Comparison

Cooking Together vs CookDrop

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

Head to head
About

Cooking Together

Features
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Cooking Together keeps every recipe you love in one place, helps you decide what to make tonight, and lets you cook it with the people you love. SAVE ANY RECIPE, FROM ANYWHERE • Saw a recipe on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or YouTube? Share it to the app and it's saved, ingredients and steps included • Bring in recipes from any website, a photo of a cookbook page, or text you paste • Moving from another app or a folder of files? Bring your collection over on our website • Organize your recipes into folders, keep them private, or share them KNOW WHAT TO COOK TONIGHT • Dinner ideas for tonight, starting with recipes you already saved • Plan your week and turn it into a shopping list in one tap • Ask Cook AI anything: swaps, timing, "what can I make with what I have?" COOK TOGETHER • Cook the same recipe live with friends and family, each from their own kitchen • Cook several dishes at once with all your timers in one place • Cooking mode keeps your screen on and every step easy to follow MADE FOR FAMILIES • A family space with one shared shopping list everyone can add to • Can't decide on dinner? Send a quick vote and let the family pick • Keep the family's recipes together in one place GET INSPIRED • Bites: short cooking videos; tap one to get the full recipe • Follow cooks you love, join communities, and share what you made MY PLATE • Log meals by photo, from your recipes, or in a few words, and see calories and macros • Set a goal and get daily targets that fit you • Private to you, for everyday wellness, not medical advice FREE TO USE Cooking Together is free, and the free plan covers occasional recipe imports and Cook AI questions. Premium is for heavy use: import and ask as much as you cook, plus Nutrition Analysis, Smart Scaling, Ingredient Alternatives, video in Stories and hardly any ads. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hebrew and Arabic. Made for phone, tablet and iPad. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cookingtogether.app/privacy

About

CookDrop

Easily save recipes from videos, websites, photos, or text. Organize them into cookbooks, plan meals, and generate grocery lists. Recalculate ingredient amounts, convert units, and access cooking instructions in an easy-to-read format.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from videos, websites, photos, and text
  • Automatic recipe extraction and formatting
  • Adjust servings and convert units
  • Organize recipes into custom cookbooks
  • Create grocery lists from recipes
  • Meal planning functionality
  • Step-by-step cooking mode
Features
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CookDrop saves recipes from the places you find them and turns each one into a clean page you can cook from. SAVE FROM A VIDEO Found a recipe in an Instagram Reel, a TikTok, a Facebook post, a YouTube video or a Pinterest pin? Tap Share, choose CookDrop. It reads the caption, listens to what is said in the video, and writes out the title, ingredients with amounts, and numbered steps. You check the result and tap Save. SAVE FROM A WEBSITE Paste the link to any recipe page. CookDrop keeps the ingredients, steps, servings and cook time, and leaves the rest of the page behind. The source link stays on the recipe so you can open the original. SAVE FROM A PHOTO OR FROM TEXT Take a photo of a cookbook page or a handwritten card and CookDrop reads it. You can also paste recipe text from a message or a note, or write a recipe from scratch. COOK FROM IT - Change the servings and every amount is recalculated. - Switch between the original units, metric and US units. - Tick off ingredients as you add them. - Each step shows its ingredients in color, so you do not scroll back to the list. - Cook mode shows one step at a time in large type, with a timer when the step gives a time. - Estimate nutrition per serving from the ingredient list. - Ask a question about the recipe, such as what to use in place of an ingredient. KEEP IT ORGANIZED - File recipes into cookbooks you name. - Search by name, sort the list, pin the ones you make most. - Mark a recipe as cooked, give it a star rating and add a note for next time. - Put recipes on a weekly meal plan as breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack. - Add a recipe's ingredients to a grocery list sorted by aisle, and check items off as you shop. - Browse Discover when you do not know what to cook. NO ACCOUNT There is no sign-up. Your recipes are stored on your iPhone. When you save from a link, a video or a photo, that link or photo is sent to our service to be read and the recipe is sent back to your phone. FREE AND PLUS CookDrop is free for 5 saved recipes a week. Everything you have saved stays available. CookDrop Plus removes the weekly limit: - $39.99 per year after a 7-day free trial - or a 30-day trial for $1.99, then $39.99 per year - or $6.99 per month Prices are for the United States and vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://cookdropapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://cookdropapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Cooking Together4 screens
CookDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Cooking Together at 3 against CookDrop's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Together sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CookDrop sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cooking Together ships an update every 2 days, CookDrop every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cooking Together versus CookDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooking TogetherCookDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size207 MB82 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOfer GranitLearning Phase Labs Inc.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cooking Together

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$59.991 Year
7 purchases

CookDrop

Subscriptions6
  • CookDrop Plus Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • CookDrop Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • CookDrop Plus Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • CookDrop Plus Yearly Intro1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • CookDrop Plus Yearly Standard$39.991 Year
  • CookDrop Plus Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • CookDrop Plus Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Cooking Together free?
Cooking Together is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CookDrop free?
CookDrop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cooking Together or CookDrop have ads?
Both Cooking Together and CookDrop show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cooking Together or CookDrop?
Cooking Together ships an update every 2 days, and CookDrop every 4 days. Most recently, Cooking Together was updated on October 31, 2026 and CookDrop on October 31, 2026.

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