Comparison

Magic Pot vs InStock Kitchen

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

Head to head
About

Magic Pot

Features
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Magic Pot is your all-in-one solution for meal planning, grocery shopping, and food budgeting - designed with busy families in mind. - Organize Weekly Meals: Drag and drop recipes into your calendar, customize portions, and assign meals to family members based on their dietary needs. - Build Your Cookbook: Save your own recipes or import them from your favorite websites. Label recipes by person for quick filtering. - Smart Grocery Lists: Automatically generate shopping lists by day or week. Add prices to track costs before you shop. - Track Your Budget: Monitor monthly and yearly food expenses with simple stats and graphs. Start planning smarter today - with less stress and more flavor! Terms of Use: https://magicpot.app/terms

About

InStock Kitchen

Turn your existing groceries into delicious meals with smart inventory tracking and recipe suggestions. Scan items, get freshness estimates, and follow recipes hands-free. Enjoy a privacy-first experience with no accounts or ads.

Highlights
  • Smart grocery inventory
  • Recipe matching
  • Hands-free Cook Mode
  • Barcode scanning
  • AI Photo Scan (Pro)
  • Custom recipe import (Pro)
  • Private iCloud sync
Features
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Cook from the food already in your kitchen. InStock Kitchen helps you see what you have, what to use first, and what you can cook now. Add groceries with Photo Scan, barcode scanning, or manual entry. Track freshness, build aisle-organized shopping lists, and match your kitchen with 233 built-in recipes. RUN YOUR KITCHEN - What Can I Make? shows meals ready now and close matches that need only a few items. - Smart Inventory highlights ingredients to use first and estimates freshness. - Cook Mode keeps step-by-step directions easy to follow while the screen stays awake. - Shopping List groups items by aisle, includes a Household section, and offers Shop Mode for grocery trips. - Share recipes with friends by link. MEAL PLANNING — INSTOCK PRO Plan up to 14 days of meals and get suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. Review your plan, choose different recipes, and add missing ingredients to your shopping list. ON YOUR APPLE DEVICES - Private iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. - A companion app for your paired Apple Watch shows your shopping list, ready-to-cook recipes, and Cook Mode steps on your wrist. - Siri and Shortcuts integration. INSTOCK PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE - Multi-item Photo Scan. - Browse the full built-in recipe catalog. - Create, import, edit, and share custom recipes from a URL, pasted text, a photo, or the Share Sheet. - Saved lists, reusable templates, trip history, and Buy Again. Pro includes three online Photo Scans and three online recipe imports each day. Optional consumable credit packs add more uses after either daily allowance is exhausted. Purchased credits do not expire. No subscription. No recurring charge. YOUR PRIVACY - No account required, no ads, and no cross-app tracking. - Your content is not sold, used for advertising, or used to train models. - Inventory, recipes, and lists sync through your private iCloud database. - Privacy Mode keeps supported photo and recipe processing on your device after the optional on-device model is downloaded. With Privacy Mode off, selected photos or recipe text are securely processed by InStock Kitchen's service to deliver the requested feature. Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Stock. Scan. Savor. Cook what you already have and waste less.

Screenshots

Magic Pot4 screens
InStock Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: InStock Kitchen at none against Magic Pot's shown. InStock Kitchen also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Magic Pot's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Magic Pot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and InStock Kitchen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic Pot ships an update every 6 weeks, InStock Kitchen fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Magic Pot versus InStock Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic PotInStock Kitchen
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr ChereshnevAndres Oliver

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Magic Pot

Subscriptions2
  • Magic Pot Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Magic Pot Premium Yearly$49.991 Year
1 purchases

InStock Kitchen

One-time1
  • InStock Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Magic Pot free?
Magic Pot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InStock Kitchen free?
InStock Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Magic Pot or InStock Kitchen have ads?
Magic Pot shows ads; InStock Kitchen does not.
Which is updated more often, Magic Pot or InStock Kitchen?
Magic Pot ships an update every 6 weeks, and InStock Kitchen fortnightly. Most recently, Magic Pot was updated on October 11, 2026 and InStock Kitchen on October 7, 2026.

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