Comparison

Recipeas vs Recipes123

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

Recipes123

Features
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Create and share Interactive recipes: - Simple step-by-step recipes. - Timer for each step. - Speech mode with hundreds of languages supported. - Search recipes from other creators.

Screenshots

Recipeas4 screens
Recipes1234 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Recipeas at none against Recipes123's shown. Recipes123's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recipeas versus Recipes123: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeasRecipes123
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB60 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNate McGuireHonghai Gu

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

Recipes123

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Recipeas

No in-app purchases

None

Recipes123

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipeas free?
Recipeas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recipes123 free?
Recipes123 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recipeas or Recipes123 have ads?
Recipes123 shows ads; Recipeas does not.
Which is updated more often, Recipeas or Recipes123?
Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, and Recipes123 every 5 days. Most recently, Recipeas was updated on November 1, 2026 and Recipes123 on November 8, 2026.

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