Comparison

Sousy vs Play Pantry

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

Head to head
About

Sousy

This kitchen companion helps you decide what to cook, organize recipes, plan meals, and create grocery lists. It offers guided cooking, ingredient substitution advice, and can import recipes from various sources. Plan your week and cook with confidence.

Highlights
  • AI-powered recipe suggestions
  • Recipe import from web, video, photos
  • Organized digital cookbook
  • Step-by-step guided cooking
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Coordinated meal timing
Features
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Every great meal begins with Soo-ee. Your personal sous chef. Sousy is a cookbook that helps you cook. Bring in the recipes you already love, put a few of them on the week, shop for them in one list, and then cook with someone standing next to you at the stove. GET YOUR RECIPES IN ONE PLACE Paste a link from a recipe site, TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram. Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card. Or tell her roughly how you make it and she writes it up for you to correct. Every recipe arrives in the same shape: ingredients, numbered steps, step timers, a prep list, tags, and a nutrition estimate per serving. FIND SOMETHING TO COOK Search your cookbook the way you talk. "Cozy soup for a rainy night" and "that chicken thing with peanuts" both find what you meant. Filter by time, group recipes into collections, or tap the dice and let Sousy choose. PLAN THE WEEK Put dinners on days, move them when plans change, and see the whole month at a glance. Change the servings for one night and the amounts follow. SHOP ONCE Send the week's ingredients to your grocery list at the servings you planned. Repeats merge into one line, and you can open a line to see which recipes wanted it. The list sorts by aisle and stays put while you shop. Kitchen keeps track of what you already have, from what you bought, what you told her, or a photo of your fridge. Mark the salt-and-oil things you always keep and they come off the list before you shop. Order the rest with Instacart, or send the list to someone as text. COOK STEP BY STEP Guided cooking starts with a game plan: the prep you can do first, and the steps it lets you skip. Then one step at a time, with that step's ingredients beside it, timers ready to start, and about when the next step begins. Timers keep running when you leave the app and ring on the lock screen. Leave a note mid-cook and it comes back the next time you cook that recipe. POINT AT THINGS INSTEAD OF DESCRIBING THEM Press and hold an ingredient, a step, a recipe card, or a day on the menu, and Sousy knows what you mean. Ask why the recipe wants that much, what to use instead, when it goes in, or whether tonight's dinner is covered by what is in the list. Stack two things and the questions get better. COOK WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LIVE WITH Invite your family or your roommates by email and you share one cookbook, one menu, and one grocery list. Whoever is at the store sees what whoever is at home checked off. ON YOUR IPHONE Share a recipe to Sousy from Safari, TikTok, or Instagram and it lands in your cookbook. Ask Siri what's for dinner tonight, or to start cooking a recipe. Tonight's dinner and your grocery list sit on the home screen, and the list's rows check off right on the widget. Ask Sousy has a lock screen size. Your recipes turn up in Spotlight when you swipe down and search. While you cook, your step, your progress, and the next timer show on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. WORKS WHEN THE SIGNAL DOES NOT Once your cookbook has synced, browsing, search, checking off groceries, and guided cooking all work with no connection. Anything you change catches up when you are back. Everything syncs across your iPhone and iPad. FREE AND SOUSY PLUS Your cookbook, your week's menu, your grocery list, and step-by-step cooking are free. New accounts get a welcome allowance for bringing recipes in and talking to Sousy. Sousy Plus raises that allowance every month, monthly or yearly. Sign in with Apple, Google, or a code we email you. No password. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Play Pantry

Features
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Stop asking "What's for dinner?" PlayPantry is your AI-powered parenting sidekick. MEAL IDEAS IN SECONDS Tell us what's in your pantry - we'll generate kid-friendly recipes you can actually make. SCREEN-FREE PLAY IDEAS Age-appropriate activities matched to your child's energy level and supplies you have. CHAOS MODE Everything falling apart? Hit the panic button for instant survival plans. FEATURES: • Smart meal planning based on your pantry • Cultural recipe authenticity (Nigerian, Mexican, Indian & more) • Picky eater mode for selective kids • Weekly meal plans in one tap • Barcode scanner for easy pantry tracking • Family sharing for up to 3 members • Expiration alerts to reduce food waste Free plan: 100 generations/month with Ads Premium: 500 generations/Month Privacy Policy: https://playpantry.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://playpantry.app/terms

Screenshots

Sousy4 screens
Play Pantry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sousy at none against Play Pantry's shown. Play Pantry's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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. Sousy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Play Pantry sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sousy ships an update every 6 weeks, Play Pantry every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sousy versus Play Pantry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSousyPlay Pantry
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB37 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSousy LLCRoseline Kumi

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sousy

Subscriptions4
  • Home Chef$3.991 Month
  • Sousy Plus14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Pro Chef$9.991 Month
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  • Sousy Plus14 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

Play Pantry

Subscriptions1
  • PlayPantry Unlimited$7.991 Month

Questions

Is Sousy free?
Sousy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Play Pantry free?
Play Pantry is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sousy or Play Pantry have ads?
Play Pantry shows ads; Sousy does not.
Which is updated more often, Sousy or Play Pantry?
Sousy ships an update every 6 weeks, and Play Pantry every 2 days. Most recently, Sousy was updated on October 24, 2026 and Play Pantry on October 4, 2026.

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