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Best Recipe App – Top 20 Recipe Apps

While there is no shortage of recipe apps, finding the right one can get difficult. How do you sort through the hundreds that appear on a daily basis? Never fear, foodies! We understand how important (and, best of all, fun!) finding new recipe apps can be. That’s how you find new recipes! To make the hunt easier for you, we’ve rounded up our list of top 19 recipe apps on the current market. We’ve listed their price, where to find them, and most importantly, what features they’re bringing to the table. Let’s get started!

1. Paprika (IOS & Android)

Cost: $5

Paprika has consistently been voted as one of the best recipe apps on the current market. Its photos are beautiful, interfact user-friendly, and the app features a slew of options like Pinterest recipe imports and more.

Pros:

• Built-in timer
• Save recipes from other apps and websites
• Import recipes from Pinterest
• Weekly meal planning
• Grocery lists that sync with other devices

2. Basil (IOS)

Cost: $3

In a list curated by The Wirecutter, Basil was voted runner-up, coming in second place behind Paprika. The only downside to this app? It’s only available on the iPad.

Pros:

• Manage recipes from different apps and websites
• Add personal recipes
• Internet access is not required
• Create custom grocery lists
• Suggests healthier substitutes
• Smart ingredient scaling: scale your recipes, Basil does the rest
• Built-in timers
• Auto unit conversion

3. Food Network In The Kitchen (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

With Food Network In The Kitchen, you can be plugged into one of the greatest cooking channels of all time, along with your favorite celebrity chefs.

Pros:

• View recipes by chefs, ingredients or seasonal collections
• Create custom grocery lists
• Unit converters
• Built-in timers
• Thousands of recipes, videos and hi-res photos

4. 20 Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver (IOS & Android)

Cost: $8

The 20 Minute Meals app is the closest it gets to cooking alongside Jamie Oliver in your kitchen. With instructional videos, tips from Jamie Oliver himself, and step-by-step instructions, 20 Minute Meals makes it possible to cook delicious meals while learning expert advice from one of the world’s top chefs.

Pros:

• Instructional videos, step-by-step photos and descriptions
• Expert tips from Jamie Oliver
• Shopping lists sorted by aisle
• Access to Jamie Oliver’s website in-app

5. Epicurious Recipes (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

Epicurious Recipes app is one of the largest apps on the market. With over access to 30,000 recipes, you’ll never run out of new ideas and inspiration.

Pros:

• 30,000 recipes
• Share and save recipes
• One-touch shopping lists
• Nutrition information

6. AllRecipes (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

With the world’s largest digital food brand, you can find new recipes by feature (ingredient, diet, cuisine, etc.) or random ones with AllRecipes shake feature.

Pros:

• Shake your phone to get random recipes
• Spin feature allows you to filter recipes by ingredient, seasonality, cuisine, etc.
• Access to thousands of recipes

7. Big Oven (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

Big Oven was consistently placed in the Top 10 list for recipe apps across various sites and it’s easy to see why. There are a myriad of features on Big Oven that will make this your primary, go-to recipe app.

Pros:

• Over 250,000 recipes
• “Leftover Wizard” feature allows you to type in 3 ingredients and will find recipes you can make with leftovers
• One-touch grocery list creation
• Nutrition information
• Metric unit conversion
• Import hand-written recipes via hi-res scanner

8. Green Kitchen (IOS)

Cost: $5

While the Green Kitchen app is directed at vegetarians, vegans and those following a gluten-free or raw diet, there are tons of healthy, delicious recipes that will please any palate. Green Kitchen was featured in iTune’s Best of 2012 Collection, so you know it’s worth checking out.

Pros:

• Beautiful photos
• Clean and user-friendly interface
• Save favorite recipes
• Email or Text custom shopping lists
• Step-by-step cooking instructions
• Switch between unit measurements

9. Foodgawker (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

Foodgawker is one of the first recipe apps we came across and continues to be one of our favorites. With recipes submitted by foodies all over the world, you’ll never run out of meals or new ideas.

