Comparison

Only Cans vs Root Cellar

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

Head to head
About

Only Cans

Features
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CanZilla is the ultimate app for food preservation lovers. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned canner, CanZilla gives you everything you need to master the art of canning, from step-by-step guides to a rich collection of tested recipes. Learn to Can โ€“ Beginner Friendly Get started with confidence: 16 beginner-friendly articles covering the essentials, from jar sterilization to your first successful batch. Easy-to-follow, expert-backed tutorials. Discover & Master Recipes Explore a growing library of canning recipes: Fully detailed with ingredients, instructions, and prep time. USDA-approved and mother-in-law tested. Filter by method: Water Bath, Pressure Canning, and more. Join the Canning Community Like, rate, and review recipes. Save your favorites and build your personal recipe collection. Personal Dashboard Create an account to sync your favorites, ratings, and activity. Manage your profile with ease. Clean, Intuitive Design Designed to be simple, beautiful, and beginner-proof. Find what you need, when you need it.

About

Root Cellar

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Root Cellar is a private record book for your homestead: canning batches, pantry inventory, egg counts, and garden harvests in one app. Built for home canners, backyard chicken keepers, gardeners, and families who put food up for the seasons ahead. No account to create. No ads. Everything you record stays on your device and in your personal iCloud. CANNING BATCHES Log every batch you put up: recipe, date, jar size, and jar count. Look back at last year's runs when you plan this year's. PANTRY INVENTORY See what is on the shelf at a glance: jars, store-bought goods, and bulk staples, organized by location. Adjust counts as you use things up. EAT-FIRST ROTATION Root Cellar keeps an eat-first list so older jars and goods get used before newer ones, and nothing sits forgotten at the back of the shelf. CHICKEN FLOCK & EGG LOG Keep a record of each bird and tally eggs day by day. Watch how your flock's laying changes through the seasons. GARDEN HARVEST LOG Record what you picked and when. Over time, your own harvest history becomes the best planting guide you own. PRINT YOUR RECORD BOOK Export the whole book as a clean PDF: a cover page and a typeset ledger of every batch, shelf, flock, and harvest. Print it for the binder or file it away. Always free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Works fully offline; no sign-up, no account, no ads - Your records live on your device and sync through your personal iCloud - Your family's food records are nobody's business but yours FREE TO TRY, ONE PRICE TO OWN Five entries in every book, free, with egg logging always unlimited. One purchase opens every book, without limits, forever. No subscription. Root Cellar replaces the notebook on the kitchen counter, the tally sheet in the coop, and the guessing at the pantry shelf, and it keeps your records the way a root cellar keeps your food: close to home.

Screenshots

Only Cans4 screens
Root Cellar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Only Cans at none against Root Cellar's 1. Only Cans also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Root Cellar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Only Cans asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Only Cans versus Root Cellar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnly CansRoot Cellar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size59 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSupa Ant LLCKinzi Herron

In-app purchases

None

Only Cans

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Root Cellar

One-time1
  • Root Cellar Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Only Cans free?
Only Cans is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Root Cellar free?
Root Cellar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Only Cans or Root Cellar have ads?
Neither Only Cans nor Root Cellar shows ads.

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