Kitchen Scales vs Tarrific
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kitchen Scales
This app helps you estimate the weight of ingredients like sugar and flour, or the volume of liquids, using your phone's camera and a container. It guides you through selecting the container shape and measurement level for approximate results.
- Measure sugar, flour, and liquids
- Select container shape (cylindrical/rectangular)
- Adjust container edge and bottom thickness
- Input container diameter
- Set measurement level
- Approximate weight and volume calculations
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Estimate an ingredient when a kitchen scale is not at hand. Bilancia calculates the inner volume of a regularly shaped container and applies its average density to provide an approximate quantity in grams or milliliters. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose sugar, flour, liquid, or enter a custom density. 2. Select a cylindrical, square, or rectangular container. 3. Match the outer width directly on the iPhone screen, or enter the dimensions manually. 4. Mark the fill level. 5. Read the estimated amount and its uncertainty range. MADE FOR EVERYDAY COOKING • Guided, easy-to-follow measurement flow • On-screen and manual dimension entry • Wall and bottom thickness adjustment • Personal screen calibration using a standard bank card • Custom ingredient densities • Grams-to-ounces converter • Shareable results • Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, and VoiceOver support PRIVATE BY DESIGN Bilancia works entirely offline. It has no accounts, advertising, analytics, or data collection. Your personal screen calibration stays on your device. IMPORTANT Bilancia does not weigh objects and does not turn the iPhone into a physical scale. Every result is an empirical approximation based on container geometry and average density. Verify important quantities with a real kitchen scale, especially for recipes that require precision.
Tarrific
This app helps home cooks and bakers quickly calculate ingredient weights by storing the tare weights of common kitchen containers. It also assists in dividing ingredients into equal portions for consistent results.
- Store tare weights of containers
- Quickly subtract container weight
- Divide ingredients into equal portions
- Calculate portion weight
- Supports split-screen on iPad
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Do you use a kitchen scale? If you do, you need Tarrific! Kitchen scales, and their handy tare feature, make baking and cooking so much easier. But, sometimes you need to know the weight of your ingredients, and you forgot to zero out your scale first! Tarrific is designed to help you solve that problem quickly and easily. Store the empty weights of the most commonly used bowls and dishes in your kitchen in Tarrific. When you need to subtract out the weight of a container, Tarrific does the work for you. Want to divide your ingredients into equal portions? Tarrific can help! Just enter in the number of portions you need, or the portion weight, and Tarrific will help you remove just the right amount each time. No more uneven cookies, or running out of muffin batter before you've filled the last one! Tarrific is a universal iOS app that runs on all devices. If you use split-screen on a newer iPad, Tarrific can run right next to your favorite recipe app. Try Tarrific today - you'll wonder how you ever cooked without it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tarrific at 67% against Kitchen Scales's 9%. Tarrific also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Kitchen Scales's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#99 vs unranked). On 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
Tarrific is free to download; Kitchen Scales costs $2.99 up front. Tarrific sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kitchen Scales asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitchen Scales ships an update every 6 months, Tarrific every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kitchen Scales | Tarrific |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 2.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #99 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Valgy | Little Potato Software |
Customer experience
Kitchen Scales
Tarrific
In-app purchases
Kitchen Scales
No in-app purchases
Tarrific
- Tarrific Unlimited$0.99
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