CookKin vs TeaTonight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CookKin
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Some recipes are more than instructions — they're memories waiting to be saved. CookKin is your private family recipe app: a digital recipe book built to save family recipes, preserve food memories, and keep the stories behind every dish alive for the people who matter most. SAVE THE RECIPES YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE Every family has a recipe that only lives in someone's memory — a grandmother's handwriting, a voice note from Mom, or a dish nobody wrote down. CookKin gives you a permanent, private home for these recipes before they're lost for good. Save family recipes, homemade recipes and personal favorites in one digital recipe collection that's yours to keep. SHARE PRIVATELY — NOT PUBLICLY Your family recipes aren't for the whole internet. With CookKin, you choose exactly who sees what. Create private Spaces for different recipe collections and relationships, and share recipes with the people you trust — family members, close friends, whoever you choose. No public feed. No strangers. Just your people. PRESERVE RECIPES IN ANY FORMAT Recipes don't always come as neat text. CookKin lets you preserve recipes as PDFs, photos, audio recordings and videos — so a phone video of Grandma explaining her sauce, or a scanned handwritten card, can be saved exactly the way it was passed down. BUILD YOUR FAMILY'S DIGITAL COOKBOOK Organize everything into CookKin Spaces by family member, occasion or tradition. Build a digital family recipe book that grows with every generation — a recipe organizer that keeps holiday dishes, everyday meals and secret family recipes exactly where you can find them. DISCOVER NEW COOKING INSPIRATION When you're ready, explore homemade recipes and cooking ideas shared by the wider CookKin community — public discovery only when you choose to share. WHY FAMILIES CHOOSE COOKKIN • Private, secure family recipe storage • Digital recipe book and recipe repository • Save recipes as PDF, audio or video • CookKin Spaces to organize every collection • Share recipes with select family and friends • A home for the food memories, traditions and stories behind every recipe Don't let another family recipe disappear. Start your CookKin collection today — save the recipes you love, preserve the memories behind them, and share them with the people who matter. EULA Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ CookKin Terms & Condition: https://cookkin.com/terms CookKin Privacy Policy: https://cookkin.com/privacy-policy
TeaTonight
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What’s for tea tonight? Answered. All week. For whoever looks after dinner in your house. You already know what your family likes to eat, so why does it still take this much thinking? It was never the cooking. It’s the endless dinner admin: what’s tonight, what’s tomorrow, didn’t we have that yesterday, have we got everything in? TeaTonight is a weekly dinner planner for the meals you already cook, with room for something new when you fancy it. Made by a dad who does the dinners, for anyone who does too. Add meals as you plan. Each one stays here for next time, with its ingredients and steps. Every week after that, you just pick. A little planning before the shop. One less thing to decide each evening. Looking after the people who look after dinner. What it does - Start with a meal name. Add ingredients and steps when you need them. - Save your meals once. Every week after that, you just pick. - Keep recipes in collections — Quick, Veggie, One Pan, whatever suits you. - Real-life options for real weeks — Dine Out, Takeaway, Ready Meal and Leftovers. - Build a shopping list from the ingredients you’ve added to your planned meals, then send it to Apple Reminders. - See tonight’s tea when you open the app. Widgets put tonight’s meal or the week’s plan on your Home Screen. - An optional daily reminder of what’s for tea, only on days you’ve planned something. - Ask “Hey Siri, what’s for tea in TeaTonight” for tonight’s meal and its ingredients. What it isn’t No account. No feed. No food diary. No ads, tracking or analytics. No data sold. The core app is free Keep up to 24 of your own recipes and organise them into 2 collections. Your first three recipe imports are on us — no subscription needed. TeaTonight Plus - Smart import from a link or photo — the recipe types itself in, ready for you to review. - Save unlimited recipes and collections. - Plan as far ahead as you like. - Sort by Magic — one tap arranges your week, with fresh things early and no repeat dinners two nights running. - Copy a whole week’s plan to another week. - One subscription covers everyone in your Family Sharing group. TeaTonight Plus is an annual subscription with a free trial. It renews automatically unless cancelled. Designed by a parent who does the dinners. I’ve been cooking family dinners since my twin boys arrived. For years, the plan lived in a battered notebook by the hob. It was never where I needed it, which was in the shop. So I built TeaTonight: exactly the tool I wanted, and nothing I didn’t. Made with love, in England — and the approval of two very picky judges. Questions or ideas: sasha@teatonight.app Website: https://teatonight.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://teatonight.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TeaTonight at daily against CookKin's every 4 days. CookKin's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. CookKin sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and TeaTonight sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CookKin ships an update every 4 days, TeaTonight daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CookKin | TeaTonight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | COOKKIN LTD | Oleksandr Lantukh |
In-app purchases
CookKin
- Cookkin Lite Monthly$0.991 Month
- Basic$5.991 Month
- Pro$12.991 Month
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- Premium$24.991 Month
TeaTonight
- TeaTonight Plus14 Days trial$19.991 Year









