Quick Cooks vs RecipeQuickie
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.
RecipeQuickie
Discover new recipes by swiping through a curated selection of healthy and delicious options. This app eliminates the indecision of meal planning, making it easy to find your next dish and start cooking.
- Recipe discovery via swiping
- Healthy and delicious recipe options
- Eliminates meal planning indecision
- Easy to follow cooking instructions
- Curated recipe selection
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Find your next snack or meal with RecipeQuickie. You’ll never have to worry about the dreaded question of “What do you want to eat?” again. Simply swipe through our selection of healthy and delicious recipes, and get cooking!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RecipeQuickie at every 6 days against Quick Cooks's every 13 months. RecipeQuickie also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Quick Cooks's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Quick Cooks against 5.0 for RecipeQuickie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively.
Quick Cooks ships an update every 13 months, RecipeQuickie every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Cooks | RecipeQuickie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Plants Over Animals, LLC | It's a Matcha, LLC |
Customer experience
Quick Cooks
RecipeQuickie
In-app purchases
Quick Cooks
No in-app purchases
RecipeQuickie
No in-app purchases
Questions
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