Comparison

Cooking Mamam vs GoodEats

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Mamam

Track your home cooking savings and discover personalized recipes. Get hands-free voice guidance for cooking and plan your weekly meals. Earn rewards for your culinary efforts.

Highlights
  • Savings tracking for home-cooked meals
  • AI-powered personalized recipes
  • Hands-free voice-guided cooking
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Recipe import from web
  • Reward stamps for treats
Features
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Every meal you cook is money you keep. MAMAM tracks what you save every time you cook at home instead of ordering out. Log a meal, see your savings, watch your total grow. That $34 you just saved? It's real — and it adds up faster than you think. TRACK YOUR SAVINGS Every home-cooked meal earns you savings. MAMAM compares your meal to the equivalent from a restaurant or delivery app and adds the difference to your running total. Cook a stir fry, save $30. Make a curry, save $28. Seeing the real number turns everyday cooking into something you actually want to keep doing. EARN STAMPS, TREAT YOURSELF Fill your stamp book, then treat yourself to something you love — a coffee, dessert, or a nice dinner out. You earned it. The reward loop makes cooking feel like winning. COOK HANDS-FREE WITH VOICE GUIDANCE Follow step-by-step instructions without touching your phone. MAMAM walks you through every recipe at your own pace — just say "next step" and keep cooking. No sticky fingers on the screen. PLAN YOUR WEEK IN MINUTES Fill your week with meals ahead of time. No more 6pm panic about what's for dinner. See everything at a glance and know exactly what to buy at the store. AI-POWERED RECIPES Tell MAMAM what you're craving and what's in your fridge. Get a complete recipe — ingredients, steps, and cost estimate — personalized to your dietary preferences and skill level. Great for nights when you want something different but have no idea where to start. IMPORT RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE Found a recipe online? Import it straight into MAMAM with a URL. Cook from any source, track any meal. FREE TO DOWNLOAD Core features — savings tracking, meal logging, step-by-step recipes — are free forever. Upgrade to Solo ($2.99/month) for AI-powered recipe generation and voice-guided cooking. Family plan ($4.99/month) extends everything to up to 5 people via Apple Family Sharing. Your data stays on your device. Voice is processed entirely on-device. AI features require explicit consent before any data is shared. Terms of Use (EULA): https://cooking.mamamfood.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://cooking.mamamfood.com/privacy

About

GoodEats

This app helps you track restaurants and other places you've visited or want to go. You can rate places and dishes, scan menus, and view your saved locations on a map. It's designed for privacy with no account or ads.

Highlights
  • Two shelves: 'Been' and 'Want to go'
  • Rate places and individual dishes
  • Scan menus and delivery app screenshots
  • View saved places on a color-coded map
  • Log visit history
  • Save places from other map apps
Features
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GoodEats is the fastest way to remember the places that matter to you. Like Goodreads, but for restaurants, cafes, parks, and anywhere else you go. TWO SHELVES. "Been" for places you've visited, "Want to go" for places you're saving. Move places between them with a swipe. RATE IT YOUR WAY. A simple 1 to 5 stars, plus notes on what you loved. Rate individual dishes too, so you never forget what to order. SCAN THE MENU. Point your camera at a menu (or a delivery-app screenshot) and pick out dishes to track, all processed on your device. SEE IT ON A MAP. Every place you've saved, color-coded by status, with your ratings at a glance. LOG YOUR VISITS. Keep a history of when you went and how it was. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE. Share a place from Apple Maps or Google Maps straight into GoodEats. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. No account. No tracking. No ads. Your data lives on your phone and in your personal iCloud. Nowhere else. Export everything as JSON whenever you like.

Screenshots

Cooking Mamam4 screens
GoodEats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoodEats at none against Cooking Mamam's 7. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cooking Mamam sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. GoodEats asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cooking Mamam against 5.0 for GoodEats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cooking Mamam versus GoodEats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking MamamGoodEats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYosika Life Quest LLCGorish Aggarwal

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Cooking Mamam

Subscriptions4
  • Solo Plan$2.991 Month
  • Family Plan$4.991 Month
  • Solo Plan (Annual)$24.991 Year
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  • Family Plan (Annual)$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • 100 Credits$1.99
  • 300 Credits$4.99
  • 750 Credits$9.99
None

GoodEats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cooking Mamam free?
Cooking Mamam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoodEats free?
GoodEats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cooking Mamam or GoodEats?
Cooking Mamam and GoodEats are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cooking Mamam or GoodEats have ads?
Neither Cooking Mamam nor GoodEats shows ads.

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