Recipe vs Souschef | Recipe Keeper
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.
Souschef | Recipe Keeper
This app helps you organize recipes from across the web and social media, create smart grocery lists, and simplify cooking. It features automatic transcription of video recipes, unit conversion, and a cooking mode with timers.
- Save recipes from web and video
- Auto-transcribe video recipes
- Smart, categorized grocery lists
- Unit conversion and quantity adjustment
- Cooking mode with timers
- Cloud backup and sync
- Share recipes and lists
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Souschef is a recipe keeper for saving the dishes you love, organizing them into collections, planning meals, shopping from recipes, and cooking step by step. All cooking and organization features are free. Save recipes, edit them, search your collection, build grocery lists, use Cooking Mode, keep a cooking journal, and share recipe lists without paying. Souschef Plus is optional and gives you unlimited recipe imports. Save recipes from the places you already find them: - Websites - Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest - Photos and screenshots - Pasted text - Manual entry Cook with less friction: - Cooking Mode keeps your screen awake while you follow a recipe - Detected timers are easy to start while cooking - Adjust servings and convert common units - Translate recipes into supported languages - Search your own saved recipes by name, ingredient, or tag Stay organized: - Collections for family favorites, weeknight meals, baking, holidays, and more - Grocery lists created from saved recipes - Meal planning for your weekly cooking - Private cooking journal entries with notes and photos - Shared recipe lists for planning with family or friends Souschef helps you build a personal cookbook that stays useful in the kitchen, not just a folder of links you forget about. Free plan: - Full cooking and organization features - 5 saved recipe imports per rolling 7 days - Existing saved recipes remain available Souschef Plus: - Unlimited recipe imports - Monthly or annual subscription options Terms of Use: https://www.trysouschef.com/toc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recipe at none against Souschef | Recipe Keeper's 2. Recipe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Souschef | Recipe Keeper's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (107 vs 3). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Souschef | Recipe Keeper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Recipe against 4.8 for Souschef | Recipe Keeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Souschef | Recipe Keeper has 107 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 90% of Souschef | Recipe Keeper's.
Recipe ships an update every 5 months, Souschef | Recipe Keeper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipe | Souschef | Recipe Keeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (107 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 107 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Peter Hinman | Nekonote Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
Recipe
Souschef | Recipe Keeper
In-app purchases
Recipe
No in-app purchases
Souschef | Recipe Keeper
- Souschef Plus (monthly)$2.991 Month
- Souschef Plus (yearly)$24.991 Year
Questions
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