Food Files vs Recipe Riser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Food Files
Organize all your favorite recipes in one convenient digital location. Easily convert recipes into shopping lists with a single tap, and add ingredients effortlessly. This app offers a simple, clean interface for managing your culinary creations and grocery needs.
- Store favorite recipes digitally
- Convert recipes to shopping lists
- Add ingredients with one tap
- Add one-off shopping list items
- Add photos to recipes
- Simple interface for browsing
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Still the fastest, simplest place to store your favorite recipes. - Keep all of your favorite recipes in your pocket. - Turn any recipe into a shopping list with one touch. - Add all of your ingredients with a single tap - simply copy a list of items into Food Files. and it figures out the rest. - Add one-off items to any shopping list. - Add photos to your recipes. - Simple, clean interface for browsing through recipes and shopping for ingredients.
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: Food Files at 4.7 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. Food Files also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Food Files holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Food Files's written reviews are positive against 82% of Recipe Riser's.
Food Files ships an update every 6 weeks, Recipe Riser monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Food Files | Recipe Riser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (25 ratings) — better | 4.3 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben Packard | Patrik Outericky |
Customer experience
Food Files
Recipe Riser
In-app purchases
Food Files
No in-app purchases
Recipe Riser
No in-app purchases
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