CostPal: Price Tracker vs Pestle: Recipe Manager

CostPal: Price Tracker

Gravi Opus Studios, LLC
App Store
$56/mo
~$668/yr · 18K installs
VS

Pestle: Recipe Manager

Will Bishop
App Store
$1.1K/mo
~$13.1K/yr · 137K installs
Revenue winner Pestle: Recipe Manager wins +1846% vs other
Installs winner Pestle: Recipe Manager wins +681% vs other
MAU winner Pestle: Recipe Manager wins +681% vs other
Rating winner Pestle: Recipe Manager wins +1% vs other

Why Pestle: Recipe Manager is winning

Top 3 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.

  1. Pestle: Recipe Manager earns roughly 19× more per month than CostPal: Price Tracker - $1.1K vs $56.
  2. Premium pricing. Pestle: Recipe Manager charges $2.99/mo vs CostPal: Price Tracker's $0.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
  3. Bigger install base. Pestle: Recipe Manager has ~137K lifetime installs vs CostPal: Price Tracker's ~18K - 7.8× the funnel top.

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Side-by-side metrics

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CostPal: Price Tracker
vs
Pestle: Recipe Manager
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$56
$1.1K
Annual revenue (est.)
$668
$13.1K
Lifetime installs (est.)
18K
137K
Monthly active users (est.)?
2K
16K
App Store rating
4.71★
4.74★
Total ratings
350
2K
US grossing rank
-
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-
Cheapest monthly sub
$0.99
$2.99
IAP tiers detected
10 tiers
6 tiers

CostPal: Price Tracker

Gravi Opus Studios, LLC
App Store
Category
Food & Drink
Price
Free
Released
Feb 5, 2023
Last updated
Apr 29, 2026
File size
64.8 MB
Content rating
4+
Version
5.5.0
Languages
English
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Pestle: Recipe Manager

Will Bishop
App Store
Category
Food & Drink
Price
Free
Released
Jan 20, 2022
Last updated
Feb 17, 2026
File size
102.6 MB
Content rating
17+
Version
3.0.11
Languages
Danish, English, French, German
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FAQ

Which makes more money, CostPal: Price Tracker or Pestle: Recipe Manager? v
Pestle: Recipe Manager earns about $1.1K per month, while CostPal: Price Tracker earns about $56. That is a 19.5× revenue gap (~$1.0K more per month for Pestle: Recipe Manager). Annual revenue: CostPal: Price Tracker ≈ $668/year, Pestle: Recipe Manager ≈ $13.1K/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, CostPal: Price Tracker or Pestle: Recipe Manager? v
Pestle: Recipe Manager leads with about 137K estimated downloads vs 18K for CostPal: Price Tracker - a 7.8× gap. CostPal: Price Tracker's App Store downloads are estimated from 349 ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. Pestle: Recipe Manager's App Store downloads are estimated from 2K ratings.
Are CostPal: Price Tracker and Pestle: Recipe Manager 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 CostPal: Price Tracker and Pestle: Recipe Manager offer? v
CostPal: Price Tracker: IAP range 10 tiers detected. Pestle: Recipe Manager: IAP range 6 tiers detected. CostPal: Price Tracker runs a "Subscription (~$0.83/mo)" monetization model; Pestle: Recipe Manager runs "Subscription (~$2.08/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, CostPal: Price Tracker or Pestle: Recipe Manager? v
Pestle: Recipe Manager edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.7 (gap of 0.0 stars). Rating volume: CostPal: Price Tracker 349 ratings, Pestle: Recipe Manager 2K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these CostPal: Price Tracker vs Pestle: Recipe Manager revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $56 for CostPal: Price Tracker and $1.1K for Pestle: Recipe Manager 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 CostPal: Price Tracker or Pestle: Recipe Manager to a different App Store app? v
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