Comparison

Potluck vs Dopotluck

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Potluck

Preserve and share cherished family recipes passed down through generations. Discover new culinary adventures from diverse cuisines and find the perfect dish for any occasion. This app celebrates culinary diversity and family heritage.

Highlights
  • Store family recipes
  • Share culinary traditions
  • Discover new recipes
  • Organize by occasion
  • Explore global cuisines
  • Preserve culinary heritage
Features
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Save every recipe you love in one clean, searchable cookbook. Paste a website link, add copied text, or enter your own recipe. Potluck turns it into a clear recipe card ready to cook, organize, scale, and share. IMPORT RECIPES YOUR WAY • Paste a recipe link to skip the clutter and keep the useful parts • Turn copied recipe text into an organized recipe • Add your own recipes, photos, ingredients, and directions KEEP EVERYTHING ORGANIZED Build a personal digital cookbook that is easy to search. Group recipes into collections for weeknight dinners, baking, holidays, family favorites, or anything else you cook. COOK WITH LESS FRICTION Open a clean recipe view while you cook, scale ingredient quantities for different serving sizes, and add ingredients to your grocery list. SHARE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS Send individual recipes or create shared collections that everyone can add to. Keep family favorites together and make recipe swapping simple. Potluck is built for home cooks who are tired of recipes scattered across websites, notes, bookmarks, and messages. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dopotluck

Easily plan and organize potluck gatherings. Create events, invite friends, manage dish assignments, chat with guests, and share photos. Transform your next potluck from stressful to spectacular.

Highlights
  • Create potluck events
  • Invite friends easily
  • Manage events remotely
  • Create groups for family/friends
  • Individual and group messaging
  • Assign dishes to guests
  • Upload and share event photos
  • Poll option
Features
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Description: Make your potluck experience a fantabulous one. Potluck is a planner app, with features specially designed keeping your event organizing needs in mind. You can quickly create a potluck plan, send invites to your friends in your contact make a list of preferred or chosen dishes, instantly chat with among your invitees, click and share pictures, and have loads of fun. Planning a potluck but worried it would turn out as bad as last time? Vexed about last minute dropouts? All you need is a little help from our app that could transform a usually morbid experience to a magical one. Features: Create an event to begin planning your potluck party and just get going Invite your Friends in a click of a button and make it the more the merrier Manage your party from anywhere, anytime and feel that it’s never been this simple and fun than ever before Create groups for your families and friends and initiate an event through groups. What next in store? 1:Messaging to individuals and groups. 2:Host can list down the dishes required and assign them to individuals 3:Uploading and sharing event photos. 4:Poll option An option to save for later while editing an event. Help us grow Please write to us before leaving negative reviews, as we can often help with your problem or help you better use this app. If you have any problems or suggestions please send a mail to support@dopotluck.com, you’ll get a response in a short time.

Screenshots

Potluck4 screens
Dopotluck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Potluck at 4.9 against Dopotluck's 3.7. Potluck also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 63%) and ratings volume (159 vs 12). Dopotluck's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Potluck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Dopotluck asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Potluck holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Potluck has 159 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Potluck's written reviews are positive against 63% of Dopotluck's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Potluck ships an update every 5 weeks, Dopotluck monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Potluck versus Dopotluck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotluckDopotluck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (159 ratings) — better3.7 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews83.9% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings159 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTal CohenPuneet Sharma

Customer experience

Potluck

All ratings158 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive83.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative9.7%

Dopotluck

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

Bugs and requests

Potluck

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App gets stuck on loading page
  • Double entry of text and ingredients
  • Cannot add custom units of measurements
  • App throws 's' before ingredients
  • App crashes when accessing recipes from home page
Show 4 more
  • App stops working/won't load after updates
  • App won't open, lost recipes
  • App crashes every time it's opened
  • App support button opens the app instead of providing help

Requested features

4 requests
  • Option to list recently used recipes on welcome screen
  • Cooking mode to prevent screen from going dark
  • Option to add custom measurements (e.g., box, tub, can)
  • Option to add other sections in directions (e.g., Cake Prep & Frosting Prep)

Dopotluck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Potluck

Subscriptions2
  • Potluck Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Potluck Pro Annual$29.991 Year
None

Dopotluck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Potluck free?
Potluck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dopotluck free?
Dopotluck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Potluck or Dopotluck?
Potluck is rated higher. Potluck averages 4.9 out of 5 from 159 ratings, while Dopotluck averages 3.7 from 12 ratings.
Do Potluck or Dopotluck have ads?
Neither Potluck nor Dopotluck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Potluck or Dopotluck?
Potluck ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dopotluck monthly. Most recently, Potluck was updated on November 3, 2026 and Dopotluck on November 3, 2026.

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