mangia and Chefkoch — what's different?
On Chefkoch you find other people's recipes with ads. In mangia you collect your own — ad-free — and get weekly plan, list and balance on top.
Feature by feature.
Chefkoch and Kptn Cook are large recipe platforms with a huge offering — ad-funded. mangia is built differently: your own ad-free collection with weekly plan, shopping and a small balance of how you eat.
Massive recipe database
Chefkoch has hundreds of thousands of recipes. With mangia you build your own collection — from web, photo, PDF.
Ad-free reading
mangia never shows ads. Chefkoch and Kptn Cook live on ad revenue.
Ad-free cooking
Step-by-step mode without banners and pop-ups.
Upload your own recipes
Both possible. With mangia your recipes stay private — on Chefkoch they are public.
Weekly plan
Chefkoch has no built-in weekly plan. Kptn Cook offers a 7-day automated plan, but only with the app's own recipes.
Shopping list from plan
With Kptn Cook yes, but only for the generated recipes. With mangia for all of yours.
Data export (GDPR)
With mangia you get everything as ZIP — recipes, plans, lists.
Pricing
Chefkoch and Kptn Cook have premium plans for ad-free and more features. mangia is ad-free in the free plan.
Free + PlusFree + Premium
When Chefkoch / Kptn Cook fits
When you need new recipe ideas daily and accept ads. The databases are huge, the communities active — for inspiration you'll always find something.
When mangia fits
When you want to collect your favourite recipes (also from Chefkoch!) cleanly in one place, ad-free, with weekly plan and list. mangia is your private recipe library with the workflow around it.
Bringing Chefkoch recipes into mangia
Copy the Chefkoch link, paste it under "Import recipe" → URL in mangia. mangia pulls the recipe out cleanly — without ads, without the long backstory. Works the same way for Kptn Cook and any recipe site with Schema.org data.
Comparison FAQ
Am I allowed to save Chefkoch recipes in mangia?
For your private use, yes. You only save what you actually want to cook. Republishing them publicly would need permission — but for private use that's not an issue.
Does mangia have a database as big as Chefkoch?
No, that's not the goal. You build your own collection — the recipes you actually cook. Inspiration elsewhere, cooking in mangia.
Doesn't Kptn Cook also have a shopping list?
Yes, but only for the app's own recipes. mangia does this for ANY of your recipes and integrates it with the weekly plan.
Ads while cooking annoy me — does Chefkoch offer something?
Chefkoch has a Premium plan (Chefkoch+) without ads. mangia is ad-free in the standard free plan — even while cooking.
What about user reviews and comments?
mangia doesn't have those — for that you go to the source page. mangia is your private collection, not a social network.