Recipe Manager vs Chef Pro 4 Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recipe Manager
Organize your personal recipes and easily scale them to any serving size. Import recipes from various sources, personalize their appearance, and enjoy a cooking mode designed for ease of use. Securely back up and share your culinary creations.
- Recipe scaling by serving size
- Web import and dictation input
- Customizable recipe card designs
- SmartScaling™ for accurate measurements
- Cooking mode with large font
- Multiple backup options
- Email and print recipe sharing
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Manage. Organize. Scale. Personalize. Keep all your personal recipes on all your iPads. Scale recipes by serving size to number of dinner guests–something your ordinary cookbook can't do! Personalize your collection with custom recipe card designs. Enter recipes 5 ways: web import, dictation, type, copy/paste, picklist, plus auto email import from other users of this app **Voted Best Cooking App in Best App Ever awards** 5 star reviews: -“WOW! Really, really like this! Where have you been all my life! Love the colors and want to get the decorated ones, too. Really good and worth the money!”-C.songwriter -”This is THE BEST recipe organizer ever!...I love the sizer part of this app.”-Rick R. -“Great app for those who love to cook...The genius is that you can then change the serving size and the app recalculates the ingredient proportions”-Peggywilkins Featured by Apple: ~ In the Spotlight, Holiday Cooking, Party Planner, & Summertime BestAppEver Awards: ~ Best Cooking App, Best Parenting App + Organize all YOUR recipe cards, handwritten family recipes, recipe clippings, pins & web finds + Personalize with recipe card designs + Change the serving size & recipe is resized to number of guests coming for dinner! Customize recipes for families, couples, large or small groups – UNIQUE to Recipe Manager with Serving Sizer™. + Scales using SmartScaling™ – optimizes results in real world measurements and minimum steps. We never convert 1 T to 17 T – our app knows it's actually 1 cup + 1 T! EASY, QUICK RECIPE INPUT ● Import directly from websites ● Use dictation ● Type freehand ● Easy copy/paste ● Or use our ingredient picklists and quick pick sliders for volumes, weights, & items (for "eggs" or "cans of tomato paste") No need to type manually! ● Import directly from email sent from other Recipe Manager with Serving Sizer users ● Landscape & Portrait support ORGANIZE and FIND RECIPES ● Search by Ingredient or Recipe Name or flip thru the Alphabetical Index ● Search & tag by multiple Categories. Edit/add your own. PERSONALIZE ● Personalize your collection with beautiful designer recipe card designs. ● Basic packs included, purchase more in-app. (More packs on the way!) FOCUSED on COOKING ● Scale recipes BY SERVING SIZE using SmartScaling™. No more kitchen math. ● COOKING MODE. Easy-to-read, full screen for cooking. Adjust Font Sizes to read easier. Always ON screen. *No need to touch your iPad with messy hands while cooking!* ● Don't want to cook with your iPad? PRINT out recipes. PEACE of MIND Multiple backup solutions to secure your valuable data: ● Recipes are auto-saved locally to your iPad, as entering ● Data is BACKED UP during iCloud backup or iTunes Backup ● Make additional EXTRA BACKUPS using iTunes File Sharing SHARE ● EMAIL converted recipes to friends & family, import directly into our app ● PRINT recipes ● Use iTunes File Sharing to copy recipe database to other devices, including iPhone ADDITIONAL FEATURES: ● Add Photos ● International: convert between US & Metric ● Double, triple, & halve buttons, or custom scale by serving sizes ● Include mini-instructions in ingredient names: “2 eggs, separated” or long names like four “14.5 oz cans" ● No subscription pricing--your app and data are yours to keep! ● No logins or website accounts required ● No internet connection required--all recipes saved locally on device ● Elegant, beautiful, & useful simulated recipe box and cards interface APPLICATIONS ● Great for holiday cooking, parties, & BBQ's ● Resize meals to family size ● Meals for one or two ● Catering for crowds ● Convert between European-based recipes and US-based Designed & used daily by a developer parent who cooks—we're always looking for ways to improve & add features. Please contact us at support(at)creativealgorithms.com. We strive for exceptional customer service.
Chef Pro 4 Home
Discover authentic family recipes from diverse culinary traditions, including Cuban, German, and Tex-Mex. Each dish comes with a story, preserving generations of flavors and cooking techniques.
- Authentic family recipes
- Cuban culinary traditions
- German culinary traditions
- Tex-Mex culinary traditions
- Recipe storytelling
- Preserved flavors and techniques
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Chef Pro 4 Home brings authentic family recipes to your kitchen, featuring generations of Cuban, German, and Tex-Mex culinary traditions. Every recipe tells a story, preserving the flavors and techniques passed down through our family's diverse heritage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Chef Pro 4 Home at Free against Recipe Manager's $7.99. Chef Pro 4 Home also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 64%). Recipe Manager's advantage is ratings volume (158 vs 1). On ads, 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
Chef Pro 4 Home is free to download; Recipe Manager costs $7.99 up front. Recipe Manager sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Chef Pro 4 Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chef Pro 4 Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Manager has 158 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Recipe Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chef Pro 4 Home's.
Recipe Manager ships an update every 3 months, Chef Pro 4 Home every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipe Manager | Chef Pro 4 Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (158 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Creative Algorithms | Code Dash Ltd. |
Customer experience
Recipe Manager
Chef Pro 4 Home
Bugs and requests
Recipe Manager
Reported bugs
12 issues- App freezes or crashes when adding recipes
- Ingredients randomly move to directions section
- Data disappears after app reinstall
- Recipes become unreadable/jumbled after updates
- iOS 17 prevents adding recipe items after first entry
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- iOS 17 print function crashes
- Import feature doesn't recognize website formats
- Overlapping text in ingredients field
- App crashes when attempting to import recipes
- Data loss when upgrading to new iPad
- Ingredients field doesn't expand properly for editing
- App freezes during data entry
Requested features
15 requests- Search by ingredients functionality
- iPhone app version
- Cloud backup and automatic sync between devices
- Recipe sharing/importing between users
- Nutritional information calculation
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- Notes section for recipe modifications
- Ability to copy recipes into other apps
- Ingredient prep descriptors (diced, chopped, etc.)
- Larger photo viewing option
- Better ingredient import from websites
- Automatic alphabetical sorting
- Ability to insert ingredients in order without deleting subsequent entries
- Recipe duplication feature
- Web-based recipe management
- Automatic ingredient list from directions
Chef Pro 4 Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Recipe Manager
- Fall Leaves Recipe Card Design Pack$0.99
- Holiday Trimmings Recipe Card Design Pack$0.99
- Home Sweet Home Recipe Card Design Pack$0.99
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- Party Time Recipe Card Design Pack$0.99
Chef Pro 4 Home
No in-app purchases
Questions
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