eKitchen vs Home Cooked AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
eKitchen ships an update fortnightly, Home Cooked AI monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eKitchen | Home Cooked AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramiz Arif | CHRISTOPHER BRAXTON SOHAN DASARI |
Customer experience
eKitchen
Home Cooked AI
In-app purchases
eKitchen
No in-app purchases
Home Cooked AI
- Home Cooked Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Home Cooked Pro (Yearly)$59.991 Year








