Terms of Use

Last updated: November 12, 2026

Using the app

Cooking Scientist is for personal, non-commercial use. Be kind in the coach chat and do not try to break or misuse the service. We may suspend accounts that abuse it.

Cooking, food safety and nutrition

Lessons and the coach are educational. Cooking involves heat, knives and food safety risks, and you are responsible for how you cook. Use a thermometer for meat and follow safe handling guidance. Calorie and nutrition figures in the app are estimates and are not medical or dietary advice. Talk to a doctor or dietitian about health decisions and allergies.

All Lessons (one-time purchase)

• Unit 1 is free. All Lessons is a one-time purchase of $9.99 (prices may vary by region) that opens every lesson after Unit 1 on your Apple ID. It is not a subscription and does not renew.
• All Lessons does not include Cook with Chef Fizz, the larger recipe import allowance or the larger Scientist allowance. Those are part of Plus.
• You can restore it on a new device with Restore purchases. Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies.

Cooking Scientist Plus

• Plus includes every lesson, all 40 experiments, Cook with Chef Fizz, up to 40 recipe imports a day and more Scientist messages. Plus Yearly is $59.99 per year after a 7-day free trial. Plus Monthly is $9.99 per month. Prices may vary by region.
• Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, after any free trial.
• Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
• Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under its policies.

Recipes you import

The Cook tab lets you save recipes by pasting a link or choosing screenshots. Only import content you have the right to use for your own cooking. Imported recipes are kept on your device for your personal use, with a link back to the source, and remain the property of their authors. Up to 40 imports a day are included with Plus. AI-extracted recipes can contain mistakes: check amounts, temperatures and allergens before you cook.

Photos you publish (Who cooked it better?)

After you cook one of our recipes you can choose to publish your check-in photo to the game Who cooked it better?, where other players see it beside another plate of the same dish and vote. Publishing is optional and needs Sign in with Apple. When you publish:

• Only post photos you took yourself, of food you cooked. No people, no text or contact details, no ads, and nothing sexual, violent, hateful, harassing, illegal or otherwise objectionable.
• We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. Every photo is checked automatically before anyone can see it. Players can report a photo or block a cook, and a photo reported by several players is hidden until we look at it. We review reports within 24 hours, remove photos that break these rules, and stop accounts that break them from publishing.
• Your photo stays yours. You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to store it and show it to other players in the app while it is published. Your name is not shown with it.
• Delete a photo any time from your Inbox (Profile, Inbox). Deleting your account deletes all of them.
• Photos marked "sample" and credited to Chef Fizz's Test Kitchen are AI-generated by us so the game has plates to show. They are not other players' cooking.

To report a photo, tap the button on it in the game. You can also email support@rideaustudio.ca.

Content

The lessons, ingredient entries and design are ours and are licensed to you for personal use. Content you send to the coach remains yours; you allow us to process it to give you a reply.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms and will change the date above when we do. Contact: support@rideaustudio.ca.