Comparison

Recipeas vs Appetyt

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

Head to head
About

Recipeas

Discover delicious recipes tailored to the ingredients you already have. Get instant meal ideas for dinner by answering a few simple questions. Explore a vast collection of recipes, including dietary options like vegan, paleo, and gluten-free.

Highlights
  • Ingredient-based recipe search
  • Personalized meal suggestions
  • 1,000+ recipes from various sources
  • Daily recipe updates
  • Dietary options (vegan, paleo, gluten-free)
  • Social sharing of recipes
Features
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Recipeas V3 turns real recipes into a flexible meal plan for your household. Plan a day, a week, or a four-week month. Recipeas retrieves a broad set of candidates from more than five million real recipes, applies your hard rules, and organizes the whole plan around variety, time, leftovers, freshness, and grocery efficiency. What you can do: • Set household size, servings, schedule, cooking time, equipment, pantry items, allergies, and preferences. • Review a complete plan before cooking. • Replace, lock, move, or resize any meal without rebuilding everything. • Regenerate one slot or only the unlocked part of the week. • Consolidate ingredients into one shopping list with pantry, buy-later, bulk, and freeze-now guidance. • See freshness and freezer guidance based on when each meal is scheduled. • Search and save source recipes at any time. • Export a clear, large-type PDF for printing or sharing. Recipeas uses deterministic code for constraints, quantities, scoring, optimization, and shopping calculations. It does not rely on a chat prompt to enforce household safety rules. If required allergy or dietary data is not verified, automatic planning fails safely instead of guessing. Nutrition values are estimates when calculated. Planning profiles are treated as sensitive data and stored locally. No account, subscription, or ads are required.

About

Appetyt

Discover over 40 unique recipes featuring Toruń Gingerbread, from savory dishes to desserts. This app offers step-by-step guidance and guest recipes from food bloggers, catering to vegetarians and vegans alike.

Highlights
  • Over 40 gingerbread recipes
  • Savoury dishes, starters, and desserts
  • Step-by-step preparation guides
  • Vegan and vegetarian options
  • Guest recipes from food bloggers
  • Add recipes to favorites
  • Photo gallery
Features
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Over 40 recipes made from Toruńskie Pierniki® (Toruń Gingerbread®)! from Confectionary Factory “KOPERNIK” – one of the oldest confectionary factories in Europe! Try savoury dishes, starters and pastries/ desserts made from legendary Katarzynki®, also VEGAN-style, Gingerbread with Filling® or Serca Toruńskie® (Toruń Hearts®)! Vegetarians, vegans … everyone will find something for themselves! You can prepare everything with us step by step! APPetit for Kopernik are plenty of unique inspirations among which you will find recipes of famous food bloggers! Do not wait, download and rush to the kitchen! • Over 40 recipes made from Toruńskie Pierniki® (Toruń Gingerbread) as the lead! • Recipes for savoury dishes, starters, desserts/ pastries • Possibility to add a recipe to favourites • Guest recipes from special guests of food blogosphere • Tasteful photo gallery – created by people with passion

Screenshots

Recipeas4 screens
Appetyt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Appetyt at 100% against Recipeas's 49%. Appetyt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Recipeas's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Appetyt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipeas has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Recipeas's written reviews are positive against 100% of Appetyt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, Appetyt every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recipeas versus Appetyt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeasAppetyt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNate McGuireLOOKINGOOD APPS SP Z O O

Customer experience

Recipeas

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive49.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative42.9%

Appetyt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Recipeas

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Explore tab crashes
  • App crashes upon launch
  • No photos loading for recipes
  • Blank screen after launch
  • Recipes include ingredients user does not have
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  • App does not open
  • Search results do not match selected criteria
  • Recipes require ingredients user declined
  • App crashes when tapping 'Explore'
  • App crashes when selecting ingredients
  • App recommends recipes with ingredients user doesn't have
  • App doesn't ask about common ingredients but recommends them
  • App crashes on iPhone 4
  • App shows blank screen with title only
  • App requires payment to unlock recipes
  • App doesn't show selected recipe
  • App crashes on iPhone 4 after installation

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to save favorite recipes
  • Share recipes via email
  • iPad version with sleep disable option
  • Include nutrition facts/calorie counts per recipe
  • Option to disable unwanted emails
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  • Ability to input and save ingredients manually
  • Vegetarian-friendly filtering upfront
  • Allow users to input their own ingredients and match them to the database

Appetyt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Recipeas

No in-app purchases

None

Appetyt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipeas free?
Recipeas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Appetyt free?
Appetyt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipeas or Appetyt?
Appetyt is rated higher. Recipeas averages 4.7 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Appetyt averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Recipeas or Appetyt have ads?
Neither Recipeas nor Appetyt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipeas or Appetyt?
Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, and Appetyt every 7 months. Most recently, Recipeas was updated on October 23, 2026 and Appetyt on October 18, 2026.

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