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Cooklist: Pantry & Cooking App

The best all-in-one system for pantry inventory, recipes, shopping lists and…

Cooklist
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating3.2★2.3K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperCooklist

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 5 users report a free trial turning into a charge; 8 users report the basics being behind a paywall and 1 more report. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 400 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

Paywalls and prices

Pressure and ad claims

From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.105.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-25 .

The store currently lists version 1.105.3, updated 2026-06-17.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

The best all-in-one system for pantry inventory, recipes, shopping lists and grocery price comparison!

Discover simple easy and healthy food recipes that you already have the ingredient for and within seconds create simple grocery shopping lists to buy the food ingredient you need.

Cooklist introduces an entirely new way to think about your relationship with cooking and grocery shopping. It connects to your grocery store loyalty cards and automatically downloads all of your food purchases into a digital pantry. Over 1 million cooking recipes are then matched to the groceries you have in your fridge and pantry and filtered to show you a feed of recipes you can cook with the food you already have.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 3 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Trial converts to a charge

One source only

Trial converts to a charge: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 80 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.3% of the 400 reviews read.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 80 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.3% of the 400 reviews read.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 50 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
2.0% of the 400 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

400 reviews read · 3 review-based observations

400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Trial converts to a charge

Shown, not confirmed

Day 7, trial ended and I was billed. im only planned 1 week free to try it. Right now I'm trying to plan the week and build a grocery list. The app is very slow and locks up. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Ultra which should have no issue…

3★ · Google Play · 2025-08-24

Installed it thinking it'd be a great app for limited items I have at home to make recipes with. It doesn't tell you there's a free trial or in app purchases after a week free. Tried deleting account, did what it prompted, and refuses to…

1★ · Google Play · 2024-11-21

Doesn't disclose there is a free trial until after you have registered an account! Also doesn't say what the fee amount is before you start your free trial! Should say what they are going to charge when the free trial ends! Shady!

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-16

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

Didn't even try the trial because it felt like a huge bait and switch. I think part of that is on me for not reading the description closely prior to installing, but it should've been noted in the advertisements for this app since that…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-02-10

bait and switch on paid app. boo!

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-07

Misleading advertising. "Contains in-app purchases" leads me to believe it's a free app with extra features you can pay for; however, this app costs money to even use beyond the first week. Plenty of websites can provide me with recipes…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-05-22

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

Great app overall. we use it to keep track of expiring food. Its wonderful for finding recipes using ingredients in your pantry. I do have some grips. 1: Allergies should NOT be locked behind a paywal!! its an allergy, it can literally…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-01-04

Great idea, but bad execution. Walmart integration is constantly broken and the onboarding process makes it seem like you have to pay to use the app. If you were to theoretically get around that and get to the free version (I saw the free…

2★ · Google Play · 2026-08-31

Unless you're willing to dish out $50 a year for this app, don't bother. Even the most basic functionality, like increasing the serving size, is locked behind a paywall.

1★ · Google Play · 2024-12-03

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 25 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.105.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-25 .

The store currently lists version 1.105.3, updated 2026-06-17.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 1.105.3 · 2026-06-17

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
cooklist-google-com-cooklist-android
Assessment date
25 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
400
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-25 from 400 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-25 Version analyzed: 1.105.33 independent signals400 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
3.19 ★ · 2,272 ratings
Version
1.105.3
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Cooklist
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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