Comparison

Recipe vs Picklz

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

Picklz

Easily create, organize, and share your favorite recipes. This app helps you manage your culinary collection with features like categorization, favoriting, and a special cook mode to keep your screen on. Search your recipes or personalize the look with custom themes.

Highlights
  • Create custom recipes
  • Organize recipes into categories
  • Favorite recipes
  • Share recipes with others
  • Cook Mode for easy viewing
  • Search recipes
  • Personalize with color themes
Features
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Picklz makes organizing your recipes no big dill. Does searching through your physical recipe book put you in a pickle? Look no further, Picklz is here to make your life easier. Picklz gives users a simple approach to creating and organizing recipes. Favorite and share the recipes you like with friends and family. Download Picklz today! Features: * Create your own recipes * Share recipes with friends and family * Organize your recipes into categories * Favorite recipes for quick and easy access * Use Cook Mode to easily view your recipes without the screen dimming * Search through recipes to find what you're craving * Personalize your app with color themes

Screenshots

Recipe4 screens
Picklz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Picklz at fortnightly against Recipe's every 5 months. Picklz also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 3). Recipe's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Recipe against 4.6 for Picklz. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Picklz has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Recipe's written reviews are positive against 89% of Picklz's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Picklz fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Recipe versus Picklz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipePicklz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.6 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings315 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter HinmanAndy Humphries

Customer experience

Recipe

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

Picklz

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

None

Picklz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Picklz free?
Picklz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipe or Picklz?
Recipe is rated higher. Recipe averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Picklz averages 4.6 from 15 ratings.
Which is updated more often, Recipe or Picklz?
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, and Picklz fortnightly. Most recently, Recipe was updated on June 8, 2026 and Picklz on August 25, 2026.

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