Comparison

Skip vs taste.com.au recipes

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

Head to head
About

Skip

Pre-order and pay for food and drinks at your favorite cafes to avoid waiting in line. Browse menus, customize orders, and set pickup times for a seamless experience. Enjoy cash-free payments and automatic loyalty rewards.

Highlights
  • Pre-order food and drinks
  • Cash-free in-app payments
  • Customize orders
  • Set pickup times
  • Manage loyalty cards
  • Find nearby venues
Features
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Skip is the secret to skipping long queues in your favourite cafes. Never wait for your coffee and food again. Pre-order and pay for food and drinks with Skip and you can get on with your day. Simply select your drink and food items, or search for nearby venues and look through their menus, customise your order (1 sugar, no onion, etc), set your pick up time, confirm payment and Skip the queue! Forget your wallet? No cash on you? No worries, Skip lets you grab food and drink cash free with secure in-app payment. Skip also takes care of your cafe loyalty cards and automatically redeems your hard-earned loyalty freebies. Please note, Skip venues are currently active within Australia only.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Skip4 screens
taste.com.au recipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skip at none against taste.com.au recipes's 1. Skip also leads on review sentiment (47% vs 17%). taste.com.au recipes's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 3) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Skip against 2.9 for taste.com.au recipes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: taste.com.au recipes has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Skip's written reviews are positive against 17% of taste.com.au recipes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skip ships an update every 3 months, taste.com.au recipes every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Skip versus taste.com.au recipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkiptaste.com.au recipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings) — better2.9 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews47.2% of reviews — better16.9% of reviews
Number of ratings346 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSkip Zero Pty LtdNews Digital Media

Customer experience

Skip

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive47.2%
Neutral15.1%
Negative37.7%

taste.com.au recipes

Written reviews77 reviews
Positive16.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative76.6%

Bugs and requests

Skip

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App frequently crashes and freezes
  • App continually logs users out
  • Payment errors and failures
  • Recents, favorites, history don't work consistently
  • White screen after attempting payment
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  • Orders not going through to cafe
  • Charged for orders that didn't go through
  • Login screen presented off-page (capture)
  • Account locked for no reason
  • Venue status incorrectly displayed
  • Credit card details displayed after deletion
  • Password reset doesn't work
  • Notifications appear with no content
  • Order placed but not received by cafe, still charged
  • Free coffee from loyalty not restored after cancellation
  • Minimum purchase rule applied inconsistently with discounts

Requested features

10 requests
  • Keep users logged in for longer
  • Improve login screen for password manager integration
  • Offer FaceID/biometric login
  • Allow reordering of favorite orders easily
  • Add Apple Watch/Siri integration
Show 5 more
  • Allow cafe to interact with consumers
  • Add PayPal as a payment option
  • Improve voucher usability
  • Allow users to create favorite drinks
  • Add opt-out for ads

taste.com.au recipes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Skip

No in-app purchases

None

taste.com.au recipes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skip free?
Skip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is taste.com.au recipes free?
taste.com.au recipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Skip or taste.com.au recipes?
Skip is rated higher. Skip averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while taste.com.au recipes averages 2.9 from 46 ratings.
Do Skip or taste.com.au recipes have ads?
Neither Skip nor taste.com.au recipes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skip or taste.com.au recipes?
Skip ships an update every 3 months, and taste.com.au recipes every 6 weeks. Most recently, Skip was updated on November 6, 2026 and taste.com.au recipes on November 6, 2026.

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