Comparison

My Recipes vs My Recipe Notes

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

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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

My Recipe Notes

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That pasta you saw on YouTube — where did you save it? The link went to a chat with yourself. The photo is somewhere in your camera roll. Mum's recipe is a screenshot. And when you finally start cooking, you can't find any of them. Paste the link. We'll turn it into one clean recipe, ingredients and steps included. ◆ One screen for the whole 30 minutes · Two timers, right under the recipe — boil the pasta and reduce the sauce without switching apps · Chef Mode gives you up to four. Rice, soup and a braise at once · The screen stays awake while you cook · Ingredients and steps together, so you stop scrolling back and forth ◆ Everything you saved, in one notebook · Paste a YouTube, Instagram or TikTok link and it becomes a recipe · Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card; upload a chat screenshot · AI pulls out the ingredients and steps, and you can edit anything before saving · Leave your own note on any step — "lower the heat next time" · Attach photos and video to individual steps ◆ Chef Mode — when a recipe becomes a business · Scaling: turn a 2-serving recipe into 4, with quantities recalculated · Costing: enter unit prices once and see total and per-serving cost · Margin: set a selling price and read your margin and food cost % · Prices are saved and apply to your next recipe automatically · Four timers, no ads · Not a subscription. Buy once, keep it ◆ Honest about the price · Writing recipes yourself, timers, notes and search are free. They stay free · Only AI import spends a "note". Your first three are on us · If the result isn't usable, we don't charge a note. Failures are returned · Servers and AI genuinely cost us money, so we ask for the minimum ◆ No account, on your device · No sign-up, no login. Open the app and start · Recipes and photos stay on your iPhone · You only sign in with Apple when you buy, so your purchase is protected · No tracking. Ads are non-personalised banners, and Chef Mode removes them The warmth of a paper recipe book, for the half hour you spend cooking.

Screenshots

My Recipes4 screens
My Recipe Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Recipes at none against My Recipe Notes's 3. My Recipes also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Recipe Notes sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. My Recipes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
My Recipes versus My Recipe Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy RecipesMy Recipe Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNATHANIEL ISAIAH CORTEZGanguk Kim

In-app purchases

None

My Recipes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

My Recipe Notes

One-time3
  • 10 Notes$0.49
  • 30 Notes$1.99
  • Pro$5.99

Questions

Is My Recipes free?
My Recipes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Recipe Notes free?
My Recipe Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Recipes or My Recipe Notes have ads?
My Recipe Notes shows ads; My Recipes does not.

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