Comparison

Simmer Down vs Supensa

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

Head to head
About

Simmer Down

Easily extract and organize recipes from any source, including URLs, screenshots, and scanned pages. Enjoy a clean, distraction-free cooking experience with a built-in shopping list that syncs across family devices. Privacy is a core focus, with all smart import features running on-device.

Highlights
  • Smart recipe import from URLs, screenshots, and scans
  • Distraction-free recipe display
  • Integrated shopping list with check-off functionality
  • Anonymous family sync for recipes and lists
  • Cooking mode to keep screen awake
  • Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Features
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Simmer Down strips the clutter out of online recipes. Paste a URL, snap a screenshot of a Facebook post, or scan a cookbook page — and get back a clean recipe you can actually cook from. No life story. No ads. No "jump to recipe" button. Recipes you save sync to every device in your family on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Whoever's cooking has the recipe. Whoever's at the store has the shopping list. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Smart import from anywhere — Paste a URL, paste recipe text, drop in a screenshot, choose a photo from your library, or scan with the camera. Apple Intelligence reads loose-prose captions and photographed text on-device, no servers involved. • Just the recipe — When you open a recipe, you see title, ingredients, and steps. That's it. Big serif typography that's easy to read at arm's length on the kitchen counter. • Built-in shopping list — Send any recipe's ingredients to your shopping list in one tap. Check things off as you shop. The list syncs across every device in your family. • Anonymous family sync — Share recipes and your shopping list with your household. No name, no email, no profile required. A 6-character family code is all anyone needs to join. • Cooking Mode — Keeps the screen awake while you're following a recipe so your phone doesn't lock with floured hands. • iPad and Mac — Same app, same data, same family. On iPad and Mac, the recipe list lives in a sidebar with the detail in the main pane. • Share to anywhere — Send a recipe via Messages, Mail, Notes, AirDrop — any iOS share target. Title, link, ingredients, and steps formatted to paste cleanly. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Simmer Down doesn't collect your name, email, phone number, or location. The smart-import features (image OCR, recipe extraction) run entirely on your device using Apple's Vision and Foundation Models frameworks. Your photos, recipe text, and search activity never leave the device for AI processing. Family-shared data syncs through Google Firebase, but is shared only with members of the family group you create or join. Read the full privacy policy at lhvantage.com/privacy/simmerdown.html. REQUIREMENTS Simmer Down works on iPhone (iOS 17+), iPad (iPadOS 17+), and Mac (macOS Sonoma+). The smart-import features additionally require an Apple Intelligence–capable device on iOS / iPadOS / macOS 26 or later — iPhone 15 Pro and later, iPad with M1 chip or later, or any Apple Silicon Mac. SUPPORT FAQ at lhvantage.com/support/simmer-down.html. Or email us at support@lhvantage.com — we read every message.

About

Supensa

Features
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Supensa is recipe search without the bloat. No life stories. No pop-up walls. No autoplay videos chasing you down the page. Just the ingredients and the steps — the way a recipe should be. WHAT SUPENSA DOES • Search 14,000+ recipes by dish, ingredient, or cuisine • "What's in your fridge?" mode — list what you have, and Supensa shows you what you can cook right now • Clean recipe pages: ingredients, steps, times. Nothing else. • Every recipe links back to its original source BUILT FOR COOKING • Tap each step to check it off as you go • A quiet little celebration when you finish a dish • Pinch to zoom on any photo • Save recipes to your cookbook, like the ones you love • Works in 10 languages NO NONSENSE We don't autoplay videos at you. We don't bury the recipe under 2,000 words about someone's grandmother. We don't pop up newsletter forms before you've read a single line. Supensa is an index. We point you to great recipes from across the web and show them to you cleanly, then link you back to the people who made them. Open the app. Find a recipe. Cook. That's it.

Screenshots

Simmer Down4 screens
Supensa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Supensa at 15.1 against Simmer Down's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Simmer Down versus Supensa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimmer DownSupensa
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB33 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDonnie SullivanHuseyn Gaflanov

In-app purchases

None

Simmer Down

No in-app purchases

None

Supensa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simmer Down free?
Simmer Down is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Supensa free?
Supensa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simmer Down or Supensa have ads?
Neither Simmer Down nor Supensa shows ads.

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