Recipe Book vs SeaBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SeaBuddy
This app connects seafarers with their fleet and shore teams, enabling secure communication, mood logging, and participation in onboard activities, even with limited internet. It provides shore teams with insights into crew wellness and compliance with maritime regulations.
- Secure vessel and fleet chat
- Mood, sleep, and fatigue check-ins
- Event calendars and feedback surveys
- Offline-first data sync
- Encrypted data storage
- Crew wellness dashboards
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SeaBuddy lets seafarers engage securely and stay connected with their fleet, log daily mood and fatigue, and participate in onboard activities - even with limited connectivity. Shore teams get access to dashboards, wellness reports, and sentiment insights to make proactive decisions and stay compliant with MLC and IMO guidance. Features include: - Secure vessel + fleet chatrooms - Mood, sleep, and fatigue check-ins - Event calendars and feedback surveys - Offline-first sync and encrypted data Built by The Social Maritime Pte Ltd in Singapore — SeaBuddy is trusted by shipping companies globally.
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Verdict
Recipe Book and SeaBuddy both sit at 2.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of SeaBuddy's written reviews are positive against 29% of Recipe Book's. Recipe Book's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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 — 2.9 for Recipe Book against 3.0 for SeaBuddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Book has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Recipe Book's written reviews are positive against 100% of SeaBuddy's.
Recipe Book ships an update fortnightly, SeaBuddy every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.
| Parameter | Recipe Book | SeaBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (14 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David Hollinsworth | The Social Maritime Pte Ltd |
Customer experience
Recipe Book
SeaBuddy
In-app purchases
Recipe Book
No in-app purchases
SeaBuddy
No in-app purchases
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