Comparison

SideСhef vs Enebla

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

Head to head
About

SideСhef

Discover and cook delicious meals with step-by-step instructions, personalized recommendations, and integrated grocery shopping. This app simplifies meal planning and helps you explore new cuisines, even if you're a beginner cook.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step recipe guidance
  • Personalized recipe recommendations
  • Integrated grocery list creation
  • One-click online grocery shopping
  • Meal planning tools
  • Smart appliance control
  • Beginner-friendly cooking tutorials
Features
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SideChef’s 18,000 step-by-step recipes help you get from “what’s for dinner?” to cooking your next meal in just minutes. Filter by diet and preferences, search by ingredients, create a grocery list, and instantly shop ingredients from your favorite grocer. Called “best app” by USA Today and the New York Times’s “favorite cooking app,” SideChef empowers you to eat healthier, save money, and live your most delicious life. PERSONALIZED RECIPE RECOMMENDATIONS Quickly find recipe inspiration tailored to your preferences. Filter by dietary requirements, allergies, food preferences, and ingredients you already have at home to find a recipe you like in less than one minute. ONE-CLICK GROCERY SHOPPING Easily create a grocery list, and shop ingredients directly from Instacart, Walmart, Amazon Fresh, Target, and more online grocers. Ingredients are intelligently matched to in-store products, and updated with real-time prices and availability. Make smarter decisions by seeing the percentage of each ingredient used in a recipe – an easy way to plan for leftovers and minimize food waste, while also saving money. GREAT FOR BEGINNERS New to cooking? Our step-by-step recipes include an image or video at every cooking step so you know exactly what to do. Built-in timers ensure you never overcook anything again, while how-to videos teach you valuable culinary skills – from how to properly dice an onion, to how to press tofu. Rate recipes, upload photos, exchange tips, and share cooking fails and successes with the SideChef home cooking community. EASY MEAL PLANNING Use our meal planning tool to select recipes for the week, or save appealing recipes to your cookbook. Browse thousands of curated recipe collections and meal plans for more inspiration and ideas on what you’ll cook next. RECIPES FOR EVERYONE Personalized recipe recommendations for these diets and allergens: Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Low-Carb, Paleo, Keto, Gluten, Egg, Dairy, Soy, Peanut, Tree Nuts, Fish, Shellfish Recipes cover a variety of cuisines: American, Italian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, French, and more! Browse recipes from your favorite culinary influencers – top food bloggers, writers, and renowned chefs. PRAISE FROM MEDIA “If you’re always scorching the stew and you just can’t seem to achieve perfectly puffed chocolate chip cookies, let this free app serve as your new cooking companion.” — Real Simple “If you’ve ever ruined an entire meal because of a seemingly tiny mistake in timing or ingredient proportioning, then we have an app for you.” — Business Insider _________________ By downloading and using this app or purchasing a SideChef Premium subscription, you are agreeing to the SideChef terms of use and service: https://www.sidechef.com/terms For more information about how we use your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy: https://www.sidechef.com/privacy-policy. By downloading this app, you acknowledge the terms of our Privacy Policy. SIDECHEF PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS SideChef is free to download and use. Should you choose to upgrade to SideChef Premium, we offer two auto-renewing subscription options: * Monthly SideChef Premium subscription: $4.99 USD. Cancel anytime. * Annual SideChef Premium subscription: $49.99 USD. Cancel anytime. These auto-renewing subscription plans renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew each month or year 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings.

About

Enebla

Discover the unique flavors of Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine with this recipe app. It offers a community-driven library of dishes, step-by-step preparation guides, and tools to manage your recipes and create shopping lists.

Highlights
  • Ethiopian/Eritrean recipe library
  • Step-by-step video instructions
  • Recipe sharing with community
  • Automatic shopping list generation
  • Recipe management tools
Features
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Ethiopia and Eritrea has one of the world’s most singular cuisines that will have your taste buds doing somersaults while also being good for you. Most dishes are nutrient-dense and low in fat which is always a positive thing for your body. Enebla brings you the worlds first Ethiopian/Eritrea food recipe app that contains useful tools for recipe management and different ways to improve yours skills in the kitchen. It combines a built-in library of recipes users can share among each other, sorted by category with instructions and videos of step by step meal preparations. It allows you to automatically create a shopping list based on recipes you would like to cook. Perhaps you can add your own twist and share it with the community. Happy cooking :) Visit our website at eneblaeats.com or Contact us at info@eneblaeats.com

Screenshots

SideСhef4 screens
Enebla4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Enebla at none against SideСhef's 2. Enebla also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). SideСhef's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 17) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 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. SideСhef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Enebla asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Enebla holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SideСhef has 1.7K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of SideСhef's written reviews are positive against 100% of Enebla's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SideСhef ships an update every 2 months, Enebla every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SideСhef versus Enebla: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSideСhefEnebla
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.7K ratings)4.9 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better17
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB50 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSideChef Group LimitedElTech Softwares Inc

Customer experience

SideСhef

All ratings1,669 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral4.0%
Negative29.3%

Enebla

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SideСhef

Subscriptions2
  • SideChef Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • SideChef Premium - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Enebla

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SideСhef free?
SideСhef is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Enebla free?
Enebla is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SideСhef or Enebla?
Enebla is rated higher. SideСhef averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Enebla averages 4.9 from 17 ratings.
Do SideСhef or Enebla have ads?
Neither SideСhef nor Enebla shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SideСhef or Enebla?
SideСhef ships an update every 2 months, and Enebla every 5 months. Most recently, SideСhef was updated on November 6, 2026 and Enebla on November 3, 2026.

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