# Chive: Recipes & Nutrition — Discover, Organize, and Cook

> Recipe discovery, meal planning, and nutrition tracking app. (iPhone/iPad app by Aaron Parry.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chive-recipes-and-nutrition/id6803703644 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Aaron Parry](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803703646)
- Category: Food & Drink
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 62 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-24
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chive-recipes-and-nutrition/id6803703644/reviews.md

## What is Chive?

Find recipes that fit how you actually eat.

Search naturally—try “high-protein dinner under 30 minutes” or “make it dairy free.” Or type the foods you have, like “chicken thighs, broccoli, potatoes,” and find recipes that cook with them. Refine your results with filters and compare useful nutrition details.

With a free Chive account, you can:

• Tell Chive How you eat: dietary needs, foods you avoid, and favorites
• See dietary marks, ingredient warnings, and ideas for swaps
• Set Your day nutrition targets and compare recipes with your daily numbers
• Save recipes to your library and browse recipes that fit your diet
• Browse every recipe site and creator on its own page, and heart your favorites
• Build and check off grocery lists, and plan meals across your week
• Share groceries and meal plans with your household
• Import recipe links from Safari and other apps
• Create private recipes from photos, pasted text, or dictation
• Keep a creator's video and written recipe together with recipe links
• See nutrition beside recipe pages with the built-in Safari extension
• Learn any feature from short guides, one tap from Home

Chive credits and links to original publishers. Private imports are not added to public search; you can choose to share one by its link.

Nutrition and personalized suggestions are general information, not medical advice. Dietary marks are informational and do not guarantee a recipe is safe for an allergy. Always confirm ingredients and labels.

## Key features

- Natural language recipe search
- Ingredient-based recipe suggestions
- Customizable dietary profiles
- Nutrition comparison and tracking
- Grocery list creation and sharing
- Meal planning
- Recipe import from web

## Is Chive safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Chive.

## Is Chive legit?

Chive: Recipes & Nutrition has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chive is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chive-recipes-and-nutrition/id6803703644/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Life changer

*2026-10-11*

So many features that have transformed how I save recipes and shop. as someone with allergies this makes it so easy to filter recipes. I love that I can add from the web of TikTok too.  My favorite feature is the shared kitchen so everyone in my family can add what they want for the week and all the ingredients appear on my grocery list!

### 5/5 — exactly what you need

*2026-10-07*

endless recipes and fantastic UX

## Frequently asked questions about Chive

### What is Chive?

Chive is a free app that helps you discover recipes based on your dietary needs and ingredients you have. It also offers meal planning, grocery list creation, and nutrition tracking features.

### Does Chive have ads?

No, Chive is ad-free, allowing for an uninterrupted experience while you discover recipes and plan your meals.

### How does Chive handle dietary needs?

Chive allows you to set your dietary needs, foods you avoid, and favorites. It displays dietary marks, ingredient warnings, and suggests swaps for recipes.

### Can I plan meals for the week with Chive?

Yes, Chive enables you to plan meals across your week and build grocery lists for them. You can also share these plans with your household.

### How often is Chive updated?

The latest version of Chive is 1.3.0, and it was last updated on October 15, 2026. Updates typically bring new features and improvements.

### What devices does Chive support?

Chive is currently supported on iPhone devices.

### Is Chive suitable for users with allergies?

Chive provides dietary marks and ingredient warnings, but these are informational and do not guarantee a recipe is safe for an allergy. Users should always confirm ingredients and labels.

### Can I import recipes from other apps or websites into Chive?

Yes, Chive allows you to import recipe links from Safari and other apps. You can also create private recipes from photos, pasted text, or dictation.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-21

Help, source pages and tidier recipes.

• Tap the (?) on Home for short guides to everything Chive does. Each one ends with Do it now, which takes you straight there.
• Every recipe site and creator has its own page. Tap a recipe's byline to see all their recipes, search inside them, and heart your favorites so they rank higher for you.
• Choose what to add: when a recipe goes on your grocery list, untick what you already have.
• Your grocery list now follows a recipe's servings: change them on the recipe and the amounts on your list update to match.
• Ingredient lists are easier to read, with each food on its own line and prep notes underneath.

This update also tidies grocery lists and improves search.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-15

Cook with what you have.

• Type the foods you have, like “chicken thighs, broccoli, potatoes,” and Chive finds recipes that use them, on a new “Cooking with…” shelf.
• Search one ingredient, like “tofu” or “oats,” to see the recipes that cook with it, meals first.
• Each card shows which of your foods it uses. Open one to see your foods marked in the ingredients, and main dishes suggest sides with what's left.
• Grocery rows now show which recipe each item is for.
• Home shows your last lineup right away while it refreshes.

This update also improves search and kitchen invites.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-10

Make Chive fit the way you eat.

• How you eat: set your dietary needs, foods you avoid, and favorites. Type or dictate your preferences, then review and save them.
• Search that follows your needs, with new filters to narrow your results.
• Clearer dietary marks and ingredient warnings on recipes, with suggestions for swaps. Always check ingredients and labels for your allergies.
• Your day: choose your daily nutrition targets and see recipe nutrition in that context.
• Home and Library views that help you find recipes for your diet.
• More recipe links: keep the creator's video and written recipe together, compare versions, and choose which source to open.

This update also improves grocery check-offs, recipe importing, and text entry.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-29

Chive now works in Safari. Turn on the Chive extension to see a recipe's nutrition beside the page and save it to your library.

Search shows your own recipes as you type, with recipe suggestions and the recipes you opened recently.

Home and Library open with Cooking this week: the recipes you've planned or put on your grocery list.

Tap any ingredient to see what it adds to the label, or tap a line of the label to see which ingredients it comes from.

Share a recipe you added from a photo, text or video with a private link. It still never shows up in search.

Your profile has a new home for your food profile, meal-planning targets, account and help.

Also: Add meal in Plan suggests recipes from your list and recent saves, tapping the tab you're on takes you back to its start, a shared link opens one importing screen, Finish shopping leaves unchecked items behind unless you carry them, and editing an ingredient's amount keeps what you typed.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-24

No release notes.

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