Comparison

Leemon vs Ration

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

Head to head
About

Leemon

Easily import recipes from any source, create personalized dishes with AI, and organize them into collections. Cook step-by-step with smart timers and view nutritional information. Supports multiple languages and sharing options.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from web, social media, and videos
  • AI-generated recipes based on ingredients and preferences
  • Organize recipes into custom collections
  • Step-by-step cooking mode with timers
  • Automatic nutritional information calculation
  • Multilingual support and automatic translation
  • Export collections as magazine-style PDFs
Features
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The recipe app that adapts to how you cook. Leemon lets you import recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and any cooking website, create your own from scratch, organize them into collections and cook step by step — all in one place. IMPORT RECIPES FROM EVERYWHERE Paste any Instagram Reel, TikTok video, YouTube link or cooking website — Leemon listens to the audio, reads captions and descriptions, and brings the recipe into your collection perfectly structured into ingredients and steps. You can also scan PDF cookbooks or photos of finished dishes — AI infers the recipe for you. CREATE RECIPES YOUR WAY Describe what you feel like —by text, voice or photo— and AI creates the recipe tailored to you. Got chicken, zucchini and parmesan in the fridge? Tell Leemon what you have and it proposes the recipe. Looking for gluten-free or vegetarian? AI respects your filters and allergies. ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU COOK Create themed collections: Wellness, Sweet, Favorites, Family Sundays, Quick meals… Whatever you need. Drag recipes, tag them with sections, mark your favorites. Find any recipe in seconds with hashtag search. STEP-BY-STEP COOKING MODE Large steps designed to be readable from across the kitchen. Automatic timers per step. Adjust servings on the fly and ingredients recalculate instantly. Voice notes per step to capture your tricks. SHARE BEAUTIFUL COLLECTIONS Export any collection as a magazine-style PDF, ready to print or share. Or generate a link so your friends can browse your collection. SMART NUTRITION Recipes show calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sodium per serving — estimated automatically, no manual input required. 7 LANGUAGES Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Catalan. The interface adapts to your language; recipes translate automatically when you import from another culinary culture. WHO LEEMON IS FOR — For those who save screenshots of recipes on their camera roll and never come back to them. — For those who follow cooking creators on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and want to keep their recipes organized. — For those who have 30 favorite recipes and nowhere to organize them. — For those who cook better with large steps and automatic timers. — For those who want to discover what to make with what's in the fridge. FREE TO START Create your account for free and start importing and creating recipes today. Optional Premium subscription with monthly and annual plans for unlimited recipe imports, unlimited AI recipe generation and magazine PDF exports. Auto-renewable, cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Save it. Cook it. Make it yours. Welcome to Leemon. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://leemon.kitchen/privacy

About

Ration

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Most kitchen apps do one job. Ration runs the week. You already have a fridge full of food, a camera roll full of recipes, and a rough idea of dinner. Then someone asks what’s for dinner — and you open three apps that do not talk to each other. Pantry in one. Recipes in another. Macros in a third. The shopping list is a guess. Ration is one system. What you have feeds what you can cook. What you cook becomes the plan. The plan writes the shopping list. When you cook, stock comes off the shelf. When you log your serving, calories and macros update from the same meal — not a second diary you have to remember to fill in. A WEEK IN THE LOOP Start with the pantry (Cargo). Quantities, categories, and expiry so nothing quietly dies in the fridge. One shared inventory for the household. Save the recipes you actually want to eat (Galley). Share a TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube video into Ration, paste a website, or photograph a cookbook page. Review the extract, then keep it. Each meal shows how well it matches what’s already in stock, so dinner is “what can we cook tonight,” not another tab of inspiration. Plan the week (Manifest). Pick the days. Let Ration suggest a plan from your kitchen and an optional note, then adjust. Cook when it’s time — that deducts pantry stock for everyone. Log your serving if you are tracking; that stays private to you. Shop only the gap (Supply). Missing ingredients from the plan become one list. Tick them off, then dock them back into the pantry when you get home. Scan a receipt and Ration matches the lines. YOUR COPILOT, ON LIVE STOCK Ask Ration what’s expiring this week, what you can make with what’s on the shelf, or to add butter to the pantry. It answers against your real kitchen. Generate meal ideas from what you already have. Scan a receipt, a label, or a photo of the fridge. Macros are a planning aid, not a clinic. Set daily calorie and macro goals if you want them. Daily Fuel and weekly trends show how the meals you cooked landed. Not medical advice. Always review AI suggestions before you save. MORE THAN ONE KITCHEN You are not locked to a single household. Create a kitchen for home, another for a sharehouse or a second place you cook, and switch when you walk in the door. Invite the people who actually shop and cook — pantry, recipes, plan, and shopping list stay in sync for that kitchen. Credits sit on the kitchen, not on one person’s phone. Your calorie and macro log stays private, even when the kitchen is shared. BRING YOUR OWN AI Connect to Ration's hosted mcp server and interact with the same kitchen from Claude, OpenClaw, Hermes, or other agent harnesses. AI features use credits. Always review before saving. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://ration.mayutic.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://ration.mayutic.com/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Leemon4 screens
Ration4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Leemon at every 2 days against Ration's every 2 weeks. Leemon also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Leemon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Ration sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leemon ships an update every 2 days, Ration every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Leemon versus Ration: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeemonRation
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSOLOFOODIES SLBilly Downing

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Leemon

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$34.991 Year
6 purchases

Ration

Subscriptions2
  • Crew - Monthly$2.001 Month
  • Crew - Annual$12.001 Year
One-time4
  • Taste Test (12)$1.00
  • Supply Run (65)$4.00
  • Mission Crate (165)$9.00
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  • Orbital Stockpile (550)$22.00

Questions

Is Leemon free?
Leemon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ration free?
Ration is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Leemon or Ration have ads?
Neither Leemon nor Ration shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leemon or Ration?
Leemon ships an update every 2 days, and Ration every 2 weeks. Most recently, Leemon was updated on October 17, 2026 and Ration on October 10, 2026.

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