Comparison

Hearth vs Chefless

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

Head to head
About

Hearth

Effortlessly save, organize, and plan meals from any online source or photo. Features smart grocery lists, meal planning, and an AI cooking assistant. Share collections and plans with your household.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from any website or social media
  • Import recipes from photos and text
  • AI-powered recipe organization
  • Smart, aisle-sorted grocery lists
  • Integrated meal planning
  • Household sharing for recipes and lists
  • AI cooking assistant
Features
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Save and organize recipes from any website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest. Import from photos, cookbooks, or your notes. AI-powered recipe organizer with smart grocery lists, meal planning, and a built-in cooking assistant. SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE Import recipes from Instagram reels, TikTok videos, YouTube cooking tutorials, Pinterest pins, and any recipe website. Hearth's AI extracts the ingredients and steps automatically — no more screenshots, bookmarks, or copy-pasting. Snap a photo of a cookbook page, paste text from Notes or Google Docs, or just describe what you want to make. Switching from Paprika, Mealime, or another recipe app? Hearth makes it easy to start fresh. SMART GROCERY LISTS Add ingredients from any recipe to your grocery list with one tap. Items are automatically sorted by aisle so your shopping trips are fast. Track pantry staples so you never forget the basics. ORDER GROCERIES WITH KROGER Connect your Kroger account and turn your grocery list into a delivery or pickup order — directly inside the app. No switching between apps. MEAL PLANNING Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the week. Drag recipes into your meal plan, mark meals as cooked, and share the plan with your household. Know what's for dinner before anyone asks. COOK TOGETHER Create a household and share your recipe collection, grocery lists, and meal plans with family or roommates. Everyone stays in sync. AI COOKING ASSISTANT Ask Hearth anything — substitute an ingredient, figure out what to cook with what's in your fridge, or get step-by-step help. Your personal cooking assistant, built in. ORGANIZE YOUR RECIPES Group recipes into cookbooks, rate and log your favorites, and filter by dietary needs — gluten-free, keto, vegan, dairy-free, and more. Find any recipe instantly with search. PERSONALIZED TO HOW YOU COOK Set your dietary preferences, allergies, skill level, and favorite cuisines. Hearth adapts its suggestions to match how you actually cook. FREE TO USE Save recipes, build grocery lists, plan meals, and share with your household — all free. Upgrade to Hearth Premium for unlimited AI features including photo imports, recipe chat, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hearth.recipes/privacy-policy Questions or feedback? https://hearth.recipes/contact

About

Chefless

Save, share, and plan meals with friends and family. Organize your personal recipes with notes and signatures, and collaborate on meal plans in shared kitchens. Explore global cuisines and track your cooking year.

Highlights
  • Save personal recipes with notes and signatures
  • Share recipes privately or publicly
  • Fork and modify existing recipes
  • Collaborate on meal plans in shared Kitchens
  • Track cooking progress and year in review
  • Offline recipe access
  • AI Recipe Helper (Pro feature)
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Chefless keeps the recipes you cook, helps you plan your meals, and turns that plan into a shopping list. Use it on your own or with the people you cook for. Bring in recipes from anywhere Paste a link from a recipe website, or from a public social media post with the recipe in its caption. You can also paste the recipe text, or take photos of a cookbook page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card, up to four pages at a time. You check each recipe before you save it. Chefless marks anything unclear for you to look at and leaves a missing amount blank for you to fill in. Keep recipes the way you like them A recipe can hold up to five photos, ingredients, steps, cooking times, servings, and tags for diet, cuisine, and meal. You decide whether each recipe is private or shared. Sign your recipes in your own handwriting and group them into cookbooks. You can also make your own version of another cook's recipe, called a remix, and their name stays on it as the original. Plan meals together in a Kitchen A Kitchen is a shared space where your household plans meals and shops together. Everyone sees the same meal calendar. Members suggest meals, and the Kitchen lead, or someone the lead chooses, approves them. Members can say whether they are coming to a meal, and the lead can tell everyone the food is ready with one tap. People join with an invite code, and your private recipes stay visible only to you. Plan the week and shop once Look at your plan by week, month, or year, and give each planned meal its own number of servings. Make one shopping list from your plan or your Kitchen's plan for the days you pick, and Chefless adds repeated ingredients together. When the plan changes, update the list. It keeps the items you checked and the things you added yourself. Cook mode Cook mode shows you one step at a time. Start a timer and Chefless alerts you when it finishes, as long as you allow notifications. The amounts follow the servings you choose and can show in metric or imperial units, and your screen stays on while you cook. Find something new to cook Follow other cooks and see what they make. Browse For You, Trending, Friends, and Seasonal, or search by cuisine, dietary need, meal, and cooking time. Chefless lists cuisines from your part of the world first, using the region setting on your phone. Comment on recipes, post a photo of a dish you made, and rate the recipes you cook. Your passport collects a stamp for each cuisine you cook. Your language and your privacy Chefless works in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. You can make your account and your recipes private, and report a recipe, comment, or profile that should not be there. You can also delete your account and its data from Settings. You will not see ads. Free and Chefless Premium A free account includes up to five recipes (your own and saved ones together), one remix, one cookbook, planning from two days before today to two days after, and a Kitchen with up to two members. Cook mode, shopping lists, following other cooks, and the passport cost nothing. Chefless Premium gives you unlimited recipes, remixes, and cookbooks, the full calendar, and unlimited members in a Kitchen you lead. You also get the AI Recipe Helper to write a recipe from ingredients you have, suggest swaps for a dietary need, or turn rough notes into a tidy recipe. It shares a limit of 20 uses a day with imports that read a photo, a caption, or pasted text. Pantry and Cook What I Have show you the recipes you can make with what is in your kitchen, and a chef hat badge appears on your profile. Chefless Premium costs $5.99 a month or $34.99 a year. Your subscription renews until you cancel it. To stop the next charge, cancel in your account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Questions or ideas: admin@chefless.org Privacy Policy: https://chefless.org/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hearth4 screens
Chefless4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chefless at every 2 weeks against Hearth's every 2 months. Hearth's advantage is chart position (#198 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Hearth sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Chefless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hearth against 5.0 for Chefless. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hearth ships an update every 2 months, Chefless every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Hearth versus Chefless: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHearthChefless
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB69 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJoseph KruslingSAHAB LLC

Customer experience

Hearth

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chefless

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Hearth

Subscriptions2
  • Hearth Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Hearth Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Chefless

Subscriptions2
  • Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Hearth free?
Hearth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chefless free?
Chefless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hearth or Chefless?
Hearth and Chefless are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Hearth or Chefless have ads?
Neither Hearth nor Chefless shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hearth or Chefless?
Hearth ships an update every 2 months, and Chefless every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hearth was updated on October 20, 2026 and Chefless on October 18, 2026.

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