CookedThis is a cooking habit tracker for iOS that allows home cooks to log meals, attach photos, and view progress statistics.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the cognitive cost of remembering past successful meals and tracking cooking consistency by providing a structured, visual history of kitchen activity.
For Home cooks who want to track their culinary progress, build a personal recipe history, and improve their cooking consistency.
What does it look like?
Key features
Logs meal frequency and consistency with streaks and stats to visualize cooking progress.
Attaches photos to meal logs to create a visual history of dishes cooked.
Organizes past meals into a searchable collection based on user-generated logs.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model utilizes a usage-based cap on photo uploads to define the free tier boundary, creating a clear path for future subscription conversion.
Velocity
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CookedThis currently operates at a maintenance cadence, with only one release identified in the recent window. The latest version focuses on UX improvements and feature expansion, including new tagging capabilities and enhanced photo limits. Development appears stable but infrequent, with no evidence of a high-velocity release cycle or live-ops strategy. Future updates are expected to continue at this measured pace.
Who built it?
Natasha Wilson
5 apps tracked · Food & Drink
Coast to Coast Walk UK
South West Coast Path+
Feeling Wheel
Repertoire: Recipe OrganizerUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
Read the full review analysisCompetition
Competitive landscape for CookedThis: Cooking Journal
How's the Food & Drink market?
CookedThis occupies the niche cooking-journal segment on iOS, currently holding a 4.0-star rating. The limited review volume suggests an early-stage product that has yet to establish significant market share against broader recipe-management incumbents.
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Key takeaways for CookedThis: Cooking Journal
Where is it heading?
The cooking-journal category is consolidating around apps that offer both utility and social discovery. CookedThis is currently positioned as a private tool, which limits its reach but protects its focus on habit tracking; the PM must decide whether to pivot toward social sharing or deepen the utility-based retention loop.
- The latest release added dish tagging and summary statistics, showing active development and a commitment to improving the core tracking utility.
- The current single-rating status suggests the app is in an early growth phase, requiring a focus on user-acquisition hygiene to build trust.
The SWOT
- Habit-tracking streaks provide a quantifiable progress mechanism.
- Usage-based photo cap creates a clear subscription conversion path.
- Integration with grocery-list apps could capture meal-planning workflows.
- Recipe-import tools would reduce manual logging friction.
Next best moves
Ship recipe-import tools because manual logging is a high-friction barrier → increase daily log frequency
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The lack of social features is an advantage for CookedThis…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app established a 4.0-star rating and shifted its strategic outlook from growth-focused to stable, prioritizing the evaluation of social-sharing versus private-utility retention loops.
Bottom line
CookedThis serves a niche for data-driven home cooks, but the lack of social discovery limits its growth potential. Prioritizing recipe-import tools would reduce logging friction and increase daily utility, which is essential to building a habit-based retention loop.
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Is CookedThis suitable for casual home cooks?
Does CookedThis offer a free version?
How does CookedThis compare to standard recipe apps?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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