Comparison

InStock Kitchen vs Yettuce

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

Yettuce

This app helps you decide what to eat by suggesting recipes or nearby restaurants. It learns your preferences over time and can manage your pantry, create shopping lists, and import recipes from various sources.

Highlights
  • AI-powered food recommendations
  • Personalized taste profile
  • Pantry inventory management
  • Recipe import from web and social media
  • Automated shopping list creation
  • Restaurant search
Features
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What do I want to eat right now? Yettuce is the app. Yetta is who you ask. She picks a recipe you want and can cook or a restaurant nearby and she gets sharper every time you eat. Eliminate decision fatigue. Let Yetta decide. ASK YETTA Talk or type. Let her be your food assistant! DAILY RECOMMENDATIONS A real pick for this window. Stay in or go out. TASTE PROFILE Yetta learns what you love. Take the Food DNA test to start faster. BROWSE OR ASK Search the catalog, or let Yetta find it. INVENTORY Manage your pantry. Cook from what you already have. IMPORT RECIPES Save from TikTok, Instagram or a blog, or add them yourself. COLLECTIONS Save recipes into collections, yourself or with Yetta. SHOPPING LISTS Build a list from a recipe, yourself or with Yetta. Buy groceries with Instacart. Yettuce Pro is optional. Free lets you start. Pro unlocks full cooking instructions, more picks, more live restaurant searches, and more imports. Privacy Policy: https://www.yettuce.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.yettuce.com/terms

Screenshots

InStock Kitchen4 screens
Yettuce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: InStock Kitchen at none against Yettuce's shown. InStock Kitchen also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Yettuce's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Yettuce sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for InStock Kitchen against 5.0 for Yettuce. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InStock Kitchen ships an update fortnightly, Yettuce every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
InStock Kitchen versus Yettuce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInStock KitchenYettuce
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndres OliverYettuce

Customer experience

InStock Kitchen

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Yettuce

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

InStock Kitchen

One-time1
  • InStock Pro$2.99
2 purchases

Yettuce

Subscriptions2
  • Yettuce Pro$9.991 Month
  • Yettuce Pro$89.991 Year

Questions

Is InStock Kitchen free?
InStock Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yettuce free?
Yettuce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InStock Kitchen or Yettuce?
InStock Kitchen and Yettuce are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do InStock Kitchen or Yettuce have ads?
Yettuce shows ads; InStock Kitchen does not.
Which is updated more often, InStock Kitchen or Yettuce?
InStock Kitchen ships an update fortnightly, and Yettuce every 5 days. Most recently, InStock Kitchen was updated on October 7, 2026 and Yettuce on October 4, 2026.

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