Mecipe vs Hakaricho
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mecipe
A private digital notebook for saving and organizing your personal recipes. Store ingredients, steps, and tips, or clip links from online sources. Keep your culinary creations secure and accessible on your device.
- Save custom recipes
- Clip online recipe links
- Private recipe storage
- Organize with tags
- Web clipping
- Device backup
- Customizable fonts
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Your Personal Recipe Notebook, Mecipe - Save your own recipes the way you want—ingredients, steps, tips and more. - Add links to recipes you find online, so you don’t have to search again later. - No sharing—just your own private recipe space. - Quick notes or detailed instructions? You can write it all, and keep it tidy with tags. ■ Recipe Recording Save unlimited recipes your way. Use tags and favorites to manage them like categories. ■ Just for You All recipes are stored locally on your device. Keep your secret recipes safe and private. ■ Easy Web Clipping Save scattered online recipes with links. Access everything in one place whenever you need it. ■ Backup Transfer all your recipes safely when changing devices. ■ Customization Fonts, underline styles, and reference marks — personalize your recipe notebook your way. From beginners to professional chefs, start recording your own recipes with Mecipe.
Hakaricho
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You remember the recipe, but you always forget the seasoning amounts. Hakaricho is an ultra-simple memo app made for home cooks who only need to track quantities. What is this app? "I've made nikujaga dozens of times, but I still look up the amounts on my phone every time." "Every time I open a recipe app, it takes forever to find the one measurement I need." "I just want to save my own seasoning ratios, not use a feature-packed recipe app." Hakaricho was built from those frustrations: a memo app focused on amounts only. What we deliberately left out Photos: not needed (they just slow things down) Steps: not needed (you already know the recipe) Nutrition tracking: not needed (outside our scope) Meal planning: not needed (that's another app's job) Tags and multiple categories: not needed (they hurt simplicity) Social sharing: not needed (this is a personal tool) What we did add: ways to make entering amounts genuinely fast. Tablespoons and teaspoons - tap to count Tap "tbsp" to cycle through 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, then 0. Set the amount without opening the keyboard. "a little," "to taste," "a pinch," "100 ml," and "200 ml" are also one tap. Enter a number, then tap ml or g to append the unit instantly. From the second dish, entry gets faster Previously entered seasonings and amounts appear as suggestions. As you type "soy sauce," your past "soy sauce" entry shows up. Most home kitchens settle on about 5-10 seasonings, so from your second recipe, registration is surprisingly quick. At the stove, that's all you need Launch, tap the dish name, see the amounts large and clear. That's it. No squinting at your phone while you cook. Sort your list your way Sort by not made yet, recently made, or date added, so forgotten dishes and go-to favorites are easy to spot. Last cooked stays on record Tap "Made it today" to log the date. Shows "3 days ago," "Yesterday," or "Today" so you can see your cooking rotation at a glance. Your data stays yours Everything is saved on your device only. No cloud sync. No login required. Works fully offline. For you if: - You want to record your own recipes, amounts only - Full recipe apps felt like too much and didn't stick - You want something you can glance at one-handed at the stove - You love minimal tools that do one job well May your everyday cooking feel just a little bit easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hakaricho at none against Mecipe's shown. Mecipe's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mecipe ships an update every 3 weeks, Hakaricho every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mecipe | Hakaricho |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (36 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | chaeri ha | HARVEST LAB |
In-app purchases
Mecipe
No in-app purchases
Hakaricho
No in-app purchases









