Comparison

PlateShare vs Chefless

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

Head to head
About

PlateShare

This app helps you discover, save, and organize recipes. It features smart meal planning, collaborative grocery lists, and tools to manage your pantry and reduce food waste. Coordinate cooking and share culinary ideas with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Discover and save recipes
  • Import recipes from websites
  • Smart weekly meal planning
  • Automatic grocery list creation
  • Pantry item tracking
  • Share recipes and meal plans with households
  • AI recipe image generation
Features
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PlateShare: Social Recipe Saver & Meal Planner Find and share recipes, plan meals, organize events, and manage grocery lists together with friend and families. Great for saving and sharing recipes and integrated with a personalized recipe assistant for all your cooking needs. ______________________________________________________ PlateShare is an all-in-one food planning and recipe organizing app designed for individuals, households, families, roommates, and anyone who cooks with others. From everyday dinners to shared events, PlateShare keeps everyone in sync so there's less stress, less waste, and better meals. ______________________________________________________ DISCOVER & SAVE RECIPES • Browse and share recipes from your friends and other home cooks • Create and organize your own recipes • Import recipes from websites with one tap • Save favorites into custom collections • Upload photos or generate beautiful AI images ______________________________________________________ SMART MEAL PLANNING • Flexible weekly meal planning • Easily integrated with your grocery list • Adjust serving sizes instantly • Get meal ideas based on your preferences • Reduce food waste by planning around what you already have ______________________________________________________ GROCERY LISTS THAT ACTUALLY WORK • Automatically create grocery lists from your meal plan • Smart categorization for easier shopping • Share lists in real time with your household • Export to Instacart for delivery or pickup ______________________________________________________ COOK TOGETHER • Create Households to share meal plans, grocery lists, and recipes • Organize Meal Trains to support friends or family • Host Potlucks with templates and RSVP tracking • Create and join Groups to share ideas and inspiration ______________________________________________________ PANTRY & NUTRITION TOOLS • Track pantry items and expiration dates • Easily extract ingredients to integrate with other macro tracking apps • Find recipes that use ingredients before they expire • View nutritional information for recipes • Make more informed food choices ______________________________________________________ WHY PLATESHARE? • Keep track of your favorite recipes • Reduce food waste • Save money on groceries • Spend less time planning meals • Coordinate food without endless messaging • Make cooking a shared experience ______________________________________________________ FREE FEATURES • Unlimited recipe creation and saving • Meal planning, grocery list, and pantry • Ability to create public groups • Participate in private groups, potlucks, and meal trains • 3 AI recipe images per week ______________________________________________________ PREMIUM ($4.99/month) • 7-day free trial included • Unlimited AI recipe suggestions and images • Pantry tracking and expiration alerts • Nutritional insights • Smart grocery list categorization • Ad-free experience • Ability to create private groups, potlucks, and meal trains • Create potluck templates ______________________________________________________ HOUSEHOLD PLAN ($9.99/month) • Everything in Premium • Share Premium with up to 5 household members • Collaborative meal planning • Shared pantry and grocery lists • Real-time syncing across devices with household ______________________________________________________ Download PlateShare and make food planning something you do together. Questions? Contact us at support@plateshare.ai ______________________________________________________ Terms of Use: https://plateshare.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://plateshare.ai/privacy-policy

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

PlateShare4 screens
Chefless4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PlateShare at every 9 days against Chefless's every 3 weeks. 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. PlateShare 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 PlateShare against 5.0 for Chefless. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlateShare ships an update every 9 days, Chefless every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PlateShare versus Chefless: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlateShareChefless
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB66 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAndrew ThomasSAHAB LLC

Customer experience

PlateShare

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

PlateShare

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Chefless

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

Questions

Is PlateShare free?
PlateShare 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, PlateShare or Chefless?
PlateShare and Chefless are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do PlateShare or Chefless have ads?
Neither PlateShare nor Chefless shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlateShare or Chefless?
PlateShare ships an update every 9 days, and Chefless every 3 weeks. Most recently, PlateShare was updated on September 17, 2026 and Chefless on October 1, 2026.

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