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Chefra vs Samsung Food

Written by the team that makes Chefra.

By Chefra · Published October 9, 2026 · Last updated October 9, 2026

Works in any browser, installs to your home screen, and is on the App Store and Google Play.

01At a glance

Samsung Food and Chefra, side by side. Every fact about Samsung Food on this page comes from its maker's own website, help pages or app store listings, checked on October 9, 2026; the sources are listed at the end.

Choose Samsung Food if you want:

Over 240,000 public recipes to discover, which you can search by ingredient or filter by meal type, cook time, cuisine or diet.¹
Food communities to join or start, open to everyone or kept to the people you invite.^2,3
Grocery lists and meal plans you can share and edit together with family and friends.^3,4
To turn your shopping list into an online grocery order, in select countries.⁵

Choose Chefra if you want to:

Import a recipe by pasting a link from a recipe website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or X.Works when the post or page has readable text, captions or speech; some posts can't be read (login walls, no text at all).
Share any recipe as a web link anyone can open without an account — with a rich preview in iMessage and WhatsApp — or send it to your feed, a Kitchen, email, text or your phone's share sheet.Only recipes set to Public or Unlisted can be shared by link; private recipes can't.
Download all your data — a full account archive, plus your recipes as a CSV file.
No ads, anywhere in Chefra.

02Side by side

Feature by feature

Chefra and Samsung Food, feature by feature
Feature	Chefra	Samsung Food
Totals on the grocery list	Chefra Chefra totals your grocery list automatically. Items that can't be added together show as one line marked 'Listed separately', and 'to taste' items stay their own row. For everyday foods Chefra estimates across different measures (cups and grams, pieces and cups) using USDA FoodData Central weights, marked with '~'.	Samsung Food Its shopping list combines ingredients and clears out extras.⁵ Adding up different units: Not confirmed
How the list is organized	Chefra Grocery items sort themselves into food groups (Premium), and each item can carry its own store and a note.	Samsung Food Sorts the list by aisle or by recipe, and you can add your own notes and rearrange items.⁵
From meal plan to grocery list	Chefra Send the ingredients from today's, this week's or this month's meal plan to your grocery list, skipping what's already on it.	Samsung Food Adds a meal plan's ingredients to your shopping list; you pick which ones to add.^5,6
Getting recipes in	Chefra Import a recipe from a link, a photo or screenshot, or pasted text — or share it into Chefra straight from another app.Sharing straight into Chefra from another app works in the Android app and in the web app installed on an Android phone; it is not available in the iPhone or iPad app yet.	Samsung Food Saves recipes from websites by pasting a link, from your phone's browser and other apps through its share extension, and from your computer with its Chrome extension. You can also scan recipes from photos and build your own.⁷ A basic account gets 3 free recipe scans from photos, and subscribers can scan as many as they like (Samsung Food+).⁷
Social media	Chefra Import a recipe by pasting a link from a recipe website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or X.Works when the post or page has readable text, captions or speech; some posts can't be read (login walls, no text at all).	Samsung Food Its share extension saves recipes from your favorite apps; its help center names Facebook.⁷ Instagram, TikTok and YouTube: Not confirmed
Many recipes at once	Chefra Import a big batch of recipes at once from a list of links or a spreadsheet, straight into a cookbook — it runs in the background and keeps a history (Premium).	Samsung Food Not confirmed
Meal planner	Chefra Plan meals on a day, week or month calendar — saved recipes or quick free-text meals, with your own meal times — then adjust servings, undo changes, clear a stretch, or copy a day's plan to other dates.	Samsung Food A weekly and daily meal planner, free for all users: drag recipes between days, add notes, change start dates and schedule recurring meals. Weekly meal plans tailored to you by AI (Samsung Food+) are part of the paid plan.⁶
Nutrition	Chefra See estimated calories and nutrition per serving for any recipe.Limited per day on the free plan.	Samsung Food Shows nutrition information and calorie counts for any recipe you save, even ones you build yourself. Nutrition goal tracking (Samsung Food+) monitors your macros, micronutrients and calories.^8,9
Cooking with other people	Chefra Follow other cooks and scroll a live feed — like, comment, repost, save and share posts, and choose whether each post is public, followers-only or private. Inside a Kitchen or Circle, post photos and recipes, comment, like, @mention members and search past posts.	Samsung Food Join, follow or start food communities to share recipes, ask questions, give cooking advice, and rate and review recipes.²
Sharing a recipe	Chefra Share any recipe as a web link anyone can open without an account — with a rich preview in iMessage and WhatsApp — or send it to your feed, a Kitchen, email, text or your phone's share sheet.Only recipes set to Public or Unlisted can be shared by link; private recipes can't.	Samsung Food Shares recipes and collections, as well as shopping lists and meal plans, with anyone who has a Samsung Food account.³
Where it runs	Chefra Works in any browser, installs to your home screen, and is on the App Store and Google Play.	Samsung Food Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, also on the Samsung Galaxy Store, plus a web app and a Chrome extension.⁸
Getting your data out	Chefra Download all your data — a full account archive, plus your recipes as a CSV file.	Samsung Food A full backup you can download: Not confirmed
Price	Chefra Free plan and Premium — see Pricing	Samsung Food Free to download, with in-app purchases.^1,4 Samsung Food+: US$6.99 a month or US$59.99 a year, each with a 7-day free trial.^1,9 Samsung Food+ also brings an ad-free experience.⁶

