa also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Chomps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Rexa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chomps against 5.0 for Rexa. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Chomps ships an update every 5 days, Rexa every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chomps | Rexa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Routes Technologies LLC | Abdullah Khan |
Customer experience
Chomps
Rexa
In-app purchases
Chomps
- Chomps MAX: Standard$4.991 Month
- Chomps MAX: Plus$9.991 Month
- Small Contribution$2.99
- Medium Contribution$9.99
- Large Contribution$24.99
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- Generous Contribution$49.99
Rexa
- Rexa Plus Monthly$0.991 Month
- Rexa Plus Forever$3.99









