Comparison

My Recipes vs Recipe Keepsake

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

Head to head
About

My Recipes

A personal digital cookbook to store your favorite meals. Easily add ingredients, steps, and photos for each recipe. Features include favorites, filtering, a cook mode, grocery lists, and sharing options.

Highlights
  • Create detailed recipes
  • Add photos to recipes
  • Mark favorite recipes
  • Filter and search recipes
  • Cook mode for preparation
  • Generate grocery checklists
  • Share recipe text
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My Recipes : Personal Notes is a simple personal recipe book for saving meals you actually cook. Create recipes with ingredients, cooking steps, prep time, cook time, servings, categories, tags, and optional photos. Mark favorites, filter your collection, open cook mode while preparing a meal, create grocery checklists, and share recipe text. Your recipes are stored locally on your device. No account is required.

About

Recipe Keepsake

Preserve cherished family recipes from handwritten cards, cookbooks, and digital sources. This app digitizes, organizes, and makes your recipes searchable and easy to cook from, ensuring culinary traditions are never lost.

Highlights
  • Digitize handwritten recipes
  • Import from PDFs and web pages
  • Searchable recipe database
  • Organize with categories and tags
  • Generate shopping lists
  • AI recipe cleaning and generation (Pro)
Features
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Recipe Keepsake is a family recipe organizer and recipe keeper for handwritten cards, cookbook pages, screenshots, PDFs, and web recipes. Some recipes only exist once — a grandmother’s handwriting on an index card, a cookbook page with a note in the margin from thirty years ago, or a screenshot someone sent after a dinner everyone loved. Recipe Keepsake keeps them all — the original and a clean, searchable version — so nothing gets lost and every recipe is easy to cook from again. SAVE RECIPES YOUR WAY Snap a photo of a handwritten card. Import a PDF from Files. Save a web recipe from Safari. Paste text from anywhere. Or type a recipe in by hand. Recipe Keepsake handles all of it and keeps the original file alongside the recipe. FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Search by title, ingredient, source, or tag. Organise recipes with your own categories. Add a source note like “Nana’s card” or “Mum’s notebook” so you remember where it came from. COOK FROM WHAT IS ALREADY IN THE KITCHEN Use What You Have lets you add ingredients from the fridge, freezer, or pantry and instantly see which saved recipes you can make. Great for using up odds and ends before a shop. BUILD A SHOPPING LIST WITHOUT LEAVING THE APP Tap the basket icon next to any ingredient to add it to your shopping list. Share the list to Notes, Messages, or any app. Pro users can let AI combine multiple recipes into one grouped grocery list. TRY PRO FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS New customers can start a seven-day Pro trial when they first choose an AI or import feature. The trial does not begin when the app is installed. The trial provides full Pro access for seven days, then ends automatically. There is no automatic charge and no subscription. Continue only if you choose the one-time Lifetime Pro purchase. LIFETIME PRO INCLUDES • Creating new recipes after the trial • New photo, document, bulk and web imports • Importing recipe bundles shared by other Recipe Keepsake users • AI Scan & Clean for polished, editable recipe cards • Bulk import of up to 20 files with duplicate checks • AI recipe generation with food icons • AI recipe scaling for different serving sizes • AI-generated grouped shopping lists YOUR SAVED RECIPES STAY YOURS When the trial ends, every recipe already in your vault remains available. You can continue to view, search, edit, export and share saved recipes, and iCloud sync remains available. Existing paid customers remain permanently unlocked. Lifetime Pro is a one-time purchase — not a subscription. WHAT YOU CAN SAVE • Handwritten family recipe cards • Cookbook pages with margin notes • Recipe screenshots from Instagram and websites • PDFs and documents • Photos of cooking notes • Web recipes from Safari • Recipes typed in by hand DESIGNED TO BE KEPT Recipe Keepsake is not trying to replace the memories attached to a recipe. It is trying to make sure those recipes survive — searchable, shareable, and easy to cook from, for as long as your family wants them. Now available in English and Spanish.

Screenshots

My Recipes4 screens
Recipe Keepsake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Recipes at none against Recipe Keepsake's 1. My Recipes also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Recipe Keepsake sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. My Recipes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for My Recipes against 5.0 for Recipe Keepsake. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
My Recipes versus Recipe Keepsake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy RecipesRecipe Keepsake
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNATHANIEL ISAIAH CORTEZNick Cottier

In-app purchases

None

My Recipes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Recipe Keepsake

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$9.99

Questions

Is My Recipes free?
My Recipes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipe Keepsake free?
Recipe Keepsake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Recipes or Recipe Keepsake?
My Recipes and Recipe Keepsake are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do My Recipes or Recipe Keepsake have ads?
Neither My Recipes nor Recipe Keepsake shows ads.

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