Comparison

Recipe vs Recipe

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

Easily save recipes from any website directly to your device. Organize your culinary finds into custom groups, edit details, and even create your own recipes. Keep all your favorite dishes in one convenient place.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from the web
  • Curate important recipe information
  • Edit saved recipe details
  • Organize recipes into custom groups
  • Create your own recipes
  • Centralized recipe storage
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Save all your favorite recipes from across the web! Simply find a recipe you like on Safari or Chrome, click the share icon, and select Recipe-Safe. Recipe-Safe curates all the important information from online recipes, and instantly saves it on the app. Edit any information you like on the recipe, or save it in your own custom group! You can also create your own recipes, so you can keep everything in one single location.

Screenshots

Recipe4 screens
Recipe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Recipe at every 4 days against Recipe's every 8 months. Recipe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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. 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, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe ships an update every 8 months, Recipe every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Recipe versus Recipe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeRecipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter HinmanSean Erickson

Customer experience

Recipe

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

Recipe

All ratings5 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

None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipe or Recipe?
Recipe is rated higher. Recipe averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Recipe averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Recipe or Recipe have ads?
Neither Recipe nor Recipe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe or Recipe?
Recipe ships an update every 8 months, and Recipe every 4 days. Most recently, Recipe was updated on October 5, 2026 and Recipe on October 7, 2026.

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