Ohako vs Home Kitchen Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Ohako
Organize all your recipes in one digital cookbook. Easily add recipes by photo or URL, with AI assistance for analysis and translation. Create shopping lists, share with family, and track your cooking progress.
- AI recipe analysis from photos/URLs
- Automatic recipe translation
- Categorized shopping lists
- Family recipe sharing
- Cooking journey tracking
- Weekly cooking reminders
- Search by recipe or ingredient
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"Where did I save that recipe?" โ never again. Collect scattered recipes into one place. Snap a photo, AI creates the recipe. Perfect your cooking with Ohako. No account needed to get started. Open the app and start recording recipes, running AI analysis, and building your shopping list right away. Sign up later when you want to publish, like, or share with family โ your recipes carry over seamlessly. โ Start Without an Account Recording, AI analysis, shopping list, and cooking logs work from the moment you open the app. Sign up later with email, Apple, or Google for community features โ every recipe stays with you. โ Record Recipes Beautifully - Add multiple photos per recipe - Manage ingredients and quantities at a glance - Organize ingredients with headers (e.g. "Seasonings," "Main Ingredients") - Record step-by-step cooking instructions - Track cooking time, servings, and tastiness (5-star rating) - Categorize with tags (Japanese, Western, Chinese, Main, Side, etc.) โ Easy Registration with AI Paste a URL or photo and AI analyzes the recipe automatically. Websites, recipe services, handwritten notes, and cookbook photos all work. Foreign recipes are translated automatically. โ Shopping List Add ingredients from any recipe with a single tap. Items are sorted into categories โ vegetables, meat, seafood, seasonings โ and identical items merge quantities automatically. Share the list with notes and source recipes included. โ Family Sharing Share recipes with your family or people you cook with. Create a family group with an invite code and share your favorite recipes privately. Check the latest cooking activity on the timeline. โ Cooking Journey Record photos and notes every time you cook the same dish, and look back from your first attempt to your latest. Review cards show your progress. โ Cook Mode Tap "Start Cooking" on a recipe to see each step one at a time in large text. The screen stays awake while you cook. On iPad, an ingredient checklist sits alongside the steps. โ Kitchen Report (Pro) Your cooking count, streaks, genre trends, monthly activity, and most-cooked recipes โ all in clean charts. Switch between this month, 3 months, 1 year, and all time. โ Weekly Reminder A gentle notification every Sunday at 8:30 PM to look back on this week's dishes. Build the habit of saving what you cooked. Toggle anytime in settings. โ Search by Recipe Name or Ingredient Search recipes not only by name but also by ingredient. Finds what you're looking for quickly and easily. โ Organize with Folders Classify and manage recipes by folder. Create your own categories like "Weekday Quick Meals" or "Party Dishes." โ Discover Your Signatures Mark dishes you've mastered as your "Signature." Your list of signature dishes grows naturally. Track how many times you've cooked with the "Made It!" button. โ Community Signatures Share your signature recipes and discover other users' dishes for inspiration. A New Recipes section highlights just-shared dishes, and likes you receive show on your recipe list. Copy any recipe and make it your own. โ Favorite Chefs Browse a user's profile to see all their signature dishes and add them to your Favorites for quick access. โ Like Rankings Popular recipes ranked by likes, in a cookbook-style layout: photos, ingredients, and steps. โ Made for iPad View list and details side by side in two panes. Organize with drag and drop, plus keyboard shortcuts and trackpad support. โ Multi-Language Support Available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified), following your device language. AI results appear in your language too. โ Pro Plan 10 photos per recipe, 100 AI analyses per month, Kitchen Report, recipe image export, unlimited family groups, and more. Choose between the monthly plan or the annual plan (~17% off, 2 months free). First-time users get a 2-week free trial. Terms of Use: https://legal.ohakomeshi.app/#terms Privacy Policy: https://legal.ohakomeshi.app/#privacy
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, โWhat Should I Cook Today?โ 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
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ohako at every 3 days against Home Kitchen Notes's every 3 weeks. Ohako also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Ohako sells 2 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.
Ohako ships an update every 3 days, Home Kitchen Notes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ohako | Home Kitchen Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michiru Seki | Kai Yang |
In-app purchases
Ohako
- Pro Plan14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pro Plan (Annual)14 Days trial$22.991 Year
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









