Comparison

Explore MAE vs MadeIt

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

Head to head
About

Explore MAE

Discover local businesses, artisans, and markets in your community. Find farmers markets, handcrafted goods, and hidden gems with an interactive map and customizable search. Support small businesses and strengthen your community.

Highlights
  • Discover farmers markets
  • Find local makers and artisans
  • Locate farms and food producers
  • Interactive map view
  • Search by market name, city, or ZIP
  • Save favorite markets and makers
  • Customize search radius
Features
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Supporting local should be as easy as opening your phone. Explore MAE helps you discover the people, places, and markets that make every community unique. Whether you're searching for a Saturday farmers market, handcrafted goods from a local artisan, fresh produce from nearby growers, or hidden gems just around the corner, MAE makes discovering local simple. Whether you're exploring your hometown or visiting somewhere new, MAE helps you experience communities through the small businesses, makers, and markets that bring them to life. Discover • Farmers markets near you • Local makers and artisans • Farms and specialty food producers • Hidden gems in your community • New places added every week Explore • Find what's happening today • Browse nearby markets by distance • Search by market name, city, or ZIP code • View everything on an interactive map • Save your favorite markets and makers • Customize your search radius Support Local • Every purchase at a farmers market. • Every visit to a local maker. • Every new discovery. • They all help strengthen the communities we call home. MAE exists to help local businesses be discovered and to make supporting them easier than ever. Discover Local. Support Small. Explore More. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

MadeIt

This app helps you organize recipes from any source, track what you've cooked, and share your culinary creations with friends. Discover new dishes and see what others are making in a social kitchen environment.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from websites, screenshots, or text
  • Organize recipes in a personal digital cookbook
  • Log and share your cooking experiences with photos and notes
  • Follow friends' cooking feeds and discover new recipes
  • Explore community recipes and trending dishes
Features
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MadeIt is where saved recipes become real meals — and cooking becomes social. Save recipes from anywhere, organize them in your personal Cookbook, keep track of what you actually make, and see what’s cooking in your friends’ kitchens. IMPORT RECIPES YOUR WAY Bring recipes into MadeIt from websites, screenshots, photos, or by typing and pasting them yourself. MadeIt organizes the details into a clean recipe that's easy to find and cook from later. BUILD YOUR COOKBOOK Keep all the recipes you want to make again — or finally try — in one place. Your Cookbook gives you a simple home for the recipes you've collected from across the internet and beyond. SHARE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY COOK Made something? Post a Cook. Add a photo, rate the recipe, leave notes about how it turned out, and share the experience with friends. Over time, MadeIt becomes a record of the food you've actually made — not just another collection of saved links. SEE WHAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE MAKING Follow along with the people you know through a feed of real Cooks. Like and comment, mention friends, save recipes you want to try, and discover something new through the people whose taste you trust. DISCOVER WHAT'S COOKING Explore Discover to find Cooks and recipes from across the MadeIt community. See what's trending, find new ideas, and save anything that looks worth making to your own Cookbook. FROM RECIPE TO REAL LIFE Recipes usually end up scattered across browser tabs, screenshots, social posts, and bookmarks. MadeIt brings them together — then connects those recipes to the meals you and your friends actually make. Save it. Make it. Share it.

Screenshots

Explore MAE4 screens
MadeIt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MadeIt at none against Explore MAE's 2. Explore MAE's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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. Explore MAE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. MadeIt asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Explore MAE against 5.0 for MadeIt. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Explore MAE versus MadeIt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExplore MAEMadeIt
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperExplore MAENathaniel Bass

Customer experience

Explore MAE

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MadeIt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Explore MAE

Subscriptions2
  • Discover Membership: Get Found!$7.991 Month
  • Explore Membership$11.991 Month
None

MadeIt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Explore MAE free?
Explore MAE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MadeIt free?
MadeIt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Explore MAE or MadeIt?
Explore MAE and MadeIt are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Explore MAE or MadeIt have ads?
Neither Explore MAE nor MadeIt shows ads.

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