ReciPics vs Kookd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
ReciPics
Effortlessly capture and organize your favorite recipes from anywhere. Scan ingredients, identify dishes from photos, or use voice commands to create structured recipes. Generate smart grocery lists and adapt meals to dietary needs with an AI assistant.
- Scan ingredients and identify recipes
- Extract recipes from photos
- Voice-guided cooking instructions
- Generate organized grocery lists
- AI-powered recipe adaptation
- Editable recipe details
- Multiple user profiles
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ReciPics is your smart recipe saver. Save, organize, and revisit recipes you love β all in one place. Use ReciPics to scan ingredients, identify recipes, and extract recipes instantly. ReciPics helps you store and manage your personal recipe collection without effort. Instead of typing or copying recipes manually, ReciPics lets you capture recipes from the real world and turn them into a structured, easy-to-use cookbook. With ReciPics, you can extract recipes by scanning ingredients with your camera, identify recipes from photos of finished dishes, or simply ask by voice. ReciPics understands what you have and what you want to cook, then turns it into clear, usable recipes. ReciPics makes adding recipes fast and intuitive. Take a photo of ingredients to get recipe suggestions, scan a cooked dish to identify the recipe and explore variations, or speak ingredients or meal ideas to create recipes instantly. ReciPics removes friction from recipe creation and saving. Every recipe in ReciPics includes practical cooking details such as estimated cooking time, difficulty level, estimated calories, and dish origin. Ingredient lists are clear and editable, with options to swap ingredients and adjust serving sizes. Step-by-step cooking instructions keep everything easy to follow, with optional voice guidance while cooking. ReciPics is designed for real people and real households. Create multiple profiles for yourself or your family, set allergies, dietary preferences, and health considerations, and activate profiles for each recipe generation. ReciPics takes them into account in every recipe; always check ingredients yourself if you have allergies. Your recipe library in ReciPics grows with you. Save favorite recipes, quickly access recently cooked dishes, and keep everything organized in one place. ReciPics is built to be your long-term recipe keeper, not just another recipe browsing app. Need a grocery list? ReciPics builds one for you. The new grocery list is organized into store-friendly sections (produce, dairy, pantry, and more), so you can shop without backtracking. Share your list with family or roommates in one tap β no account, no friction. Check items off as you go, edit on the fly, and keep your list in sync with your saved recipes. Found a recipe you want to keep? ReciPics imports it in one tap. Paste any recipe link, or share directly from your browser or social apps β ReciPics reads the page, caption, or video description and turns it into a fully structured recipe with ingredients, steps, and photo, ready to cook and organize alongside everything else in your cookbook. Every saved recipe is now fully editable. Change ingredient names, amounts, and units β even down to Β½ and ΒΌ portions β rewrite or reorder steps, and update nutrition or the description by hand. Stuck mid-recipe? Ask the in-recipe AI assistant by text or voice to swap an ingredient, adapt for a diet, or fix a step that isn't working, and it applies the change directly to your recipe. When you're done, choose to overwrite the original or save your edit as a new copy. FREE AND PREMIUM ReciPics is free to download and includes a limited free allowance of AI recipes. Unlimited AI recipes need ReciPics Premium (weekly or yearly). Only the yearly plan has a 3-day free trial, for eligible new subscribers; it then renews as a paid yearly subscription unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. The weekly plan has no trial. Prices are shown in the app and in the App Store for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://recipics.app/privacy-page.html Feedback: https://recipics.app/contact-page.html
Kookd
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Kookd is your all-in-one kitchen companion - the one place to save recipes, plan your meals, build your grocery list, and discover new dishes, powered by AI. Stop losing recipes in Instagram saves, browser tabs, and scattered notes. Kookd brings everything together so you can spend less time searching and more time actually cooking. SAVE YOUR RECIPES Create recipes from scratch - just describe what you cooked and Kookd structures it into a clean, shareable recipe instantly. Import from websites by pasting a URL, or photograph a recipe and let AI read it for you. No recipe gets lost again. DISCOVER & GET INSPIRED Don't know what to cook tonight? Browse AI-powered suggestions based on your taste, your past recipes, and what you have in the fridge. Filter by cuisine, prep time, or ingredients you feel like using. World cuisine mode helps you explore beyond your usual rotation. PLAN YOUR MEALS Build a cooking plan without the stress. Select recipes, choose your portions, and let Kookd generate your complete grocery list automatically - ingredients grouped by category, ready to shop. Uncheck what you already have at home and you're done. SHARE & DISCOVER Follow friends and food creators. Save recipes you discover directly into your kitchen. Share your own creations publicly or keep them private - you're always in control. BUILT FOR HOW YOU COOK β’ Organise recipes into custom folders (Meal Prep, Quick Dinners, Date Night - whatever works for you) β’ Set your dietary preferences, allergies, and available equipment so Kookd only suggests recipes you can actually make β’ Earn Michelin-style stars as you cook more and explore further Kookd works for the curious home cook, the busy meal prepper, and the food creator who wants one place to manage everything. Your kitchen, organised. Your meals, planned. Your grocery list, done. Download Kookd and start cooking with intention. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ReciPics at weekly against Kookd's every 3 weeks. Kookd's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ReciPics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Kookd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReciPics ships an update weekly, Kookd every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReciPics | Kookd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Weekly β better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | β |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vladimir Skromny | Chlea Schiff |
In-app purchases
ReciPics
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
Kookd
- Kookd Plus Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month









