Best Recipe Apps

248+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.8 avg rating
19 free apps
Updated September 2026

Looking for free recipe apps? 19 of our 248+ tracked titles are free to download — no subscription, no trial. The rest are premium picks worth paying for.

Compare top Recipe Apps (September 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1ReciMe: Recipes & Meal PlannerReciMe: Recipes & Meal PlannerFree4.8★ (286K)NoYesSep 2026
2Tasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosTasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosFree4.9★ (433K)YesYesSep 2026
3Recipe KeeperRecipe KeeperFree4.8★ (30K)NoYesSep 2026
4NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsFree4.9★ (544K)YesYesSep 2026
5RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes!RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes!Free4.7★ (14K)NoYesSep 2026
6EpicuriousEpicuriousFree4.7★ (99K)YesYesSep 2026
7SuperCook Recipe By IngredientSuperCook Recipe By IngredientFree4.8★ (22K)NoNoSep 2026
8Mealime Meal Plans & RecipesMealime Meal Plans & RecipesFree was $2.994.8★ (54K)NoYesSep 2026

Top Picks for Recipe

ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner#1

ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner by ReciMe Pty Ltd

Grocery Lists, Prep & Cookbook
Editor's Choice
🍔 Food & Drink
4.8😐(286K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#1in Food & Drink
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Organize all your favorite recipes from social media and other apps in one place. Create smart grocery lists, plan your weekly meals, and track nutritional information. This app helps you cook better, from saving recipes to ordering ingredients.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Easy to import recipes
  • 📚 Helpful for organizing recipes
  • 🤝 Good for sharing recipes with friends
  • 🍲 Useful for meal planning and grocery lists
  • 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing interface

Room to Improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches with importing recipes
  • 🔍 Limited free version with restrictions
  • 🔄 Difficulty editing or updating recipes
  • 🔒 Lack of transparency about paid features
Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos#2

Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos by BuzzFeed

Meal Planner & Cook Book
Strong Contender
🍔 Food & Drink
4.9😊(433K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
#58in Food & Drink
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Discover over 10,000 recipes with video guides and step-by-step cooking modes. An AI assistant helps find personalized dishes, and you can shop for ingredients directly through the app. Connect with a community of home chefs and save your favorites.

What We Love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Helpful step-by-step videos
  • 💡 Variety of recipes
  • 👍 Organized and user-friendly
  • 👍 Great for beginners and experienced cooks
  • 👍 Useful shopping list feature
  • 👍 Customizable serving sizes

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Recipes not always accurate
  • 🐛 Saved recipes sometimes disappear
  • 🔒 Limited login options (Facebook/phone number only)
  • 🔍 Search and filtering could be improved
  • 🔍 Inability to categorize saved recipes
  • 🔊 Automatic audio playback can be annoying
Recipe Keeper#3

Recipe Keeper by Tudorspan Limited

Meal planner & shopping list
Worth Considering
🍔 Food & Drink
4.8😊(30K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#20in Food & Drink
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Organize all your recipes in one place, import from websites, scan handwritten notes, and plan your meals. Automatically generate shopping lists and share your culinary creations with others.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Powerful recipe storage and organization
  • 👍 Easy to import recipes from websites
  • 📷 Ability to add photos to recipes
  • 🍽️ Meal planning and shopping list features
  • 🔁 Syncs across devices
  • 🕰️ Keeps device awake while cooking
  • 🔖 Customizable categories and tags

Room to Improve

  • 💰 Requires separate purchase for each device
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding and deleting duplicate recipes
  • 🔢 Limited free version with only 20 recipes
  • 📊 Lack of nutrition information or calorie tracking

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FAQ about Recipe

What are the best recipe apps for iPhone?
ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner tops our recipe apps ranking as of September 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 286K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 19 of the top recipe apps we rank are free to download, including ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner and Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos.
ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of September 2026.
We track 248+ recipe apps on the iOS App Store as of September 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
ReciMe is a recipe organizer that allows you to save recipes from various sources like social media, other apps, or by manually adding them. It also helps you create grocery lists, plan your weekly meals, and calculate nutritional information for your recipes.
Key features include saving recipes from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest, uploading recipes from other apps, creating smart grocery lists that can be sorted by aisle or recipe, planning meals for the week, calculating nutrition, organizing recipes into custom cookbooks, and syncing across multiple devices.

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