Comparison

Cook vs LooPCook

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

Head to head
About

Cook

This app helps you organize recipes with detailed structure, including sections and ingredient references. It generates shopping lists that can be grouped by store section or recipe component. Recipes are stored in a plain text format, ensuring you always own your data and can access it offline.

Highlights
  • Structured recipe organization
  • Recipe cross-referencing
  • Automatic shopping list generation
  • Customizable shopping list groupings
  • Offline recipe access
  • Recipe scaling by servings or ratio
  • Plain text recipe format
Features
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Clip a recipe from any website or a photo of a cookbook page, cook it step by step with timers, and shop from an aisle-sorted list. Every recipe is a plain-text file you own, so nothing you save can ever be locked in. RECIPES THAT KEEP THEIR STRUCTURE Most apps flatten a recipe into a list and a wall of text. Cook uses Cooklang, an open-source plain-text format that keeps how a recipe really works: - Sections: dough, filling, and frosting stay distinct parts of one recipe - Recipe references: your pizza links to your pizza dough instead of copying it - Notes and metadata: oven temps, timing cues, source, tags. Nothing gets lost - Scaling: by servings, by multiplier, or around a single ingredient GET RECIPES IN WITHOUT RETYPING - Paste a link, or share a page from Safari, and Cook turns it into a clean recipe. Recipe-site imports are free and unlimited. - Photograph a cookbook page or add screenshots and Cook reads the ingredients and steps (Cook Cloud plan). - Save recipes from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram videos (Cook Cloud plan). - New here? Start with a recipe pack picked for how you eat and cook. COOK FROM YOUR PHONE - Cooking mode: a mise-en-place checklist, then one large-text step at a time. The screen stays awake. - Timers from any step, running in the background, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. SHOPPING LISTS THAT MATCH HOW YOU SHOP Add any recipe, scaled amounts included, and Cook builds one list. View it by aisle or by recipe, define your own aisles in a text file, check things off, and send the list to whoever is shopping. YOUR WEEK, READY TO COOK Meal plans made in the free Cook Editor on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer show up on your phone day by day, with one tap to add the whole week to your shopping list. YOUR RECIPES, YOUR FILES Recipes live in a folder as .cook text files. Keep them on this device, in iCloud Drive, or in Cook Cloud, which syncs across iPhone, iPad, and the desktop editor. Works offline. Open them in any text editor, back them up, move them anywhere, forever. FREE APP, OPTIONAL COOK CLOUD The app is free. Cooklang, its parsers, and the desktop Cook Editor are open source. Cook Cloud subscriptions pay for the servers and the AI: - Cook Basic: sync across devices, photo and video imports, meal plans on your phone - Cook Pro: larger import allowances, plus CookBot, the meal-planning AI in the Cook Editor that drafts your week from your own recipes Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled and can be managed in your App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cook.md/privacy

About

LooPCook

Features
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Stop rewinding cooking videos. Loop the exact step you need. Paste a YouTube cooking video link. LooPCook uses AI to organize its ingredients and cooking order into timed steps. Open the matching video moment for each step, then replay a difficult part as many times as you need. Cook with less screen work: - Jump straight to the current recipe step - Repeat one video segment without dragging the timeline - Save recipes and find them later - Read cooking results and comments from other users - Try beta voice and gesture controls in the mobile app AI-generated ingredients, steps, and timestamps can contain errors. Check ingredients, allergens, heat, cooking time, and food safety yourself. Voice and gesture recognition is in beta and can vary by device, permissions, and lighting.

Screenshots

Cook4 screens
LooPCook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LooPCook at 14.0 against Cook's 16. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cook ships an update every 11 days, LooPCook weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cook versus LooPCook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCookLooPCook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB11 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAlexey DubovskoyMohrs Korea Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Cook

No in-app purchases

None

LooPCook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cook free?
Cook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LooPCook free?
LooPCook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cook or LooPCook have ads?
Neither Cook nor LooPCook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cook or LooPCook?
Cook ships an update every 11 days, and LooPCook weekly. Most recently, Cook was updated on October 24, 2026 and LooPCook on October 25, 2026.

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