Recipe Box vs Chronos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recipe Box
Effortlessly save, organize, and cook recipes from any online source. This app transforms web recipes, social media posts, or even photos into structured, easy-to-follow cooking instructions. Enjoy features like automatic ingredient extraction, meal planning, and a guided cooking mode.
- Save recipes from social media
- AI photo-to-recipe conversion
- Built-in browser with one-tap save
- Convert text to recipes
- Ingredient scaling
- Guided cooking mode
- Nutrition insights
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Recipe Box – Recipy: All Your Recipes, One Smart Box Recipe Box – Recipy makes it incredibly simple to save, organize, and cook your favorite meals, all in one place. Say goodbye to messy screenshots, scattered notes, and endless scrolling. Whether you discover a great dish on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or anywhere else on the web, the app instantly transforms it into a clean, structured recipe you can actually cook from. Ingredients and steps are extracted automatically, turning your collection into a beautifully organized digital recipe box that’s always with you. We built Recipe Box – Recipy for home cooks who want less chaos and more great food. Import recipes from social media, snap a photo of a dish to generate a recipe, browse the web inside the app, or paste raw text to instantly create clear cooking instructions. Powerful Tools Inside Your Recipe Box • Save Recipes from Social Media Import recipes directly from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Ingredients and steps are automatically extracted into a clean, easy-to-read format. • AI Photo-to-Recipe Conversion See a dish you love? Upload a photo and let the app generate a complete recipe with structured ingredients and step-by-step instructions. • Built-In Browser with One-Tap Save Browse the web without leaving the app. When you find something delicious, save it straight into your Recipe Box with a single tap. • Turn Text into Ready-to-Cook Recipes Paste raw text or an ingredient list, and the app instantly organizes it into a complete recipe. • Ingredient Scaling Easily adjust ingredient amounts based on serving size with one tap—perfect whether you’re cooking for one or feeding a crowd. • Cooking Mode (Pro) Enjoy a guided, step-by-step cooking experience. Follow each instruction one at a time, keep your screen awake, and cook with focus from start to finish. • Nutrition Insights (Pro) Automatically see calories, protein, carbs, and fats for every recipe you save. • Cloud Sync Your Recipe Box stays synced across all your devices, so your recipes are always with you. Features • Save Recipes – Import recipes directly from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube; ingredients and steps are automatically formatted into a readable recipe. • AI Photo-to-Recipe – Upload a photo of a dish you love, and the app instantly creates a ready-to-cook recipe. • Paste Text or Ingredient List – Copy and paste a recipe or ingredient list, and Recipy organizes it into a structured recipe instantly. • Built-In Browser – Browse the web without leaving the app and save recipes with one tap. • Ingredient Scaling – Easily adjust quantities for any serving size. • Cooking Mode (Pro) – Follow recipes step by step for a focused, distraction-free cooking experience. • Nutrition Insights (Pro) – View calories, protein, carbs, and fats for every saved recipe. • Personal Notes – Add your own tips, tweaks, and substitutions alongside each recipe. • Meal Planning – Plan your weekly menu using saved recipes. • Shopping List – Generate shopping lists from recipe ingredients. • Translation – Translate recipes into your preferred language. • Filtering – Easily filter recipes to find what you need. • Collections – Group your recipes however you like. • AI Recipe Creation – Type a dish name and get a complete recipe instantly. Free and Pro Usage Free users receive 5 recipe import credits each week and retain permanent access to all recipes they add. Pro users enjoy unlimited recipe imports, nutrition and calorie information, step-by-step Cooking Mode, and full access to future advanced features. Recipe Box – Recipy keeps all your recipes in one place. Import from anywhere, turn photos into meals, scale ingredients easily, and cook step by step with ease. Everything stays clean, organized, and ready when you are. License Agreement Privacy Policy: https://recipyai.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://recipyai.app/terms-of-use
Chronos
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Chronos Egg Timer the perfect egg, every single time. Boiling an egg sounds simple until your altitude, your water temperature, your egg size, and your pan all conspire against you. Chronos turns that guesswork into precision. Tell it about your kitchen once, and every boil lands exactly where you wanted it whether that's a silky six-minute yolk or a firm, slice-ready hard boil. Precision, calibrated for your kitchen Chronos calculates cook time from the variables that actually matter. Higher altitude lowers the boiling point, so the clock runs longer. Fridge-cold water needs warming minutes that room-temperature water doesn't. Chicken, duck, and quail eggs each have their own curves. Chronos accounts for all of it so the minute mark is the right minute mark. Built-in doneness, ready to tap Three photographic presets Soft, Medium, Hard sit on the home screen with the timing already dialled in. Pick your density, choose how many eggs, and hit Start. Custom presets for the eggs you actually cook Save your own combinations: cook time, egg type, size, icon, label, and calories. Your favourite ramen egg, your mother's Sunday way, the brunch number that only takes four minutes all one tap away. Drag to reorder. Hide the built-ins you never use. Make the screen yours. Over 100 recipes, perfectly timed From classic soft-boiled breakfasts to shakshuka, frittata, Japanese tamago, deviled eggs, ramen eggs, and chef-style techniques Chronos ships with a curated cookbook. Every recipe lists ingredients and a clear, step-by-step method. Tap Start Cooking on any recipe and the timer is already set. Add ingredients straight to the built-in Shopping List. Mark favourites, search by name, ingredient, or technique, and filter to the ones you love. The boil-wait assistant Chronos doesn't just start a countdown and hope your pan is ready. Start the timer, and it watches for the moment your water boils tap the button when it does, or let the estimated boil cue play for you. The real cook time only starts when it should. Freshness check Not sure how old that egg is? Drop it in cold water Chronos shows you what the float tells you, with peel tips for each stage. Alerts that actually fire Lock-screen notifications, sound alerts, and haptic taps land on time, even with the app in the background. Choose a gentle water cue or a clean beep. Turn on ambient music for the wait Soft Currents, Morning Air, or Soft Tides play under the timer. A cook log worth keeping Every boil lands in History. See your current streak, total eggs cooked, calories tracked, average cook time, and macros protein, fat, carbs. Switch the window between week, month, and year. Browse daily bars, recent cooks, doneness breakdown, and badges you've earned. Smart suggestions Surprise Me picks a preset based on what you actually cook and the time of day. Mornings, midday, evenings, late night Chronos notices the pattern and offers a sensible next move. Repeat Last puts your most recent cook one tap from the home screen. Designed, not just built Photographic preset cards, considered typography, ambient soundscapes, thoughtful haptics, and animated status copy that tells you where you are in the cook settling in, home stretch, almost there, last ten seconds. Onboarding takes under a minute and calibrates to your altitude, your water, and your preferred feedback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chronos at none against Recipe Box's 9. Chronos also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Recipe Box sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Chronos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Recipe Box ships an update every 2 weeks, Chronos every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipe Box | Chronos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nurettin Resul Tanyildizi | TUGBA DALKANAT |
In-app purchases
Recipe Box
- Recipy AI Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Recipy AI Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Recipy AI Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
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- Recipy Pro Best Offer$11.991 Year
- Recipy AI Pro Annual7 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Recipy AI Pro Annual$27.991 Year
- Recipy AI Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Recipy AI Pro Annual$39.991 Year
- AI Image Credits$0.39
Chronos
No in-app purchases









