Savorist vs Scanity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Savorist
This app is a comprehensive culinary assistant that helps you discover, save, and cook recipes. It features an AI chef for personalized cooking advice, a food scanner for nutritional insights, and hands-free cooking guidance.
- Recipe catalog and discovery engine
- AI chef for personalized cooking advice
- Import recipes from links, photos, and shares
- Hands-free voice-guided Cook Mode
- Food scanner with Savorist Health Score
- Interactive Flavor Map for culinary exploration
- Customizable recipe lists
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Savorist is your complete culinary companion — recipe catalog, AI chef, cookbook, food scanner, and discovery engine, unified into one beautifully crafted experience. It's not just where you save recipes. It's where your entire food life lives. A Recipe App That Does Far More: Yes, Savorist has thousands of carefully curated recipes you can save with one tap. But that's just the beginning. Most apps stop at "recipe database." Savorist starts there. Save Anything. From Anywhere: You've been losing recipes for years — across screenshots, bookmarks, browser tabs, and saved social posts. Savorist ends that. • Import from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and any food blog. Just paste a link. • Scan any dish, menu, or cookbook page with your camera. Savorist reads it and builds the full recipe. • Share any recipe from any app on your phone directly to Savorist. In seconds, every recipe you've ever loved lives in one beautifully organized place: your Journal. Meet Savannah — Your Personal AI Chef Savorist's AI isn't a chatbot bolted onto a database. Savannah is a real cooking partner. Ask her what to make with what's in your fridge. Get an instant substitute when you're missing an ingredient. Learn what makes a sauce silky vs. grainy. Or just say, "What should I cook tonight?" She remembers the conversation, understands the context, and gives you real answers — not generic lists. Cook Hands-Free with Cook Mode When it's time to actually cook, Cook Mode takes over. Step-by-step voice-guided cooking, your screen stays on, your place is held, and you can talk back — ask Savannah a question mid-step, ask her to repeat, or request a substitute right now. No more flour-coated phones. Meet LENS — Point your camera at any packaged food and get the truth in seconds. • Scan by barcode or snap a photo of the ingredients label • Get a 0–100 Savorist Health Score and an at-a-glance tier — Great, Good, OK, Poor, or Avoid • Understand the score, never just trust it: it's a transparent composite of processing level, Nutri-Score, additives, and organic status, and we show you the full math Discover, Don't Just Search The Explore feed learns what you love. Find dishes inspired by ones you've already saved with Similar Recipes. Watch your Flavor Map grow — an interactive world map that turns your cooking life into a journey worth seeing. Search globally and instantly by cuisine, dietary preference, ingredient, or occasion. Organize Your Way Build custom Savorist Lists for every mood, season, or moment — weeknight dinners, party starters, weekend projects, food gifts. Your library, beautifully arranged. Why Savorist Is Different Other recipe apps feel like databases. AI cooking apps feel like gimmicks. Savorist is what happens when both are reimagined together — a premium recipe catalog, hands-free voice cooking, camera and link-based recipe import, a real AI companion that grows with you, a journal that finally makes sense, and a flavor map that turns cooking into a journey. Everything in one app. Nothing missing. Savorist Includes: • Curated Recipe Catalog — Beautifully designed and constantly growing • Savannah AI Chef — Conversational answers, substitutions, suggestions • Cook Mode — Hands-free, voice-guided cooking with real-time interaction • Recipe Scanner — Turn any photo into a complete recipe • Social Import — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, food blogs, anywhere • Savorist Lists — Custom collections for every cooking moment • Journal — One home for every recipe you've ever loved • Similar Recipes — AI-powered recommendations from your saved favorites • Flavor Map — A visual journey through every cuisine you cook • Global Search — Instant filtering across cuisine, diet, and ingredient Savorist. Discover it. Save it. Cook it. Premium subscription required for Cook Mode, Recipe Scanner, Social Import, Savorist Lists, unlimited AI, Similar Recipes, and Flavor Map. Free and Basic tiers available. Terms of Use: https://savorist.app/terms/
Scanity
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Read the label in one second, not one minute. Point Scanity at any grocery barcode: it resolves every additive across E-numbers, trade names, and hidden synonyms (block "Red 40" once to catch E129, Allura Red AC, and FD&C Red No. 40 across 452,000+ USDA and Open Food Facts products) and gives you a plain verdict against YOUR blocklist: Safe, Caution, or Avoid. Never an arbitrary 0–100 score, never a sponsored "healthier swap," and no account required. YOUR LIST. YOUR RULES. Other scanner apps grade food using editorial scores where an item full of seed oils or artificial dyes can still pass with a "Good" 75/100 score. Scanity puts you in complete control. If an ingredient is on your blocklist, you are alerted instantly. INTELLIGENT SYNONYM & E-NUMBER RESOLUTION Food manufacturers hide ingredients under technical aliases, numbers, and chemical synonyms. Scanity catches them all: • Red 40 = E129, Allura Red AC, FD&C Red No. 40 • MSG = E621, Monosodium Glutamate, Yeast Extract • Seed Oils = Canola, Soybean, Corn, Sunflower, Safflower, Cottonseed, Grapeseed, Rice Bran • TBHQ = E319, Tertiary Butylhydroquinone • Carrageenan = E407, Irish Moss extract INSTANT 400MS BARCODE SCANNING Built natively from the ground up for grocery aisle speed: • Point camera at any food product barcode. • Instant verdict: Safe, Caution, or Avoid. • Clear highlight on the exact ingredient that triggered the alert. 100% PRIVATE & LOCAL-FIRST • No Account Required: Open the app and start scanning immediately. • No Ads, No Tracking: We never sell your scan habits or personal blocklists to data brokers. • No Sponsored Swaps: We never promote alternative brands that paid for placement. Try Scanity free with a 7-day trial. Available as $19.99/year or $49.99 lifetime unlock. Learn more at https://scanityapp.com Terms of Use (EULA): [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Scanity at none against Savorist's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Savorist sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Scanity sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Savorist ships an update every 8 days, Scanity every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Savorist | Scanity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Coco and Rex LLC | Rubiconetic LLC |
In-app purchases
Savorist
- Monthly Basic$4.991 Month
- Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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- Annual Premium1 Month trial$59.991 Year
Scanity
- Scanity Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Scanity Pro - Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Scanity Pro Lifetime$49.99








