Comparison

Cookbooq vs Trophikos

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

Head to head
About

Cookbooq

Features
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CookBooq – Your Personal Recipe Organizer & Meal Planner Easily save your favorite recipes, browse your personal recipe collection, and plan your weekly meals. Key Features: Save & Organize Recipes: Keep all your recipes in one place. Categorize them with tags for quick access. View Recipes with Ease: Enjoy a clean, user-friendly interface that makes cooking a breeze. Follow instructions right from your screen. Plan Your Week: Create customized weekly meal plans. Stay organized and save time when grocery shopping and cooking. Smart Search & Filter: Quickly find what you’re looking for with intuitive search and filtering by tags, preparation time or calories per serving.

About

Trophikos

Create, organize, and save your favorite recipes and cocktail concoctions. Import from various sources, track what you've made, and export your collection. Enjoy a private, ad-free culinary archive.

Highlights
  • Build personal recipe library
  • Organize with collections and tags
  • Import recipes from websites and photos
  • Track meals made and modifications
  • Private and ad-free experience
  • Optional iCloud sync
  • Export recipes and collections
Features
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Trophikos keeps your recipes, cocktails, and cooking history together. Save recipes from websites, Safari, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, photos, PDFs, cookbooks, and other recipe apps. Or create your own from scratch. Then log what happened when you made them. Add a recipe log entry with the date, a rating, finished photo, notes about what you changed, and an optional voice note. The next time you return, you can see what worked, what did not, and what you wanted to try differently. SAVE AND ORGANIZE - Import from websites, Safari, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, photos, PDFs, and supported recipe apps - Keep recipes and cocktails together - Organize with collections, tags, favorites, photos, and search - Mark recipes you Want to Make and find them in one place - Preserve source links and personal notes LOG WHAT YOU MADE - Add a log entry every time you cook or mix something - Record the date, rating, photos, notes, and voice notes transcribed on your device - Keep track of changes and ideas for next time - See earlier versions of a recipe and which one you used each time - Build a cooking history around every recipe and cocktail USE IT WHILE YOU COOK - Scale ingredient amounts - Check off ingredients and steps - Use built-in timers, with your screen kept awake in Cook Mode - Ask Siri for ingredients, steps, and cooking times - Access your collection across Apple devices Your collection stays local by default, has no social feed, and doesn't require an account. Your recipes are not locked into a proprietary service and can be exported for use elsewhere at any time. Premium adds optional iCloud sync, custom themes, the Apple TV companion app, and removes the app recommendation banner. Keep a record of what you made, how it turned out, and what to try next.

Screenshots

Cookbooq4 screens
Trophikos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cookbooq at none against Trophikos's 1. Cookbooq also leads on ads (none vs shown). Trophikos's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price and update cadence 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. Trophikos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cookbooq asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cookbooq ships an update every 5 weeks, Trophikos every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cookbooq versus Trophikos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCookbooqTrophikos
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—11 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFlorian WestphalSax Technical Solutions, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Cookbooq

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Trophikos

One-time1
  • Trophikos Premium Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Cookbooq free?
Cookbooq is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trophikos free?
Trophikos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cookbooq or Trophikos have ads?
Trophikos shows ads; Cookbooq does not.
Which is updated more often, Cookbooq or Trophikos?
Cookbooq ships an update every 5 weeks, and Trophikos every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cookbooq was updated on October 24, 2026 and Trophikos on October 24, 2026.

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