Comparison

Cook Units vs Recipe Sizer

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

Head to head
About

Cook Units

This app helps you convert cooking measurements between weight and volume, adjust recipe servings, and manage your recipes. It supports over 1,100 ingredients and allows for easy sharing of your culinary creations.

Highlights
  • Weight to volume conversions
  • Recipe serving adjustment
  • Ingredient database with images
  • Recipe creation and management
  • Recipe sharing
  • Multi-language support
  • Light/dark mode and orientation support
Features
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You need 200g of sugar but you don’t have a scale—just a measuring cup? You need 1.5 tbsp of baking powder, but you only have a scale? You need to know how many strawberries you can expect in a 250g container? You need to cook for 7 people, but your recipe is for 2 servings? You need to mark your recipe ingredients as you’re cooking? You need to share your favorite recipes with friends? We got you covered! Cook Units is a measure converter for cooking ingredients designed with usability in a kitchen context. It features a growing set of 1,220+ ingredients with images, and a recipe manager. It works great in light or dark mode, portrait/landscape mode, and in iPad’s Split View/Slide Over layouts. The app can switch between 5 languages (English, French, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish) without changing the language of the device. CONVERT QUANTITIES Conversions of measures can be carried out between weight and volume (e.g. grams to/from cups) and displayed with fractions. Units of measurement automatically adjust to the order of magnitude of the quantities being measured. For example: 8 tbsp (tablespoons) will also show as ½ c (cup,) and 1,000 g (grams) will be displayed as 1 kg (kilogram.) While calculations are exact between weight units or volume units and displayed with up to 2 decimals, they are approximated across weight/volume—depending on an average volumetric mass for the measured ingredient. Conversions also make reasonable approximations in order to display closest fractions, when applicable. CREATE / SHARE / RECEIVE RECIPES Ingredients are browsable as a cover flow, grid, or searchable tagged list. Measured ingredients can be assembled into a recipe with an associated number of servings. Recipes live in iCloud when your account is connected, and so they will appear on any device connected to the same account. Recipes can be associated with notes, locked to avoid mishaps, and shared via Messages, email, AirDrop, etc. in (filtered) bulk or individually. You can also send them to yourself to create backups. ENJOY COOKING! Adjust the number of servings for your recipe and the quantities will automatically resize accordingly with appropriate measuring units. Mark the ingredients in your recipes as you are cooking or shopping for groceries. Just tap a recipe ingredient to see its equivalent measures in weight and volume on the fly. Happy Cooking!

About

Recipe Sizer

Easily manage your recipes by creating and storing them. Adjust serving sizes, and the app automatically recalculates ingredient quantities. Quickly find recipes based on specific ingredients.

Highlights
  • Create and store recipes
  • Recalculate ingredients for new serving sizes
  • Search recipes by ingredient
  • Simple and intuitive design
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Recipe Sizer is the perfect app for managing your recipes. It's been developed to ease your tasks: 1. Create your recipes and take a look at them at any time 2. Change the number of diners and the app will recalculate the correct amount of ingredients 3. Find the recipes that contains a certain ingredient With a simple design and beautiful illustrations!

Screenshots

Cook Units4 screens
Recipe Sizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cook Units at 50% against Recipe Sizer's 0%. Cook Units also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Recipe Sizer's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ratings volume, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Recipe Sizer is free to download; Cook Units costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cook Units holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Cook Units's written reviews are positive against 0% of Recipe Sizer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cook Units ships an update every 2 weeks, Recipe Sizer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Cook Units versus Recipe Sizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCook UnitsRecipe Sizer
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#190 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB21 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDidier BurtonDaniel Lao

Customer experience

Cook Units

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Recipe Sizer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cook Units

No in-app purchases

None

Recipe Sizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cook Units free?
Cook Units costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipe Sizer free?
Recipe Sizer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cook Units or Recipe Sizer?
Cook Units is rated higher. Cook Units averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Recipe Sizer averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Cook Units or Recipe Sizer have ads?
Recipe Sizer shows ads; Cook Units does not.
Which is updated more often, Cook Units or Recipe Sizer?
Cook Units ships an update every 2 weeks, and Recipe Sizer every 3 months. Most recently, Cook Units was updated on October 8, 2026 and Recipe Sizer on September 30, 2026.

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