Comparison

CookKin vs TeaTonight

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

Head to head
About

CookKin

Features
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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

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TeaTonight

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What’s for tea tonight? Answered. All week. You already know what your family likes to eat. So why does dinner 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? TeaTonight is a weekly dinner planner for the meals you already cook — with room for something new when you fancy it. Add meals as you plan. Each one stays here for next time, along with any ingredients and steps you’ve saved. A little planning before the shop. One less thing to decide each evening. What it does - Start with a meal name. Add ingredients and steps when you need them. - Once your meals are saved, plan seven nights in about five minutes. - 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 calorie counting. 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. Made by a parent, not a product team 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

Screenshots

CookKin4 screens
TeaTonight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TeaTonight at daily against CookKin's weekly. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CookKin ships an update weekly, TeaTonight daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
CookKin versus TeaTonight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCookKinTeaTonight
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOOKKIN LTDOleksandr Lantukh

In-app purchases

None

CookKin

No in-app purchases

None

TeaTonight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CookKin free?
CookKin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TeaTonight free?
TeaTonight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CookKin or TeaTonight have ads?
Neither CookKin nor TeaTonight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CookKin or TeaTonight?
CookKin ships an update weekly, and TeaTonight daily. Most recently, CookKin was updated on October 14, 2026 and TeaTonight on October 10, 2026.

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