Simply Recipes for iOS vs Recipe Riser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simply Recipes for iOS
Easily manage your favorite recipes by importing them from the web, text, or by writing them yourself. The app intelligently interprets instructions, detects timers, and calculates nutrition. Organize with tags and share with friends for a seamless cooking experience.
- Import recipes from websites and text
- Write and format your own recipes
- Automatic timer detection
- Automatic ingredient interpretation
- Automatic nutrition calculation
- Dedicated cooking mode
- Organize recipes with tags
- Share recipes with friends
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A simple recipe manager that lets you focus on what matters most: cooking! - Import recipes from websites, text, or write your own - Automatic timers detected in instructions - Automatic ingredient interpretation - Automatic nutrition calculation - Recipes are intelligently interpreted so you don't have to do any tedious formatting - Dedicated "Cooking" mode displays each step with its ingredients - Organize recipes with tags to make finding the perfect dish a breeze - Share recipes with your friends
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: Simply Recipes for iOS at 4.7 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. Simply Recipes for iOS also leads on ratings volume (77 vs 14). Recipe Riser's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Simply Recipes for iOS holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply Recipes for iOS has 77 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Simply Recipes for iOS's written reviews are positive against 82% of Recipe Riser's.
Simply Recipes for iOS ships an update every 4 weeks, Recipe Riser monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simply Recipes for iOS | Recipe Riser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (77 ratings) — better | 4.3 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Stevenson | Patrik Outericky |
Customer experience
Simply Recipes for iOS
Recipe Riser
In-app purchases
Simply Recipes for iOS
No in-app purchases
Recipe Riser
No in-app purchases
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