Comparison

Ruby Bennies vs U

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

Head to head
About

Ruby Bennies

This app enhances your dining experience at Ruby Slipper and Ruby Sunshine Restaurants. Join waitlists, order food for pickup or delivery, earn rewards on every purchase, and receive exclusive offers like free beignets and birthday treats.

Highlights
  • Join waitlists remotely
  • Order food for pickup and delivery
  • Earn rewards points
  • Receive exclusive offers
  • Get a free beignet upon joining
  • Birthday offers
Features
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Your Ultimate Brunch Companion! The Ruby Bennies Rewards App gives you everything you adore about Ruby Slipper and Ruby Sunshine Restaurants at your fingertips—join the waitlist, earn rewards, get exclusive offers, and enjoy the convenience of ordering your favorite dishes right from your phone. Join the Waitlist Get in line wherever you are. Order Pick Up & Delivery Conveniently order craveable Ruby favorites through the app for quick pick up and delivery. Get Exclusive Offers Enjoy a FREE order of beignets for joining, a special birthday offer annually, and other exclusive offers. Earn Rewards Whether you’re dining in or ordering online, you’ll earn points every step of the way.

About

U

Features
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Let's cook what we already have! U-ATE opens on the dishes you can make right now - not a feed, not an empty search box. Tell it what is on your shelf and 652 illustrated recipes sort themselves by how much of each one you can already cover. "Ready right now, nothing to buy" sits at the top. What you are short of sits underneath, with the shopping list already written. Everything runs on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no subscriptions, no ads, no tracking, and no connection needed once it is installed - on a plane, in a basement kitchen, or on a phone with no data left, all of it still works. WHAT IS INSIDE - 652 recipes across 50 cuisines, every one of them illustrated - 675 ingredients with their own pages: how to buy it, how to keep it, what it does - A pantry that ranks every recipe by how much of it you can already cover - Cook-along: one step at a time, with each timer already set for you - Measures: cups, grams, ounces and degrees converted on the spot - and by ingredient, because a cup of flour and a cup of honey are not the same weight - Substitutions that change the recipe properly: the ratio, and what it does to the result - Allergens, diets and intolerances filtered across every dish - Nutrition on every card, quoted with its source - A shopping list that builds itself out of the gaps - Scale any recipe to any number of people - Technique guides written the way a good cook would show you at the stove - Your own recipes, typed in or imported, with the nutrition worked out for you BUILT FOR A REAL KITCHEN Timers you can start without leaving the step they belong to. Amounts written the way a cook says them - 4 tablespoons of butter, not 56 grams - with the grams still there when you want them. Press and hold any amount in a recipe to convert it. Every dish tells you what it will cost per serving, how many pans it dirties, and how much of it is hands-on rather than waiting. MADE TO SUIT YOU U-ATE honors Reduced Motion. Pages stay zoomable, with an optional size lock if you would rather they did not move under your hands. The bottom bar rearranges so the four things you use most are the four you can reach. And if you want the kitchen to look like yours, the Style page offers a vast configuration of finishes, colors, scenes and sounds as one-time purchases - the app is complete without a single one of them. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF Every picture is an illustration drawn from its own recipe, and the app says so under every one - your dish will look like yours. Nutrition figures are reference values for a typical adult, not a prescription, and nothing in the app is medical advice. Times and temperatures are a guide; your kitchen is the authority. PRIVACY, PLAINLY U-ATE has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. Your pantry, your allergies, your taste settings and everything you have cooked stay on your device. We never receive them, so there is nothing for us to sell, share or lose. Scanning a barcode asks Open Food Facts and the USDA's FoodData Central what that number is, and sends the barcode and nothing else. Every recipe, every ingredient page and every tool unlocked from the first launch. The Style page sells optional one-time finishes, colors, scenes and sounds; they just change how the app looks and nothing about the cooking!

Screenshots

Ruby Bennies4 screens
U4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ruby Bennies at none against U's 8. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. U sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Ruby Bennies asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ruby Bennies versus U: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuby BenniesU
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (149 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings149 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB168 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe Ruby Slipper Cafe, LLCThe McQuackins Co LLC

In-app purchases

None

Ruby Bennies

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

U

One-time8
  • Counter and Cloth$0.99
  • Tile$0.99
  • Stone$0.99
Show 5 more
  • Wood$0.99
  • Color$0.99
  • Scenes$0.99
  • Sounds$0.99
  • Everything$4.99

Questions

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

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