Mt. Joy vs Open Cookbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mt. Joy
Easily order your next meal with this app. Browse the full menu, place your order, and receive real-time updates on its status. Enjoy a streamlined food ordering experience.
- View menu
- Place orders
- Order status notifications
- Easy meal ordering
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The Mt. Joy app is designed to make ordering your next meal as easy as possible. View our menu, place an order, and get notifications on the status of your order.
Open Cookbook
Organize, search, and view your recipes with this app. It uses an open format for recipes, storing them on your device or iCloud. Build a lasting recipe collection.
- Organize recipes
- Search recipes
- View recipes
- Open format recipes (RecipeMD)
- Device or iCloud storage
- Build a lasting recipe library
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Open Cookbook is an app that lets you organize, search, and view your recipe library on your own terms without being locked into a proprietary ecosystem. Recipes are stored on your personal device or your iCloud drive. Recipes are formatted in RecipeMD, an open format based on markdown. Build a recipe library you can pass down to your kids.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Open Cookbook at 100% against Mt. Joy's 44%. Open Cookbook also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Mt. Joy's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Cookbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mt. Joy has 79 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Mt. Joy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Open Cookbook's.
Mt. Joy ships an update fortnightly, Open Cookbook every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mt. Joy | Open Cookbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mt. Joy Group Inc. | DAVID WILLIAM BETTIS |
Customer experience
Mt. Joy
Open Cookbook
In-app purchases
Mt. Joy
No in-app purchases
Open Cookbook
No in-app purchases
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