BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner vs Thrive Fields
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
Discover over a million recipes, plan your meals, and generate grocery lists. This app helps you organize your favorite recipes, reduce food waste by suggesting dishes based on ingredients you have, and connect with a community of home cooks.
- 1,000,000+ recipes
- Meal planning tool
- Grocery list creation
- Use Up Leftovers feature
- Recipe Clipper
- RecipeScan for handwritten recipes
- Home cook community
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BigOven makes cooking simple. Find inspiration from our library of 1,000,000+ recipes, plan meals, create grocery lists, help reduce food waste and more, all on one device. The BigOven experience includes a range of useful tools and a welcoming home cook community that shares the same passion for being in the kitchen as you do. Experience the ultimate home cooking tool to get you inspired and organized in the kitchen, free on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch devices. Our App at a Glance: Have all your recipes in one place Never have to dig through old cookbooks or go through your internet history to find recipes again. Now all of your favorite recipes can live in one location. You can clip recipes from your favorite sites using the BigOven Clipper, and upload and transcribe handwritten recipes by snapping a photo with our RecipeScan tool. Save & share recipes with just one tap, and easily organize your recipes in folders and filter by category. Get inspired We make searching for recipes easy. From the moment you open the app, you'll find everything from what's trending, to what your friends and family are making or baking. Find any recipe in no time with seasonal collections and suggested dishes, and save & share recipes with a single tap. Follow your favorite bloggers and discover what others are cooking in our community of 5 million+ registered home cooks. Plan meals Plan ahead with the Meal Planner tool and leave the stress of deciding what to eat behind. Easily add recipes to your planner and recipe items to your grocery list with the tap of a button. Plan weekly, daily, or monthly meals to stay organized and share your plan with friends and family. Manage your grocery list Create a grocery list for yourself or share it with your household. Sort items by department or recipe and easily mark off items while you shop. Our grocery list helps make shopping more efficient and less stressful. Reduce food waste With our free Use Up Leftovers tool, discover recipes with ingredients you already have. Choose up to 3 ingredients, and BigOven will tell you what you can make. Help reduce while also helping your pocketbook. Join the community Be a part of a home cook community that loves to be in the kitchen just as much as you do. Read reviews left by others, get notified of comments or questions on recipes you've posted, and find other family and friends and their recipes on your home screen. Download for free today! Pro Membership Get the most out of our ultimate home cooking tool by going Pro. Enjoy an ad-free experience and find recipes that cater to your diet and lifestyle with ingredient-by-ingredient Nutrition Insight and advanced search filters. Create custom folders to store recipes for any occasion. Plan a week's worth of meals and share it across multiple BigOven accounts. Upload an unlimited number of recipes and unlock 25 RecipeScan credits. Become a Pro Member for $2.99 per month, or save 30% off the monthly price and pay $24.99 per year. Cancel anytime. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. User Agreement: https://www.bigoven.com/site/terms
Thrive Fields
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Thrive Fields: Harvesting Nature’s Best Experience the convenience of shopping for premium natural products with Thrive Fields. Our app connects you to high-quality, nature-inspired essentials designed to support your healthy lifestyle. Pure & Natural – Sourced with care to bring you the best that nature has to offer. Seamless Shopping – Browse and purchase with ease, right from your phone. Fast & Reliable Delivery – Get your favorite products delivered straight to your door. Simplify your journey to a healthier, more natural lifestyle. Download Thrive Fields today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thrive Fields at none against BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner's 6. Thrive Fields also leads on ads (none vs shown). BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner's advantage is chart position (#161 vs unranked). On price, 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
Both are free to download. BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Thrive Fields asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner | Thrive Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #161 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BigOven.com | BLUE BIRD MEDIA & MARKETING SOLUTIONS, INC. |
Bugs and requests
BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
Reported bugs
4 issues- Recipe scan feature not working
- Inability to add photos to own recipes
- Saved recipes not showing up consistently
- Grocery list issues (items not consolidating, unable to delete)
Requested features
5 requests- Metric system support
- Better recipe search and filtering
- Ability to share recipes with household members
- Improved syncing between web and mobile versions
- Offline access to saved recipes
Thrive Fields
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner
- BigOven Pro Membership1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- BigOven Pro Membership1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- Package of 12 BigOven Credits$9.99
- BigOven Pro Membership$19.99
- Package of 40 BigOven Credits$29.99
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- Package of 100 BigOven Credits$59.99
Thrive Fields
No in-app purchases
Questions
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