Recipe app comparisons

A useful fit for cooks who prefer installed apps, reusable menus and pantry tracking.

A useful fit when native desktop access and designed PDF cookbooks matter.

A useful fit for light weekly importing, with planning and grocery lists on the free plan.

A useful fit for a recipe box alongside community browsing and optional nutrition-focused planning.

A useful fit when your main task is scheduling meals and generating the week’s shopping list.

Each platform version is sold separately. Cloud sync connects the installed apps.

Native apps; separate Pro purchase required for other platforms.

Web supports importing, viewing and editing recipes. A Chrome extension is available.

A Samsung phone is not required. Appliance integrations require compatible products.

One subscription covers the account across devices.

Paprika 3 lists 16 Windows interface languages, including Polish. Its natural-language ingredient parser and automatic aisle assignment are English-only.

The iOS listing includes English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and nine others; Polish is not listed. Check the store for your device.

English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese are listed in ReciMe’s help centre. Italian and Polish are not in that published list.

English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish are listed on iOS. Polish is not listed; check availability for your device.

Recipes can contain other languages. Plan to Eat says its interface is English and foreign-language ingredient units may need separate manual entry.

Built-in browser, manual clipping tools, Safari extension and bookmarklet. Compare Paprika 3 here, not unreleased beta features.

These sources are listed on the official Recipe Keeper website.

Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube. Public accessible pages are required for browser imports.

Save full recipe URLs or follow creators’ recipe links from social posts. A linked recipe is different from extracting a video.

Official guides cover Instagram and TikTok through the mobile share extension.

The Paprika 3 guide covers recipe text and attached photos. Photo-to-recipe features in Paprika 4 must be evaluated separately.

OCR converts written recipes; proofread quantities and any difficult handwriting.

Photo import is supported; check the current Plus requirements for cookbook scanning.

Scanned recipes are private; Samsung does not allow those scans in public communities.

Select one or more images for one recipe; multiple pages are different from multiple recipes.

Calendar, reusable menus, pantry and grocery lists with ingredient combination and aisle sorting.

Weekly/monthly planner and multiple shopping lists grouped by aisle.

Meal plans and grocery lists are mobile features; the web guide lists them as coming soon.

Saved recipes feed plans and shopping lists. Food+ adds tailored planning and saved-plan tools.

Calendar, reusable Menus and Freezer records support repeat planning; planned meals generate the shopping list.

Ingredient cross-off, step highlighting, scaling and screen-awake behavior.

Serving adjustment, ingredient cross-off, step highlighting and adjustable text; the Alexa skill supports English.

Step-by-step guided cooking is listed among premium features.

Check mobile and recipe compatibility for the premium cooking tools.

Overview or step-by-step view, screen awake, and switching between recipes for a meal.

Stores nutrition supplied with a recipe; do not confuse this with a fresh ingredient-based calculation.

Add nutrition information and find recipes by nutritional amounts. This is separate from calculating new values from ingredients.

The nutrition calculator is a premium feature.

Basic recipe nutrition and premium goal-tracking are different features; detailed tracking is mobile-only.

Calculates recipe nutrition and displays daily nutrition and macro totals on the Planner.

The iOS guide includes exporting all recipes and choosing a recipe format or readable HTML.

PDF cookbook sharing is documented; keep an export backup and check the receiving app’s supported file format.

Recipe-level PDF export and printing are documented. A PDF is not a complete structured-library transfer.

Sharing links are documented. Retain original source URLs when moving a collection; do not assume a bulk-importable archive.

Export on the website, including after subscription expiry. CSV contains photo URLs; verify images and transfer fields separately.

Windows trial: 50 recipes, no cloud sync, no time limit. Check the chosen platform before buying.

Try the free download before purchasing; verify current limits on your device.

The official free-plan guide also advertises a 7-day Plus trial.

Food+ offers a 7-day trial; subscription renews after the trial unless cancelled.

No credit card required. Continued app use after the trial needs a subscription.

US examples: iOS US$4.99; Windows US$29.99. Paprika 4 subscription terms are a separate announced change.

US iOS listing shows a US$19.99 Pro upgrade. That is not the total price for every device.

The US store lists several Plus purchase amounts without identifying their billing periods. Check period and renewal price in checkout.

US$6.99/month also listed; prices and plan details vary by country.

US$5.95/month also listed on the current site. Verify taxes, region and checkout terms.