Not confirmed means Samsung Food's own pages don't say either way. It doesn't mean Samsung Food can't.

03Beyond the table

Where Samsung Food is strong

Lets you add your diet, food allergies, avoidances and dislikes to your account.⁶
Connects with Samsung SmartThings Cooking.¹
192,000 community notes and tips shared by home cooks.¹
Comes in 7 languages on the App Store.¹
Rated 4.8 out of 5 from 6.4K ratings on the App Store, and 4.5 from 23K reviews on Google Play, with 1M+ downloads and an Editors' Choice badge there.^1,4

Also in Chefra

Chefra won't merge things that only look alike — dried and fresh oregano, ground and whole cumin, red and white onions, salted and unsalted butter, canned and fresh tomatoes all stay on separate lines, even when the difference is written in brackets. Prep words like chopped, diced or minced don't keep lines apart.
Snap a photo of a grocery list — handwritten or printed — and Chefra turns it into items on your list.
Clearing checked-off grocery items doesn't delete them — they move into that list's library, and one tap adds them back.
Deleted grocery items go to that list's trash and can be restored — an item deleted while ticked comes back ticked.

04Switching

Switching from Samsung Food

Import a recipe from a link, a photo or screenshot, or pasted text — or share it into Chefra straight from another app.Sharing straight into Chefra from another app works in the Android app and in the web app installed on an Android phone; it is not available in the iPhone or iPad app yet.
Import a big batch of recipes at once from a list of links or a spreadsheet, straight into a cookbook — it runs in the background and keeps a history (Premium).

05About

About this comparison

This page is written by the team that makes Chefra, one of the two apps it compares.
Everything it says about Samsung Food comes from Samsung Food's own website, help pages or app store listings, each listed below with the day it was checked. Apps change, so check Samsung Food's own pages too before you decide.
"Not confirmed" means those pages don't say either way.
Prices are US prices, as shown on the day they were checked.
Product names belong to their owners. Chefra isn't affiliated with Samsung Food's maker, who didn't review this page.
Spotted something wrong or out of date? Tell us through the Contact page.

Sources

Samsung Food: Meal Planner on the App Store, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: Recipe Sharing App and Communities, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food Help: Sharing & Collaboration on Samsung Food, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: Meal Planner on Google Play, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: Grocery List App, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: Free Meal Planner, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food Help: How to Save Recipes to Your Samsung Food Recipe Box, checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: The Ultimate Cooking App (samsungfood.com), checked October 9, 2026
Samsung Food: Food Plus, checked October 9, 2026

Questions

How do I get my recipes into Chefra?

Import a recipe from a link, a photo or screenshot, or pasted text — or share it into Chefra straight from another app. Sharing straight into Chefra from another app works in the Android app and in the web app installed on an Android phone; it is not available in the iPhone or iPad app yet.

Can Chefra import recipes from Instagram or TikTok?

Yes. Import a recipe by pasting a link from a recipe website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or X. Works when the post or page has readable text, captions or speech; some posts can't be read (login walls, no text at all).

Does Chefra total the grocery list?

Yes. Chefra totals your grocery list automatically. Items that can't be added together show as one line marked 'Listed separately', and 'to taste' items stay their own row. For everyday foods Chefra estimates across different measures (cups and grams, pieces and cups) using USDA FoodData Central weights, marked with '~'.

Does Chefra show nutrition information?

Yes. See estimated calories and nutrition per serving for any recipe. Limited per day on the free plan.

Does Chefra have ads?

No ads, anywhere in Chefra.