Minimate vs Kitchen Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minimate
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Minimate is an AI-powered kitchen companion designed to help people reduce food waste, stay organised, and make the most of the food they already own. Using smart receipt and food scanning technology, Minimate automatically builds a digital pantry by identifying groceries, estimating expiry dates, and organising items into categories like fridge, freezer, and cupboard. Instead of manually tracking ingredients, users can simply scan a receipt or food item and let Minimate handle the rest. As food approaches expiry, Minimate sends reminders and recommends recipes tailored to ingredients already available in the home. Whether users want quick meals, high-protein recipes, or ideas to use ingredients before they expire, Minimate helps turn forgotten groceries into practical meals. Core Features: • AI receipt scanning and pantry automation • Food item scanning and ingredient recognition • Smart expiry tracking and reminders • Personalised recipe recommendations • “Use It Soon” meal suggestions for expiring ingredients • Weekly meal planning tools • Shopping list integration • Pantry organisation by section and category • Food waste and savings insights • Saved recipes and cooking guidance • Voice and dictation-assisted food logging • “Ask Away” AI assistant for ingredient questions and food suggestions Minimate is built around the philosophy of appreciating what you already have. Rather than encouraging overconsumption, the app promotes small, sustainable habits that help users save money, waste less food, and feel more connected to the food they buy. Developed under the Love Yourz brand, Minimate combines practical kitchen tools with mindful living — helping people create smarter habits without adding complexity to everyday life. Subscription Information Minimate offers auto-renewable monthly subscriptions that provide access to premium pantry management, recipe generation, food scanning, and smart pantry insights. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sites.google.com/view/loveyourz/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/loveyourz/privacy-policy
Kitchen Plus
Manage your kitchen inventory, track food freshness, and discover recipes based on ingredients you already have. This app helps reduce food waste and plan meals efficiently, even logging calories automatically.
- Digital kitchen inventory
- Food freshness tracking
- Recipe suggestions based on ingredients
- Automatic calorie logging
- Smart shopping list
- Meal planning
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Kitchen Plus- Know what's in your kitchen. Waste less. Cook smarter. Kitchen Plus turns your fridge, freezer, and pantry into a living inventory, so you always know what you have, what's about to go off, and what to cook with it tonight. Photograph a grocery receipt and Kitchen Plus reads it, sorting every item onto the right shelf and into the right category. No typing, no spreadsheets. NEVER LOSE TRACK OF FRESHNESS Every item is tracked from the day you bought it, so Kitchen Plus can tell you what's fresh, what's ageing, and what to use soon, before it ends up in the bin. Shelf life is per food, not a rough guess by category, so a sealed can and a bag of spinach are not treated the same. RECIPES BUILT AROUND WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN Kitchen Plus matches thousands of recipes across six cuisines to the ingredients sitting in your kitchen right now, putting food that needs using first at the top. Every recipe shows exactly how many ingredients you already have, and the ones you're missing go to your shopping list in one tap. CALORIES THAT LOG THEMSELVES Because Kitchen Plus knows what came off your shelves, cooking a meal records what you ate without you typing anything. Say how many portions you had and it does the rest. Ate somewhere else? Photograph the plate, say it out loud, or type it. Every figure comes from a nutrient table rather than a guess, and the app tells you when it couldn't work something out instead of inventing a number. PLAN YOUR WEEK, NOT JUST YOUR NEXT MEAL Schedule dishes across the days ahead, adjust servings, and keep shopping and cooking in step with what you actually planned. A SMARTER SHOPPING LIST Add ingredients from any recipe in sensible quantities. Check things off as you shop and watch them land in your inventory. Scan a barcode to add a product, or save a recipe from a link or a cooking video and Kitchen Plus reads the ingredients out of it for you. SEE WHERE YOUR FOOD AND MONEY GO Track what you rescued from going to waste, what you spent, what you cooked, and how your week balanced across food groups. PRIVACY Your inventory, receipts and personal data are private to your account and protected by server-side rules. Photographs are read and stay on your phone. If you leave "Share prices anonymously" switched on, the price you paid for a grocery, the shop and the day go into a shared pool so everyone's shopping list starts at a realistic price; nothing identifying you is ever included, and you can switch it off at any time. The full privacy policy is linked below. FREE AND KITCHEN PLUS PRO Running your kitchen by hand is always free: adding groceries, barcodes, your shelves, Cook, the planner, the shopping list, Quick log and the Meals page. Kitchen Plus Pro adds everything the camera and a link can do for you: scanning receipts, adding food from a photo, calories from a meal photo, and importing recipes from videos and links. Every new account gets 7 days of Pro free, with no card required. Kitchen Plus Pro is $5.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gen-lang-client-0405315489.web.app/privacy Whether you're trying to cut down on food waste, eat better with what you already have, or just stop forgetting what's at the back of the freezer, Kitchen Plus keeps your kitchen organised and your meals one step ahead.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Kitchen Plus at every 3 days against Minimate's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, 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. Minimate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Kitchen Plus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Minimate ships an update every 2 weeks, Kitchen Plus every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimate | Kitchen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyriakos Giannarakis | Rohit Abhishek |
In-app purchases
Minimate
- Essential$2.991 Month
- Serve$5.991 Month
- Chef$9.991 Month
Kitchen Plus
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year








