Chefy vs Chronos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chefy
This AI-powered cooking assistant helps you create custom recipes based on your ingredients or cravings. It provides step-by-step visual guidance and answers your cooking questions in real-time, making it suitable for all skill levels.
- Ingredient photo recognition
- Custom recipe generation
- Step-by-step visual instructions
- Real-time cooking Q&A
- Personalized cooking guidance
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Tired of guessing your way through recipes? Say hello to Chefy, the ultimate AI cooking assistant that brings your culinary ideas to life — no matter your skill level! What Chefy Can Do: Snap and Cook: Take a photo of your ingredients or your current cooking step — Chefy will instantly guide you on what to do next. Smart Recipes, Tailored to You: Craving something specific? Just tell Chefy, and it will generate a custom recipe with step-by-step instructions and beautiful visuals. Ask Anything, Anytime: Stuck or unsure? Ask Chefy questions mid-recipe and get instant, intelligent feedback. Visual Learning: Every step comes with an image so you always know exactly what to expect. Whether you're a beginner learning to boil water or a foodie experimenting with new flavors, Chefy makes cooking fun, fast, and foolproof. Download Chefy today - and turn your kitchen into a creative playground. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Chronos
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Chronos Egg Timer the perfect egg, every single time. Boiling an egg sounds simple until your altitude, your water temperature, your egg size, and your pan all conspire against you. Chronos turns that guesswork into precision. Tell it about your kitchen once, and every boil lands exactly where you wanted it whether that's a silky six-minute yolk or a firm, slice-ready hard boil. Precision, calibrated for your kitchen Chronos calculates cook time from the variables that actually matter. Higher altitude lowers the boiling point, so the clock runs longer. Fridge-cold water needs warming minutes that room-temperature water doesn't. Chicken, duck, and quail eggs each have their own curves. Chronos accounts for all of it so the minute mark is the right minute mark. Built-in doneness, ready to tap Three photographic presets Soft, Medium, Hard sit on the home screen with the timing already dialled in. Pick your density, choose how many eggs, and hit Start. Custom presets for the eggs you actually cook Save your own combinations: cook time, egg type, size, icon, label, and calories. Your favourite ramen egg, your mother's Sunday way, the brunch number that only takes four minutes all one tap away. Drag to reorder. Hide the built-ins you never use. Make the screen yours. Over 100 recipes, perfectly timed From classic soft-boiled breakfasts to shakshuka, frittata, Japanese tamago, deviled eggs, ramen eggs, and chef-style techniques Chronos ships with a curated cookbook. Every recipe lists ingredients and a clear, step-by-step method. Tap Start Cooking on any recipe and the timer is already set. Add ingredients straight to the built-in Shopping List. Mark favourites, search by name, ingredient, or technique, and filter to the ones you love. The boil-wait assistant Chronos doesn't just start a countdown and hope your pan is ready. Start the timer, and it watches for the moment your water boils tap the button when it does, or let the estimated boil cue play for you. The real cook time only starts when it should. Freshness check Not sure how old that egg is? Drop it in cold water Chronos shows you what the float tells you, with peel tips for each stage. Alerts that actually fire Lock-screen notifications, sound alerts, and haptic taps land on time, even with the app in the background. Choose a gentle water cue or a clean beep. Turn on ambient music for the wait Soft Currents, Morning Air, or Soft Tides play under the timer. A cook log worth keeping Every boil lands in History. See your current streak, total eggs cooked, calories tracked, average cook time, and macros protein, fat, carbs. Switch the window between week, month, and year. Browse daily bars, recent cooks, doneness breakdown, and badges you've earned. Smart suggestions Surprise Me picks a preset based on what you actually cook and the time of day. Mornings, midday, evenings, late night Chronos notices the pattern and offers a sensible next move. Repeat Last puts your most recent cook one tap from the home screen. Designed, not just built Photographic preset cards, considered typography, ambient soundscapes, thoughtful haptics, and animated status copy that tells you where you are in the cook settling in, home stretch, almost there, last ten seconds. Onboarding takes under a minute and calibrates to your altitude, your water, and your preferred feedback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chronos at none against Chefy's 1. Chronos also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Chefy's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Chefy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Chronos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chefy ships an update every 4 days, Chronos every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Chefy | Chronos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SwiftForge LLC | TUGBA DALKANAT |
Bugs and requests
Chefy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Crashes while using the app
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Chronos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chefy
- Chefy Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
Chronos
No in-app purchases









