Recipe vs Simply Recipes for iOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Simply Recipes for iOS
Easily manage your favorite recipes by importing them from the web, text, or by writing them yourself. The app intelligently interprets instructions, detects timers, and calculates nutrition. Organize with tags and share with friends for a seamless cooking experience.
- Import recipes from websites and text
- Write and format your own recipes
- Automatic timer detection
- Automatic ingredient interpretation
- Automatic nutrition calculation
- Dedicated cooking mode
- Organize recipes with tags
- Share recipes with friends
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A simple recipe manager that lets you focus on what matters most: cooking! - Import recipes from websites, text, or write your own - Automatic timers detected in instructions - Automatic ingredient interpretation - Automatic nutrition calculation - Recipes are intelligently interpreted so you don't have to do any tedious formatting - Dedicated "Cooking" mode displays each step with its ingredients - Organize recipes with tags to make finding the perfect dish a breeze - Share recipes with your friends
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simply Recipes for iOS at every 4 weeks against Recipe's every 5 months. Simply Recipes for iOS also leads on ratings volume (78 vs 3). Recipe's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 4.7 for Recipe against 4.7 for Simply Recipes for iOS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply Recipes for iOS has 78 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 Simply Recipes for iOS's.
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Simply Recipes for iOS every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipe | Simply Recipes for iOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Hinman | Christian Stevenson |
Customer experience
Recipe
Simply Recipes for iOS
In-app purchases
Recipe
No in-app purchases
Simply Recipes for iOS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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