Comparison

Recipedia App vs Readable Recipes

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

Head to head
About

Recipedia App

Features
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Recipedia - Organize your recipes, effortlessly Find any personal recipe in seconds. By season, ingredient, or dish type. No account. No internet connection. Your data stays on your phone. ADD YOUR RECIPES Three ways to add recipes: Photo import — photograph a recipe from a magazine or cookbook. The app automatically detects the text: • Title and description • Ingredients with quantities • Preparation steps • Cooking time and servings • Nutritional information Web import — paste a recipe URL. The information is extracted automatically. Manual entry — for family recipes or anything the other two modes can't handle. FIND YOUR RECIPES QUICKLY • Search by name with typo tolerance • Filter by ingredients, category, preparation time • Show only seasonal recipes • Combine multiple filters at once CREATE YOUR SHOPPING LIST • Add ingredients from one or more recipes • Identical ingredients are automatically grouped • Organized by category (vegetables, dairy, meat...) • Check items off as you shop COOK WITH SEASONAL PRODUCE Every ingredient has a seasonality calendar. Filter to see only recipes suited to the current month. The home screen suggests seasonal recipes, by category or around a specific ingredient. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU Recipedia works entirely offline. No account, no server, no data collection. Your recipes are stored only on your phone. RECIPEDIA IS FOR YOU IF • You have recipes scattered across magazines, books or notebooks • You want to find a recipe quickly without searching everywhere • You enjoy cooking with seasonal produce • You're tired of retyping all your recipes by hand • You don't want to share your data with anyone EXAMPLE USE CASE 1. You spot a recipe you like in a magazine 2. You photograph it with the app 3. The app automatically detects the text 4. You adjust the servings to your needs 5. You add the ingredients to your shopping list 6. You shop with the list organized by category 7. You cook following the steps on your phone

About

Readable Recipes

This app cleans up recipe websites, removing ads and distractions to present a simple, readable card with all essential cooking information. It's designed for easy viewing while cooking, even with messy hands.

Highlights
  • Clean recipe card view
  • Removes ads and popups
  • Large type and clear steps
  • Light/dark themes
  • Auto-open on recipe pages
  • Works on most recipe sites
Features
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You found the recipe. Now find it again under the ads, the newsletter popup, the autoplay video, and six paragraphs about a trip to Tuscany. Readable Recipes is a Safari extension that turns any recipe page into a clean, readable card: title, photo, times, yield, ingredients, and numbered steps. Nothing else. HOW IT WORKS • Open a recipe in Safari • Tap the whisk button that appears on the page • Cook from a page you can actually read MADE FOR COOKING • Big type and clear steps, easy to follow with flour on your hands • Light and dark themes, or follow your device • Auto-open on recipe pages if you want zero taps • Works on virtually any site that publishes standard recipe data PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no tracking, no identifiers. If you choose to contribute, the extension shares only anonymous recipe data to improve detection, and you can turn this off any time in settings. Full policy: readable.recipes/privacy Try it before installing: readable.recipes/demo

Screenshots

Recipedia App4 screens
Readable Recipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Recipedia App and Readable Recipes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipedia App ships an update every 2 weeks, Readable Recipes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Recipedia App versus Readable Recipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipedia AppReadable Recipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonin CoupanecNathan Smith

In-app purchases

None

Recipedia App

No in-app purchases

None

Readable Recipes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipedia App free?
Recipedia App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Readable Recipes free?
Readable Recipes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recipedia App or Readable Recipes have ads?
Neither Recipedia App nor Readable Recipes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipedia App or Readable Recipes?
Recipedia App ships an update every 2 weeks, and Readable Recipes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Recipedia App was updated on September 30, 2026 and Readable Recipes on October 4, 2026.

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