mAIChef vs TasteKeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
mAIChef
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You know the feeling at six o'clock: the fridge is not empty, and there is still nothing to eat. mAIChef takes it from there. Say what you feel like โ or photograph the fridge โ and you get a recipe built around your diet, your equipment and the time you actually have. Not a recipe someone else wrote for someone else. ASK IN YOUR OWN WORDS Type it, dictate it, or take a photo. "Something with the chicken and the courgettes, thirty minutes, no dairy." The recipe arrives in about twenty seconds, with a photo of the dish. IT READS YOUR FRIDGE Up to five photos at once. It names what it sees โ down to the butter next to the bread โ and you cook from what is already there. NUTRITION THAT IS COUNTED, NOT GUESSED Calories and macros are computed from the ingredient list against a food database, with a breakdown per ingredient. Set calorie or macro targets and the plan is built to them. A WEEK OF MEALS, PLANNED Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner, up to seven days, each with its time and its calories. One shopping list for the whole week, grouped by aisle, that knows what is already in your cupboard. BATCH PREP โ COOK ONCE, EAT ALL WEEK Pick four dishes and mAIChef works out the order: which oven, which pan, which step goes while something else roasts. Then it runs the session with you โ one step at a time, timers going, nothing forgotten. Four recipes in about an hour, instead of four evenings. COOK MODE Big type, hands-free voice, screen stays awake, timers per step. IT LEARNS WHAT YOU LIKE Rate what you cook. mAITaste picks up the cuisines, the ingredients and the effort level you keep coming back to, and the suggestions follow. NINE LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese โ the recipes too, not only the buttons. FREE โข 10 AI recipes a month โข Save up to 100 recipes โข One 3-day meal plan a month โข One photo analysis a month โข Nutrition on every recipe โข Voice input, dark mode PREMIUM โข 150 AI recipes a month โข Save up to 10,000 โข 7-day plans, up to six meals a day โข 30 photo analyses a month, five photos each โข Batch prep sessions โข Shopping lists and pantry โข Recipe tuning and cook mode โข High-quality photos on every recipe Cancel any time. Your recipes stay yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TasteKeep
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TasteKeep is a private recipe book for iPhone and iPad. Your recipes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud, and you can export any recipe as a PDF or as text. Keep the recipes you already have, add new ones from a link, plan the week from them and shop once, with a list sorted by aisle. Today's meals and the shopping list sit on your Home Screen as widgets. No account, no subscription. KEEP YOUR RECIPES Grandma's notebook, cookbook favorites, screenshots and recipes from the web, in one book with photos and steps. Search by name or ingredient and the recipe is on screen in seconds. ADD A RECIPE FROM A LINK OR A NOTE Paste a link to a recipe page, or the text of a note, and TasteKeep fills in the title, photo, ingredients and steps. Check the recipe before saving, then cook from it. In Safari, tap Share and choose TasteKeep: the recipe lands in your book. MADE FOR iPHONE, iPAD AND iPHONE DUO On iPad the list stays beside the recipe. On iPhone Duo the layout follows the pose. The cover screen works like any iPhone. Opened flat, you get the list beside the recipe and the photo beside the steps. In the book pose the photo sits on one side and the steps on the other. In the laptop pose the step stays above the fold, with the timer and the buttons below it. PLAN THE WEEK Pick breakfast, lunch and dinner for the days ahead in minutes. Save a week you liked as a template and bring it back. SHOP IN ONE TRIP Turn a recipe or the whole week into a shopping list, sorted by aisle and scaled to the people at your table. Share the list with whoever is going to the store. TODAY'S MEALS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Two widgets: Today's Meals shows what to cook now and the rest of the day's plan, and Shopping List lets you check off items without opening the app. A Control Center button opens the list with one tap. On iPad, the largest widget shows tomorrow too. COOK WITH THE PHONE LOCKED One step at a time in large type, with a timer for each step. The timer stays on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so your hands stay in the dough. When time is up, it rings like an alarm, even on silent (iOS 26 and later). YOURS ALONE No account and no ads. Apple's privacy label for TasteKeep reads "Data Not Collected". Recipes stay on your device and sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud, for free. TASTEKEEP PRO Pro unlocks the weekly planner, shopping lists built from recipes and plans, separate lists you can share, and the Home Screen widgets with a Sunday reminder to plan the week. Pay once and it stays yours. No subscription.
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Verdict
mAIChef and TasteKeep are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. mAIChef sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and TasteKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mAIChef | TasteKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CS CONTROLCOM | Uladzislau Vyskvarka |
In-app purchases
mAIChef
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual$44.991 Year
- 33 Photo Credits$0.99
- 50 Photo Credits$0.99
- 20 Recipe Credits$1.00
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- 50 Recipe Credits$1.99
- 100 Photo Credits$3.00
- 100 Recipe Credits$4.00
TasteKeep
- TasteKeep Pro$9.99









