Comparison

Recipe Keeper vs Recipe

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

Head to head
About

Recipe Keeper

Effortlessly save, organize, and access your favorite recipes from various online sources. This app cleans up cluttered recipe pages and offers hands-free cooking assistance. It also helps with meal planning and grocery lists, ensuring you never lose a recipe again.

Highlights
  • One-tap recipe saving from blogs and social media
  • Ad-free recipe display
  • Hands-free cooking with voice assistants
  • Permanent recipe saving
  • Centralized recipe organization
  • Smart meal planning and grocery lists
  • Recipe sharing and community features
Features
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Tired of scrolling through 8 pages just to find the recipe? Cook’n pulls recipes from blogs, Pinterest & more—ad-free and clean. Save your first recipe in seconds—Try Cook’n free today! There’s a better way to save, organize, and cook your favorite recipes—ad-free, distraction-free, and frustration-free. Meet Cook’n, the game-changing app that pulls recipes off long blogs and Pinterest pins in seconds—automatically and beautifully formatted so you can just cook. Why You’ll Love Cook’n: • One-Tap Recipe Saving Found a great recipe on Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram? Save it instantly. No ads. No popups. Just your recipe—clean and easy. • Ad-Free Recipes No more hunting through 8 pages of someone’s life story. Cook’n strips out the clutter so you get right to the ingredients and instructions. • Hands-Free Cooking Go hands-free with Alexa or your Apple Watch. Cook’n reads your recipes step-by-step—perfect for messy fingers and multitasking. • Stop Losing Recipes 38% of web pages disappear over time—including recipes! Cook’n saves your recipes forever so you’ll never lose another favorite. • All Your Recipes, One Place Snap a pic of Grandma’s recipe card, import from Pinterest, or dictate your own. Everything is saved, organized, and searchable in seconds. • Smart Meal Planning & Shopping Auto-generate grocery lists organized by aisle. Plan meals faster and shop smarter. • Discover & Share Share your creations with the Cook’n community, rack up likes, and climb the Leaderboard to become a Cook’n Influencer! Bonus Features You’ll Brag About: • Save recipes with photos or voice • AI meal suggestions based on your taste • Create a printed cookbook • Nutrition info (on desktop) • Sync across all your devices • Works offline • Screen stays on while cooking • Trusted by 7 million+ users • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars Try Cook’n Free Today Download now and save your first recipe in seconds. No ads. No popups. Just cooking. Subscription Information: Cook'n offers optional auto-renewing subscriptions that unlock additional features. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dvo.com/privacy/

About

Recipe

Organize and display your personal recipes digitally. Easily add recipes from various sources, categorize them, and share them with others. Create menus and mark favorites for quick access in the kitchen.

Highlights
  • Add recipes from files, scans, or direct input
  • Categorize recipes with custom labels
  • Create menus and favorite lists
  • Share recipes via email and social media
  • Built-in recipe editor
  • Supports PDF, JPG, and text file imports
Features
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This app is designed for display of user-provided recipes for use in the kitchen, and may be thought of as as a sophisticated electronic set of file cards. In addition to displaying recipes it allows for constructing menus and a favorites list, defining food categories, renaming and recategorizing recipes, and sharing recipes on email, text, social media, etc. User may add recipes to the app in many ways: as a digital file created elsewhere, scanned from a printed source, or written directly in the App. Digital files may be plain or rich text files, PDFs, images (JPG) or even HTML files. Detailed instructions are given in the Help file for many types of file input. Recipes composed on the iPhone or iPad (Pages, Notes, ...) may easily be converted to PDF format and added to the app. Scanning is done right in the app using the built-in editing. The app contains an editor for composing recipes and then saving them in the app. Recipes are divided into food categories (Breads, Appetizers, etc.) defined by the user and accessed by a scrolling button bar. From the list of recipes in a category a single click displays one recipe or a document containing all recipes for the category.

Screenshots

Recipe Keeper4 screens
Recipe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recipe at none against Recipe Keeper's 10. Recipe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Recipe Keeper's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 3). On price, rating, ads 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. Recipe Keeper sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Recipe asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Recipe Keeper against 4.7 for Recipe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recipe Keeper has 3.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Recipe Keeper's written reviews are positive against 100% of Recipe's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recipe Keeper ships an update every 4 days, Recipe every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Recipe Keeper versus Recipe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecipe KeeperRecipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.7K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#69 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size342 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDVO EnterprisesPeter Hinman

Customer experience

Recipe Keeper

All ratings3,717 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews329 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative10.6%

Recipe

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Recipe Keeper

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing issues between desktop and mobile versions
  • Missing or incorrect recipe details after import
  • Compatibility problems with newer device updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to upload recipe photos
  • Improve recipe organization and categorization
  • Enhance shopping list and meal planning features
  • Provide better integration with other apps and services

Recipe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Recipe Keeper

Subscriptions10
  • Basic Membership$4.991 Month
  • Basic (intro price)3 Months trial$4.991 Month
  • Standard Membership$9.991 Month
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  • Standard (intro price)3 Months trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium Membership$14.991 Month
  • Premium (intro price)3 Months trial$14.991 Month
  • Basic Membership (Annual)$49.991 Year
  • Standard (intro price)1 Year trial$99.991 Year
  • Standard Membership (Annual)$99.991 Year
  • Premium Membership (Annual)$149.991 Year
None

Recipe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recipe Keeper free?
Recipe Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recipe free?
Recipe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recipe Keeper or Recipe?
Recipe Keeper is rated higher. Recipe Keeper averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Recipe averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Recipe Keeper or Recipe have ads?
Neither Recipe Keeper nor Recipe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recipe Keeper or Recipe?
Recipe Keeper ships an update every 4 days, and Recipe every 5 months. Most recently, Recipe Keeper was updated on November 6, 2026 and Recipe on November 2, 2026.

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