Comparison

eKitchen vs Home Cooked AI

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

Head to head
About

eKitchen

Manage your home pantry and discover recipes you can make with what you have. It helps you build shopping lists and guides you through cooking with step-by-step instructions. Track your culinary journey and get personalized recommendations.

Highlights
  • Pantry inventory management
  • Recipe discovery by ingredients
  • Customizable shopping lists
  • Step-by-step cooking mode
  • Recipe import from web/social media
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Cooked recipe tracking
Features
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Saving a recipe is easy. Actually cooking it is a different story. You don't know what you have at home, you're not sure what you need to buy, and by the time you figure it out, you've already ordered takeout. eKitchen was built to close that gap. Tell it a little about your kitchen. It doesn't have to be exact. Just knowing you've got eggs, olive oil, and some pasta gives eKitchen enough to start showing you recipes you can make right now, and recipes that are only an ingredient or two away. Find new recipes by cuisine, difficulty, or cook time. Import recipes you find online, on TikTok, or Instagram. They all land in your cookbook, ready to go. Pick one recipe or pick five. eKitchen checks what you need against what you have and builds a shopping list with prices that fit your budget. Your kitchen grows with every trip to the store. Step-by-step cooking mode walks you through each recipe. When you're done, rate it, leave a tip, and track what you've cooked. eKitchen gets smarter about what to recommend next. Your saved recipes and your kitchen are finally on the same page.

About

Home Cooked AI

Scan your fridge contents with AI to get instant recipe suggestions. This app provides step-by-step cooking guidance, adaptive meal planning, and generates grocery lists. Reduce food waste and save money by utilizing ingredients you already have.

Highlights
  • AI ingredient detection from fridge photos
  • Customizable recipes based on diet and allergies
  • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
  • Weekly meal planning and easy meal swapping
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Food waste reduction
Features
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Snap your fridge. The AI detects what you've got, no typing. Get real recipes you can make right now with those ingredients Cook Mode walks you through every step with timers + an AI coach Plan your whole week and swap any meal in one tap Turn your plan into a grocery list and order what's missing Set your skill, diet, allergies, household size. Every recipe adapts to you. Basically your fridge tells you what to cook, and you stop wasting food and money.

Screenshots

eKitchen4 screens
Home Cooked AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: eKitchen at none against Home Cooked AI's 2. eKitchen also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Home Cooked AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. eKitchen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for eKitchen against 5.0 for Home Cooked AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eKitchen ships an update fortnightly, Home Cooked AI monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
eKitchen versus Home Cooked AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereKitchenHome Cooked AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRamiz ArifCHRISTOPHER BRAXTON SOHAN DASARI

Customer experience

eKitchen

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Home Cooked AI

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

eKitchen

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Home Cooked AI

Subscriptions2
  • Home Cooked Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Home Cooked Pro (Yearly)$59.991 Year

Questions

Is eKitchen free?
eKitchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Home Cooked AI free?
Home Cooked AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, eKitchen or Home Cooked AI?
eKitchen and Home Cooked AI are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do eKitchen or Home Cooked AI have ads?
Neither eKitchen nor Home Cooked AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eKitchen or Home Cooked AI?
eKitchen ships an update fortnightly, and Home Cooked AI monthly. Most recently, eKitchen was updated on October 30, 2026 and Home Cooked AI on October 31, 2026.

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