Comparison

eCookbook vs Personal Cookbook

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

Head to head
About

eCookbook

Access and browse your personalized cookbooks on your iPhone or iPad. Search for specific recipes within your created collections. An account with the creator service is required to use this application.

Highlights
  • Read custom cookbooks
  • Search recipes
  • Browse cookbook collections
  • Requires CreateMyCookbook account
  • iPhone and iPad support
Features
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Read cookbook's you made with CreateMyCookbook on your iPhone or iPad. Search the recipes, and browse the full cookbook. Requires account at CreateMyCookbook.

About

Personal Cookbook

Organize your recipes with a stylish digital cookbook. Features web importing, a smart shopping list, and customizable themes. Share recipes and collections easily with others.

Highlights
  • Web recipe importing
  • Smart shopping list
  • Customizable themes
  • Recipe collections
  • PDF/TXT export
  • Cloud sync
Features
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Keep your own cookbook with style. Includes web importing, shopping list, printing, and more, all for free. CLOUD SYNC • Sync to all your devices (iCloud account required) WEB IMPORT • Includes a safari extension with one tap importing for most websites. ORGANIZATION • Categories • Star Ratings • Color Tags • Bookmarks • Nutrition field • Custom description • Direction photos • Advanced search and filtering • Collections: • Make your own collections, then share them! • Smart Collections: • Need recipes with only soup in the name, and potatoes in the ingredients? A smart collection will comb through your recipes and find exactly what you are looking for. KITCHEN FEATURES • Yield conversions • Unit converter • Calculator RECIPE FORMATTING • Decimals to fractions • Fraction formatting: • Automatically convert fractions to unicode. For example: 1/2 to ½ • Bold specified keywords • Unified measurements: • Adds consistency to recipe measurements. For example, change all instances of tsp, teaspoons, or t, to just one, for every recipe. SHOPPING LIST • Custom sections. Add your own grocery stores, isles, categories, whatever you please. • iCloud synced (for family lists). CUSTOMIZATION • Change colors, fonts, and use a background photo, with light and dark mode variants. • 40+ included themes, plus create your own. • 8 different colored icons. SHARING AND EXPORTING • Share and export • PDF • TXT • Print • The NEW .personalcookbook file: • It's a new file format, exclusively used by Personal Cookbook. In a single file, share recipes, collections, or themes with others who use Personal Cookbook. FILE BACKUPS • Worried you might lose your recipes? Backup them up. With one tap, create a Personal Cookbook backup with your recipes, collections, and themes. SUPPORT • Help guide • Having trouble? Please reach out to awarrenapps@gmail.com Using version 2? Import your backup files, via Settings -> Open. Personal Cookbook gives full, unrestricted access to every feature of the app, without needing in-app purchases or subscriptions. Give it a try today!

Screenshots

eCookbook4 screens
Personal Cookbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Personal Cookbook at 100% against eCookbook's 20%. Personal Cookbook also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 33 months). eCookbook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Personal Cookbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. eCookbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eCookbook ships an update every 33 months, Personal Cookbook every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
eCookbook versus Personal Cookbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereCookbookPersonal Cookbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 33 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB56 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCreateMyCookbook, LLCAndrew Warren

Customer experience

eCookbook

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Personal Cookbook

All ratings29 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

eCookbook

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Personal Cookbook

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is eCookbook free?
eCookbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Personal Cookbook free?
Personal Cookbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do eCookbook or Personal Cookbook have ads?
Personal Cookbook shows ads; eCookbook does not.
Which is updated more often, eCookbook or Personal Cookbook?
eCookbook ships an update every 33 months, and Personal Cookbook every 8 days. Most recently, eCookbook was updated on October 12, 2026 and Personal Cookbook on October 24, 2026.

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