Comparison

Tastemaker Recipes vs Is It Vegan? Label Scanner

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

Head to head
About

Tastemaker Recipes

Record every dish and drink you prepare, complete with ratings and notes for future reference. Easily save recipes from the web or cookbooks, and generate organized shopping lists for the week. Discover your cooking habits and patterns.

Highlights
  • Log and rate every dish
  • Save recipes from web or camera
  • Generate organized shopping lists
  • Track cooking patterns and streaks
  • Cocktail mode for home bars
  • AI recipe image generation
Features
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Tastemaker is your kitchen's memory: every dish and drink you make, rated and ready for next time. TRACK WHAT YOU COOK Log each cook with a rating out of 5, what you changed, and what you'd do differently. Future-you, standing in the kitchen wondering whether that shortcut worked last time, will be grateful. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a recipe to Tastemaker straight from Safari and it lands on your to-make list with the ingredients already extracted. Cooking from a paper cookbook? Point your camera at the page and the dish imports itself. PLAN THE WEEK Flag dishes for this week, then compile every ingredient across every recipe into one tidy shopping list, organized by store section. SEE YOUR PATTERNS Cooking streaks, top-rated dishes, favorite sources, and a heatmap of every night you cooked. TASTEMAKER PRO Cocktail mode (a whole parallel universe for your home bar), compiled shopping lists, camera scanning, and AI recipe images are part of Tastemaker Pro: $2.99/month or $24.99/year after a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Core recipe tracking is free, forever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tastemaker.recipes/privacy

About

Is It Vegan? Label Scanner

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Is it vegan? Point your camera at the ingredients list and find out in seconds. No more standing in the aisle googling one ingredient at a time. Is It Vegan? is a vegan food scanner that reads the label for you and explains what is actually in the box. HOW IT WORKS Open the scanner, fit the ingredients list inside the frame, and tap. You get a verdict on the product and on every single ingredient: • 100% Vegan - nothing of animal origin • Very Likely Vegan - almost always plant-based, occasionally not • Suspicious - could go either way depending on the manufacturer • Not Vegan - animal-derived WHAT IT CATCHES Animal products hide behind chemical names. Carmine is crushed insects. Casein and whey are milk. Shellac comes from a beetle. L-cysteine can come from feathers. Gelatin, isinglass, lanolin, cochineal, lactose - the app knows them, and explains each one in plain English, so you learn as you shop. It also flags the genuinely ambiguous ones instead of guessing. Natural flavours and mono- and diglycerides can be vegan or not depending on the producer, and you deserve to be told that rather than given false confidence. QUICK AND QUIET • No ads. Anywhere. Ever. • No account, no sign-up, no email address • Your photos are never stored - the image is read and discarded • Works on packaged products worldwide, including multilingual labels GOOD FOR Vegans and vegetarians, anyone avoiding dairy, eggs, gelatin or other animal ingredients, people shopping for a vegan friend or family member, and anyone who just wants to know what they are eating. FREE AND PRO Free: 5 ingredient scans per day. Pro: 100 scans per day. Cancel anytime. Price shown in the app. ONE HONEST NOTE The app reads labels with AI, and AI can be wrong. It can misread faint print or miss a line that is cut off. Treat it as a fast, well-informed second opinion rather than a guarantee. If a product really matters to you, read the label yourself too. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://isitvegan.billionventures.org/privacy

Screenshots

Tastemaker Recipes4 screens
Is It Vegan? Label Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Is It Vegan? Label Scanner at 15.0 against Tastemaker Recipes's 17.0. 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. Tastemaker Recipes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Is It Vegan? Label Scanner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tastemaker Recipes ships an update every 2 weeks, Is It Vegan? Label Scanner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tastemaker Recipes versus Is It Vegan? Label Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTastemaker RecipesIs It Vegan? Label Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB27 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJACOB GALGINAITIS BARRETTBillion Ventures LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tastemaker Recipes

Subscriptions2
  • Tastemaker Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Tastemaker Pro — Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
1 purchases

Is It Vegan? Label Scanner

Subscriptions1
  • Is It Vegan? Pro$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Tastemaker Recipes free?
Tastemaker Recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Is It Vegan? Label Scanner free?
Is It Vegan? Label Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tastemaker Recipes or Is It Vegan? Label Scanner have ads?
Neither Tastemaker Recipes nor Is It Vegan? Label Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tastemaker Recipes or Is It Vegan? Label Scanner?
Tastemaker Recipes ships an update every 2 weeks, and Is It Vegan? Label Scanner weekly. Most recently, Tastemaker Recipes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Is It Vegan? Label Scanner on October 9, 2026.

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