MasterCook vs Safe For You
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MasterCook
Organize your recipes and create shopping lists with this app. It allows you to import recipes online, scale ingredients automatically, and search your collection. Collaborate with others by creating private group cookbooks.
- Import recipes online with one click
- Organize recipes into custom cookbooks
- Automatically scale recipe ingredients
- Add recipes to shopping lists
- Search recipes by cookbook, category, and title
- Create private group cookbooks for collaboration
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Chefs, culinary schools, restaurants, home cooks, and foodservice companies have trusted the MasterCook products for over 27 years. Let MasterCook organize your recipes and shopping lists in your private online account. A FREE 30-day trial allows you to store up to 25 recipes in your online account with full functionality of features. A paid subscription allows you to store up to 100,000 recipes in your online account until your subscription expires. Here’s what you can do with the MasterCook App: • Download recipes online with just 1 click! View a recipe in a web browser and use the Share button to send it to your MasterCook app. • Organize recipes into custom cookbooks. • Scale a recipe to change its servings, and MasterCook will adjust the ingredient amounts automatically. • Add a recipe to a shopping list. • Search your recipes based on cookbook, category, and recipe title. • Create private group cookbooks to collaborate with friends and family. Use the MasterCook mobile app on its own or use it in conjunction with the MasterCook Windows product to access even more tools like adding recipes to menus and meal plans and performing nutritional and cost analysis of your recipes and menus and meal plans. Learn more at https://www.mastercook.com/learn-more If you have any questions, contact MasterCook Support and receive a timely reply.
Safe For You
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This is a grocery shopping companion app for people with food allergies. Select the categories that best describe your dietary needs. Then scan the ingredients label on food packaging. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Safe For You at every 6 days against MasterCook's every 5 weeks. MasterCook's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. MasterCook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Safe For You sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MasterCook ships an update every 5 weeks, Safe For You every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MasterCook | Safe For You |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Valusoft Finance, LLC | Lucas Roberts |
Bugs and requests
MasterCook
Reported bugs
21 issues- App crashes when opening
- Cannot register/login
- Text invisible or unreadable
- Editing fails with error message
- Recipes not saving
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- App closes randomly
- Recipes not importing correctly
- Syncing issues
- Cannot export app recipes to PC
- Search function not working
- App crashes on search for non-existent item
- System error on login
- Cannot delete app
- Display issues after upgrade
- Cannot see cookbook names
- Ingredients not recognized for nutritional info
- Cannot move between recipe edit screens
- Keyboard covers input field
- App not opening after upgrade
- App not recognizing online status
- Login credentials shown for another user
Requested features
11 requests- Search by ingredient
- Print recipes and shopping lists
- Copy/paste functionality
- Improve UI/reduce whitespace
- Direct web import on tablet
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- Meal planning feature
- Search function for recipes
- Sort by category
- Pantry functionality
- Landscape mode for iPad
- Ascending sort for downloaded recipes
Safe For You
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MasterCook
- MasterCook One Year Subscription$99.99
Safe For You
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$4.991 Year
