My Yumlog vs Home Kitchen Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Yumlog
Effortlessly document your signature recipes with smart ingredient linking and AI photo enhancement. Track your meal history and organize dishes into custom groups. Sync your culinary creations across Apple devices.
- Effortless recipe management
- AI smart ingredient linking
- AI photo enhancement
- Meal tracking
- iCloud sync and sharing
- Customizable experience
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Yumlog is your personal sanctuary for documenting every dish you create. From mastering your first signature recipe to capturing that perfect culinary moment—preserve every unforgettable flavor within Yumlog. - Effortless Management: Add dishes with ease and organize them into multi-dimensional groups. Your personal menu has never been clearer. - Smart Ingredient Linking: Automatically identify and link ingredients using AI, saving you from tedious manual entry. - AI Photo Enhancement: Transform casual snapshots into atmospheric, professional-grade food photography with built-in AI. - Meal Tracking: Track how many times you've enjoyed each dish. Discover which recipe truly becomes your "Dish of the Year." - iCloud Sync & Sharing: Your data stays private and stays with you. Seamlessly sync across all your Apple devices. - Personalized Experience: A variety of customization options to make the app truly yours. Start your Yumlog today, and let every dish leave its mark. Yumlog Pro Membership (Chef Pro): Premium features and higher usage limits are available via Chef Pro. You can choose a monthly or yearly subscription (auto-renewable, cancel anytime in System Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions), or a Lifetime Purchase (one-time payment). Specific benefits, pricing, and terms are available on the in-app purchase screen and the App Store. Account & Privacy: You can access features using "Sign in with Apple." By default, your recipes and data are stored locally on your device. If iCloud/CloudKit sync is enabled, data will be stored in your iCloud account according to Apple’s service rules. When using AI-powered features, necessary content (such as images or text) will be sent via encrypted connections to the developer’s servers for processing; this information is never used for advertising. If you configure your own third-party APIs within the app, requests will be sent to the address you provide and handled according to that provider's policy. For full details, please refer to our Privacy Policy: https://fenx.design/yumlog/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Home Kitchen Notes
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Private Recipe: Turn Your Cravings Into Real Meals Countless recipe links sit scattered in your photos, bookmarks and notes. Saved with excitement, they are forgotten when cooking time comes. The real problem is not lack of inspiration, but messy content: dead links, ad-filled tutorials and instructions buried in comments. When you cook, you need your own tidy cookbook with clear steps and grocery lists. Private Recipe is an iPhone local recipe app. Import online recipes and organize them with AI, or manually type recipes yourself to build a full workflow: collect recipes, make weekly menus, shop ingredients and cook. All data stays locally on your phone. No required login, no data shared with platforms and no annoying push alerts. Public recipe apps focus on discovering new dishes, while Private Recipe focuses on practical cooking. It fixes common troubles: saved links may break and lose formatting; food ideas do not automatically turn into meal plans; algorithm recommendations ignore your allergies, fridge ingredients and past meals; sharing links forces family to hunt for instructions again. This app keeps only recipes you like, filters meals by your preferences and creates simple shopping lists. Copy a recipe link to import directly. Your selected AI extracts title, ingredients and steps into clean text. Recipe photos can be zoomed while cooking. It handles webpage verification, and images save locally, so recipes remain intact even if original links expire. You can also create recipes manually from notes or family oral tips. AI sorts messy notes, and you can freely adjust steps later without extra AI polishing. Tag recipes as weekend meals, dinner parties, low-calorie or 15-minute quick dishes. Mark difficulty and cooking time. Track ingredients from your saved recipes to use leftovers easily. Titles and ingredient names adapt to your system language, while cooking steps keep original text to avoid wrong guidance. It uses iOS Liquid Glass design for fast launch and easy one-handed use by the stove. Once you save over 20 recipes, “What Should I Cook Today?” is available. It picks meals only from your collection. Set rules to skip foods you dislike, prioritize ingredients you own and avoid repeated dishes. Mark meals as cooked after finishing. Add the home widget to see recommendations quickly and reduce meal decision stress. Build weekly meal plans; only current and future dates can be edited, old plans clear automatically. Generate grocery lists that hide common seasonings. Export lists as images and share with family. The workflow: schedule meals, share shopping lists, cook from local steps and mark finished dishes. Generate recipe long images or cover cards locally and share through the system sheet, no server upload. Use Siri and Apple Shortcuts to import links. It supports URL Scheme for quick import from other apps. Built with Core Data, all recipes and images save on your iPhone. No mandatory sign-in. AI uses your own API key. Your recipe and taste data stay private and will not be used for ads. Please back up data regularly just like your photo album. This app works great for home cooks tired of meal decisions, people who save many unused recipe links, families planning menus and shopping together, users with special diets and power users preferring local storage. Recipes are easy to find, but turning cravings into finished meals is hard. Private Recipe uses AI for sorting, local storage for safety, weekly plans and shopping lists for execution. It will not turn you into a chef, but keeps instructions, photos and lists ready when you decide to cook. Terms of Use (EULA): [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)
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Verdict
My Yumlog and Home Kitchen Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. My Yumlog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Home Kitchen Notes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
My Yumlog ships an update every 10 days, Home Kitchen Notes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Yumlog | Home Kitchen Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 锋 王 | Kai Yang |
In-app purchases
My Yumlog
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$12.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Home Kitchen Notes
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- 3-Month7 Days trial$1.993 Months
- 6-Month14 Days trial$4.996 Months
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- 1 Year1 Month trial$8.991 Year









