Comparison

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes vs Chef

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

Head to head
About

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes

Explore thousands of tested recipes with step-by-step instructions and photos. Organize your favorites, create shopping lists, and reduce food waste. Get personalized suggestions and save recipes from social media.

Highlights
  • Thousands of tested recipes
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions
  • Smart shopping lists
  • Save favorite recipes
  • Create recipe collections
  • Save social media recipes
  • Reduce food waste tips
Features
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Kitchen Stories is your ultimate digital cookbook, recipe keeper, and meal planner for everyday cooking! Discover thousands of chef-tested recipes, get inspired by culinary creators, and learn new cooking techniques step-by-step. Whether you want a quick weekday meal, healthy dinner ideas, or baking inspiration, Kitchen Stories makes cooking easy, delicious, and perfect for any occasion. ### NEW: THE ULTIMATE SOCIAL MEDIA RECIPE KEEPER Found a brilliant recipe on Instagram or TikTok? With Kitchen Stories Plus, you can save and organize social media recipes from external platforms directly into your personal digital cookbook with just one click. No more chaotic screenshots or lost links. Keep all your food inspiration in one organized space! ### DISCOVER & COOK NEW RECIPE IDEAS * Thousands of guided recipes tailored for every taste, dietary style, and skill level. * From quick 20-minute weekday dinners to healthy meal prep options and festive baking. * Detailed, step-by-step cooking instructions with high-quality photos. ### YOUR PERSONAL DIGITAL COOKBOOK & RECIPE ORGANIZER * Save your favorite recipes and organize them into custom cookbooks and collections. * Keep track of the recipes you loved, the ones you want to try; and create as many cookbooks as you like * Use the recipe manager to import and keep track of everything you love to cook in one place. ### MEAL PLANNING * Effortless meal prep: Find delicious and quick lunch and dinner recipes for the week ahead. * Personalized recipe suggestions tailored to your specific dietary preferences (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.) and what you have in your pantry * Create a sustainable kitchen: Generate perfect dishes from leftovers to reduce food waste ### CONVENIENT GROCERY LISTS * Shopping lists that aggregate ingredients and quantities for easy grocery shopping. * Access your list on the go, making weekly meal prep completely stress-free. * View your grocery list by recipe or the combined one for all recipes ### WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US: “The most well-thought-out cooking app on the German market.” – STERN “Makes even complicated recipes easy enough for anyone to cook.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung “Finally an app that brings order to recipe chaos.” – BRIGITTE Join millions of home cooks and download Kitchen Stories today to elevate your everyday cooking! Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you at hello@kitchenstories.com Terms of Use: https://www.kitchenstories.com/en/terms/

About

Chef

Discover and cook thousands of recipes with a modern interface. Create your own recipes, generate shopping lists, and analyze nutritional values. Offers premium features for unlimited recipe creation and private recipes.

Highlights
  • Recipe discovery
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Automated shopping lists
  • Nutritional value analysis
  • Recipe scheduling
  • Modern design
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Chef® helps you discover thousands of recipes and to schedule and cook them, from shopping to serving. • Discover a new way to explore flavors with Chef®'s modern design. • Create your own recipes to schedule them. They will also be analyzed by our unique algorithm to estimate their nutritional values. • Simplify groceries by automatically generating shopping lists, and add your own items. The Chef® Plus subscription allows you to create as many recipes and shopping lists as you want, and to create private recipes. With the Chef® Max subscription, enjoy all the benefits of Chef® Plus, but also get the nutritional values of your recipes and enhance your recipe images. Renewed monthly, these subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account. At the end of the one-month period, unless you have disabled this feature, your subscription will automatically renew for your iTunes account. You will be charged the subscription price within 24 hours after the end of the validity of the initial purchase. You can cancel the automatic renewal at any time before these 24 hours. No refund can be made for the unused period of a subscription. For more information on the terms of use and privacy policy of Chef®, visit https://the-chef.app/policy. By using the app, you accept its terms of use, available at https://the-chef.app/terms.

Screenshots

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes4 screens
Chef4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chef at none against Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes's shown. Chef also leads on iOS requirement (13 vs 15.6). Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 21 months). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Chef sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes has 23K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes's written reviews are positive against 50% of Chef's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes ships an update fortnightly, Chef every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes versus Chef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKitchen Stories Easy RecipesChef
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (23K ratings) — better4.7 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23K — better21
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 21 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#126 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613 — better
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB109 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAJNS New MediaGuillaume Cendre

Customer experience

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes

All ratings22,778 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews1,654 reviews
Positive80.2%
Neutral6.3%
Negative13.5%

Chef

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Recipes load videos of wrong recipes
  • For You doesn't work
  • App doesn't work
  • New update (no images for recipes)
  • Login screen freezes
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  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Please bring back the shopping list option
  • Needs iPad Split Screen
  • More recipes !
  • Need to be able to save how to videos
  • An alternative page for uncommon ingredients

Chef

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes

Subscriptions8
  • Plus Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Plus Subscription$7.991 Month
  • SUMMER SALE - Yearly14 Days trial$17.491 Year
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  • Black Friday Offer - Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Plus Subscription - Special Offer$19.991 Year
  • SALE: Plus Subscription7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Plus Subscription - Special Offer7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Plus Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$79.991 Year
1 purchases

Chef

Subscriptions1
  • Chef Premium - One Month$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes free?
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chef free?
Chef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes or Chef?
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes is rated higher. Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes averages 4.8 out of 5 from 23K ratings, while Chef averages 4.7 from 21 ratings.
Do Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes or Chef have ads?
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes shows ads; Chef does not.
Which is updated more often, Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes or Chef?
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes ships an update fortnightly, and Chef every 21 months. Most recently, Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes was updated on November 1, 2026 and Chef on October 24, 2026.

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