FeedLink vs Simmer Down
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FeedLink
Track your groceries to discover recipes, manage expiration dates, and reduce food waste. Access storage tips, nutritional information, and flavor pairings for your logged items.
- Log grocery items
- Find and store recipes
- Manage expiration dates
- Unlock storage tips
- Access health facts
- Discover flavor pairings
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Log your grocery items to find and store recipes, manage expiration dates. Unlock storage tips, health facts, and best flavor pairings between logged items.
Simmer Down
Easily extract and organize recipes from any source, including URLs, screenshots, and scanned pages. Enjoy a clean, distraction-free cooking experience with a built-in shopping list that syncs across family devices. Privacy is a core focus, with all smart import features running on-device.
- Smart recipe import from URLs, screenshots, and scans
- Distraction-free recipe display
- Integrated shopping list with check-off functionality
- Anonymous family sync for recipes and lists
- Cooking mode to keep screen awake
- Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
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Simmer Down strips the clutter out of online recipes. Paste a URL, snap a screenshot of a Facebook post, or scan a cookbook page — and get back a clean recipe you can actually cook from. No life story. No ads. No "jump to recipe" button. Recipes you save sync to every device in your family on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Whoever's cooking has the recipe. Whoever's at the store has the shopping list. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Smart import from anywhere — Paste a URL, paste recipe text, drop in a screenshot, choose a photo from your library, or scan with the camera. Apple Intelligence reads loose-prose captions and photographed text on-device, no servers involved. • Just the recipe — When you open a recipe, you see title, ingredients, and steps. That's it. Big serif typography that's easy to read at arm's length on the kitchen counter. • Built-in shopping list — Send any recipe's ingredients to your shopping list in one tap. Check things off as you shop. The list syncs across every device in your family. • Anonymous family sync — Share recipes and your shopping list with your household. No name, no email, no profile required. A 6-character family code is all anyone needs to join. • Cooking Mode — Keeps the screen awake while you're following a recipe so your phone doesn't lock with floured hands. • iPad and Mac — Same app, same data, same family. On iPad and Mac, the recipe list lives in a sidebar with the detail in the main pane. • Share to anywhere — Send a recipe via Messages, Mail, Notes, AirDrop — any iOS share target. Title, link, ingredients, and steps formatted to paste cleanly. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Simmer Down doesn't collect your name, email, phone number, or location. The smart-import features (image OCR, recipe extraction) run entirely on your device using Apple's Vision and Foundation Models frameworks. Your photos, recipe text, and search activity never leave the device for AI processing. Family-shared data syncs through Google Firebase, but is shared only with members of the family group you create or join. Read the full privacy policy at lhvantage.com/privacy/simmerdown.html. REQUIREMENTS Simmer Down works on iPhone (iOS 17+), iPad (iPadOS 17+), and Mac (macOS Sonoma+). The smart-import features additionally require an Apple Intelligence–capable device on iOS / iPadOS / macOS 26 or later — iPhone 15 Pro and later, iPad with M1 chip or later, or any Apple Silicon Mac. SUPPORT FAQ at lhvantage.com/support/simmer-down.html. Or email us at support@lhvantage.com — we read every message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FeedLink at every 4 days against Simmer Down's every 3 months. FeedLink also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). Simmer Down's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FeedLink against 5.0 for Simmer Down. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
FeedLink ships an update every 4 days, Simmer Down every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FeedLink | Simmer Down |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hernan Berisso | Donnie Sullivan |
Customer experience
FeedLink
Simmer Down
In-app purchases
FeedLink
No in-app purchases
Simmer Down
No in-app purchases









