Comparison

Recipeas vs SCD Diet

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

SCD Diet

This app helps you navigate the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) by providing food lookup, step-by-step guidance, and trial tracking. Organize your dietary journey, manage safe and blacklisted foods, and log symptoms for better understanding of food tolerance.

Highlights
  • Food lookup with protocol awareness
  • Step-by-step SCD guidance
  • Track food trials and outcomes
  • Personal safe and blacklisted food lists
  • Add custom foods with photos
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
Features
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Make the Specific Carbohydrate Diet easier to organize day by day. SCD Diet is a focused food reference and personal tracking tool for people following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Check foods, follow stages, record what you are trying, and build a clear list of foods that work for you. One purchase gives you the full app—no ads and no subscription. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Check foods quickly Search the food library and see protocol-aware labels such as Allowed, Not allowed, or Conditional, with notes where relevant. • Follow SCD stages Use step-by-step guidance to see what to introduce next and move at your own pace. • Track food trials Record when you start trying a food, monitor the trial, and mark it as adapted or not tolerated. Add a note about your experience when needed. • Build your personal food lists Keep a Safe Foods list for foods you want to remember and a Blacklisted Foods list for foods that did not work for you. • Choose your protocol Switch between BVC Classic and NiMBAL guidance. Food stages and labels update with the selected protocol. • Add custom foods Add foods that are not in the built-in library, with an optional photo and your own protocol notes. • Stay organized across devices Optionally sync your diet records with iCloud and use Home Screen widgets for Trying Foods and Safe Foods. SCD Diet is a tracking and organization tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnose conditions, or replace guidance from a qualified healthcare professional. Food suitability can vary by protocol, ingredients, preparation, and individual tolerance. Please use authoritative references and qualified clinical guidance when making dietary decisions. Terms of Use: https://scddiet.uk/SCD-terms.html Privacy Policy: https://scddiet.uk/SCD-privacy.html Questions or feedback: smile@thinksview.com

Screenshots

Recipeas4 screens
SCD Diet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Recipeas at 49% against SCD Diet's 0%. Recipeas also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). SCD Diet's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence 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

Recipeas is free to download; SCD Diet costs $2.99 up front. SCD Diet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Recipeas asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, SCD Diet weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recipeas versus SCD Diet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipeasSCD Diet
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNate McGuire毓鑫 戴

Customer experience

Recipeas

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

SCD Diet

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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
Show 3 more
  • Ability to input and save ingredients manually
  • Vegetarian-friendly filtering upfront
  • Allow users to input their own ingredients and match them to the database

SCD Diet

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Recipeas

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SCD Diet

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$9.99

Questions

Is Recipeas free?
Recipeas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SCD Diet free?
SCD Diet costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Recipeas or SCD Diet have ads?
SCD Diet shows ads; Recipeas does not.
Which is updated more often, Recipeas or SCD Diet?
Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, and SCD Diet weekly. Most recently, Recipeas was updated on November 1, 2026 and SCD Diet on November 4, 2026.

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