Comparison

Chefless vs Chefless IQ

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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Cooking Better. Together. Chefless is where home cooks save the recipes they actually make, share them with the people they actually cook for, and plan meals together in shared Kitchens. No ads. No 2,000-word essays before the recipe. No scraping the internet. Just your food, your people, and a clean way to keep it all in one place. — SAVE YOUR RECIPES THE WAY YOU COOK THEM — Add ingredients, steps, photos, and the little notes that make it yours. Sign every recipe with your handwritten signature so the people who cook from it know exactly who taught them. — SHARE OR KEEP IT PRIVATE — Every recipe is private by default. Share with a kitchen, a friend, or the world — your call. Public profile or private profile, recipe by recipe control. — FORK ANY RECIPE, MAKE IT YOURS — Found a recipe you love? Fork it, tweak it, save your version. The original cook always gets credit — their name and signature stay attached. — KITCHENS: COOK TOGETHER — Create a shared Kitchen with family, roommates, or friends. Build a weekly meal plan together. See who's cooking what. Drop in your own recipes the rest of the kitchen can pull from. — I COOKED IT — Share a quick photo of how your dish actually turned out. The recipe author sees it. Other cooks see it. Real food, real kitchens, no filters required. — PASSPORT — Cook your way around the world.ou cook a recipe from thatcuisine. Unlock regions as you go. — YEAR IN REVIEW — At the end of the year, see whawith, and the recipes thatdefined your year. — CHEFLESS PRO — • AI Recipe Helper — turn what'e, scale a dish for 12, swap aningredient you don't have • Unlimited recipes and Kitchen • Higher resolution photos • Early access to new features $5.99/month or $35.99/year. Can — BUILT FOR REAL COOKS — • Works offline — pull up a recipe in the kitchen with bad Wi-Fi • Search across every recipe yored with you • Step-by-step cooking mode that keeps your screen awake • Sign in with Apple, Google, o Chefless is built by a tiny teat sell your data, we don't runads, and we don't share your recipes with anyone you didn't choose to share them with. Questions, ideas, or feedback? admin@chefless.org — Privacy Policy: https://chefless.org/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Chefless IQ

Features
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Chefless IQ shows live cooking temperatures from wireless thermometer probes that broadcast their readings over Bluetooth. Take a probe out of its dock, open the app, and the readings appear. No account, no hub, no internet connection. • Live tip, ring, and ambient temperatures • A core reading taken from the coldest internal sensor • Trend graph across the whole cook • Several probes at once, each with its own name, color, and °F/°C • Everything stays on your device Compatible with: - Cooking probes or thermometers broadcasting data over BLE Live readings require the app to be open and in the foreground.

Screenshots

Chefless4 screens
Chefless IQ3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chefless IQ at none against Chefless's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Chefless IQ asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Chefless versus Chefless IQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheflessChefless IQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSAHAB LLCAlexander Chen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Chefless

Subscriptions2
  • Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year
None

Chefless IQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chefless free?
Chefless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chefless IQ free?
Chefless IQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chefless or Chefless IQ have ads?
Neither Chefless nor Chefless IQ shows ads.

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