Meal Drop vs Chef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meal Drop
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Meal Drop is a reliable food delivery app that lets you order from multiple brands and cuisines in one place. Our focus is on providing safe, hygienic, and delicious meals with stringent quality checks, medically certified staff, and sealed packaging.
Chef
Organize your recipes, plan meals, and create shopping lists. Cook step-by-step with guided instructions and import recipes from various online sources. Discover and share culinary creations with a community of home cooks.
- Recipe import from online sources
- Digital cookbook with search
- Weekly meal planner
- Smart shopping list generation
- Step-by-step Cooking Mode
- Recipe discovery and sharing
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Chef is your all-in-one app to manage every part of your cooking life, right from your phone. Easily save and organize your recipes, plan your weekly meals, generate shopping lists, and cook step by step with our intuitive Cooking Mode. You can even import recipes from social media or blogs, and Chef will extract the key information for you: ingredients, instructions, and the original link. Explore a growing community of home cooks, share your own creations, and save others to adapt them to your personal taste. Why you'll love Chef: - Import recipes from anywhere. Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, blogs... Chef automatically pulls ingredients, summarizes steps, and saves the original link. - Your digital cookbook. Store all your recipes in one place with tags, photos, and notes. Quickly search and find what you need. - Weekly meal planner. Select how many meals you want per day, then assign recipes to each moment. - Smart shopping list. Add all ingredients from your meal plan with one tap, or select ingredients from specific recipes. - Cooking Mode. Follow each recipe step by step with clear instructions and timers. - Discover and share recipes. Join a growing community of home cooks. Share your recipes and explore new ideas to bring to your kitchen. Chef makes cooking easier, more organized, and more enjoyable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Chef at every 3 weeks against Meal Drop's every 18 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Meal Drop ships an update every 18 months, Chef every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meal Drop | Chef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IHYBRID LIMITED | Pablo Munoz Garcia |
In-app purchases
Meal Drop
No in-app purchases
Chef
No in-app purchases









