Dinners vs NORA Recipes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dinners
Discover dinner recipes with a fun, swipe-based matching system. Find meals everyone in your household will love, with ingredients and instructions readily available. Filter by diet, ingredients, cook time, and cuisine.
- Swipe-based recipe matching
- Household recipe approval
- Integrated ingredients and instructions
- Dietary and ingredient filtering
- Cook time and cuisine filters
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Cooking dinner is hard. Finding recipes shouldn't be. Introducing match-making for dinner recipes. It's the fun of Tinder, for your recipes. The app at a glance: - Swipe right on the recipes you like. Left on the ones you don't - Make the recipes you and your household all liked and matched to - See the ingredients and step-by-step instructions directly in the app - No scrolling through long blog posts and life stories to get your recipe - Filter recipes by diet, ingredient, cook time & cuisine - App is free to use! We do charge a one time fee to use filters to cover the costs on our end
NORA Recipes
Organize your favorite recipes, share them with friends, and discover new culinary creations from a vibrant community. Easily add ingredients to a shopping list for simplified meal planning.
- Private recipe storage
- Recipe sharing
- Community recipe discovery
- Add to grocery list
- Curate cookbooks
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Meet NORA, your personal recipe storage App that also offers sharing and discovering new recipes within the NORA cooking and baking community. Whether you’re saving family recipes in your private cookbook or adding recipes from friends, NORA empowers users to curate their own collection of cookbooks, like playlists, as well as find new recipe inspiration from fellow users. Simplify shopping for recipes with the add to grocery list feature, adding all ingredients into one easy to use shopping list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NORA Recipes at none against Dinners's 10. Dinners's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Dinners sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. NORA Recipes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dinners against 5.0 for NORA Recipes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dinners has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dinners ships an update every 3 weeks, NORA Recipes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinners | NORA Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Theodore Goodman | Ninth Technology |
Customer experience
Dinners
NORA Recipes
In-app purchases
Dinners
- Sausage$1.99
- Asian$1.99
- Ground Beef$1.99
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- Chicken$1.99
- Italian$1.99
- Mexican$1.99
- Under 30 min$1.99
- One pot$1.99
- Vegetarian$1.99
- Dinner$1.99
NORA Recipes
No in-app purchases
