Linecook vs posting2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Linecook
A social platform for home cooks to share their culinary creations, track meals, and connect with others. It uses AI to generate recipes from photos and offers feedback to improve cooking skills. Users can earn badges and discover new inspiration.
- Share cooking memories with friends
- AI-powered recipe generation
- Actionable feedback for better cooking
- Earn badges for kitchen achievements
- Discover daily cooking inspiration
- Group meal sharing
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Your cooking community + AI cooking agent Linecook is the home for your home cooking. It’s where you store the meals you’ve made and find what to make next. Our AI agent helps you plan dinner, put better food on the table, and solve cooking problems live. Key features: - Snap a photo of ingredients you’ve got, get instant recipes. - Answer any cooking question live — Talk to Linecook to adjust recipes, swap ingredients, troubleshoot, and get clear guidance on timing, substitutions, and plating. - Plan better dinners — Get personalized meal ideas and “Recipes To Try” recommendations based on what you have, what you love, and what you’ve cooked before. - Put delicious food on the table — Linecook AI analyzes your photos to generate accurate recipes and gives actionable feedback on ingredients, technique, and presentation so you improve with every meal. - Share with close friends - Post meals to close friends, give “Fires,” and celebrate cooking together. Group meals let you credit your sous chef or the whole dinner party. - Track your growth - build cooking streaks, see cuisine stats, and keep a complete journal of everything you’ve made (including importing old meal photos). - Show off your kitchen kit — Highlight the tools and gear you actually use. If you love to cook (or just want dinner to be easier and better), you’ll love Linecook. Join today - we can’t wait to see what you’re cooking.
posting2
A simple, ad-free social media platform focused on human connection. It prioritizes content from your immediate network and uses an in-app polling system for community-driven changes. Funding is entirely voluntary.
- Ad-free experience
- No algorithms
- Content from your network
- In-app polling system
- Voluntary donations for funding
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Simple, independent social media. No ads, no algorithms, no data sales. See posts from your friends and friends of your friends. Vote on ideas and changes with the in-app polling system. Funding for this project comes from supporter subscriptions and web shop sales. posting2 is free to use. Supporting posting2 is optional via an auto-renewing annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically each year unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://posting2.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://posting2.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Linecook at none against posting2's 9. Linecook also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). posting2's advantage is ratings volume (664 vs 132). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. posting2 sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Linecook asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Linecook against 5.0 for posting2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: posting2 has 664 ratings behind it against 132, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Linecook's written reviews are positive against 99% of posting2's.
Linecook ships an update weekly, posting2 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Linecook | posting2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (132 ratings) | 5.0 (664 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.4% of reviews | 98.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 132 | 664 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Linecook Technologies Inc. | POSTING2 LLC |
Customer experience
Linecook
posting2
In-app purchases
Linecook
No in-app purchases
posting2
- Monthly Support — $3$2.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $5$4.991 Month
- Monthly Support — $10$9.991 Month
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- posting2 Annual Support$12.991 Year
- $3 Tip$2.99
- $5 Tip$4.99
- $10 Tip$9.99
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- $25 Tip$24.99
- $50 Tip$49.99
