Cook Units vs Recipe Sizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- 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!
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Cook Units | Recipe Sizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #190 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Didier Burton | Daniel Lao |
Customer experience
Cook Units
Recipe Sizer
In-app purchases
Cook Units
No in-app purchases
Recipe Sizer
No in-app purchases









