Tastemade vs The Explorers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tastemade
Stream award-winning food, travel, and home design shows. Explore a vast library of content, from cooking tutorials to travel documentaries. Enjoy free streaming or opt for an ad-free, on-demand experience with a premium membership.
- Award-winning food, travel, home shows
- Over 1,000 hours of content
- Ad-free streaming option
- On-demand viewing
- Save favorite shows
- Cross-platform access
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Tastemade turns everyday moments into something worth savoring. From bold flavors and beautiful spaces to journeys that open your eyes to the world. Explore original, award-winning series and documentaries in food, travel, home, and design, crafted to spark curiosity and fuel what you love most. Watch free across our four channels, or enjoy everything ad-free and on-demand with a Tastemade Cooking membership. Members save favorites, pick up right where they left off on mobile, TV, and web, and unlock exclusive recipes, meal plans, and more. Your home for inspiring personalities and extraordinary experiences. This is where taste is made. Tastemade Cooking membership benefits include: —1,000+ hours of food and lifestyle shows —Watch unlimited content, ad-free and on-demand —Save your favorite shows and pick up where you left off in any of Tastemade’s apps on mobile, TV, and web —Personalized meal plans in the Tastemade Cooking app on iOS or on tastemade.com —12,000+ recipes and cooking videos in the Tastemade Cooking app on iOS and on tastemade.com —Automatically built grocery list in the Tastemade Cooking app on iOS or on tastemade.com Choose from two subscription options: —Tastemade Cooking Monthly membership: 1-week free trial, then $5.99 per month. Cancel anytime. —Tastemade Cooking Annual membership: 1-week free trial, then $49.99 per year (save 30%!). Cancel anytime. This app does not include recipes or meal plans, which can be found in the Tastemade Cooking app and on tastemade.com. Please see our terms at https://www.tastemade.com/terms
The Explorers
Explore and share Earth's wonders through photos and videos. Join a global community of creators and scientists to document biodiversity and natural heritage. Discover location-based content and contribute your own media to a growing planet inventory.
- Explore location-based content on a world map
- Follow other Explorers' discoveries
- Post photos and videos in original size
- Private messaging with friends and Explorers
- Zoom feature for detailed photo viewing
- Access content up to 8K HDR with premium
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The Explorers is the best app to explore and share our Earth wonders’ to the Earth inventory of photos and videos. Photographers or videographers, amateurs or professionals, scientists, associations, artists and citizens of the world: join The Explorers community! Share your best photos and videos for free and free of advertising, and join a human adventure at the service of Nature! *App TV of the year 2019* COMMUNITY The Explorers is the best app to explore and share Earth’s diversity and wonders. Photographers or videographers, amateurs or professionals, scientists, associations, artists and citizens of the world, join our community. DISCOVER - Explore location-based content on a world map - Follow the Explorers sharing their discoveries, stories and animal & plant species identification - Find new content and search suggestions on the ‘Explorer’ screen - Chat with your friends or with your favorite Explorers through private messaging - Enjoy all the tiny details in photos using the zoom feature - Enjoy an experience free of advertising CONTRIBUTE - Post your photos and videos to show the world your region and all its species! - Take advantage of uploading your photos in their original size - Create a great profile to share with your friends. PREMIUM All The Explorers+ offer movies are available in up to 8K HDR. TEAM The Explorers is a team of explorers, media professionals, scientists and artists serving a great cause and a common goal: creating the first planet inventory to showcase the wealth our Earth in 8K HDR. Our many expeditions will take you to unique places that reflect the richness of life on Earth, its diversity, its wonders and its fragilities. FOUNDATION Within the framework of our global project, The Explorers Foundation aims to concretely contribute to the preservation of natural, cultural and human heritage by supporting local actors and their projects... All the actions supported are nominated after a careful analysis of the projects submitted by field operators to the Scientific Committee. This Committee ensures the monitoring of the funds' assignment and the proper completion of the project. Questions? Suggestions? Feel free to contact us through private messaging or by emailing us at: contact@theexplorers.com *All ‘The Explorers’ videos are available in HD and 4K SDR / 4K HDR / 8K HDR Know better to protect better Terms of use: https://theexplorers.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://theexplorers.com/privacy Subscription General Terms: https://theexplorers.com/cgau
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Tastemade at 7.7K against The Explorers's 86. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Tastemade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and The Explorers sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tastemade holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tastemade has 7.7K ratings behind it against 86, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Tastemade's written reviews are positive against 55% of The Explorers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tastemade ships an update every 3 months, The Explorers every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tastemade | The Explorers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.7K ratings) — better | 4.4 (86 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.2% of reviews | 55.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.7K — better | 86 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tastemade, Inc. | The Explorers Network |
Customer experience
Tastemade
The Explorers
Bugs and requests
Tastemade
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Login issues
- Inconsistent video playback
- Saved recipes disappearing
Requested features
5 requests- Add written recipes alongside videos
- Improve search functionality
- Allow saving unlimited recipes
- Provide more free content
- Fix stability issues
The Explorers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tastemade
- Tastemade+ Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Tastemade+ Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
The Explorers
- The Explorers+14 Days trial$2.991 Month
Questions
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