Recipe vs Kneaded
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.
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.
- Share and monetize recipes
- Discover recipes from creators
- Organize personal recipes
- Scale servings
- Add ingredients to grocery list
- Search recipes
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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/
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Kneaded sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Recipe | Kneaded |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Hinman | Gala Closet Share, LLC |
Customer experience
Recipe
Kneaded
In-app purchases
Recipe
No in-app purchases
Kneaded
- jack.schneider Monthly$2.991 Month
- jack Annual$29.991 Year









