Comparison

Chefless vs KitchenKeepsake

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

Head to head
About

Chefless

Save, share, and plan meals with friends and family. Organize your personal recipes with notes and signatures, and collaborate on meal plans in shared kitchens. Explore global cuisines and track your cooking year.

Highlights
  • Save personal recipes with notes and signatures
  • Share recipes privately or publicly
  • Fork and modify existing recipes
  • Collaborate on meal plans in shared Kitchens
  • Track cooking progress and year in review
  • Offline recipe access
  • AI Recipe Helper (Pro feature)
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Chefless keeps the recipes you cook, helps you plan your meals, and turns that plan into a shopping list. Use it on your own or with the people you cook for. Bring in recipes from anywhere Paste a link from a recipe website, or from a public social media post with the recipe in its caption. You can also paste the recipe text, or take photos of a cookbook page, a screenshot, or a handwritten card, up to four pages at a time. You check each recipe before you save it. Chefless marks anything unclear for you to look at and leaves a missing amount blank for you to fill in. Keep recipes the way you like them A recipe can hold up to five photos, ingredients, steps, cooking times, servings, and tags for diet, cuisine, and meal. You decide whether each recipe is private or shared. Sign your recipes in your own handwriting and group them into cookbooks. You can also make your own version of another cook's recipe, called a remix, and their name stays on it as the original. Plan meals together in a Kitchen A Kitchen is a shared space where your household plans meals and shops together. Everyone sees the same meal calendar. Members suggest meals, and the Kitchen lead, or someone the lead chooses, approves them. Members can say whether they are coming to a meal, and the lead can tell everyone the food is ready with one tap. People join with an invite code, and your private recipes stay visible only to you. Plan the week and shop once Look at your plan by week, month, or year, and give each planned meal its own number of servings. Make one shopping list from your plan or your Kitchen's plan for the days you pick, and Chefless adds repeated ingredients together. When the plan changes, update the list. It keeps the items you checked and the things you added yourself. Cook mode Cook mode shows you one step at a time. Start a timer and Chefless alerts you when it finishes, as long as you allow notifications. The amounts follow the servings you choose and can show in metric or imperial units, and your screen stays on while you cook. Find something new to cook Follow other cooks and see what they make. Browse For You, Trending, Friends, and Seasonal, or search by cuisine, dietary need, meal, and cooking time. Chefless lists cuisines from your part of the world first, using the region setting on your phone. Comment on recipes, post a photo of a dish you made, and rate the recipes you cook. Your passport collects a stamp for each cuisine you cook. Your language and your privacy Chefless works in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Spanish. You can make your account and your recipes private, and report a recipe, comment, or profile that should not be there. You can also delete your account and its data from Settings. You will not see ads. Free and Chefless Premium A free account includes up to five recipes (your own and saved ones together), one remix, one cookbook, planning from two days before today to two days after, and a Kitchen with up to two members. Cook mode, shopping lists, following other cooks, and the passport cost nothing. Chefless Premium gives you unlimited recipes, remixes, and cookbooks, the full calendar, and unlimited members in a Kitchen you lead. You also get the AI Recipe Helper to write a recipe from ingredients you have, suggest swaps for a dietary need, or turn rough notes into a tidy recipe. It shares a limit of 20 uses a day with imports that read a photo, a caption, or pasted text. Pantry and Cook What I Have show you the recipes you can make with what is in your kitchen, and a chef hat badge appears on your profile. Chefless Premium costs $5.99 a month or $34.99 a year. Your subscription renews until you cancel it. To stop the next charge, cancel in your account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Questions or ideas: admin@chefless.org Privacy Policy: https://chefless.org/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

KitchenKeepsake

Digitize and organize your family's cherished recipes. Easily add recipes by photo, link, or typing, then sort, star, and search them. Share your digital cookbook with family members and ensure your culinary traditions are preserved and passed down.

Highlights
  • Digitize recipes via photo, link, or typing
  • Organize with categories and starring
  • Search by name or ingredient
  • Family sharing for collaborative cookbooks
  • Automatic iCloud backup and sync
  • Recipe scaling (half/double portions)
Features
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Every family has recipes worth keeping. The card in Grandma's handwriting, the dinner everyone asks for, the cookies you only make at Christmas. Kitchen Keepsake gives all of them a home so they stop getting lost in a drawer or buried in a group text. Add a recipe whatever way is easiest for you. Take a photo of a page from a cookbook and the app reads it in for you. Paste a link and it pulls in the title, the picture, and the ingredients. Or just type it the regular way. However it gets there, you can clean it up before you save it. Make it your own. Sort recipes into colorful categories, star the ones you love, and find anything in seconds by name or by ingredient. Cook together. Set up a family and everyone sees the same cookbook. When your mom adds her banana bread, it shows up for the whole family, photos and all. Stop losing recipes. Everything stays backed up in your own iCloud and syncs across your devices, so you are covered even if you lose your phone. One price, no subscription. Start free with up to ten recipes. Pay once to unlock unlimited recipes and family sharing, and it is yours for good. It works with Family Sharing too, so a single purchase covers your whole household. Want to cut a recipe in half, or double it? The app handles that with the click of a button. Save the food your family loves, and pass it on.

Screenshots

Chefless4 screens
KitchenKeepsake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chefless at 16.0 against KitchenKeepsake's 18.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Chefless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and KitchenKeepsake sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chefless against 5.0 for KitchenKeepsake. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chefless ships an update every 3 weeks, KitchenKeepsake every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chefless versus KitchenKeepsake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheflessKitchenKeepsake
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSAHAB LLCGEORGE HENRY REMY

Customer experience

Chefless

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

KitchenKeepsake

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Chefless

Subscriptions2
  • Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year
1 purchases

KitchenKeepsake

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$4.99

Questions

Is Chefless free?
Chefless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KitchenKeepsake free?
KitchenKeepsake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chefless or KitchenKeepsake?
Chefless and KitchenKeepsake are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Chefless or KitchenKeepsake have ads?
Neither Chefless nor KitchenKeepsake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chefless or KitchenKeepsake?
Chefless ships an update every 3 weeks, and KitchenKeepsake every 5 weeks. Most recently, Chefless was updated on October 1, 2026 and KitchenKeepsake on October 2, 2026.

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