Comparison

Personal Cookbook vs Leemon

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

Head to head
About

Personal Cookbook

Organize your recipes with a stylish digital cookbook. Features web importing, a smart shopping list, and customizable themes. Share recipes and collections easily with others.

Highlights
  • Web recipe importing
  • Smart shopping list
  • Customizable themes
  • Recipe collections
  • PDF/TXT export
  • Cloud sync
Features
Read full description

Keep your own cookbook with style. Includes web importing, shopping list, printing, and more, all for free. CLOUD SYNC • Sync to all your devices (iCloud account required) WEB IMPORT • Includes a safari extension with one tap importing for most websites. ORGANIZATION • Categories • Star Ratings • Color Tags • Bookmarks • Nutrition field • Custom description • Direction photos • Advanced search and filtering • Collections: • Make your own collections, then share them! • Smart Collections: • Need recipes with only soup in the name, and potatoes in the ingredients? A smart collection will comb through your recipes and find exactly what you are looking for. KITCHEN FEATURES • Yield conversions • Unit converter • Calculator RECIPE FORMATTING • Decimals to fractions • Fraction formatting: • Automatically convert fractions to unicode. For example: 1/2 to ½ • Bold specified keywords • Unified measurements: • Adds consistency to recipe measurements. For example, change all instances of tsp, teaspoons, or t, to just one, for every recipe. SHOPPING LIST • Custom sections. Add your own grocery stores, isles, categories, whatever you please. • iCloud synced (for family lists). CUSTOMIZATION • Change colors, fonts, and use a background photo, with light and dark mode variants. • 40+ included themes, plus create your own. • 8 different colored icons. SHARING AND EXPORTING • Share and export • PDF • TXT • Print • The NEW .personalcookbook file: • It's a new file format, exclusively used by Personal Cookbook. In a single file, share recipes, collections, or themes with others who use Personal Cookbook. FILE BACKUPS • Worried you might lose your recipes? Backup them up. With one tap, create a Personal Cookbook backup with your recipes, collections, and themes. SUPPORT • Help guide • Having trouble? Please reach out to awarrenapps@gmail.com Using version 2? Import your backup files, via Settings -> Open. Personal Cookbook gives full, unrestricted access to every feature of the app, without needing in-app purchases or subscriptions. Give it a try today!

About

Leemon

Easily import recipes from any source, create personalized dishes with AI, and organize them into collections. Cook step-by-step with smart timers and view nutritional information. Supports multiple languages and sharing options.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from web, social media, and videos
  • AI-generated recipes based on ingredients and preferences
  • Organize recipes into custom collections
  • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
  • Automatic nutritional information calculation
  • Multilingual support and automatic translation
  • Export collections as magazine-style PDFs
Features
Read full description

The recipe app that adapts to how you cook. Leemon lets you import recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and any cooking website, create your own from scratch, organize them into collections and cook step by step — all in one place. IMPORT RECIPES FROM EVERYWHERE Paste any Instagram Reel, TikTok video, YouTube link or cooking website — Leemon listens to the audio, reads captions and descriptions, and brings the recipe into your collection perfectly structured into ingredients and steps. You can also scan PDF cookbooks or photos of finished dishes — AI infers the recipe for you. CREATE RECIPES YOUR WAY Describe what you feel like —by text, voice or photo— and AI creates the recipe tailored to you. Got chicken, zucchini and parmesan in the fridge? Tell Leemon what you have and it proposes the recipe. Looking for gluten-free or vegetarian? AI respects your filters and allergies. ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU COOK Create themed collections: Wellness, Sweet, Favorites, Family Sundays, Quick meals… Whatever you need. Drag recipes, tag them with sections, mark your favorites. Find any recipe in seconds with hashtag search. STEP-BY-STEP COOKING MODE Large steps designed to be readable from across the kitchen. Automatic timers per step. Adjust servings on the fly and ingredients recalculate instantly. Voice notes per step to capture your tricks. SHARE BEAUTIFUL COLLECTIONS Export any collection as a magazine-style PDF, ready to print or share. Or generate a link so your friends can browse your collection. SMART NUTRITION Recipes show calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium per serving — estimated automatically, no manual input required. 7 LANGUAGES Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Catalan. The interface adapts to your language; recipes translate automatically when you import from another culinary culture. WHO LEEMON IS FOR — For those who save screenshots of recipes on their camera roll and never come back to them. — For those who follow cooking creators on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and want to keep their recipes organized. — For those who have 30 favorite recipes and nowhere to organize them. — For those who cook better with large steps and automatic timers. — For those who want to discover what to make with what's in the fridge. FREE TO START Create your account for free and start importing and creating recipes today. Optional Premium subscription with monthly and annual plans for unlimited recipe imports, unlimited AI recipe generation and magazine PDF exports. Auto-renewable, cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Save it. Cook it. Make it yours. Welcome to Leemon. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://leemon.kitchen/privacy

Screenshots

Personal Cookbook4 screens
Leemon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Leemon at none against Personal Cookbook's shown. Leemon also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Personal Cookbook's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Personal Cookbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Leemon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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 — 5.0 for Personal Cookbook against 5.0 for Leemon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Personal Cookbook has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Personal Cookbook ships an update every 8 days, Leemon every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Personal Cookbook versus Leemon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersonal CookbookLeemon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (29 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAndrew WarrenSOLOFOODIES SL

Customer experience

Personal Cookbook

All ratings29 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Leemon

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Personal Cookbook

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
2 purchases

Leemon

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Personal Cookbook free?
Personal Cookbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Leemon free?
Leemon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Personal Cookbook or Leemon?
Personal Cookbook and Leemon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 29 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Personal Cookbook or Leemon have ads?
Personal Cookbook shows ads; Leemon does not.
Which is updated more often, Personal Cookbook or Leemon?
Personal Cookbook ships an update every 8 days, and Leemon every 2 days. Most recently, Personal Cookbook was updated on October 8, 2026 and Leemon on October 1, 2026.

Other comparisons