Comparison

Salt & Pepper vs ChefScaler

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

Head to head
About

Salt & Pepper

This app helps food businesses and home cooks manage recipes, track ingredient costs, and calculate profit margins. It allows for detailed recipe creation, inventory management, and shopping list generation. Users can also scale recipes, track expiration dates, and organize ingredients by supplier or category.

Highlights
  • Create detailed recipes with ingredients and steps
  • Calculate recipe cost and profit margins
  • Manage ingredient inventory and track expiration dates
  • Generate dynamic shopping lists
  • Scale recipes up or down
  • Organize ingredients by supplier and category
Features
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For restaurant owners, bake shops, caterers, manufacturers of food products, chefs, and even home cooks. With Salt & Pepper, you can: Create recipes with an ingredient list, procedure, yield, preparation time, notes, and photos/videos. Choose your recipe ingredients from your dynamically-filtered master ingredient list, then select various preparations (such as "finely-diced" or "sautéed"), from a pick-list of over 40 options. Enter costs for each ingredient in your recipe, and Salt & Pepper will display the total cost of the recipe, and the cost per serving. Set a recipe's selling price, and Salt & Pepper will calculate the mark-up and profit information. You can also add "other costs" to your recipes, which can be a percentage of the total ingredient cost, or based on quantity, such as per serving, per batch, or per unit." Use the Suppliers screen to create, edit, and delete ingredients. Changes made to an ingredient's name, price, allergens, food energy, density, or usable portion are applied to all recipes containing that ingredient. You can organize your ingredients by supplier, and further by category. Record your inventory, and set minimum values. Salt & Pepper will calculate the monetary value of each stock item, and the total value of your entire inventory. Scale your recipes up or down, or to a desired yield. The amount and cost of each ingredient, and the total cost of the recipe, are adjusted accordingly. Separate a recipe's ingredients into multiple sections, such as "For the Cake", "For the Frosting", and "For the Ganache". Re-order your ingredients and preparation steps by dragging them. Use one recipe as an ingredient in another recipe. When "Recipe A" is used as an ingredient in "Recipe B", the cost, allergens, and food energy of "Recipe A" become part of "Recipe B" (based on the quantity used). Duplicate recipes, in order to experiment with multiple variations. Track the expiration dates of your ingredients. If you choose, Salt & Pepper will notify you before your ingredients expire. Enter densities for your ingredients. Densities allow the calculation of a recipe's cost or calories when an ingredient is purchased by weight, but the recipe measurement is in volume. Manage shopping lists. You can add ingredients to your shopping lists directly from your recipes. Quantities from multiple recipes are automatically summed. You can arrange your store's aisles to match the physical stores at which you shop, and you can arrange your ingredients in the order that they appear on the actual store shelves. Create notes, with checklists, photos/videos, and a due date (with alarm). Create custom categories for filing your recipes and notes. A recipe or note can belong to multiple categories. For meal planning, custom recipe categories can serve as menus, such as "Rehearsal Dinner Menu". You can also create "outlets" to further categorize items based on location. For instance, if you operate a number of restaurants, you could create a separate outlet for each. Link your recipes and notes to related recipes and notes. Share individual recipes, suppliers, shopping lists, and notes with co-workers, family, and friends. When changes are made to a shared item, everyone receives the changes. You can also set "abilities" for each user. For instance, you can specify whether a particular user is allowed to view or edit ingredient costs. Print your recipes, suppliers, shopping lists, and notes. E-mail recipes and notes. You can send them in PDF format, and as Salt & Pepper data files, which the recipient can import into Salt & Pepper. Use the Conversions screen to convert units of weight, volume, and temperature, and to perform price comparisons. Sync your recipes, suppliers, shopping lists, and notes between all of your iOS devices. Salt & Pepper contains no advertisements.

About

ChefScaler

Easily scale ingredient quantities for your recipes based on the desired number of servings. Store your favorite recipes with details like photos and ratings, and access them anytime for quick adjustments. Supports standard metric units.

Highlights
  • Adjust ingredient quantities with one click
  • Instantly view adjusted ingredient amounts
  • Store recipes with photos and ratings
  • Supports metric units
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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ChefScaler helps you to adjust ingredients quantities in your recipes. With one click of a button, ChefScaler adjusts all your ingredients quantities in your favorite recipes, according to the number of servings you need. You only have to enter your recipe once into ChefScaler. Then you can bring up the recipe anytime you want, just change the number of servings, and instantly you get the adjusted ingredients' quantities for your recipe. Current major features: 1. One button clicks to change the number of serves in recipe 2. Instantly show all adjusted ingredients quantities in recipe 3. Store recipes with Photo, Rating, Easiness, etc. 4. Ingredient supports standard metric units (US units will be supported in future release) Other features 1. Dark Mode support 2. Optimized for iPhone 11 and SE2

Screenshots

Salt & Pepper4 screens
ChefScaler4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ChefScaler at Free against Salt & Pepper's $9.99. ChefScaler also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). Salt & Pepper's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 16 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ChefScaler is free to download; Salt & Pepper costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Salt & Pepper holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Salt & Pepper has 114 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Salt & Pepper ships an update every 9 days, ChefScaler every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Salt & Pepper versus ChefScaler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSalt & PepperChefScaler
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (114 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews
Number of ratings114 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#76 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBleecker Street SolutionsMENG KUONG LEI

Customer experience

Salt & Pepper

All ratings114 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral0.9%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral9.4%
Negative21.9%

ChefScaler

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Salt & Pepper

No in-app purchases

None

ChefScaler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Salt & Pepper free?
Salt & Pepper costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChefScaler free?
ChefScaler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Salt & Pepper or ChefScaler?
Salt & Pepper is rated higher. Salt & Pepper averages 4.7 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while ChefScaler averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Salt & Pepper or ChefScaler have ads?
Neither Salt & Pepper nor ChefScaler shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Salt & Pepper or ChefScaler?
Salt & Pepper ships an update every 9 days, and ChefScaler every 16 months. Most recently, Salt & Pepper was updated on September 23, 2026 and ChefScaler on July 5, 2026.

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