Pros:

• Removed ads, infinite scrolling
• Thousands of recipes that can be filtered by dietary preference, ingredient, cuisine, etc.
• Tap + hold photo to translate recipe
• Tap + hold photo to share to Pinterest and other social media networks

10. AllTheCooks (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

AllTheCooks is a brilliant marriage between recipe tutorial app and social network.

Pros:

• Crowd-sourced recipes
• Custom shopping lists
• Participate with foodies all over the world in user forums
• Over 200,000 recipes with beautiful photos
• Save favorite recipes

11. Appetites (IOS)

Cost: $5

Appetites is like a culinary course in your kitchen! Catch clear, concise instructional videos from a perspective that allows you to catch every step in the cooking process.

Pros:

• Cooking classes
• Step-by-step videos
• Shop for ingredients on demand with same-day delivery (only available in 9 cities)

12. EverNote Food (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

You already know how wonderful EverNote is, so the fact that the food version is just as great is a given. EverNote Food acts like a visual cookbook in which you can save and post photos of your favorite and original recipes.

Pros:

• Save recipes found in other websites and apps
• Post and curate beautiful photos
• Document every step of the cooking process
• Save favorite recipes
• Restaurant and eatery map

13. Substitutions (IOS)

Cost: $1

This app is for those you cook often. Substitutions boasts the largest collection of ingredient substitutions for all types of cooking.

Pros:

• Over 1,000 substitutions
• Spices, herbs, ingredients, dietary preferences, allergies, and more

14. Crock-Pot Recipes (IOS)

Cost: $4

For those who love cooking with their crock-pot, this app features great recipes and built-in features.

Pros:

• Hands-free voice command
• Prepare Mode provides an enhanced display of the recipe to make it easier to read at a distance
• Shake your phone for random, new recipes
• Add and save your favorite recipes
• Print your recipes
• Custom grocery lists
• Built-in timers
• Substitution lists
• Measurement conversion charts

15. Healthy In A Hurry (IOS & Android)

Cost: Free

With all of its recipe ready in under 45 minutes Healthy In A Hurry allows you to do just that: eat healthy in a time crunch.

Pros:

• Look up recipes by health benefits, such as those aimed at promoting a healthy heart or weight loss
• Receive a daily recipe via email
• Automatically compiles a grocery list
• No Internet access required
• Nutritional fats

16. Perfect Produce (IOS & Android)

Cost: $2

Perfect Produce is a must-have app that teaches you everything you need to know regarding storing and using fresh produce.

Pros:

• Look up and learn proper storage information per ingredient
• Nutrition facts of fruits and vegetables
• Best method for selecting produce
• Cooking methods per ingredient
• Over hundreds of recipes
• Voice Command feature
• Conversion calculator
• Shopping lists

17. Paleo Nom Nom (IOS)

Cost: $6

With over 500,000 recipes, Paleo Nom Nom is one of the best recipe resources for those following a Paleo diet or looking to add some diversity into their current repertoire.

Pros:

• Over 5,000 Paleo recipes from top chefs
• Save your favorite recipes
• Step-by-step tutorials, including tips, shortcuts and techniques
• Over 2,000 hi-res photos
• Email complete recipes and shopping lists
• Constant “On” function that prevents screen from dimming
• In-depth shopping guide with product reviews and links to sources for cooking tools and ingredients
• Extensive Paleo 101 Primer for beginners

18. How To Cook Everything (IOS)

Cost: $10

By Mark Bittman, author of How To Cook Everything series, the app features over 2,000 recipes, how-to illustrations and more.

Pros:

• Over 2,000 recipes
• 400 how-to illustrations
• Information on equipment, cooking techniques and ingredients
• Meal-planning ideas
• Built-in timers
• Quotes from Mark Bittman’s books
• Print/Email recipes and shopping lists

19. Kitchenbowl (IOS)

Cost: Free

Learn what Kitchenbowl does and features by watching the video below!

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