Comparison

Recipe Cloud vs Daily Bite

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

Head to head
About

Recipe Cloud

Organize, discover, and share your favorite recipes. Plan your meals for the week and generate smart grocery lists. Save recipes from websites or add your own, and create custom digital cookbooks.

Highlights
  • Discover recipes from a vast database
  • Meal planning for the week or month
  • Smart grocery list generation
  • Save recipes from websites and add custom ones
  • Organize recipes into digital cookbooks
  • Share recipes with friends and family
Features
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RECIPE CLOUD: SAVE, ORGANIZE, PLAN & SHOP Recipe Cloud is a recipe saver, recipe organizer, AI recipe scanner, meal planner, and grocery list app for home cooks. Save recipes from websites and social links, digitize paper recipes with a photo, organize your favorites into collections, plan meals for the week, and shop smarter in one app. Build your own digital cookbook with recipes from food blogs, recipe websites, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, your own kitchen, and the Recipe Cloud community. SAVE RECIPES FROM ANYWHERE Import recipes from a URL and Recipe Cloud will help capture the title, image, ingredients, and directions. You can also paste social links from Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, preview the recipe, and save it to your library. Prefer to add your own? Create custom recipes with photos, servings, timing, grouped ingredients, directions, and private notes. SCAN RECIPES WITH A PHOTO Turn printed recipes, handwritten favorites, recipe cards, and cookbook pages into organized digital recipes with a simple photo. Recipe Cloud uses AI to capture the recipe details so you can review, edit, and save them to your collection. ORGANIZE YOUR RECIPE COLLECTION Keep recipes easy to find with custom collections, also called recipe books. Create collections for weeknight dinners, meal prep, healthy recipes, desserts, family favorites, holidays, or anything else you love to cook. Search your saved recipes, sort your library, and save recipes from other cooks. DISCOVER NEW FAVORITES Explore recipes, categories, and cooks from the Recipe Cloud community. Browse personalized feeds, popular recipes, recently added recipes, and recipes from people you follow. Search for recipes and people, browse popular categories, and filter by ingredients, cuisine, diet, course, and cooking technique. COOK WITH CONFIDENCE Every recipe includes a clean, easy-to-use page with ingredients, directions, timing, servings, author details, and notes. Scale servings from 1 to 100 and ingredient quantities update automatically. Highlight your current step while cooking, keep your screen awake, and open the original recipe in an in-app browser when needed. PLAN MEALS FOR THE WEEK Use the weekly meal planner to organize breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and more. Add meals from saved recipes or collections, edit meal notes, and plan around your schedule. Create a grocery list from this week’s meal plan or choose a custom date range. You can also share or copy your meal plan. SHOP SMARTER Turn recipes and meal plans into a grocery list. Add only the ingredients you need and keep your list grouped by aisle or section. Check off items while shopping, move completed items to history, restore items, edit names and aisles, and share your list as plain text. COOKING IS BETTER WITH FRIENDS Create a profile, follow cooks, browse community recipes, and see when others save your recipes. Discover ideas from home cooks, creators, bloggers, and brands, then save your favorites into your own library. RECIPE CLOUD PLUS Upgrade to Recipe Cloud Plus for more flexibility across your recipe library, meal planner, and grocery list. Recipe Cloud Plus includes: • Unlimited saved recipes • Unlimited recipe books and collections • Unlimited meal planning • Smart grocery list features • Recipe nutrition estimates • Private recipes and private collections • No advertisements • Recipe sync across iPhone, iPad & web ALSO INCLUDED • Save recipe links from Safari and other apps with the share extension • Sync your account with Recipe Cloud on the web • Create and edit your profile • Set dietary and cooking preferences • Manage notification preferences • Report content and block users when needed Whether you are saving recipes from websites, scanning family favorites, planning meals, building a grocery list, or discovering new cooks, Recipe Cloud keeps your cooking life organized from save to shop. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Daily Bite

