Comparison

家庭菜谱 vs My Recipe Note

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

Head to head
About

家庭菜谱

Organize your family's favorite dishes with this app. Create detailed recipes with ingredients, instructions, and photos. Discover new meals with random suggestions and seasonal picks.

Highlights
  • Recipe creation and editing
  • Categorization and search
  • Random meal suggestions
  • Seasonal recipe marking
  • Photo step instructions
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Family Recipe helps you save and organize the dishes your family actually cooks. From quick weekday meals to special occasion favorites, keep everything in one clean recipe box. Create recipes with ingredients, step-by-step instructions, cooking time, taste tags, notes, and photos. Each recipe is easy to scan and easy to reuse. Key features: • Recipe management: create, edit, and organize recipes • Category + search: find dishes quickly • What to Eat: shake or tap to get a random pick • Seasonal recipes: mark in-season months for smarter suggestions • Photo steps: add images for cover and cooking steps • Multilingual UI: Simplified Chinese and English • iCloud sync: private CloudKit sync when available Family Recipe is designed to be practical, warm, and fast for daily cooking. Build your family’s recipe collection and make “what to cook” easier every day.

About

My Recipe Note

Features
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Your own cooking diary, saved in photos. From family recipes to dishes you just learned, keep them all in one place. 100% on your device. No login, no account. [Key Features] Record with photos - Up to 5 photos per recipe, including the process - Organize ingredients, steps, and notes - Add YouTube links for reference Find it fast - Search by recipe name or ingredient - Sort by category - See what you cook most Backup and restore - Export recipes and photos to one zip file - Restore everything when you switch phones - Choose merge or replace Comfortable to use - Light and Dark mode - Works fully offline - Clean, simple interface for all ages [Perfect for] - Preserving family recipes - Logging everyday home cooking - Digitizing your paper recipe notes Start saving today's dish, with a photo.

Screenshots

家庭菜谱4 screens
My Recipe Note3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 家庭菜谱 at none against My Recipe Note's 1. My Recipe Note's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. My Recipe Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 家庭菜谱 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

家庭菜谱 ships an update every 5 months, My Recipe Note every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
家庭菜谱 versus My Recipe Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter家庭菜谱My Recipe Note
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer小旋 王Hyeongjin Jang

In-app purchases

None

家庭菜谱

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Recipe Note

One-time1
  • Remove Ads (One-Time Purchase)$1.99

Questions

Is 家庭菜谱 free?
家庭菜谱 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Recipe Note free?
My Recipe Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 家庭菜谱 or My Recipe Note have ads?
Both 家庭菜谱 and My Recipe Note show ads.
Which is updated more often, 家庭菜谱 or My Recipe Note?
家庭菜谱 ships an update every 5 months, and My Recipe Note every 3 weeks. Most recently, 家庭菜谱 was updated on October 9, 2026 and My Recipe Note on October 6, 2026.

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