Recipe Journal vs 美食聚
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recipe Journal
This kitchen assistant helps you plan meals, manage ingredients, and provides step-by-step cooking guidance. It analyzes recipes to create shopping lists and tracks your pantry, making cooking simpler and smarter.
- Automatic ingredient analysis
- Smart shopping list generation
- Step-by-step cooking guidance
- Voice-guided cooking
- Pantry inventory management
- Recipe sharing
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Recipe Journal keeps your everyday cooking organized from inspiration to the finished dish. BUILD YOUR RECIPE COLLECTION Create and edit recipes with categories, ingredients, seasonings, step-by-step instructions, difficulty, cooking time, notes, and photos. Use voice input when typing is inconvenient, and sort or filter your collection when you need to find something quickly. PLAN WHAT TO COOK TODAY Add recipes to Today's Plan and see the ingredients and seasonings you may need before you start. SHOP AND COOK WITH LESS FRICTION Turn today's recipes into a practical shopping checklist, track what is already in your pantry, and follow each dish in Cooking Mode. Mark dishes as complete and save photos of the result. KEEP A COOKING HISTORY Save completed meals to your cooking log, revisit previous dishes, and add them back to today's plan whenever you want. SHARE YOUR RECIPES Create a clean recipe image to save or share with family and friends. Recipe Journal follows your device language and supports English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Some advanced features require a one-time Lifetime VIP purchase. Lifetime VIP does not auto-renew. Purchases are processed by Apple and can be restored on devices using the same Apple Account. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSXBkRnhqbUttd3Bt
美食聚
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美食聚—为俄罗斯华人提供中餐馆、超市的送货服务。 我们提供方便快捷的订餐和配送服务,让您足不出户就能享受美味的中国美食和优质的中国产品。 欢迎下载并使用美食聚,让我们为您的生活带来更多便利和美味。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: 美食聚 at none against Recipe Journal's shown. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Recipe Journal ships an update every 6 weeks, 美食聚 every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Recipe Journal | 美食聚 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 晓峰 左 | Guangzhou Youlinya Technology Co., Ltd |
In-app purchases
Recipe Journal
No in-app purchases
美食聚
No in-app purchases








