伴厨 vs StepChef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
伴厨
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伴厨是一款管理冰箱食材并推荐家常菜的 app。扫描超市小票或拍照食材可以录入冰箱，食材按类别归档，临期的优先显示。根据冰箱里现有的食材，伴厨会推荐当下能做的家常菜，每道菜谱都包含食材分量、火候、烹饪时间和分步说明。
StepChef
This kitchen assistant uses AI to generate recipes and guide you through cooking with voice commands. It breaks down recipes into manageable steps, allowing for hands-free operation. Save your favorite dishes to a digital family recipe book.
- AI recipe generation
- Hands-free voice control
- Step-by-step cooking guidance
- Digital family recipe book
- Clean kitchen-friendly interface
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StepChef is a simple, practical kitchen assistant for cooking without constantly flipping back and forth through a recipe. Powered by large language models, StepChef can turn ideas into clear recipes, break cooking into practical tasks, and guide you through prep, timing, and each next step. When your hands are wet, busy, or covered in flour, use your voice to confirm a task or move forward. Key features: - Generate clear, actionable recipes with AI - Break prep, seasoning, cooking, waiting, and plating into ordered steps - Confirm tasks and move to the next step by voice - Save dishes you have cooked into a family recipe book - Revisit family favorites when you do not know what to cook - A clean interface designed for real kitchen use StepChef turns recipes into calm, manageable kitchen steps. Spend less time searching and more time cooking with confidence. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 伴厨 at none against StepChef's 2. 伴厨 also leads on device support (3 vs 1). StepChef's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. StepChef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. 伴厨 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 伴厨 against 5.0 for StepChef. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
伴厨 ships an update every 10 days, StepChef every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 伴厨 | StepChef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yijing Zhao | Li Wei |
Customer experience
伴厨
StepChef
In-app purchases
伴厨
No in-app purchases
StepChef
- StepChef Membership Monthly$0.991 Month
- StepChef Membership Yearly$9.991 Year
