Comparison

FeedLink vs Simmer Down

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Log grocery items
  • Find and store recipes
  • Manage expiration dates
  • Unlock storage tips
  • Access health facts
  • Discover flavor pairings
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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.

Screenshots

FeedLink4 screens
Simmer Down4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
FeedLink versus Simmer Down: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedLinkSimmer Down
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHernan BerissoDonnie Sullivan

Customer experience

FeedLink

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simmer Down

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FeedLink

No in-app purchases

None

Simmer Down

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FeedLink free?
FeedLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simmer Down free?
Simmer Down is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FeedLink or Simmer Down?
FeedLink and Simmer Down are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do FeedLink or Simmer Down have ads?
Neither FeedLink nor Simmer Down shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FeedLink or Simmer Down?
FeedLink ships an update every 4 days, and Simmer Down every 3 months. Most recently, FeedLink was updated on October 15, 2026 and Simmer Down on October 31, 2026.

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