Comparison · Updated 20 Oct 2026
Looking for a DishGen alternative?
DishGen is a capable AI recipe and meal-plan generator with a generous free plan. Cheffify is built for a narrower job: deciding tonight’s dinner from what’s already in your fridge. Here’s an honest side-by-side, including where DishGen wins.
Free plan: 5 recipes a week. No card needed.
The short answer
- You want lots of free generations: 15 credits a week.
- You like describing any idea and refining it in a chat.
- You need detailed nutrition labels or commercial rights (Pro).
- You want an iOS app.
- You start from a messy fridge, not a recipe idea.
- You want AI dish photos without paying $159 a year.
- You want to see what was skipped and what’s worth buying.
- You cook for a household and want to share recipes with family.
Side by side
| Feature | DishGen | Cheffify |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | “Your Personalized AI Kitchen Copilot.” Recipes and meal plans from any idea. | Dinner from what you already have. |
| Free plan | 15 credits a week 1 credit = 1 recipe or meal plan. |
5 recipes a week, plus one fridge photo scan. |
| Paid plans | Premium: $72/year ($6/month billed annually), or $7.99/month on iOS.Pro: $159/year. | Pro: €4.99/month or €29.99/year. |
| Free trial | 7 days on paid plans. | 7 days on Pro monthly. |
| Daily limits on paid plans | 75 credits a day (Premium), 150 (Pro). | Fair use: 30 recipes a day. |
| AI dish images | Pro only On the $159/year plan. |
Included in Pro €29.99/year. |
| A messy fridge | “Describe any idea or ingredient list.” It doesn’t say whether every item gets used; you refine the result in a chat. | Picks what goes together, shows what it skipped, and names what’s worth buying. |
| Nutrition | AI nutrition labels: 10 a week (Premium), 25+ a week (Pro). | Nutrition and macros on every recipe (Pro). |
| Apps | Web and iOS. | Web app for any phone or computer.No App Store or Google Play app yet. |
What DishGen does well
DishGen’s free Basic plan includes 15 credits a week, about 60 recipes or meal plans a month. That’s far more than most AI recipe apps give away. You can describe any idea or ingredient list, then tweak the result in a chat.
Premium adds 75 credits a day, a personalised AI model, AI recipe editing, 10 nutrition labels a week and no ads. Pro adds 150 credits a day, commercial rights, AI recipe images, 25+ nutrition labels a week and a Privacy Mode.
If you mostly need volume, or you write recipes for work, those are real advantages.
Where Cheffify is different
- It starts from your fridge, not from an idea. Give it a long, mismatched list and it picks the handful of ingredients that make a familiar dish.
- It shows its working. You see what it used, what it skipped and why, and the one or two things worth buying.
- AI dish photos come with Pro. On Cheffify they’re part of the €29.99-a-year plan. On DishGen they’re reserved for the $159-a-year Pro plan.
- It’s made for households. Share recipes with your family, plan meal prep, and turn any recipe into a shopping list.
How Cheffify handles a messy fridge
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Tell it what you have
Type your ingredients, or snap a photo of your fridge. Pin anything that has to be used tonight.
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It picks what goes together
Cheffify chooses the handful of ingredients that make a familiar dish (a frittata, stir-fry, pasta, traybake or soup) and assumes basics like oil, salt and pepper.
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Cook, with nothing hidden
You see what it used, what it skipped and why, and the one or two things worth buying. Save it, add it to your shopping list or share it.
Spinach, pepper & feta frittata
25 min · Easy · Serves 2
Price compared
Over a year, DishGen Premium is $72 and DishGen Pro, the plan with AI images, is $159. Cheffify Pro is €29.99 a year with AI dish photos included, or €4.99 a month after a 7-day free trial.
On the free side, DishGen is more generous: 15 credits a week against Cheffify’s 5 recipes a week. If free volume is what you care about most, DishGen wins that one.
Questions people ask
Is DishGen free?
Yes. DishGen’s Basic plan is free and includes 15 credits a week, where one credit is one recipe or meal plan. Some third-party sites say 15 a month, but DishGen’s own pricing page says per week.
How much does DishGen Premium cost?
On DishGen’s website, Premium is $72 a year ($6 a month billed annually) and Pro is $159 a year ($13.25 a month billed annually). In the iOS app, Premium is $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Both paid plans come with a 7-day trial.
Does DishGen create AI images of recipes?
Only on its Pro plan ($159 a year), according to DishGen’s pricing page. Cheffify includes AI dish photos in Pro (€4.99 a month or €29.99 a year). The Free plan uses placeholder art instead.
Does Cheffify use all of my ingredients?
No, on purpose. It picks the ingredients that go together for one familiar dish, tells you what it skipped and why, and lets you pin anything that has to be used tonight.
Is there a free DishGen alternative?
Cheffify’s Free plan gives you 5 recipes a week plus one fridge photo scan. SuperCook is free too, but it searches existing recipes rather than writing new ones. ChatGPT and Gemini are free for occasional use.
Does Cheffify have an app?
Cheffify runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, and you can add it to your home screen like an app. There’s no App Store or Google Play app yet.
Open the fridge. We’ll pick dinner.
Tell Cheffify what you have and it picks what goes together, writes the recipe and tells you what it skipped. 5 free recipes every week, in your browser, with nothing to install.
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Sources
Competitor details come from their own websites, app-store listings and the reviews below, checked on 20 October 2026. Prices change; check each site before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Tell us via support and we’ll fix it.
We make Cheffify, so read this with that in mind. We’ve tried to be fair and to say where other apps are the better choice.