Easily save recipes from any website or app, organize them into cookbooks, and get daily meal suggestions. Plan your week, generate smart grocery lists, and access a library of chef-created high-protein recipes.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from any website
  • Organize recipes into cookbooks
  • Daily meal suggestions
  • Weekly meal planning
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Access to chef-created recipes
  • Step-by-step Cook Mode
Features
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Every other recipe app starts empty. Start your free trial and Daily Bite opens with 500+ high-protein recipes from real chefs, ready to cook on day one. Then it saves every recipe you find, from Instagram, TikTok, a screenshot, or almost any site, so you finally cook the ones you have been saving. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE - Paste a link from Instagram, TikTok, a food blog, or almost any site and we import the full recipe - Share a post straight from the app you found it in - Upload a photo or screenshot and we read the recipe from the image - Organize everything into your own cookbooks WHAT IS FOR DINNER, DECIDED - A fresh pick every day from the recipes you have saved - Tell it what you like and it learns - Decide what is for dinner in seconds PLAN YOUR WEEK - Add recipes to a simple weekly meal plan - See your whole week at a glance - Build a grocery list from everything you have planned SHOP SMARTER - Your grocery list comes straight from your actual recipes, organized for the store - Check items off as you shop - Nothing falls through the cracks 500+ CHEF RECIPES, INCLUDED WITH PRO - A full high-protein library from real chefs, across three cookbooks - Per-serving nutrition on every recipe - Step-by-step Cook Mode so you are not scrubbing through a video - Convert between metric and imperial instantly - High-protein by default, personalized to how you want to eat from the very first screen Daily Bite is free to download. A free account saves up to 5 recipes a week, plans your week, and builds your grocery list. Daily Bite Pro unlocks the full 500+ recipe chef library, unlimited recipe imports, step-by-step Cook Mode, unit conversion, unlimited grocery list adds, and per-serving nutrition, with an auto-renewable subscription. - Title: Daily Bite Pro - Length and price: 1 year for $59.99, or 1 month for $7.99 - A 7-day free trial is included; any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited if you buy a subscription. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. - You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trydailybite.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Recipe Cloud4 screens
Daily Bite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Recipe Cloud at none against Daily Bite's shown. Daily Bite's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 55%) and chart position (#75 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Recipe Cloud sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per month and Daily Bite sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Recipe Cloud against 4.7 for Daily Bite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 40 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Recipe Cloud's written reviews are positive against 80% of Daily Bite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe Cloud ships an update every 9 days, Daily Bite every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Recipe Cloud versus Daily Bite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipe CloudDaily Bite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (45 ratings) — better4.7 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings45 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank—#75 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB136 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRecipe Cloud LLCJasper Arandela

Customer experience

Recipe Cloud

All ratings41 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive54.8%
Neutral5.5%
Negative39.7%

Daily Bite

All ratings38 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%

Bugs and requests

Recipe Cloud

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Recipe import feature no longer works
  • App crashes when saving recipes
  • App crashes when trying to save recipes from online
  • App crashes when opening recipes
  • App crashes when trying to access photos or camera
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  • Recipe import from safari integration not working well
  • Login never works on Mac
  • Edit recipes missing info when saved
  • Can't add new recipes, prompted to upgrade
  • Check off recipe function not working
  • App asks for App Store password on every launch
  • Progress indicator spins forever on splash screen
  • Recipes disappear until app is shut down and reopened
  • Folders don't appear unless app is restarted
  • App shuts down every time you try to access photos or camera
  • Hides next button when entering recipe
  • App shuts down when trying to access photos or camera
  • Blue screen and then crashes
  • Doesn't store manual recipes
  • Progress indicator spins forever

Requested features

11 requests
  • Fix recipe import functionality
  • Address constant crashing issues
  • Improve desktop sign-in
  • Fix bugs and improve functionality
  • Add dark mode
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  • Allow printing of recipe books
  • Search recipes by specific ingredients
  • Add multiple pictures per recipe
  • Improve meal planner with shopping list
  • Allow asking questions and posting tips
  • Bring back old layout

Daily Bite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Recipe Cloud

Subscriptions4
  • Recipe Cloud Plus (Monthly)$4.951 Month
  • Recipe Cloud Plus (Yearly)14 Days trial$38.951 Year
  • Recipe Cloud Plus (Yearly)1 Month trial$38.951 Year
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  • Recipe Cloud Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$38.951 Year
4 purchases

Daily Bite

Subscriptions4
  • Daily Bite Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Daily Bite Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Daily Bite Pro Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
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  • Daily Bite Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Recipe Cloud free?
Recipe Cloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Bite free?
Daily Bite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recipe Cloud or Daily Bite?
Recipe Cloud is rated higher. Recipe Cloud averages 4.8 out of 5 from 45 ratings, while Daily Bite averages 4.7 from 40 ratings.
Do Recipe Cloud or Daily Bite have ads?
Daily Bite shows ads; Recipe Cloud does not.
Which is updated more often, Recipe Cloud or Daily Bite?
Recipe Cloud ships an update every 9 days, and Daily Bite every 10 days. Most recently, Recipe Cloud was updated on October 29, 2026 and Daily Bite on October 28, 2026.

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