Comparison

Recipe Riser vs Souschef | Recipe Keeper

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

Head to head
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.

About

Souschef | Recipe Keeper

This app helps you organize recipes from across the web and social media, create smart grocery lists, and simplify cooking. It features automatic transcription of video recipes, unit conversion, and a cooking mode with timers.

Highlights
  • Save recipes from web and video
  • Auto-transcribe video recipes
  • Smart, categorized grocery lists
  • Unit conversion and quantity adjustment
  • Cooking mode with timers
  • Cloud backup and sync
  • Share recipes and lists
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Souschef is a recipe keeper for saving the dishes you love, organizing them into collections, planning meals, shopping from recipes, and cooking step by step. All cooking and organization features are free. Save recipes, edit them, search your collection, build grocery lists, use Cooking Mode, keep a cooking journal, and share recipe lists without paying. Souschef Plus is optional and gives you unlimited recipe imports. Save recipes from the places you already find them: - Websites - Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest - Photos and screenshots - Pasted text - Manual entry Cook with less friction: - Cooking Mode keeps your screen awake while you follow a recipe - Detected timers are easy to start while cooking - Adjust servings and convert common units - Translate recipes into supported languages - Search your own saved recipes by name, ingredient, or tag Stay organized: - Collections for family favorites, weeknight meals, baking, holidays, and more - Grocery lists created from saved recipes - Meal planning for your weekly cooking - Private cooking journal entries with notes and photos - Shared recipe lists for planning with family or friends Souschef helps you build a personal cookbook that stays useful in the kitchen, not just a folder of links you forget about. Free plan: - Full cooking and organization features - 5 saved recipe imports per rolling 7 days - Existing saved recipes remain available Souschef Plus: - Unlimited recipe imports - Monthly or annual subscription options Terms of Use: https://www.trysouschef.com/toc

Screenshots

Recipe Riser4 screens
Souschef | Recipe Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Souschef | Recipe Keeper at 4.8 against Recipe Riser's 4.3. Souschef | Recipe Keeper also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and ratings volume (107 vs 14). Recipe Riser's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Souschef | Recipe Keeper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Recipe Riser asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Souschef | Recipe Keeper holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Souschef | Recipe Keeper has 107 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Recipe Riser's written reviews are positive against 90% of Souschef | Recipe Keeper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe Riser ships an update monthly, Souschef | Recipe Keeper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recipe Riser versus Souschef | Recipe Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipe RiserSouschef | Recipe Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (14 ratings)4.8 (107 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews89.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14107 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB78 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPatrik OuterickyNekonote Limited Liability Company

Customer experience

Recipe Riser

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

Souschef | Recipe Keeper

All ratings107 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral6.9%
Negative3.4%

In-app purchases

None

Recipe Riser

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Souschef | Recipe Keeper

Subscriptions2
  • Souschef Plus (monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Souschef Plus (yearly)$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Recipe Riser free?
Recipe Riser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Souschef | Recipe Keeper free?
Souschef | Recipe Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recipe Riser or Souschef | Recipe Keeper?
Souschef | Recipe Keeper is rated higher. Recipe Riser averages 4.3 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Souschef | Recipe Keeper averages 4.8 from 107 ratings.
Do Recipe Riser or Souschef | Recipe Keeper have ads?
Neither Recipe Riser nor Souschef | Recipe Keeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe Riser or Souschef | Recipe Keeper?
Recipe Riser ships an update monthly, and Souschef | Recipe Keeper every 2 weeks. Most recently, Recipe Riser was updated on November 3, 2026 and Souschef | Recipe Keeper on November 7, 2026.

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