Comparison

Recipeas vs MyCookBook.Basic

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

MyCookBook.Basic

Features
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- The My CookBook.Basic App Is the Ultimate Tool for the Inspired Home Chef. For the one who wanders the farmer’s market looking at ingredients and wondering, “What can I make with that?” For the one who loves the tattered family cookbook and its recipes but desires to update them with a modern twist and unique flavor. For the one who expresses their creativity in the kitchen, transforming beautiful raw ingredients into meals, moments, and memories that last well beyond the last serving and pile of dishes. The app gives you the tools to take your inspiration and develop your own recipes, scale and modify existing recipes, and manage your entire recipe collection all in one place. - How the App Works With the tap of a button, the app quickly converts a recipe’s various amounts and measures into all weights at once. Measuring a recipe’s ingredients by weight—instead of volume—is more accurate, enables you to easily scale, and ultimately produces a better and more consistent outcome. Add a new Recipe: Select a favorite recipe, open My CookBook.Basic, and type in the recipe’s name. Add Ingredients: Select and add the recipe’s ingredients. Amounts and Measures: Select an ingredient, type its amount, and select its unit of measure. Volumes to Weights: Converting from cups and tablespoons to weights is usually done one ingredient at a time, which is a labor-intensive and error-prone process. That process has now been made simple. Once you have entered in all of the ingredients' volume amounts and measures, you can convert them to all weights with one tap. Instructions: A recipe is defined as a set of instructions for making a food dish from various ingredients, which includes their amounts and measures, preparation, and how to assemble the dish. The instructions can be typed in or copied and pasted from a document or website. Scale a Recipe: You can scale a recipe up to make just the amount you need. Manage: You can manage your recipes by title. Edit: The next time you select the recipe, you can edit its ingredients and their amounts and measures. -Construct Your Own Recipes Most cookbooks are a collection of recipes by an author/chef or a group of editors. With My CookBook.Basic, you now have a tool to construct your own recipes and modify your favorites. It begins by finding inspiration for your original recipe. It could come from an 1879 cookbook; a family heritage recipe; a cuisine’s flavor profile; or simply what is in the pantry. Examine closely the proportions of the key ingredients. Adjust and readjust each ingredient’s amount and measure. Research ingredient sources. Shop your farmer’s market for items locally produced and seasonally available. Then, prepare your recipe and serve it proudly. Add this recipe, along with others, to your own My CookBook.Basic. Now it’s time to unleash your creativity in the kitchen!

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Recipeas at every 5 days against MyCookBook.Basic's every 2 weeks. MyCookBook.Basic's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, MyCookBook.Basic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recipeas versus MyCookBook.Basic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeasMyCookBook.Basic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNate McGuirePaul Cook

In-app purchases

None

Recipeas

No in-app purchases

None

MyCookBook.Basic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipeas free?
Recipeas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyCookBook.Basic free?
MyCookBook.Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recipeas or MyCookBook.Basic have ads?
Neither Recipeas nor MyCookBook.Basic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipeas or MyCookBook.Basic?
Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, and MyCookBook.Basic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Recipeas was updated on September 19, 2026 and MyCookBook.Basic on September 9, 2026.

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