Comparison

openRCP vs Home Cooked AI

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

Head to head
About

openRCP

Discover and organize thousands of recipes from across the web in an ad-free experience. This smart kitchen companion features an AI assistant to help with dietary needs, ingredient swaps, and meal planning.

Highlights
  • 15,000+ curated recipes
  • Import recipes from the web
  • Organize recipes into custom collections
  • AI-powered kitchen assistant (Sous)
  • Adjust recipes for dietary needs/serving sizes
  • Ingredient swap suggestions
Features
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openRCP brings together the internet’s best recipes — over **15,000 curated dishes**, all in one simple, ad-free app. Browse our library or add and save your own favorites from across the web without the clutter of blogs and popups. It’s more than a recipe box — it’s your smart, personal kitchen companion. **What you can do with openRCP:** - Explore **15,000+ high-quality, curated recipes** across all cuisines - **Import any recipe** from the internet — stripped of ads, formatted to cook - **Organize your recipes** into custom collections (e.g., Weeknight Dinners, Baking, Vegetarian) - Get help from **Sous**, your AI-powered kitchen assistant: - Adjust recipes to your **dietary needs or serving sizes** - Offer **ingredient swaps**, answer cooking questions, or help plan a meal - All with a natural, conversational interface Say goodbye to messy tabs and noisy recipe pages. openRCP is built for cooks who want a modern, intuitive place to find and keep the meals they love.

About

Home Cooked AI

Scan your fridge contents with AI to get instant recipe suggestions. This app provides step-by-step cooking guidance, adaptive meal planning, and generates grocery lists. Reduce food waste and save money by utilizing ingredients you already have.

Highlights
  • AI ingredient detection from fridge photos
  • Customizable recipes based on diet and allergies
  • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
  • Weekly meal planning and easy meal swapping
  • Automated grocery list generation
  • Food waste reduction
Features
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Snap your fridge. The AI detects what you've got, no typing. Get real recipes you can make right now with those ingredients Cook Mode walks you through every step with timers + an AI coach Plan your whole week and swap any meal in one tap Turn your plan into a grocery list and order what's missing Set your skill, diet, allergies, household size. Every recipe adapts to you. Basically your fridge tells you what to cook, and you stop wasting food and money.

Screenshots

openRCP4 screens
Home Cooked AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: openRCP at none against Home Cooked AI's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Home Cooked AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. openRCP asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for openRCP against 5.0 for Home Cooked AI. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
openRCP versus Home Cooked AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteropenRCPHome Cooked AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTiny Co Holdings, Inc.CHRISTOPHER BRAXTON SOHAN DASARI

Customer experience

openRCP

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Home Cooked AI

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

In-app purchases

None

openRCP

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Home Cooked AI

Subscriptions2
  • Home Cooked Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Home Cooked Pro (Yearly)$59.991 Year

Questions

Is openRCP free?
openRCP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Home Cooked AI free?
Home Cooked AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, openRCP or Home Cooked AI?
openRCP and Home Cooked AI are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do openRCP or Home Cooked AI have ads?
Neither openRCP nor Home Cooked AI shows ads.

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