Comparison

CravingChef vs Cookie Voice Recipes

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

Head to head
About

CravingChef

This AI-powered app acts as your personal chef, handling meal planning, recipe discovery, and grocery list generation. It learns your preferences to offer personalized recommendations and provides live cooking guidance. Get instant answers to cooking questions and track your nutrition goals.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized recipe recommendations
  • Smart meal planning
  • Intelligent grocery list generation
  • Live cooking guidance
  • Recipe import from web links
  • Personalized nutrition tracking
  • AI kitchen assistant for cooking questions
Features
Read full description

Meet CravingChef, your AI personal chef. CravingChef works behind the scenes to handle the planning, organization, and decision-making that comes with cooking, so you can spend more time enjoying great food. Powered by AI, CravingChef learns your tastes, preferences, and goals to deliver personalized recipe recommendations, meal plans, nutrition insights, and grocery lists tailored to you. Ask Your Chef Need a substitute ingredient? Wondering if something is fully cooked? Want to adjust a recipe, use ingredients you already have, or get help with a cooking technique? Just ask. CravingChef's AI kitchen assistant is always available to help. Discover Recipes You'll Love Explore an endless feed of recipes and cooking videos personalized to your tastes. Whether you're looking for something familiar or trying something new, CravingChef helps you find meals you'll actually want to make. Import Recipes From Anywhere Found a recipe online? Simply share the link and CravingChef automatically imports the ingredients, instructions, and recipe details for you. Smart Meal Planning Build meal plans with recommendations personalized to your schedule, preferences, and goals. Intelligent Grocery Lists Generate grocery lists automatically from your recipes and meal plans. CravingChef also takes your pantry into account, helping reduce duplicate purchases, minimize food waste, and make shopping more efficient. Live Cooking Guidance Cook with confidence using Live Cooking Mode. Follow step-by-step instructions, stay organized while you cook, and get guidance throughout the entire recipe without constantly scrolling or losing your place. Personalized Nutrition Tracking Track calories, macros, and nutrition goals with insights tailored to your lifestyle and dietary preferences. Learns With Every Meal The more you use CravingChef, the more it understands your tastes, cooking habits, dietary preferences, and goals, creating a truly personalized experience over time. Your AI personal chef, working behind the scenes to make cooking easier.

About

Cookie Voice Recipes

This voice-controlled cooking assistant allows you to navigate recipes, set timers, and check ingredients hands-free. It's designed for accessibility, making cooking easier for everyone.

Highlights
  • Hands-free voice control
  • Smart recipe import
  • Add own recipes via photo
  • Recipe library
  • Cloud sync
  • Full accessibility support
Features
Read full description

Cookie is your intelligent voice-controlled cooking companion. Keep your hands free while cooking—simply say "Cookie" followed by your command to navigate recipes, set timers, check ingredients, and more. No messy screen touches required. Designed with accessibility in mind for users of all abilities. KEY FEATURES: • Smart recipe import - Save recipes from any website and Instagram • Add your own recipes - Take a photo of a cookbook, handwritten card, or printed recipe and Cookie extracts it automatically • Hands-free voice control - Navigate recipes without touching your device • Recipe library - All your saved recipes in one place • Cloud sync - Sign in to back up and sync your recipes across devices • Full accessibility support - Built in partnership with blind and low-vision cooks for truly independent cooking Perfect for anyone who wants to focus on their food, not their phone. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ "We liked using the app to tell us the ingredients and instructions. We loved that it included how to make my recipe fancy. It was easy to use with VoiceOver." — Alise "Cookie has been a game changer when in the kitchen! With simple commands it keeps my recipes all in one place, tells me everything step-by-step, including ingredients and is hands free while cooking. Cookie is a must have for keeping it simple." — Rachel "Being low vision, I like that I didn't have to really magnify the screen. I could just talk to cookie and it would reply the ingredients or the instructions to me." — John "I love to cook but it’s been a challenge with losing my eyesight. This is one big step to allow me to not eat Stouffers again" — JW "This app is the best AU$49 I have spent." - Jen "Cookie is a great cooking companion! I love how it converts a long winded blog post into a simple step by step formula that is easy to follow." — Uday

Screenshots

CravingChef4 screens
Cookie Voice Recipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CravingChef at none against Cookie Voice Recipes's 2. CravingChef also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Cookie Voice Recipes's advantage is ratings volume (49 vs 6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Cookie Voice Recipes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. CravingChef 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 CravingChef against 4.9 for Cookie Voice Recipes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cookie Voice Recipes has 49 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of CravingChef's written reviews are positive against 89% of Cookie Voice Recipes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CravingChef ships an update every 10 days, Cookie Voice Recipes every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CravingChef versus Cookie Voice Recipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCravingChefCookie Voice Recipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.9 (49 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings649 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB54 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRonan ReddyStitched Strategy LLC

Customer experience

CravingChef

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cookie Voice Recipes

All ratings49 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CravingChef

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cookie Voice Recipes

Subscriptions2
  • Cookie Premium$3.991 Month
  • Cookie Premium$29.991 Year

Questions

Is CravingChef free?
CravingChef is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cookie Voice Recipes free?
Cookie Voice Recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CravingChef or Cookie Voice Recipes?
CravingChef is rated higher. CravingChef averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Cookie Voice Recipes averages 4.9 from 49 ratings.
Do CravingChef or Cookie Voice Recipes have ads?
Neither CravingChef nor Cookie Voice Recipes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CravingChef or Cookie Voice Recipes?
CravingChef ships an update every 10 days, and Cookie Voice Recipes every 2 weeks. Most recently, CravingChef was updated on October 30, 2026 and Cookie Voice Recipes on October 30, 2026.

Other comparisons