RoastMate vs taste.com.au recipes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoastMate
This app simplifies cooking perfect roasts by eliminating guesswork. Select your meat, cut, weight, and desired doneness, and receive precise cooking times. It also offers helpful prompts for temperature checks and resting periods, along with information on different cuts.
- Calculate roast cooking times
- Select meat type, cut, and weight
- Specify doneness preference
- Receive cooking and resting prompts
- Save favorite roasts
- View roast cut images and descriptions
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The RoastMate app is designed to help you cook the perfect roast. It ensures you have a great experience every time by taking out the guess work. RoastMate is easy to use; simply select from beef, veal and lamb, the cut you would like to cook, its weight and your doneness preference, and RoastMate will tell you exactly how long to cook it for - simple! RoastMate also includes handy prompts to check the internal temperature of your roast and how long to rest for, to make sure you don't over cook it. Got a favourite roast you like to cook? RoastMate lets you save it to a favourites list so that you are only ever one step away from cooking your favourite roast to perfection. Want to know more about a particular roast cut? RoastMate has that covered with images and descriptions of the cuts you will find in your butcher or supermarket. Make your next roast a success with RoastMate.
taste.com.au recipes
Easily discover over 50,000 recipes, save your favorites into personalized cookbooks, and create shopping lists that can be accessed offline. Syncs with the website for seamless access to your saved content. Rate, review, and share recipes with a community of cooks.
- Discover 50,000+ recipes
- Save recipes to personalized cookbooks
- Create and save offline shopping lists
- Syncs with taste.com.au website
- Rate, review, and share recipes
- Access recipes offline
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Cooking just got easier with the taste.com.au app from Australia’s #1 food and recipe brand. Whether you’re looking for a healthy midweek dinner, in the mood for an indulgent dessert, or asked to bring a plate, the taste app is here to help with recipes, ideas, inspiration and all the tips you need to cook like a pro. Taste.com.au app users will have access to: 50,000 RECIPES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Discover thousands of foolproof recipes, complete with cooking videos, step-by-step instructions and full nutritional information. RATINGS AND REVIEWS Tap into over 300,000 recipe ratings and reviews from our huge community of home cooks. PERSONALISED RECIPE RECOMMENDATIONS Enjoy your daily feed of recipes picked just for you to suit you and your family’s food preferences and dietary needs. EASY-TO-FOLLOW RECIPES At-a-glance ingredient quantities in every method step make cooking a breeze. SAVE & VIEW YOUR FAVOURITE RECIPES Collate and organise your most-loved recipes for quick and easy planning and cooking EXCLUSIVE COLLECTIONS FOR SUBSCRIBERS Be among the first to access exclusive recipe collections curated by our team of experts AI-ENHANCED SEARCH Meet TasteBud, our new recipe assistant, here to help you find the perfect recipe with smart AI suggestions and follow-up queries to refine your searches. For full Terms and Conditions please visit https://www.taste.com.au/terms-of-use Our privacy policy can be found at: https://preferences.news.com.au/privacy Please note: We engage with Nielsen and Ipsos to provide independent audience measurement for some of our websites and apps. If you would like to opt out of third party audience measurement by Nielsen on our websites, go to here: Digital measurement privacy statement . If you would like to opt out of third party audience measurement by Ipsos on our websites, go to here: Dotmetrics - Big Audience Data . For apps you will need to access the link which should be available in the app itself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: taste.com.au recipes at 2.9 against RoastMate's 2.0. taste.com.au recipes also leads on ratings volume (46 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). RoastMate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
taste.com.au recipes holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: taste.com.au recipes has 46 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of RoastMate's written reviews are positive against 17% of taste.com.au recipes's.
RoastMate ships an update every 5 months, taste.com.au recipes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RoastMate | taste.com.au recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 2.9 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 16.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meat & Livestock Australia Limited | News Digital Media |
Customer experience
RoastMate
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In-app purchases
RoastMate
No in-app purchases
taste.com.au recipes
No in-app purchases
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