Comparison

Recipe vs Dash

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Recipe

Organize and display your personal recipes digitally. Easily add recipes from various sources, categorize them, and share them with others. Create menus and mark favorites for quick access in the kitchen.

Highlights
  • Add recipes from files, scans, or direct input
  • Categorize recipes with custom labels
  • Create menus and favorite lists
  • Share recipes via email and social media
  • Built-in recipe editor
  • Supports PDF, JPG, and text file imports
Features
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This app is designed for display of user-provided recipes for use in the kitchen, and may be thought of as as a sophisticated electronic set of file cards. In addition to displaying recipes it allows for constructing menus and a favorites list, defining food categories, renaming and recategorizing recipes, and sharing recipes on email, text, social media, etc. User may add recipes to the app in many ways: as a digital file created elsewhere, scanned from a printed source, or written directly in the App. Digital files may be plain or rich text files, PDFs, images (JPG) or even HTML files. Detailed instructions are given in the Help file for many types of file input. Recipes composed on the iPhone or iPad (Pages, Notes, ...) may easily be converted to PDF format and added to the app. Scanning is done right in the app using the built-in editing. The app contains an editor for composing recipes and then saving them in the app. Recipes are divided into food categories (Breads, Appetizers, etc.) defined by the user and accessed by a scrolling button bar. From the list of recipes in a category a single click displays one recipe or a document containing all recipes for the category.

About

Dash

This app helps you manage multiple cooking timers for an entire meal. Plan your dishes with a visual meal planner and set sub-timers for regular checks. It's designed for easy, intuitive use, even with messy hands.

Highlights
  • Intuitive meal planning
  • Multiple timer support
  • Sub-timers for regular checks
  • Photo labeling for timers
  • Visual interface
Features
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Dash Kitchen Timer Dash is a unique cooking timer that lets you plan a whole meal in one easy to use, intuitive application. Set your timer(s) with just a finger. Perfect when your other nine are dirty. Have a dish you need to check on regularly or stir every few minutes? With sub-timers, Dash will let you know when it’s time to give your dish that extra attention. Need multiple timers? No problem, take a photo and label each one. Never serve your meals late! Let the Meal Planner help you with scheduling your dishes so they come out hot and on time! It’s as easy as that!

Screenshots

Recipe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recipe at none against Dash's 1. Recipe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Dash's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Recipe's written reviews are positive against 75% of Dash's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Dash every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Recipe versus Dash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeDash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings37 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS26.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter HinmanKung Fu Grip LLC

Customer experience

Recipe

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dash

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Dash

One-time1
  • Dash Timer Upgrade$1.99

Questions

Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dash free?
Dash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recipe or Dash?
Dash is rated higher. Recipe averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Dash averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Recipe or Dash have ads?
Neither Recipe nor Dash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe or Dash?
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, and Dash every 6 months. Most recently, Recipe was updated on October 22, 2026 and Dash on October 17, 2026.

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