Recipeas vs Convert Simple
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Convert Simple
Easily convert cooking and baking measurements using fractions and smart rounding. Supports both imperial and metric unit conversions with a clean interface.
- Fraction conversions
- Smart rounding
- Metric conversions
- Imperial to metric conversion
- Clean interface
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Effortlessly convert cooking and baking measurements with Convert Simple. FRACTIONS - Make selections and conversions with fractions, the way cooking and baking measurements are intended. SMART ROUNDING - Smart rounding done automatically. - Notification when rounding METRIC - Metric conversions made easy. - Convert between imperial and metric units using fractions. Convert Simple was created with a clean, clear interface. Placing the selections and conversions directly at your fingertips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Recipeas at Free against Convert Simple's $0.99. Recipeas also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 72 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). Convert Simple's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 49%) and chart position (#144 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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
Recipeas is free to download; Convert Simple costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Recipeas holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Recipeas's written reviews are positive against 80% of Convert Simple's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Recipeas ships an update every 5 days, Convert Simple every 72 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipeas | Convert Simple |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 72 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #144 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nate McGuire | BRIAN RIZZO |
Customer experience
Recipeas
Convert Simple
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
Convert Simple
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Recipeas
No in-app purchases
Convert Simple
No in-app purchases
Questions
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