# Recipe Cloud — Recipe Saver & Meal Planner

> Social recipe organizer for discovering, cooking, sharing, and planning meals. (iPhone/iPad app by Recipe Cloud LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recipe-cloud/id591635373 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Recipe Cloud LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/482752546)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 6 App Store ratings · 73 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2013-01-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recipe-cloud/id591635373/reviews.md

## What is Recipe Cloud?

RECIPE CLOUD: SAVE, ORGANIZE, PLAN & SHOP
Recipe Cloud is a recipe saver, recipe organizer, AI recipe scanner, meal planner, and grocery list app for home cooks. Save recipes from websites and social links, digitize paper recipes with a photo, organize your favorites into collections, plan meals for the week, and shop smarter in one app.

Build your own digital cookbook with recipes from food blogs, recipe websites, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, your own kitchen, and the Recipe Cloud community.

SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE
Import recipes from a URL and Recipe Cloud will help capture the title, image, ingredients, and directions. You can also paste social links from Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, preview the recipe, and save it to your library. Prefer to add your own? Create custom recipes with photos, servings, timing, grouped ingredients, directions, and private notes.

SCAN RECIPES WITH A PHOTO
Turn printed recipes, handwritten favorites, recipe cards, and cookbook pages into organized digital recipes with a simple photo. Recipe Cloud uses AI to capture the recipe details so you can review, edit, and save them to your collection.

ORGANIZE YOUR RECIPE COLLECTION
Keep recipes easy to find with custom collections, also called recipe books. Create collections for weeknight dinners, meal prep, healthy recipes, desserts, family favorites, holidays, or anything else you love to cook. Search your saved recipes, sort your library, and save recipes from other cooks.

DISCOVER NEW FAVORITES
Explore recipes, categories, and cooks from the Recipe Cloud community. Browse personalized feeds, popular recipes, recently added recipes, and recipes from people you follow. Search for recipes and people, browse popular categories, and filter by ingredients, cuisine, diet, course, and cooking technique.

COOK WITH CONFIDENCE
Every recipe includes a clean, easy-to-use page with ingredients, directions, timing, servings, author details, and notes. Scale servings from 1 to 100 and ingredient quantities update automatically. Highlight your current step while cooking, keep your screen awake, and open the original recipe in an in-app browser when needed.

PLAN MEALS FOR THE WEEK
Use the weekly meal planner to organize breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and more. Add meals from saved recipes or collections, edit meal notes, and plan around your schedule. Create a grocery list from this week’s meal plan or choose a custom date range. You can also share or copy your meal plan.

SHOP SMARTER
Turn recipes and meal plans into a grocery list. Add only the ingredients you need and keep your list grouped by aisle or section. Check off items while shopping, move completed items to history, restore items, edit names and aisles, and share your list as plain text.

COOKING IS BETTER WITH FRIENDS
Create a profile, follow cooks, browse community recipes, and see when others save your recipes. Discover ideas from home cooks, creators, bloggers, and brands, then save your favorites into your own library.

RECIPE CLOUD PLUS
Upgrade to Recipe Cloud Plus for more flexibility across your recipe library, meal planner, and grocery list.

Recipe Cloud Plus includes:
• Unlimited saved recipes
• Unlimited recipe books and collections
• Unlimited meal planning
• Smart grocery list features
• Private recipes and private collections
• No advertisements
• Access on iPhone, iPad, and web

ALSO INCLUDED
• Save recipe links from Safari and other apps with the share extension
• Sync your account with Recipe Cloud on the web
• Create and edit your profile
• Set dietary and cooking preferences
• Manage notification preferences
• Report content and block users when needed

Whether you are saving recipes from websites, scanning family favorites, planning meals, building a grocery list, or discovering new cooks, Recipe Cloud keeps your cooking life organized from save to shop.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Discover recipes from a vast database
- Meal planning for the week or month
- Smart grocery list generation
- Save recipes from websites and add custom ones
- Organize recipes into digital cookbooks
- Share recipes with friends and family

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipe Cloud Plus (Monthly) | $4.95 | per month |
| Recipe Cloud Plus (Yearly) | $38.95 | per year |


## What do users think of Recipe Cloud?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- ✨ Great recipe organizer
- 💡 Easy recipe import from web
- 📝 Ability to add own recipes
- 🍽️ Useful meal planner
- 🛒 Grocery list feature
- 👍 Intuitive and beautiful design
- 🌟 Good for beginners
- 🔄 App has improved over time (for some)
- 🌐 Social sharing features
- 🖼️ Recipes with pictures

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🚫 Recipe import not working
- 📉 App instability
- 😠 Lack of developer response
- 💸 Subscription model disliked
- 🤔 Confusing ad exits
- 💻 Desktop sign-in issues
- 🔄 Old layout missed
- ⚠️ Security concerns
- 🪲 Bugs not fixed
- 🚫 Limited free version
- 😵 Cumbersome navigation
- ❌ Faulty recipe import
- ⚠️ Inconsistent functionality
- 👎 Poor execution of ideas
- 🚫 Only selected sites for import
- 🛒 Meal planner useless without shopping list

