Spatula vs Recipe Kitchen!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spatula
Organize your favorite recipes from across the web or add your own. This app presents recipes in a cooking-friendly format, accessible on any device. Discover new dishes through recommendations and what your friends are saving.
- Save recipes from the web
- Add custom recipes
- Cooking-friendly format
- Cross-device compatibility
- Social recipe discovery
- Personalized recommendations
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Spatula is a smart and social recipe box. - Save recipes from anywhere on the web, or add your own. - Open in a cooking-friendly format on any device. - Get inspired by friends and recommendations.
Recipe Kitchen!
Discover millions of recipes and manage your fridge contents. Get personalized recommendations for meals using ingredients nearing expiration, helping you reduce waste and find delicious dishes.
- Millions of recipes
- Fridge inventory management
- Expiration date tracking
- Recipe recommendations
- Advanced search filters
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Recipe Kitchen is your pocket cookbook and kitchen manager. We help you save the foods in your fridge, and recommend recipes when they are about to expire. Find for over 1.7 million recipes, with 50+ options and filters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spatula at every 12 months against Recipe Kitchen!'s every 52 months. Recipe Kitchen!'s advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spatula against 5.0 for Recipe Kitchen!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Kitchen! has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Spatula ships an update every 12 months, Recipe Kitchen! every 52 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spatula | Recipe Kitchen! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months — better | Every 52 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kushal Dave | Thomas Alpert |
Customer experience
Spatula
Recipe Kitchen!
In-app purchases
Spatula
No in-app purchases
Recipe Kitchen!
No in-app purchases
