Chefless vs Save Thyme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Save Thyme
This app streamlines meal planning by identifying shared ingredients across recipes, reducing shopping lists, saving money, and minimizing food waste. It allows users to share recipes, generates categorized shopping lists, and tracks pantry items to suggest meals you can already prepare.
- Shared ingredient meal planning
- Optimized shopping lists
- Pantry tracking
- Recipe sharing
- Curated recipe suggestions
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Save Thyme helps you build meal plans quickly by finding shared ingredients across recipes. Instead of 50 ingredient meal plans, Save Thyme helps you narrow down the shopping list to a more manageable size - saving you time shopping, money, and reducing food waste. SHARE YOUR FAVORITE RECIPES Share recipes you find across different blogs with Save Thyme and it will find matching recipes with shared ingredients. SHOPPING LISTS Ingredients are grouped by category with shared tags and optional tags applied. PANTRY TRACKING Track what's in your pantry and Save Thyme suggests recipes you can already make. CURATED RECIPE POOL Suggested recipes are individually selected and are sourced from popular blogs around the web. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Save Thyme at weekly against Chefless's every 2 months. Chefless's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Chefless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Save Thyme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chefless against 5.0 for Save Thyme. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chefless has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Chefless ships an update every 2 months, Save Thyme weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chefless | Save Thyme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SAHAB LLC | JON D MORTEN |
Customer experience
Chefless
Save Thyme
In-app purchases
Chefless
- Chefless Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Chefless Pro Annual$34.991 Year
Save Thyme
- Monthly Unlimited7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual Unlimited7 Days trial$39.991 Year









