Finding something good to cook does not have to mean searching through endless recipes. Cooking recipe apps can help you discover meals, organize ingredients, plan your week, and make everyday cooking easier.
From using ingredients already in your kitchen to planning meals and organizing groceries, these 10 apps offer different ways to find your next dish. The apps are ranked by rating.
Quick Apps Comparison
| Rank | Cooking Recipe App | Best For | Rating | Reviews | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recipes Home - Recipes & Lists | Recipe discovery | 4.70★ | 5.1K+ | 1M+ |
| 2 | SuperCook - Recipe Generator | Available ingredients | 4.70★ | 2.8K+ | 1M+ |
| 3 | Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes | Meal planning | 4.60★ | 8.6K+ | 1M+ |
| 4 | Pepper - Recipes with Friends | Recipe sharing | 4.60★ | 136+ | 100K+ |
| 5 | Salad Recipes: Healthy Meals | Healthy recipes | 4.50★ | 611+ | 1M+ |
| 6 | Yummly Recipes & Cooking Tools | Recipe variety | 4.40★ | 24.6K+ | 5M+ |
| 7 | Cookpad recipes, homemade food | Home cooking | 4.40★ | 9.3K+ | 10M+ |
| 8 | Green Chef: Healthy Recipes | Diet-focused meals | 4.20★ | 753+ | 500K+ |
| 9 | eMeals - Meal Planning Recipes | Weekly meal planning | 4.10★ | 5.3K+ | 500K+ |
| 10 | Jow - easy recipes & groceries | Recipes & groceries | 3.80★ | 261+ | 1M+ |
1. Recipes Home - Recipes & Lists
Recipes Home offers more than 380,000 food and drink recipes. You can browse by meal, cuisine, ingredients, and food origin, while saved recipes and shopping lists help organize your cooking.
2. SuperCook - Recipe Generator
SuperCook finds recipes based on ingredients you already have at home. Add items to your pantry and the app can suggest recipes that use them, making it easier to decide what to cook.
3. Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes
Mealime combines meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists to simplify weekly cooking. The app is designed to help users organize meals around their preferences and prepare the ingredients they need.
4. Pepper - Recipes with Friends
Pepper adds a social side to cooking, giving users a place to discover, create, and share recipes with friends and other home cooks.
5. Salad Recipes: Healthy Meals
This app focuses on salad and healthy meal ideas, with recipes covering different types of salads and dietary preferences. It also provides nutritional information and step-by-step guidance.
6. Yummly Recipes & Cooking Tools
Yummly combines recipe discovery with meal-planning and cooking tools. Recipes can include nutritional information, allergy information, and shopping-list features.
7. Cookpad recipes, homemade food
Cookpad is a recipe-sharing community built around homemade food. Users can search for dishes, discover new cooking ideas, save recipes, and find ways to use ingredients they already have.
8. Green Chef: Healthy Recipes
Green Chef provides meal ideas for different dietary preferences, including Keto + Paleo, Vegan, Vegetarian, Mediterranean, Gluten-Free, and Fast & Fit options.
9. eMeals - Meal Planning Recipes
eMeals provides pre-planned meals and organized shopping lists for weekly cooking. Its meal plans cover different dietary preferences and make it easier to prepare a grocery list around selected recipes.
10. Jow - easy recipes & groceries
Jow combines recipe discovery with grocery planning. It helps users choose meals and organize the ingredients needed to prepare them.
Final Thoughts
These cooking recipe apps cover different parts of meal preparation, from discovering recipes and using ingredients already at home to planning meals and organizing groceries.
Recipes Home and SuperCook are both rated 4.70★, followed by Mealime and Pepper at 4.60★. Yummly has 24.6K+ reviews, while Cookpad has the largest install figure in this group at 10M+.
