Comparison

Recipe vs Kneaded

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

Kneaded

This platform allows recipe creators to share and monetize their culinary creations. Home cooks can discover new recipes, organize their own, and simplify meal preparation with features like serving scaling and grocery list generation.

Highlights
  • Share and monetize recipes
  • Discover recipes from creators
  • Organize personal recipes
  • Scale servings
  • Add ingredients to grocery list
  • Search recipes
Features
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Kneaded is a platform for recipe creators to share and monetize their recipes with home cooks. Use Kneaded to learn from the best and organize all your recipes, whether they be from your favorite chef, a website, or a family classic, in a single place. Kneaded allows users to easily search their recipes, scale servings, add ingredients to a grocery list, and make cooking easier. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Recipe4 screens
Kneaded4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recipe at none against Kneaded's 2. Kneaded's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Kneaded sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kneaded holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Kneaded every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recipe versus Kneaded: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeKneaded
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter HinmanGala Closet Share, LLC

Customer experience

Recipe

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

Kneaded

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Kneaded

Subscriptions2
  • jack.schneider Monthly$2.991 Month
  • jack Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kneaded free?
Kneaded is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recipe or Kneaded?
Kneaded is rated higher. Recipe averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Kneaded averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Recipe or Kneaded have ads?
Neither Recipe nor Kneaded shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe or Kneaded?
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, and Kneaded every 6 weeks. Most recently, Recipe was updated on October 22, 2026 and Kneaded on October 20, 2026.

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