Comparison

Recipe vs Recipe Riser

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

Recipe Riser

Easily save recipes from the web, keeping only essential ingredients and directions. Create your own recipes, fine-tune saved ones, and share your culinary creations. Track your cooking history with notes and dates for each dish.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from the web
  • Extracts ingredients and directions
  • Create custom recipes
  • Edit saved recipes
  • Share recipes
  • Track cooking history with notes
Features
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Recipe Riser is the simplest way to build a personal cookbook from the web. Save recipes instantly — Share any recipe directly from Safari and it's saved in seconds. Recipe Riser works with more recipe sites than ever, including JavaScript-heavy sites that other apps can't handle. Skip the clutter — No ads, no life stories, no endless scrolling. Just ingredients and instructions, clean and ready to cook from. Make it yours — Edit any recipe, add your own from scratch, and preserve family favorites alongside web finds. Remember every cook — Log the date, add notes, and track how a recipe turned out every time you make it. Organize your way — Sort recipes into folders, rate your favorites, and find anything instantly with search. Share with anyone — Generate a shareable link for any recipe. Recipients see a clean web page if they don't have the app, or it opens instantly if they do. No subscriptions. No ads. Yours forever.

Screenshots

Recipe4 screens
Recipe Riser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Recipe at 4.7 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. Recipe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Recipe Riser's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (14 vs 3). On price, ads, 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

Recipe holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Recipe's written reviews are positive against 82% of Recipe Riser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Recipe Riser monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recipe versus Recipe Riser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeRecipe Riser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.3 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better81.8% of reviews
Number of ratings314 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter HinmanPatrik Outericky

Customer experience

Recipe

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

Recipe Riser

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

None

Recipe Riser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipe Riser free?
Recipe Riser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipe or Recipe Riser?
Recipe is rated higher. Recipe averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Recipe Riser averages 4.3 from 14 ratings.
Do Recipe or Recipe Riser have ads?
Neither Recipe nor Recipe Riser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe or Recipe Riser?
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, and Recipe Riser monthly. Most recently, Recipe was updated on June 8, 2026 and Recipe Riser on September 17, 2026.

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