Quick Cooks vs Pick Up Limes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Cooks
Discover simple recipes requiring minimal equipment, perfect for those with limited time or space. Ideal for students, busy professionals, and beginners learning to cook.
- Quick recipes
- Simple instructions
- Minimal kitchen equipment
- Beginner-friendly
- Time-saving meals
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Quick Cooks provides quick and simple recipes using minimal kitchen equipment. It is designed for anyone who wants to have the control of preparing their own meals, but has limited time and/or minimal space. Target audience includes students, young professionals, retirees, busy parents, and those just learning to cook for the first time.
Pick Up Limes
Discover a vast collection of vegan recipes and create personalized meal plans. This app offers nutrition guidance without calorie counting, grocery list generation, and the ability to import and create your own recipes. It's designed to make plant-based eating simple and enjoyable.
- 1700+ plant-based recipes
- Personalized meal plans
- Number-free nutrition tracking (Nourish Method)
- Recipe import and customization
- Grocery list builder
- Custom recipe creation
- Recipe scaling and notes
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Plan your meals, feel nourished, and eat delicious plant-based food. The Pick Up Limes App brings together nourishing vegan recipes, personalized meal plans, grocery tools, nutrition support, and all your favourite online recipes in one place. Top features • 1800+ plant-based recipes, with new ones added every weekday • Personalized meal plans tailored to your age, activity level, and life stage • Number-free nutrition tracking with the Nourish Method • Edit any Pick Up Limes recipe and save your own version with updated nutrition info • Import recipes in one tap and get instant nutrition insights • Create custom recipes and items to track alongside your meals • Build grocery lists and add recipes to your weekly plan in seconds • Save favourites and organize them into your own collections Tools to fit your particular situation • Filter recipes by ingredient, meal type, or dietary need, including your own custom and imported recipes • Scale recipes for one or for the whole family • Add personal notes and discover easy ingredient swaps Personalized nutrition support We developed the Nourish Method to help you build balanced meals without counting calories. It’s a flexible, encouraging approach to nutrition that helps you focus on what to add to your plate, not what to restrict. • View each recipe across 9 Nourish food groups • Get personalized recipe suggestions to help support your intake • Create and reuse customized meal plans with ease • Add your own meals or scan items for accurate nutrition tracking Try It Free Start your plant-based journey with a 7-day free trial, then continue with a monthly or annual subscription. With love, Sadia and the Pick Up Limes team This app uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quick Cooks at none against Pick Up Limes's 2. Pick Up Limes's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 13). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Pick Up Limes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Quick Cooks asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Quick Cooks against 4.9 for Pick Up Limes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pick Up Limes has 1.1K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Quick Cooks's written reviews are positive against 96% of Pick Up Limes's.
Quick Cooks ships an update every 13 months, Pick Up Limes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Cooks | Pick Up Limes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | 4.9 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 95.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 1.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #53 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plants Over Animals, LLC | Pick Up Limes B.V. |
Customer experience
Quick Cooks
Pick Up Limes
Bugs and requests
Quick Cooks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pick Up Limes
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login issues with Apple subscriptions
- Compatibility problems on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Meal prep planning feature
- Ability to sync grocery list across devices
- Option to add non-vegan ingredients
In-app purchases
Quick Cooks
No in-app purchases
Pick Up Limes
- Unlimited access: monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Unlimited access: yearly7 Days trial$43.991 Year
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