Best Recipe Ideas Apps

248+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.9 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated November 2026

Looking for free recipe ideas apps? 20 of our 248+ tracked titles are free to download — no subscription, no trial. The rest are premium picks worth paying for.

Compare top Recipe Ideas Apps (November 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Tasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosTasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosFree4.9★ (433K)YesYesNov 2026
2Kitchen Stories Easy RecipesKitchen Stories Easy RecipesFree4.8★ (23K)YesYesNov 2026
3Recipe Ideas Home Cook ChefRecipe Ideas Home Cook ChefFree—NoYesSep 2026
4NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsNYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsFree4.9★ (550K)YesYesNov 2026
5Recipify - AI Recipe IdeasRecipify - AI Recipe IdeasFree—NoYesJun 2026
6Food Recipes App - IdeasFood Recipes App - IdeasFree—NoNoMay 2026
7MakeGood: Dinner Recipe IdeasMakeGood: Dinner Recipe IdeasFree5.0★ (6)YesYesNov 2026
8SuperCook Recipe By IngredientSuperCook Recipe By IngredientFree4.8★ (22K)NoNoNov 2026

Top Picks for Recipe Ideas

Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos#1

Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos by BuzzFeed

Meal Planner & Cook Book
Editor's Choice
🍔 Food & Drink
4.9😊(433K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
#84in 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
Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes#2

Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes by AJNS New Media

Healthy Meals & Shopping Lists
Strong Contender
🍔 Food & Drink
4.8😊(23K ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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Discover thousands of chef-tested recipes and learn new cooking techniques with step-by-step instructions. Organize your favorite meals, plan your week's dinners, and create smart grocery lists. This digital cookbook makes everyday cooking easy and delicious.

What We Love

  • 👍 Fantastic range of recipes
  • 👍 Unbeatable quality of recipes, tips and video presentation
  • 👍 Simple amazing app
  • 👍 Most engaging recipe app ever
  • 👍 Elegant Decor, Fine Dining
  • 👍 Top of its game
  • 👍 Simply excellent
  • 👍 Great recipes, easy to follow
  • 👍 Changing me
  • 👍 Best cooking app ever
  • 👍 Brilliant!
  • 👍 Awesome classic app
  • 👍 Love love love
  • 👍 Must-have recipe app!
  • 👍 Excellent App
  • 👍 Fab app!
  • 👍 BLOODY BRILLIANT!
  • 👍 Great for students like me
  • 👍 Where has this app been my whole life??
  • 👍 Super fresh idea
  • 👍 Just what I need!!
  • 👍 Love this app
  • 👍 THE BEST APP EVER!
  • 👍 Like it so much!
  • 👍 Love this app!
  • 👍 Amazed.
  • 👍 Delicious meals!
  • 👍 cool
  • 👍 Great recipes highly recommended!!!!!
  • 👍 Amazing app
  • 👍 very good!
  • 👍 Very useful
  • 👍 I like it
  • 👍 Gorgeous Well Designed and Useful

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Videos
  • 🐛 Recipes load videos of wrong recipes
  • 🐛 The app is getting worse
  • 🐛 For You doesn't work
  • 🐛 App doesn't work
  • 🐛 New update
  • 🐛 Do not like redesign
  • 🐛 Good Recipes, Poor Written Directions
  • 🐛 Two years later, I still can't recommend this app.
  • 🐛 The new(ish) app icon is so ugly

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FAQ about Recipe Ideas

What are the best recipe ideas apps for iPhone?
Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos tops our recipe ideas apps ranking as of November 2026, with a 4.9-star average from 433K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top recipe ideas apps we rank are free to download, including Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos and Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes.
Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos shows ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of November 2026.
We track 248+ recipe ideas apps on the iOS App Store as of November 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.

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