Comparison

InStock Kitchen vs Ice Studio

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

Head to head
About

InStock Kitchen

Turn your existing groceries into delicious meals with smart inventory tracking and recipe suggestions. Scan items, get freshness estimates, and follow recipes hands-free. Enjoy a privacy-first experience with no accounts or ads.

Highlights
  • Smart grocery inventory
  • Recipe matching
  • Hands-free Cook Mode
  • Barcode scanning
  • AI Photo Scan (Pro)
  • Custom recipe import (Pro)
  • Private iCloud sync
Features
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Cook from the food already in your kitchen. InStock Kitchen helps you see what you have, what to use first, and what you can cook now. Add groceries with Photo Scan, barcode scanning, or manual entry. Track freshness, build aisle-organized shopping lists, and match your kitchen with 233 built-in recipes. RUN YOUR KITCHEN - What Can I Make? shows meals ready now and close matches that need only a few items. - Smart Inventory highlights ingredients to use first and estimates freshness. - Cook Mode keeps step-by-step directions easy to follow while the screen stays awake. - Shopping List groups items by aisle, includes a Household section, and offers Shop Mode for grocery trips. - Share recipes with friends by link. MEAL PLANNING — INSTOCK PRO Plan up to 14 days of meals and get suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks. Review your plan, choose different recipes, and add missing ingredients to your shopping list. ON YOUR APPLE DEVICES - Private iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. - A companion app for your paired Apple Watch shows your shopping list, ready-to-cook recipes, and Cook Mode steps on your wrist. - Siri and Shortcuts integration. INSTOCK PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE - Multi-item Photo Scan. - Browse the full built-in recipe catalog. - Create, import, edit, and share custom recipes from a URL, pasted text, a photo, or the Share Sheet. - Saved lists, reusable templates, trip history, and Buy Again. Pro includes three online Photo Scans and three online recipe imports each day. Optional consumable credit packs add more uses after either daily allowance is exhausted. Purchased credits do not expire. No subscription. No recurring charge. YOUR PRIVACY - No account required, no ads, and no cross-app tracking. - Your content is not sold, used for advertising, or used to train models. - Inventory, recipes, and lists sync through your private iCloud database. - Privacy Mode keeps supported photo and recipe processing on your device after the optional on-device model is downloaded. With Privacy Mode off, selected photos or recipe text are securely processed by InStock Kitchen's service to deliver the requested feature. Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Stock. Scan. Savor. Cook what you already have and waste less.

About

Ice Studio

Features
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Your ingredients. Your recipe. Your ice cream. Create ice cream recipes that match your taste, the ingredients you have on hand, and your ice cream maker. Instead of simply collecting ready-made recipes, the app guides you through the entire process: choose an ice cream style, select a flavor and your preferred level of sweetness, then specify which ingredients you want to use. Based on your choices, the app creates a calculated recipe draft tailored to you, which you can adjust and refine at any time. Develop ice cream recipes with confidence The guided recipe designer helps you build your recipe even without prior experience. The app explains why certain ingredients are suggested, which alternatives are available, and what changes when you leave an ingredient out. Experienced ice cream makers can create recipes entirely manually and review every technical value in detail. More than an ingredient list The app calculates, among other things: • water, fat, and sugar • milk solids and total solids • sweetness and freezing behavior • PAC and POD values • estimated serving temperature • energy and other recipe metrics The most important results are summarized in clear language. Technical values and detailed target ranges remain available at all times. Step by step to finished ice cream The preparation view guides you with: • automatically scaled ingredient quantities • clearly organized ingredient groups and preparation phases • clear preparation steps • checklists • important processing notes You can resume a preparation session even after an interruption. Your recipes stay on your iPhone No registration or user account is required. Your recipes, custom ingredients, and personal settings are stored locally on your device. They are not automatically uploaded to our servers, published, or shared with other users. Your recipes stay yours. Don’t just create any ice cream recipe. Create your ice cream. Legal Information Privacy Policy: https://icestudio.peafe.com/datenschutz Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

InStock Kitchen4 screens
Ice Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: InStock Kitchen at 18.6 against Ice Studio's 26.5. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. InStock Kitchen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ice Studio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InStock Kitchen ships an update every 2 weeks, Ice Studio every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
InStock Kitchen versus Ice Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInStock KitchenIce Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size203 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndres OliverpeAfe GbR

In-app purchases

1 purchases

InStock Kitchen

One-time1
  • InStock Pro$2.99
2 purchases

Ice Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$12.991 Year

Questions

Is InStock Kitchen free?
InStock Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ice Studio free?
Ice Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do InStock Kitchen or Ice Studio have ads?
Neither InStock Kitchen nor Ice Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InStock Kitchen or Ice Studio?
InStock Kitchen ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ice Studio every 3 weeks. Most recently, InStock Kitchen was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ice Studio on October 3, 2026.

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