Comparison

Trepo vs Thyme

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

Head to head
About

Trepo

Manage your kitchen inventory, plan meals based on what you have, and track your nutrition effortlessly. This app acts as your AI food assistant, helping you reduce waste and shop smarter.

Highlights
  • Inventory management
  • AI meal planning
  • Nutrition tracking via photo
  • Smart grocery lists
  • Waste tracking
  • Recipe suggestions
Features
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(From the makers of the Trepo smart kitchen magnet) Stop managing your kitchen across five different apps. Trepo knows what's in your fridge, what you eat, what you waste, and exactly what to do next - all in one place, for free. How it works: 1. Add your groceries to your Trepo inventory 2. Ask Trepo what to cook, buy, track, or skip 3. Scan meals for instant nutrition and macros Features: USE WHAT YOU HAVE Trepo builds meal plans around the food already in your kitchen. No more generic recipe libraries - cook smarter with what you own. ASK TREPO Your AI food assistant is always ready. Ask what you can make tonight, what's about to expire, how many calories were in that meal, or what you should buy this week. Just ask. KNOW YOUR NUTRITION Snap a photo of any meal and get an instant breakdown of calories, macros, and nutrients. Log food effortlessly and stay on track with your health goals or prescribed diet. SMART GROCERY LISTS Trepo sees what you're running low on, what your meal plan needs, and what you've been wasting - then builds your grocery list automatically. No more mental math at the store. TRACK WHAT YOU WASTE See exactly what gets thrown away and why. Trepo helps you spot patterns, shop smarter, and stop spending money on food you don't use. ONE APP. EVERYTHING. Replace your meal planner, grocery list, macro tracker, inventory manager, and recipe app - all with Trepo. One subscription. Actually, free. If you have any ideas or questions, please email us at founders@trepo.ai Download Trepo and take control of your kitchen.

About

Thyme

Save recipes from websites and social media into a clean, organized digital cookbook. Features include a cooking mode with large text and timers, a "Up Next" queue for meal planning, and home screen widgets for easy access. Your recipes are private and stored on your device or iCloud.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from websites and social media
  • Organized recipe format with checklists and steps
  • Cook Mode with large text and timers
  • Up Next cooking queue
  • Home screen widgets
  • Private storage on device and iCloud
Features
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See a recipe worth keeping? Send it to Thyme. Share from a cooking website, Instagram, TikTok, Apple Notes, or another supported app. Thyme turns it into a clean recipe with ingredients, directions, and a photo when you're ready to cook. No sign-up. No account. Everything you save lives on your device and your own iCloud, and your cookbook never locks. YOUR COOKBOOK, BEAUTIFULLY KEPT Recipes arrive clean and organized: ingredients as a checklist, directions as steps, photos included. Add your own notes right on the recipe. Scale servings up or down. Moving from another recipe app? Import your whole collection in one file. SHARE A RECIPE Some recipes are too good to keep to yourself. Send a recipe to a friend or group chat and it arrives as a beautiful card, photo and all. One tap adds it to their cookbook. Tags travel too, so you can even start a family recipe collection together. RECIPE TRANSLATE Found a recipe in German, Spanish, Italian, or almost any language? Thyme translates it right on your phone, and the original is always one tap away. COOK MODE Big type for busy hands, step timers, and a screen that stays awake while you cook. UP NEXT Tap the fork and knife on any recipe to add it to your cooking queue. It’s a loose plan for the week without the meal-planning homework. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Rediscover an old favorite with Recipe of the Day, or jump back into something you recently viewed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up and no Thyme account. Your cookbook is stored on your devices and syncs through your private iCloud. FREE AND FAIR Keep up to 100 recipes free. Upgrade to Thyme Pro for an unlimited cookbook, with annual and one-time options available. Thyme is an independent app designed and built in California. Your support keeps the stove on. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Trepo4 screens
Thyme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trepo at none against Thyme's 2. Trepo also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days) and ratings volume (56 vs 9). Thyme's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Thyme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $20.00 per year. Trepo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Trepo against 5.0 for Thyme. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trepo has 56 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trepo ships an update every 4 days, Thyme every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Trepo versus Thyme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrepoThyme
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (56 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew TaylorThyme Mobile, LLC

Customer experience

Trepo

All ratings52 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Thyme

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Trepo

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Thyme

Subscriptions1
  • Thyme Pro$20.001 Year
One-time1
  • Thyme Pro Lifetime$45.00

Questions

Is Trepo free?
Trepo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thyme free?
Thyme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trepo or Thyme?
Thyme is rated higher. Trepo averages 4.9 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Thyme averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Trepo or Thyme have ads?
Trepo shows ads; Thyme does not.
Which is updated more often, Trepo or Thyme?
Trepo ships an update every 4 days, and Thyme every 11 days. Most recently, Trepo was updated on October 28, 2026 and Thyme on October 24, 2026.

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