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Samsung Food vs WPS Office

Samsung Food logo

Samsung Food

Productivity

Recipe and grocery list app, formerly Whisk, rebranded after Samsung acquisition and integrated with Samsung appliances

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
WPS Office logo

WPS Office

Productivity

Office suite from Kingsoft with Microsoft file compatibility, including maintained Linux builds

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Samsung Food the appliance integration, its most distinctive feature, is only useful to someone who owns compatible Samsung kitchen hardware.; WPS Office the free tier is funded by advertising, and the adverts and upgrade prompts appear inside the editing window rather than on a website, so the cost of not paying is charged in interruptions while you work.
  • They diverge on capability: Samsung Food covers Recipe import, WPS Office covers One application.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Samsung Food and WPS Office actually diverge.

Attributes where Samsung Food and WPS Office differ
AttributeSamsung FoodWPS Office
Pricing modelFree, no subscriptionfreemium
PlatformsiOS, Android, WebWeb

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Productivity).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Samsung Food

  • Recipe import
  • Automatic grocery list generation
  • AI meal suggestions
  • Samsung appliance integration
  • Nutrition information
  • Shared lists

Only in WPS Office

  • One application
  • Microsoft format handling
  • PDF tools
  • Linux builds
  • WPS AI
  • Cloud storage
  • Mobile apps
  • Templates

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Samsung Food

  • Someone who owns Samsung kitchen appliances and wants recipes to send settings directly to the ovennot WPS Office
  • A household wanting a shared grocery list that builds itself from saved recipesnot WPS Office
  • A home cook who saves recipes from social media and wants ingredients turned into a shopping list automaticallynot WPS Office
  • Someone who previously used Whisk and needs to know it is the same product under a new namenot WPS Office

WPS Office

  • A Linux desktop where the free alternatives keep breaking the layout of colleagues' DOCX and PPTX files.not Samsung Food
  • A small business that edits and converts PDFs regularly and does not want an Acrobat subscription for each person.not Samsung Food
  • Students and home users who need Microsoft-compatible documents without a Microsoft 365 subscription.not Samsung Food
  • Older or low-specification Windows machines where the full Microsoft suite is slow to install and slow to run.not Samsung Food

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Samsung Food

  • The appliance integration, its most distinctive feature, is only useful to someone who owns compatible Samsung kitchen hardware.
  • The rebrand from Whisk to Samsung Food in 2023 means older references, saved links or bookmarks under the Whisk name can confuse returning users.
  • As a Samsung ecosystem product, its long-term roadmap is tied to Samsung hardware strategy rather than to the grocery list feature on its own.
  • Recipe import from arbitrary websites and social media can be inconsistent depending on how a source page is structured.
  • It lacks some of the granular list customisation, such as manual sorting by store aisle, that dedicated list apps like AnyList and Bring focus on.

WPS Office

  • The free tier is funded by advertising, and the adverts and upgrade prompts appear inside the editing window rather than on a website, so the cost of not paying is charged in interruptions while you work.
  • Kingsoft is a Chinese company and cloud sync stores documents on its infrastructure by default, which is a procurement blocker for government, defence and many regulated buyers no matter how well the software performs.
  • Complex Microsoft files still drift, so heavily formatted documents with tracked changes, PowerPoint animations and workbooks using recent functions or VBA macros can open with differences that only become visible when the file goes back to a Microsoft user.
  • There is no tenant administration, so an organisation has no central console for licences, policy, retention or offboarding, and every installation has to be managed on the individual machine.
  • Cloud storage stops at 1 GB free and 20 GB per user when paid, so it works as sync for documents and stops being viable for anyone handling media, scans or large PDF archives.

Pricing, plan by plan

Samsung Food

Free
  • Samsung FoodFree
    • Recipe import and saving
    • Automatic grocery lists
    • Samsung appliance integration

WPS Office

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the WPS Office review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Samsung Food if

  • You need recipe import.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on iOS, Android, Web.
  • You also want automatic grocery list generation.
Samsung Food review

Choose WPS Office if

  • You need one application.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You also want microsoft format handling.
WPS Office review

Questions people ask

Is Samsung Food or WPS Office better?
Neither clearly leads. Samsung Food starts at Free and WPS Office at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Samsung Food or WPS Office?
Samsung Food starts at Free and WPS Office at Free.
Does Samsung Food or WPS Office run on more platforms?
Samsung Food runs on iOS, Android, Web. WPS Office runs on Web.
Can I use Samsung Food for free?
Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Samsung Food best used for?
Samsung Food is most often used for someone who owns samsung kitchen appliances and wants recipes to send settings directly to the oven, a household wanting a shared grocery list that builds itself from saved recipes, a home cook who saves recipes from social media and wants ingredients turned into a shopping list automatically, someone who previously used whisk and needs to know it is the same product under a new name. Of those, someone who owns samsung kitchen appliances and wants recipes to send settings directly to the oven and a household wanting a shared grocery list that builds itself from saved recipes are not what WPS Office is typically brought in for.
What can Samsung Food do that WPS Office cannot?
Samsung Food covers Recipe import, Automatic grocery list generation, AI meal suggestions, Samsung appliance integration. WPS Office covers One application, Microsoft format handling, PDF tools, Linux builds.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Samsung Food: Is Samsung Food the same as Whisk?

Yes, Samsung acquired Whisk in 2019 and rebranded it entirely to Samsung Food in August 2023; Whisk no longer exists as a separate app.

WPS Office: Will it open and save Microsoft Office files properly?

It reads and writes DOCX, XLSX and PPTX natively and ordinary documents round-trip cleanly. Files with macros, tracked changes or complex animation can differ, so check anything going back to a Microsoft user.

Samsung Food: Is Samsung Food free?

Yes, it has no subscription or paid tier.

WPS Office: Is the free version genuinely free?

Yes, and it is not time-limited. It shows adverts, caps cloud storage at 1 GB, and holds back PDF editing and conversion, text recognition and electronic signature for the paid plan.

Samsung Food: Do I need Samsung appliances to use it?

No, the core recipe and grocery list features work without them, but appliance integration only works with compatible Samsung hardware.

WPS Office: Does it run on Linux?

Yes, with maintained desktop builds, which is unusual for a commercial office suite. The Linux version can trail Windows on newer features.

WPS Office: Is it suitable for a regulated organisation?

Usually not without a review. The vendor is Chinese, cloud sync is on by default, and there is no administrative or compliance tooling of the kind a regulated buyer will be asked to evidence.

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