Spatula vs SR
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.
SR
Easily organize and manage all your personal recipes. Share your culinary creations with friends and family via a dedicated sharing center. Securely back up and restore your recipe collection through your user account.
- Recipe management
- Recipe sharing
- Account backup and restore
- Account deletion
- Settings reset
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Simple Recipes is a simple app to manage all your recipes. Share your recipes with your friends and family through our sharing center. You can also send them a link You can back and restore your recipes through your account. You can reset all settings by clicking the version number 5 times. You can now delete your account in the settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SR at every 4 months against Spatula's every 12 months. SR also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 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 SR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Spatula ships an update every 12 months, SR every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spatula | SR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kushal Dave | Christopher Siena |
Customer experience
Spatula
SR
In-app purchases
Spatula
No in-app purchases
SR
No in-app purchases
