Comparison

TeAvon vs Obento

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

Head to head
About

TeAvon

Effortlessly save, translate, and organize recipes from any source into a shared digital cookbook. Discover new dishes, create shopping lists, and cook together with family, even offline.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from web, social media, photos
  • Automatic recipe translation (41 languages)
  • Shared household cookbooks
  • Integrated shopping list
  • Offline access
  • Discover trending recipes
Features
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Every recipe, in your language, on every phone in your household. Save recipes from social media, any recipe website, or photos of printed and handwritten family cards. TeAvon reads them all, extracts the recipe, translates it into your language, and saves it to a cookbook your whole household shares. PASTE. TRANSLATE. COOK TOGETHER. From link to cookbook in under a minute. Watch the recipe write itself onto the screen: title, ingredients, steps. Then discover what to cook next and shop for it, all in the same app. ONE BOX, EVERY SOURCE Videos, recipe websites, or a photo of a handwritten card. You never leave the paste box. You can also write recipes yourself with the built-in editor. TRANSLATION BUILT FOR RECIPES 41 languages with full right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Quantities, units, and cooking terms translate the way cooks actually say them, and every recipe keeps a link to its original. YOUR HOUSEHOLD, ONE COOKBOOK Up to 3 members on every plan share a single cookbook, and you can add more members anytime. Everyone can add, rate, and cook. Connect with other households to share favorites across kitchens: a grandmother in Tel Aviv, a daughter in Boston, same recipe, each in her language. DISCOVER TRENDING RECIPES A curated catalog of what's cooking around the world. Browse shelves by country or ingredient and add any recipe to your cookbook with one tap, translated like everything else. ONE LIST, EVERY KITCHEN RUN Pull every ingredient from a recipe with one tap or add items by hand. Duplicates merge, quantities sum, and the whole household checks off the same list at the store. WORKS OFFLINE Your cookbook and grocery list are with you in the kitchen, at the store, and on the plane, connection or not. START FREE Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. No card needed. When the trial ends, pick a plan to keep going: nothing is charged unless you subscribe. Questions? support@teavon.co · Privacy: teavon.co/privacy · Terms: teavon.co/terms

About

Obento

Features
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Turn the recipes you already love into a ready-made week of dinners — with the grocery list handled too. Obento plans your week from recipes you’ve already saved, so you don’t have to decide what’s for dinner every day. Generate a complete plan in seconds, swap anything that doesn’t fit, and let Obento favor recipes that share ingredients so you can shop smarter and waste less. YOUR WEEK, PLANNED AUTOMATICALLY • Generate your weekly meal plan in one tap • Plan from all your recipes or a single collection • Choose which recipes are part of your rotation • Adjust how and what you want to plan • Favor recipes that reuse similar ingredients • Swap any meal when plans change • Plan this week — and next week ahead SAVE THE RECIPES YOU ALREADY LOVE • Import recipes straight from Safari using the share sheet • Paste a recipe link or plain text from notes and messages • Ingredients and instructions fill in automatically • Review and edit everything before saving • Organize favorites into collections and add your own photos YOUR GROCERY LIST, AUTOMATICALLY • Ingredients from your planned meals are combined into one checkable list • Similar ingredients are grouped together automatically • Original recipe wording stays available, so nothing gets lost • Pantry staples and spices stay out of the main list • Check items off as you shop BUILT AROUND YOUR RECIPES Obento works with the recipes you already cook, rather than giving you a completely new set of meals every week. Save recipes from the places you already find them, build your own collection, and let Obento turn those favorites into a week that actually fits you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is required. Your recipes, meal plans and grocery lists are stored on your devices and sync through your private iCloud. Recipe parsing happens on-device, including with Apple Intelligence where supported, so your recipe content doesn’t need to be sent to Obento’s servers. Obento uses privacy-preserving, anonymous usage analytics to understand how the app is used and improve the experience. Recipe content, ingredients and grocery items are never included in analytics. Save your recipes once. Let Obento plan the week. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TeAvon4 screens
Obento4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Obento at none against TeAvon's 8. TeAvon's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence and ads 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. TeAvon sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Obento asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TeAvon ships an update every 9 days, Obento every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TeAvon versus Obento: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeAvonObento
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB92 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSpendlitics LLCAkhil Svanerud George

In-app purchases

8 purchases

TeAvon

Subscriptions8
  • Household$4.991 Month
  • Household +1 Seat$5.991 Month
  • Household +2 Seats$6.991 Month
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  • Household +3 Seats$7.991 Month
  • Household$49.991 Year
  • Household +1 Seat$59.991 Year
  • Household +2 Seats$69.991 Year
  • Household +3 Seats$79.991 Year
None

Obento

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TeAvon free?
TeAvon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Obento free?
Obento is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TeAvon or Obento have ads?
Neither TeAvon nor Obento shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TeAvon or Obento?
TeAvon ships an update every 9 days, and Obento every 5 days. Most recently, TeAvon was updated on October 20, 2026 and Obento on October 24, 2026.

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