Comparison

Recipe Search vs Recipe Riser

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

Head to head
About

Recipe Search

Discover a world of recipes from various websites and YouTube videos. Organize your favorites with tags and access them easily. Control the app hands-free with voice commands while cooking.

Highlights
  • Global recipe web search
  • YouTube recipe video search
  • Language selection for search sites
  • Bookmark organization with tags
  • Custom URL scheme integration
  • Voice control for navigation
  • Hands-free kitchen operation
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Need more recipes? Here is the ANSWER what you want! Recipe Search for iPhone can search recipes from web sites throughout the world. Recipe Search is an App that allows you to find the recipes from recipe site a lot at a time. [Added the YouTube videos search] It is able to search for YouTube recipe videos. [The language select function was added. ] It enabled it to choose the language of a search target site. [Added the tag function to clarify bookmarks] Please register a tag from a setting first.  [responding to the custom URL scheme] You can launch Recipe Search with the custom URL scheme from Safari and Other Apps. An example for the custom URL Scheme for Recipe Search is: recipeSearch-iPhone:q=Tomatoes Onions Added link to the assistant service to view web pages designed only for PC. Please push an upper right arrow on a recipe page. And, Choose "Open with Instapaper". Voice Control ! We added the voice control capability in the recipe page. With your voice, RecipeSearch operates zooming and panning . Even when your hands are wet and/or dirty in the kitchen, you can operate the screen on your iPhone without any touch! *The commands available for operation are: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LARGE and SMALL. *App. Feature Searching recipes with various type of keywords, such as recipe name, season, methods of cooking and/or kitchen utensils, as well as food ingredients. Please try to search recipes with keyword 'summer', and Recipe Search for iPhone shows various recipes suitable for 'summer'. (related to 'summer.') *How to Search When you have beef and onion( in the refrigerator), Please enter 'beef onion', then click Search button. *Usage Tips 1.To begin with, try to search with various key words you are looking for. 2.Cheking the search results、the recipes that you are interested in can be registered in Book Mark using [+] button. 3.After looking over the search results, transfer to Book Mark and browse details of the recipes you register.. 4.You can delete recipes from Book mark, when they becomes not necessary. 5.You can register recipes in Book mark as your favorite ones, and easily possible to access recipe web page later. *Warning(achtung) Internet Connection via WiFi( recommended) or 3G is required. * Disclaimer of Liability and Warranties. RECIPE SEARCH FOR IPHONE (hereinafter called 'THIS APPLICATION'), DESIGN ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THIS APPLICATION.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from the web
  • Extracts ingredients and directions
  • Create custom recipes
  • Edit saved recipes
  • Share recipes
  • Track cooking history with notes
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Recipe Search4 screens
Recipe Riser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Recipe Search at 5.0 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. Recipe Search also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Recipe Riser's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (82% vs 67%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Recipe Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Riser has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Recipe Search's written reviews are positive against 82% of Recipe Riser's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe Search ships an update every 3 weeks, Recipe Riser monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recipe Search versus Recipe Riser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipe SearchRecipe Riser
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.3 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings114 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMedia Circuit Co., Ltd.Patrik Outericky

Customer experience

Recipe Search

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Recipe Riser

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe Search

No in-app purchases

None

Recipe Riser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipe Search free?
Recipe Search is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipe Riser free?
Recipe Riser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipe Search or Recipe Riser?
Recipe Search is rated higher. Recipe Search averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Recipe Riser averages 4.3 from 14 ratings.
Do Recipe Search or Recipe Riser have ads?
Recipe Search shows ads; Recipe Riser does not.
Which is updated more often, Recipe Search or Recipe Riser?
Recipe Search ships an update every 3 weeks, and Recipe Riser monthly. Most recently, Recipe Search was updated on October 6, 2026 and Recipe Riser on October 4, 2026.

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