America's Test Kitchen vs Zest: Meal Planner & Helper
America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen LP
App Store
$0/mo
~$0/yr · 1.7M installs
VS
Zest: Meal Planner & Helper
Culi, Inc.
App Store
$9.1K/mo
~$108.7K/yr · 285K installs
Revenue winner
Zest: Meal Planner & Helper wins
+905500% vs other
Installs winner
America's Test Kitchen wins
+505% vs other
MAU winner
America's Test Kitchen wins
+515% vs other
Rating winner
America's Test Kitchen wins
+5% vs other
Why Zest: Meal Planner & Helper is winning
Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- Zest: Meal Planner & Helper earns roughly 9055× more per month than America's Test Kitchen - $9.1K vs $0.
- Subscription model. Zest: Meal Planner & Helper runs a $9.99/mo subscription that compounds; America's Test Kitchen relies on one-shot IAP or ads.
- More monetization surfaces. Zest: Meal Planner & Helper runs 5 IAP tiers vs 0 - more chances to convert users at the right price.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
America's Test Kitchen
vs
Zest: Meal Planner & Helper
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$0
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$9.1K
Annual revenue (est.)
$0
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$108.7K
Lifetime installs (est.)
1.7M
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285K
Monthly active users (est.)?
207K
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34K
App Store rating
4.92★
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4.70★
Total ratings
16K
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4K
US grossing rank
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Cheapest monthly sub
No sub
▶
$9.99
IAP tiers detected
0 tiers
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5 tiers
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Price
- Free
- Released
- May 16, 2018
- Last updated
- Apr 29, 2026
- File size
- 111.3 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 6.12.0
- Languages
- English
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Dec 24, 2021
- Last updated
- May 4, 2026
- File size
- 165.0 MB
- Content rating
- 17+
- Version
- 9.9.2
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish
America's Test Kitchen trajectory
Zest: Meal Planner & Helper trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, America's Test Kitchen or Zest: Meal Planner & Helper? v
Zest: Meal Planner & Helper earns about $9.1K per month, while America's Test Kitchen earns about $0. That is a ∞× revenue gap (~$9.1K more per month for Zest: Meal Planner & Helper). Annual revenue: America's Test Kitchen ≈ $0/year, Zest: Meal Planner & Helper ≈ $108.7K/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, America's Test Kitchen or Zest: Meal Planner & Helper? v
America's Test Kitchen leads with about 1.7M estimated downloads vs 285K for Zest: Meal Planner & Helper - a 6.0× gap. America's Test Kitchen's App Store downloads are estimated from 16K ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Zest: Meal Planner & Helper's App Store downloads are estimated from 4K ratings.
Are America's Test Kitchen and Zest: Meal Planner & Helper in the same App Store category and competing for the same money? v
Yes - both apps sit in the Food & Drink category, which means they compete directly for the same paying users and category-level wallet share. Direct competitors, head-to-head.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do America's Test Kitchen and Zest: Meal Planner & Helper offer? v
America's Test Kitchen: no IAP detected on the public listing. Zest: Meal Planner & Helper: IAP range 5 tiers detected. America's Test Kitchen runs a "No App Store revenue (monetizes off-store)" monetization model; Zest: Meal Planner & Helper runs "Subscription (~$8.33/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, America's Test Kitchen or Zest: Meal Planner & Helper? v
America's Test Kitchen edges ahead with ★ 4.9 vs ★ 4.7 (gap of 0.2 stars). Rating volume: America's Test Kitchen 16K ratings, Zest: Meal Planner & Helper 4K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these America's Test Kitchen vs Zest: Meal Planner & Helper revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $0 for America's Test Kitchen and $9.1K for Zest: Meal Planner & Helper are derived from App Store grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Food & Drink) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
How do I compare America's Test Kitchen or Zest: Meal Planner & Helper to a different App Store app? v
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