Knit vs Recipe Book
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Knit
Track your knitting progress with this simple counter app. It helps you keep count of rows, decreases, increases, and pattern repeats, with a companion app for Apple Watch.
- Row counter
- Decrease row counter
- Increase row counter
- Pattern repeat counter
- Apple Watch companion app
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A simple knitting counter app for iPhone, including a companion Apple Watch app. - Counters for rows, decrease rows, increase rows and pattern repeats
Recipe Book
Organize all your collected recipes in one convenient digital location. Easily add recipes from various sources and categorize them for quick retrieval. Access your culinary creations anytime, anywhere.
- Store recipes from any source
- Categorize recipes
- Quick and easy access
- Digital recipe collection
- Add recipes simply
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Recipe Book is a place to store all your recipes you have collected over the years, whether they are from online sites, magazine articles, cook books, family recipes or friends, Recipe Book allows you to store them in one place for quick and easy access. Recipes can be added simply and categorized by predefined categories.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Recipe Book at Free against Knit's $0.99. Recipe Book also leads on rating (2.9 vs 1.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 17 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Recipe Book is free to download; Knit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Recipe Book holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Knit's written reviews are positive against 29% of Recipe Book's.
Knit ships an update every 17 months, Recipe Book fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Knit | Recipe Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.3 (6 ratings) | 2.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 29.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | de Florinier Apps | David Hollinsworth |
Customer experience
Knit
Recipe Book
In-app purchases
Knit
No in-app purchases
Recipe Book
No in-app purchases
