Comparison

Cocooko vs Zeste

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

Head to head
About

Cocooko

Organize your favorite recipes into personalized cookbooks. Easily import recipes, add personal notes, and share your creations with others. You can also manage shopping lists and calculate nutritional information.

Highlights
  • Create and edit recipes
  • Import recipes from photos/files
  • Organize recipes in one place
  • Create personalized cookbooks
  • Add photos and customize layout
  • Manage shopping lists and meal plans
  • Calculate nutritional information
Features
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Cocooko turns your recipes into memories to pass down. Bring together all your favourite recipes, easily import them from photos or social media, add your personal tips and create your own cookbooks to keep, share or give as gifts. With Cocooko, you can: • create and edit your recipes • import recipes from photos or files • organise all your recipes in one place • create a personalised cookbook, on your own or together with others • add your photos and customise the layout • have your cookbook printed to keep or give as a gift • share your recipes and projects with loved ones • manage your shopping lists and weekly meal plans • calculate nutritional information for your own recipes Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Zeste

Easily save and organize recipes from social media, blogs, and even photos of cookbooks. This app extracts ingredients and steps, offering a dedicated cooking mode and meal planning tools. It helps you finally cook those dishes you discover online.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from social media links
  • Extract ingredients and steps automatically
  • Organize recipes into digital cookbooks
  • Dedicated cooking mode with large instructions
  • Meal planning and automatic grocery list generation
  • Share recipes with friends and family
Features
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Zeste turns the recipes you scroll past on social media into clear recipe cards, ready to cook. You save reels on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, then lose them in your saved posts? Paste the link: Zeste finds the ingredients, the quantities and the steps. No screenshots, no rewinding the video. TRY IT WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT • Paste a link or open the sample recipe on first launch • The full recipe shows up before you sign up • Keep it in one tap with Apple, Google or your email ADD RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE • Instagram, TikTok (videos and photo carousels), YouTube Shorts, Facebook, Pinterest and food blogs • Share straight from the original app, or paste one or several links • Snap a cookbook page or a handwritten recipe, up to 10 pages • PDF, text file or plain copy and paste AN AI THAT ACTUALLY WATCHES THE VIDEO • Caption, voice-over and on-screen text • Ingredients with their quantities, written like in a cookbook • Clear steps, one action at a time • Estimated calories and macros per serving • Recipe translated into your language, with your units YOUR RECIPE BOOK • All your recipes in one place, sorted into cookbooks • Search, favourites, filters (quick, vegetarian, never cooked…) and cookbooks that fill themselves • Your allergies and diet flagged on every recipe • Quantities scaled to the number of people, rounded the way cooks do COOKING MODE • Big instructions, step by step, with that step's ingredients at hand • Screen stays on while you cook • Timers started from the steps, still running when the app is closed • The countdown on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island • “I cooked this”: rate the dish and add your photo FOOD PROCESSOR MODE • Thermomix TM7, TM6, TM5, Monsieur Cuisine, Moulinex Companion or Cookeo • Quantities in grams, and a version of the steps with time, temperature and speed for your machine WITH YOUR HOUSEHOLD AND FRIENDS • A household that shares cookbooks, the week's meal plan and the shopping list • Send a recipe to your friends or share it with a link MEAL PLAN & SHOPPING • Weekly meal plan and meal reminders • Shopping list built for you, sorted by aisle • Store mode: one aisle at a time, works with no signal • Pantry staples (salt, oil, flour…) set aside • Home screen widgets: tonight's menu and your shopping list ZESTE PRO • Unlimited imports: links, videos, photos, texts and files • Chef Zeste: a chef that invents recipes just for you • Magic Fridge: dish ideas with what's left in your fridge • 7-day free trial for a first subscription PRICING • Free: every week, 5 video or link imports, 2 photos, 10 texts and 10 files • Zeste Pro: monthly or yearly subscription • The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions on your iPhone Zeste is made in France, for everyone who finds their recipes on social media and finally wants to cook them for real. Questions or ideas: zeste.cooking/contact Terms of use: https://zeste.cooking/cgu Privacy policy: https://zeste.cooking/confidentialite

Screenshots

Cocooko4 screens
Zeste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cocooko at 100% against Zeste's 67%. Zeste's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cocooko sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Zeste sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cocooko ships an update every 3 weeks, Zeste every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Cocooko versus Zeste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCocookoZeste
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB86 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAD CONSEILRobin Couet

Customer experience

Cocooko

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Zeste

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cocooko

Subscriptions2
  • Cocooko Premium mensuel$4.991 Month
  • Cocooko Premium annuel$44.991 Year
2 purchases

Zeste

Subscriptions2
  • Zeste Pro — Mensuel7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Zeste Pro — Annuel7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Cocooko free?
Cocooko is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zeste free?
Zeste is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cocooko or Zeste have ads?
Both Cocooko and Zeste show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cocooko or Zeste?
Cocooko ships an update every 3 weeks, and Zeste every 5 days. Most recently, Cocooko was updated on November 7, 2026 and Zeste on November 5, 2026.

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