Comparison

MAX PLUS! vs Jam

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

Head to head
About

MAX PLUS!

Access personalized offers, digital coupons, and discounts from your favorite stores. Plan your shopping with digital weekly ads and clip coupons based on your preferences. Earn rewards and points for purchases, redeemable online or in-store.

Highlights
  • Personalized offers
  • Digital coupons
  • Weekly ad access
  • Digital receipts
  • Loyalty points and rewards
  • Store discounts
Features
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Our stores app is free, easy-to-use app and brings you personalized offers, digital coupons from leading national brands, discounts, and rewards from your favorite store. Shop Smart! Get access to our digital weekly ad. Plan ahead clipping digital coupons personalized just for you, based on your preference and purchase history. Make a purchase, get your digital receipt, take advantage of store offers, and start accruing points and gifts redeemable when purchasing online or in store. We appreciate your business, and this is another way to make sure you know it! The more you shop at participating stores, the more rewards you get. Start saving today!

About

Jam

Organize all your saved recipes in one place and get personalized meal suggestions based on your family's preferences and dietary needs. Plan your week and generate grocery lists effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from any link, photo, or app
  • AI assistant remembers family preferences and allergies
  • Organize recipes into custom cookbooks
  • Plan weekly meals and generate grocery lists
  • Share cookbooks with household members
  • Ad-free cooking experience
Features
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Every recipe you love, finally in one place — with an assistant that already knows your family. You've saved recipes everywhere — a screenshot here, a Pinterest board there, a text from your mom, forty open tabs you swear you'll get to. Then dinnertime comes and you can't find a single one, and you're stuck explaining your family's likes and allergies to a chatbot that'll forget them by next week. Jam fixes both. Jam is the recipe keeper for real families — and the assistant that remembers everyone at your table. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE • Paste any recipe link and Jam pulls in the ingredients and steps — no scrolling past someone's life story. • Snap a photo of a cookbook page or a handwritten card, and Jam turns it into a recipe you can cook from. • Share a recipe straight from Instagram, Safari, or any app — right into Jam. AN ASSISTANT THAT KNOWS YOUR FAMILY • Jam's built-in assistant already knows the recipes you've saved, the meals you've cooked, and what everyone at your table will and won't eat. • Ask it what to make tonight and it answers from your actual cookbook and your family's real preferences — not a blank chat window. • No re-explaining allergies, dislikes, or last night's dinner every time you open it. ONE CLEAN COOKBOOK • Every recipe you save lands in one organized place. • Group recipes into cookbooks that make sense for your family. • Find what you saved in seconds — no dead links, no hunting. COOK WITHOUT THE CHAOS • When it's time to cook, your recipe is one tap away. • No ads. No auto-playing videos. No page that reloads and loses your place. • Just clean, readable steps — the way a recipe should be. SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY • Share your cookbook with your household so everyone's cooking from the same page. • The recipes you love, in everyone's hands. WHEN YOU'RE READY • Plan the week and build a grocery list when you're ready — it's all in the same app, no extra tools, no extra tabs. Jam was built by a parent who got tired of stitching together boards, note files full of dead links, ad-cluttered recipe pages, and AI conversations that forgot everything the moment the tab closed. From "where did I save that?" to ready to cook. Download Jam and bring every recipe home. — — — Jam is free to download. A Jam subscription includes a 7-day free trial, then: • Duo (up to 2 members): $7.99/month or $71.99/year • Family (up to 5 members): $9.99/month or $89.99/year • Family Plus (up to 8 members): $12.99/month or $116.99/year Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://jam-cook.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://jam-cook.com/privacy

Screenshots

MAX PLUS!4 screens
Jam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Jam at 100% against MAX PLUS!'s 6%. Jam also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). MAX PLUS!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (161 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Jam sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. MAX PLUS! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Jam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MAX PLUS! has 161 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of MAX PLUS!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Jam's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MAX PLUS! ships an update monthly, Jam every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MAX PLUS! versus Jam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMAX PLUS!Jam
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (161 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews5.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings161 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCounty Market PharmacyConner Hourihan

Customer experience

MAX PLUS!

All ratings161 ratings
Positive20.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative74.5%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive5.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative86.5%

Jam

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MAX PLUS!

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App not compatible with latest iOS version
  • App reverting to wrong store location

Requested features

3 requests
  • Bring back full-page flyer ad option
  • Add sort/category feature for coupons
  • Integrate coupons into main shopping app

Jam

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MAX PLUS!

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Jam

Subscriptions6
  • Duo Plan7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Family Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Family Plus Plan7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Duo Plan7 Days trial$71.991 Year
  • Family Plan7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Family Plus Plan7 Days trial$116.991 Year

Questions

Is MAX PLUS! free?
MAX PLUS! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jam free?
Jam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MAX PLUS! or Jam?
Jam is rated higher. MAX PLUS! averages 1.9 out of 5 from 161 ratings, while Jam averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MAX PLUS! or Jam have ads?
Neither MAX PLUS! nor Jam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MAX PLUS! or Jam?
MAX PLUS! ships an update monthly, and Jam every 2 weeks. Most recently, MAX PLUS! was updated on October 18, 2026 and Jam on October 14, 2026.

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