Comparison

Charim vs WhatDo?!

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

Head to head
About

Charim

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"Charim" is a smart meal planner that helps you plan healthy meals for your family, manage your grocery shopping list, and keep your own recipes. Plan your daily meals with a simple drag-and-drop, check your weekly and monthly menus at a glance, and add the ingredients you need to your shopping list before heading to the store. [Daily Meal Planning] • Build your meal plan by dragging menus—no typing required. • Organize menus by category with your own icons and colors. • Create custom categories and menus. • Hide breakfast, lunch, or dinner to suit your lifestyle. [Weekly & Monthly Meal Plans] • See your planned meals for the whole week in one table. • Review the entire month's menu in the monthly view. • Share your meal plan as an image with family and friends. [Shopping List] • Quickly add and manage groceries and household items. [My Recipes & Bookmarks] • Write your own recipe notes on each menu and share them. • Save links to recipes you love in bookmark categories. [Meal Stats & Calories] • Track your completion rate, streaks, top menus, and most-used ingredients. • Enter calories for each menu to see your calorie trends. [AI Features] • AI automatically writes ingredients and recipes for your menus. [Backup & Restore] • Back up your data and restore it anytime. Start planning easier, healthier meals with Charim today.

About

WhatDo?!

Manage your entire kitchen inventory, from fridge to pantry, with AI-powered recipe suggestions and meal planning. Automate shopping lists, track expiring items, and even engage in fun cooking competitions or kitchen dispute resolutions.

Highlights
  • Inventory tracking (fridge, freezer, pantry)
  • AI recipe generation based on available ingredients
  • Automated shopping list creation
  • Meal planning with AI suggestions
  • Smart ingredient substitutions
  • Roommate and competitive cooking modes
  • Recipe community and sharing
Features
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Cooking apps have been boring for too long. WhatDo?! tracks your entire kitchen and then does something about it. Fridge, freezer, pantry, shopping list, recipes, and meal plans in one place. iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Photograph a grocery receipt and your inventory updates itself. Set auto-rebuy rules so you never run out of the things that matter. When something's about to expire, WhatDo?! already suggested a recipe for it three days ago. WhatDo Chef looks at what you actually have and invents a real dinner on the spot. The weird stuff, the almost-expired stuff, the "why did I buy this" stuff. No grocery run required. Smart Swaps means grandma's mystery recipe with the one impossible ingredient is finally survivable. Mid-cook, tap any ingredient and get AI substitutions ranked by what's already in your kitchen. Plan your week. Fill slots yourself or let the AI generate the whole thing based on what you have, what's expiring, and what your household actually eats. It builds the shopping list too. After you cook, tap "Cooked It" and ingredients deduct from inventory automatically. Roommate Mode has no upper limit. Two people. Ten people. A dorm floor. A frat house running on frozen burritos and optimism. Every item is personal or shared. Shopping lists survive contact with multiple humans. Kitchen codes let anyone join. There is no cap. IronDo Chef turns your kitchen into a competition. A secret ingredient gets revealed, pulled from your actual inventory. Cook against the clock. The household votes on Taste, Creativity, Presentation, and Ingredient Use. Winner gets a trophy. The leaderboard remembers everything. Casual is friendly. Expert is not. Dish Dispute is Kitchen Court. Someone left a mess. File a charge (severity goes up to "Crime Against Humanity"), submit the crime scene photo, and the AI takes over. Suspects are pulled from recent cooking activity. Alibis are collected. Interrogation questions are generated. The kitchen votes. A verdict is delivered. The Wall of Shame never forgets. The Community is a real recipe network. Publish yours. Browse what everyone else is cooking. Save to your library. Build collections. If you rate someone's recipe, the AI interviews you about it and writes a completely unhinged review on your behalf. And because we respect the sacred tradition of the recipe blog, all seventeen paragraphs of personal backstory before you reach the actual ingredients, Blogger Mode generates that for you. On purpose. The Waste Management Center tracks what you threw away, why, and how often. Charts, trends, and category breakdowns. The dashboard your kitchen guilt deserves. Free gets you started with inventory, shopping lists, and AI suggestions. Paid unlocks recipe import, receipt scanning, meal planning, shared kitchens, roommate mode, IronDo Chef, Dish Dispute, community publishing, and themes. Pro adds nutrition, waste tracking, smart cook substitutions, AI recipe images, Blogger Mode, and AI reviews. WhatDo?! is your mom's favorite new kitchen app. It's also the one your college roommates use to settle who ate the last of the shredded cheese. Somehow it's both and we're not apologizing for it. Real kitchens are messy. WhatDo?! was built for exactly that. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.whatdoapp.com/terms/

Screenshots

Charim4 screens
WhatDo?!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Charim at none against WhatDo?!'s 2. Charim also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). WhatDo?!'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WhatDo?! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Charim asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Charim ships an update every 3 weeks, WhatDo?! every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Charim versus WhatDo?!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharimWhatDo?!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMegaWaveDeadBeet LLC

In-app purchases

None

Charim

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WhatDo?!

Subscriptions2
  • WhatDo?! Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • WhatDo?! Pro Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Charim free?
Charim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhatDo?! free?
WhatDo?! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Charim or WhatDo?! have ads?
Neither Charim nor WhatDo?! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charim or WhatDo?!?
Charim ships an update every 3 weeks, and WhatDo?! every 5 days. Most recently, Charim was updated on October 9, 2026 and WhatDo?! on October 8, 2026.

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