Comparison

Mecipe vs Mealsphere

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Save custom recipes
  • Clip online recipe links
  • Private recipe storage
  • Organize with tags
  • Web clipping
  • Device backup
  • Customizable fonts
Features
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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.

About

Mealsphere

Features
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Mealsphere helps you organize familiar food choices and decide what to eat next. Create a Mealsphere for school, work, home, or anywhere you often eat. Add frequent places and dishes, then browse a personalized recommendation feed shaped by your budget, recent history, distance, service speed, and current mood. The feed progressively reveals the eligible choices in a stable order. Your private food library: - Organize Mealspheres, frequent places, and menu items - Save dish prices, serving specifications, photos, emoji evaluations, and personal reviews - Track tasting progress for each Mealsphere and place - Add dishes manually, paste menu text, or use the optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription to scan or import a menu photo - Review and edit recognized menu items before saving - Search from a dedicated tab and remove individual search-history entries - Capture menu and dish photos with one camera flow, pinch to zoom, orientation handling, and clear review actions - Record meals and edit an existing history entry's evaluation, review, photo, date, or time - Edit Mealspheres and frequent places directly from their detail pages - Reuse recent locations and set places with Apple Maps - Keep your private library available locally and synchronized through your private iCloud account Mealsphere community: - Browse and download public Mealspheres without signing in - Discover nearby or recently published collections - Preview places and dishes before adding a Mealsphere to your private library - Merge later community updates while preserving your personal history, evaluations, reviews, and local choices - Sign in with Apple when you want to publish or manage community activity - Report inappropriate content, block publishers, and delete your community account in the app Optional Menu Photo Recognition subscription: Use cloud recognition to extract dish names, prices, and specifications from menu photos. Every result appears as an editable list before it is saved. Mealsphere combines a personal food memory with a community of reusable menus, so your next meal can start with choices that already make sense. Campus Community: Optionally choose your university to prioritize shares from the same university. Search the university list on your device and manage the choice from Me. Non-student and unlisted choices use regular community discovery. Navigation adapts to iPhone Duo folding and rotation. Clear detail cards show counts and tasting progress with a direct edit button.

Screenshots

Mecipe3 screens
Mealsphere4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mecipe at none against Mealsphere's 1. Mecipe also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Mealsphere's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Mealsphere sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Mecipe asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mecipe ships an update every 3 weeks, Mealsphere every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mecipe versus Mealsphere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMecipeMealsphere
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews97.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerchaeri ha威伦 钱

In-app purchases

None

Mecipe

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Mealsphere

Subscriptions1
  • Menu Photo Recognition7 Days trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Mecipe free?
Mecipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mealsphere free?
Mealsphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mecipe or Mealsphere have ads?
Mecipe shows ads; Mealsphere does not.
Which is updated more often, Mecipe or Mealsphere?
Mecipe ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mealsphere every 2 weeks. Most recently, Mecipe was updated on October 28, 2026 and Mealsphere on October 28, 2026.

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