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Recipe import feature no longer works
- App crashes when saving recipes
- App crashes when trying to save recipes from online
- App crashes when opening recipes
- App crashes when trying to access photos or camera
- Recipe import from safari integration not working well
- Login never works on Mac
- Edit recipes missing info when saved
- Can't add new recipes, prompted to upgrade
- Check off recipe function not working
- App asks for App Store password on every launch
- Progress indicator spins forever on splash screen
- Recipes disappear until app is shut down and reopened
- Folders don't appear unless app is restarted
- App shuts down every time you try to access photos or camera
- Hides next button when entering recipe
- App shuts down when trying to access photos or camera
- Blue screen and then crashes
- Doesn't store manual recipes
- Progress indicator spins forever

**Most requested features**

- Fix recipe import functionality
- Address constant crashing issues
- Improve desktop sign-in
- Fix bugs and improve functionality
- Add dark mode
- Allow printing of recipe books
- Search recipes by specific ingredients
- Add multiple pictures per recipe
- Improve meal planner with shopping list
- Allow asking questions and posting tips
- Bring back old layout

## Recent user reviews (10 of 73)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recipe-cloud/id591635373/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Finally, a recipe app I actually use!!!!

*2026-08-12*

This app is so fun and easy. I’m able to upload all of my personal family recipes and keep them in one spot. Along with finding new recipes from anywhere online and adding them to my grocery list, which is conveniently connected to Instacart.

### 5/5 — New and improved app!

*2026-07-16*

The new version is even better! I love the grocery list option! And the meal planner will come in handy! 100% recommend this app.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind review! We’re glad you’re enjoying the new version, especially the grocery list and meal planner. We have more improvements on the way and appreciate your recommendation.

### 1/5 — No Bug Fixes or Updates in 2 Years

*2023-04-18*

This used to be a very functional app. I’ve paid for the “pro” subscription for 4 years now but I will not be renewing my subscription this coming year. No one is managing/updating or fixing bugs on this app and it should be free if that’s the case. The recipe import feature no longer works, which is the primary function necessary for a mobile recipe app and this bug has been mentioned several times in these reviews by other users and yet the developer does not care to fix anything. I’ll be finding a new app and will begin transferring my recipes over so I can close my account as soon as possible. Such a shame, it was a great app and served my purposes well.

**Developer response:** Thank you for supporting Recipe Cloud for so many years. Since this review was posted, the app has been completely rebuilt, including a much more reliable recipe import experience, improved organization, meal planning, and shopping tools. We’re also actively maintaining the app and releasing updates regularly. We’d be grateful if you gave the new version another try.

### 1/5 — Bugs don’t get fixed

*2023-01-26, version 3.2.7*

If these people would actually put some effort into listening to reviewers input about the huge flaws and bugs this would be a great app. I’m not sure why I keep paying for the subscription. I would easily pay more if they would just show a little bit of accountability to the customer and fix bugs and improve functionality. It’s really a great app except for some key issues - one being faulty recipe import.

### 2/5 — Mostly OK

*2022-06-29*

I have been using recipe cloud for some time and have never been able to get a response from anyone when I email about being able to use my Mac to sign in. The sign in never works yet I am able to access on my I pad so feel that what is being said about logging in from desk top isn’t true. It can be somewhat cumbersome at times to navigate around the app and edit recipes when info is somehow missing when the recipe is being saved.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback, and we’re sorry you weren’t able to get the help you needed at the time. Since this review was posted, Recipe Cloud has been completely rebuilt, including an updated web app, improved recipe importing and editing, and easier navigation throughout the app. We’d be grateful if you gave the new version another try.

### 1/5 — From love to aggravated!

*2021-01-30, version 3.2.7*

I have been using the app for a few years now and loved it but now, not so much.  I can no longer add new recipes!  Each time I try I am urged to upgrade my subscription to what I already have!  Very unhappy!

### 1/5 — Major bugs not fixed or acknowledged.

*2020-06-22*

In general I really like this app. I have two issues with it which I’ve contacted them about and heard no response. The first has been going on for months. You can’t automatically add a recipe from a website anymore - it used to automatically populate the ingredients and directions from a website, but this function no longer works. The second has been going on for a week or so. The function to check off a recipe is not working right now. 

I hope the programmers can address these issues, because like I mentioned at the first, I think this is a great app and I really enjoy keeping all my recipes in it. Hope this does something. Thanks!

**Developer response:** Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and for continuing to support Recipe Cloud despite these issues. Since this review was posted, the app has been completely rebuilt, including a much more reliable recipe import experience and improvements throughout recipe management. We’re also actively maintaining the app and releasing updates regularly. We’d be grateful if you gave the latest version another try.

