Comparison

kitchen elf vs Slumba

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

Head to head
About

kitchen elf

Effortlessly manage your pantry with AI-powered features. Scan items to automatically fill in details like nutrition and expiry dates. Discover recipes based on your available ingredients and keep your pantry updated intelligently.

Highlights
  • AI-powered pantry management
  • Add items via images with autofill
  • Nutrition and expiry date tracking
  • Recipe suggestions from pantry items
  • Intelligent pantry updates after cooking
Features
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App offers these features for now: 1. Manage your pantry items 2. Seamlessly add items to your pantry via images and autofill info such as nutrition, category, and expiry 3. Suggest recipes from items in your pantry 4. When you use recipe your pantry will get updated intelligently

About

Slumba

Craft personalized soundscapes to aid sleep with an intuitive mixer. Choose from various nature and noise themes, set sleep timers, and control playback via Apple Watch or home screen widgets. Integrates with Sleep Focus for automated bedtime routines.

Highlights
  • Intuitive soundscape mixer
  • Five handcrafted soundscapes
  • Customizable sleep timers
  • Apple Watch app control
  • Home screen widgets
  • Sleep Focus integration
  • Siri voice commands
Features
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Sleep shouldn't be complicated. Slumba gives you a beautiful, handcrafted soundscape — and lets you blend it exactly the way you want. THE MIXER Most sleep apps give you a volume slider. Slumba gives you something more intuitive. Each soundscape layers three sounds together, and you blend them by dragging a single glowing point across a soft triangle. Ease it toward rain and the storm deepens. Nudge it to the center and everything balances. Find what feels right tonight, set your phone down, and let it carry you off. FIVE SOUNDSCAPES Noise — White, Pink & Brown Noise Storm — Rain, Wind & Thunder Ocean — Waves, Breeze & Gurgle Creek — Stream, Rustle & Birds Campfire — Fire, Night Air & Crickets Noise is always free. Try the rest free for 5 minutes — one small purchase unlocks everything. Forever. SLEEP TIMER Set a timer for 15, 30, 45, 60, or 120 minutes and Slumba fades your sounds gently to silence. No sudden cutoffs. Just a slow, peaceful fade — and then sleep. YOUR PHONE CAN STAY FACE-DOWN Once you're in bed, you shouldn't need to touch your phone. Slumba makes that easy. The Apple Watch app lets you start a soundscape, switch presets, and set a timer from your wrist. The Lock Screen widget shows your timer counting down without unlocking. Add the toggle to Control Center and starting Slumba becomes a single tap before you set your phone down for the night. On iPhone 14 and later, the Live Activity keeps your timer visible in the Dynamic Island while you do your bedtime routine. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN The small home screen widget shows what's playing at a glance. The medium widget goes further — when nothing is playing, it shows all five soundscapes as soft buttons you can tap to start one directly, without opening the app. SLUMBA KNOWS WHEN IT'S BEDTIME Connect Slumba to your Sleep Focus and it can start your chosen soundscape automatically when your bedtime routine begins — without you having to remember. Ask Siri to play a specific soundscape, or set a timer hands-free. "Play Ocean on Slumba." That's all it takes. BUILT FOR SLEEP No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Just sounds that help you sleep. APPLE WATCH The best thing about the Apple Watch app is what it saves you from doing — reaching for your phone when you're already comfortable. From your wrist you can start any soundscape, switch between Noise, Storm, Ocean, Creek, and Campfire, and set a sleep timer for exactly as long as you need. The countdown rests softly on screen. When the time comes, Slumba fades out on its own. Your phone can stay face-down. The room can stay dark. You don't have to move.

Screenshots

kitchen elf4 screens
Slumba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: kitchen elf at none against Slumba's 1. kitchen elf also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). Slumba's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Slumba sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. kitchen elf asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for kitchen elf against 5.0 for Slumba. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
kitchen elf versus Slumba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterkitchen elfSlumba
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB39 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAnshul TibrewalIan Goudie

Customer experience

kitchen elf

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Slumba

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

kitchen elf

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Slumba

One-time1
  • Unlock All Presets$2.99

Questions

Is kitchen elf free?
kitchen elf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slumba free?
Slumba is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, kitchen elf or Slumba?
kitchen elf and Slumba are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do kitchen elf or Slumba have ads?
kitchen elf shows ads; Slumba does not.

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