PantryMeals vs Recipe Riser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PantryMeals
A social network for food lovers to discover, create, and share recipes. Connect with other culinary enthusiasts and explore a world of dishes.
- Recipe discovery
- Recipe creation
- Recipe sharing
- Connect with foodies
- Social network for chefs
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PantryMeals is a food-focused social network recipe app where everyone is a chef. Connect with foodies and chef enthusiasts to find, create, share your favorite dishes and recipes.
Recipe Riser
Easily save recipes from the web, keeping only essential ingredients and directions. Create your own recipes, fine-tune saved ones, and share your culinary creations. Track your cooking history with notes and dates for each dish.
- Save recipes from the web
- Extracts ingredients and directions
- Create custom recipes
- Edit saved recipes
- Share recipes
- Track cooking history with notes
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Recipe Riser is the simplest way to build a personal cookbook from the web. Save recipes instantly — Share any recipe directly from Safari and it's saved in seconds. Recipe Riser works with more recipe sites than ever, including JavaScript-heavy sites that other apps can't handle. Skip the clutter — No ads, no life stories, no endless scrolling. Just ingredients and instructions, clean and ready to cook from. Make it yours — Edit any recipe, add your own from scratch, and preserve family favorites alongside web finds. Remember every cook — Log the date, add notes, and track how a recipe turned out every time you make it. Organize your way — Sort recipes into folders, rate your favorites, and find anything instantly with search. Share with anyone — Generate a shareable link for any recipe. Recipients see a clean web page if they don't have the app, or it opens instantly if they do. No subscriptions. No ads. Yours forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PantryMeals at 5.0 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. PantryMeals also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (13 vs 17.6). Recipe Riser's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
PantryMeals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Riser has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of PantryMeals's written reviews are positive against 82% of Recipe Riser's.
PantryMeals ships an update every 5 weeks, Recipe Riser monthly. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | PantryMeals | Recipe Riser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AllAccessIT LLC | Patrik Outericky |
Customer experience
PantryMeals
Recipe Riser
In-app purchases
PantryMeals
No in-app purchases
Recipe Riser
No in-app purchases