### 5/5 — Awesome app worth five stars

*2020-06-09*

This app is amazing! I love how you can post recipes in an instant where in some apps your have to subscribe and yata yata yata. Here you can just press the plus sign and boom you can post a recipe of your own or from the web! I also love how you can save other people recipe so you don’t have to look for it every single time. This app is totally worth it you NEED to get it!

### 2/5 — Asks for me App Store password on every launch

*2019-12-05*

Every time I launch this app it wants my App Store password. Seems fishy but I’m guessing it’s just bad coding trying to see if I bought one of the in app subscriptions.

**Developer response:** Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This may have been related to a previous version of the app’s subscription verification process. The app and subscription system have since been completely rebuilt, and this behavior is not part of the current experience. We’d appreciate the opportunity for you to try the latest version.

### 4/5 — Worth 5 stars, but...

*2019-02-09*

I would give 5 stars if the ads were easier to exit from. The ads are confusing to decline.

The import feature is amazing, however the safari integration doesnt work as good, it goes to drafts and you still have to delete it and reimport from a link.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the thoughtful feedback. Recipe Cloud has since been completely rebuilt, including major improvements to Safari sharing and recipe importing, and we’d love for you to try the latest version.

## Frequently asked questions about Recipe Cloud

### What does RecipeCloud do?

RecipeCloud is a recipe organizer and management application that allows users to discover new recipes, save their favorites, plan meals for the week, and create smart grocery lists. It also facilitates sharing recipes and cookbooks with friends and family.

### What are the key features of RecipeCloud?

Key features include discovering nearly 200,000 recipes, a meal planner for scheduling meals, a smart grocery list that organizes ingredients by aisle, the ability to save recipes from websites or add custom ones, and the creation of digital cookbooks. PRO members also have access to private recipe and cookbook options.

### Is RecipeCloud free to use?

The app offers a free version with basic features, including organizing recipes into a default of 3 digital books. Advanced features like the meal planner and smart grocery list are available for PRO members, indicating a freemium or subscription model for full functionality.

### What kind of devices is RecipeCloud compatible with?

The description mentions cloud technology, implying that the app is accessible across multiple devices as long as you have an account. It is designed for mobile use, but the cloud integration suggests potential web access as well.

### How can I use RecipeCloud for meal planning and shopping?

PRO members can utilize the meal planner to schedule recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Once meals are planned, ingredients can be sent directly to the smart grocery list, which helps organize items by grocery store aisle for efficient shopping.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.1.2 — 2026-08-21

This update makes it easier to share and save recipes, along with accessibility and iPad improvements throughout the app.
• Share recipes with friends — Send recipes directly to other Recipe Cloud users. Quickly choose someone you follow or search for another user to share with.
Improved Instagram imports — Recipe Cloud can now better recognize recipe details from Instagram captions, automatically organizing titles, ingredients, and directions when available.
• Better accessibility support — Improved layouts for users with larger text and accessibility font sizes enabled.
• iPad improvements — Sharper loading screens and improved recipe editing layouts, especially in landscape mode.
• Plus additional performance, interface, and usability improvements throughout the app.

### 4.1.1 — 2026-08-17

Version 4.1.1 includes several improvements across Recipe Cloud:
• Search, filter, and sort recipes and collections directly from user profiles
• Improved recipe imports from URL and social videos
• Faster, more reliable image loading and performance improvements
• Expanded privacy and sharing controls for Team accounts
• Several interface improvements and bug fixes throughout the app

We’ve also made a number of behind-the-scenes improvements to make Recipe Cloud faster, smoother, and more reliable.

### 4.1.0 — 2026-08-07

Turn printed recipes, handwritten favorites, recipe cards, and cookbook pages into organized digital recipes with a simple photo. Recipe Cloud uses AI to capture the details, creating a recipe you can review, edit, save, and use for meal planning, shopping, and more.

This update also includes improvements throughout the app, along with bug fixes and performance enhancements.

### 4.0.5 — 2026-07-22

Recipe Cloud 4.0.5 makes the new Recipe Cloud experience smoother, faster, and more reliable across iPhone and iPad.

This update includes improvements to recipe saving, recipe pages, collections, meal planning, shopping lists, navigation, accessibility, and layouts throughout the app.

We’ve also fixed a number of issues reported following the Recipe Cloud 4.0 launch and made additional performance and usability improvements. We recommend updating to the latest version for the best Recipe Cloud experience.

Recipe Cloud 4.0 introduced a completely redesigned experience for saving and organizing recipes, planning meals, building grocery lists, and discovering new ideas.

### 4.0.4 — 2026-07-12

Recipe Cloud 4.0 is a major update with a redesigned app experience, improved recipe saving, recipe collections, meal planning, grocery lists, and community discovery.

This update also includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and small refinements following the 4.0 launch.

What’s new:
• Redesigned iPhone and iPad experience
• Save recipes from websites and social links
• Create and organize recipe collections
• Plan meals with a new weekly planner
• Build smarter grocery lists from recipes and meal plans
• Discover recipes, categories, and cooks
• Improved recipe pages with serving scaling, not

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