It was founded by a series of entrepreneurs including Vimal and Gill Khosla, Ollie Lloyd and Alastair Creamer.
The chefs included in the app were: Marcus Wareing, Nathan Outlaw, Tom Aikens, Martin Wishart, James Sommerin, Shaun Rankin, Frances Atkins, Nuno Mendes, Pascal Aussignac, Daniel Clifford, Agnar Sverisson, Simon Hulstone.
Great British Chefs' third app, 'Summertime', was produced in partnership with the online supermarket Ocado with a shopping list feature to purchase ingredients.
[4] A portion of the revenue from the sale of the Summertime app went to the charity Action Against Hunger.
[6] Reviews of the iOS apps were positive with The Telegraph praising the low price of compared to traditional cookbooks and the "superb photography [which] makes it equally lovely to look at".