Are you a foodie ? Is cooking your hobby? Are you a newbie who wants to learn the art of cooking? Or Are you living alone struggling to cook for yourself? Or Do you want to impress someone? Whatever is your reason and relation with food, you are at the right place. Read on to know the best recipe apps which will help you master your cooking skills.

Top Food Recipe Apps

There’s no shortage of food recipes app that helps you in finding the best recipes for you to make. Have a look at 20 best food recipe apps for everyone:

All Recipes Dinner Spinner

All Recipes Dinner Spinner was founded in 1997 by Tim Hunt, Carl Lipo, Mark Madsen, and David Quinn, graduates from University of Washington. All Recipes Dinner Spinner based in Seattle, Washington, USA has a website as well as application for Android and iOS. It has a cooking community of about 30 million cooks who do not hesitate in sharing their recipes to the world. Thus users can find recipes here or share their own creation in the community. It features step-by-step recipes and video tutorials. It also informs users which ingredients are on sale presently in the shops around them. Users can also add the whole recipe or some ingredients in the shopping list. Users can create their profile to keep everything saved.

Why Allrecipes Dinner Spinner?

• Personalized feed for every user with tons of recipes that you can save and cook.
• Have more than 1000 video recipes with step by step cooking instructions.
• Can brag about your cooking with friends in your Facebook feed.
• Can add recipes or ingredients to your shopping list in one tap.
• Create, organize and share your favorite recipes.

Android | iOS

Yummly

Yummly – a Whirlpool Corporation subsidiary is a smart app for cooks founded in January, 2009. Yummly is available as app in Android and iOS stores as well as a website which can be used in web browsers. It recommends you recipes based on your  preferences on nutrition and taste. It also gives you step-by-step recipe for cooking a dish. Yummly combines content from other websites like AllRecipes, Epicurious, etc. and other food blogs and presents to you in one app. It also features video tutorials from the best chefs. Yummly supports voice commands where in you can set up timers or start videos or check ingredients.

Why Yummly?

• You can get more than 2 million recipes from best chefs for your cooking adventure.
• It provides you fresh and new food recipe recommendations every day.
• Step-by-step cooking recipes along with video tutorials, timers and other tools.
• Can collect, save and organize your favorite recipes in a digital recipe box with simple tap of “Yum” button in the app.
• Either you are vegetarian, non-veg, vegan or have food allergy to peanuts, seafood, etc., Yummly has got you covered completely. It allows you to filter recipes based on your tastes and allergies.
• You can add full recipe to your grocery shopping list using the Yummly app.   

Android | iOS 

Tasty

Tasty is a popular app developed by the very popular private American company BuzzFeed. Tasty offers step-by-step process for cooking. It also sorts out best recipes for you based on your liking. You can set your preferences in Settings. e.g. Tasty will only show vegeterian, gluten-free, low-carb recipes if you set it into your Settings. One more good feature of Tasty is that it does not let your phone sleep when a recipe is on the screen so that you can focus on cooking rather than preventing your phone from sleeping. 

Why Tasty?

• Gives step by step instructions on how to cook the recipe.
• Provides recommendations for your next meals on different time/ week of the day including major holidays.
• The user can hide all non-veg recipes if they are vegetarian.
• Can look for your favorite recipes by ingredients, dietary need, speed, cuisine and more.
• Filter the recipes as you want like low cards, healthy, comfort food and more.
• Can save recipes to watch them later.

Android | iOS

Cookpad

Cookpad is Japan’s largest food tech company. It is the largest food sharing company of Japan which is also publicly traded. It is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and its global headquarters are in Bristol, UK. It has monthly unique 60 million Japanese users and 40 million monthly unique global users. It was founded by Akimitsu Sano in 1997. As you can observe from the numbers mentioned above, Cookpad is the world’s most active cooking company. You can share and view the recipes globally on the app. The app is available in 20 languages.

Why Cookpad?

• You can save your recipes and share them with other Cookpad users.
• Provides fresh feed of latest recipes from various chefs that you follow.
• Allows you to plan your next meal with daily meal planner.
• Can see who is cooking in real-time and follow their conversation from community.
• Search your favorite recipes by ingredients or food title.

Android | iOS

My Cookbook

My Cookbook application is developed by Maadinfo Services. My Cookbook offers various features such as users can add recipes to their shopping lists, users can customize the fonts, themes, etc. Users can also access the app through smart watches. The app is available in more than 25 languages. Users can add their favorite recipes in a list and also share any of the recipes with others. With My Cookbook, you can get all new recipes available on the web. Also, you can add your own image, change ingredients, add new comments and more.

Why My Cookbook?

• You can create your grocery shopping list using the recipes ingredients.
• Can synchronize the recipes on different devices as well using dropbox.
• Using the app, user can scale ingredients to serve people.
• Can open recipes on Android wear watch.
• Can customize various parts of the app like theme, categories and more.

Android | iOS

BigOven

BigOven is a very popular food recipe app having a variety of features and mouth-watering recipes. Users can plan meals or make a recipe list. The app also tells users about various recipes which they could cook using their leftovers. Users just need to tell the app which ingredients they have as leftovers and the app will list all the recipes which could be made using those leftovers. BigOven has 3.3 million registered users. The app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Why BigOven?

• Save and share recipes with a single tap.
• Get more than 500,000 recipes or just search your own recipes.
• Create your grocery list for your household. Also, can sort by department or recipe.
• Find your friends and family who are on BigOven and see the recipes they share on their feed.
• Can enrich your experience with their Pro membership.
• Allows you to upload unlimited number of recipes along with creating custom folders to store different recipes for any occasion.

Android | iOS

BBC Good Food

BBC Good Food started off as a magazine for food recipes but now it has its own app and website. Users have access to BBC’s recipes made by the BBC Good Food team. All the latest trends in food dishes can be found here. Users can save, rate and share recipes. It provides huge database of more than 10k+ recipes across the world from celebrity chefs for the users that they can make following the steps given by them. With their detailed guide of steps, the users know exactly what are they doing and how.

Why BBC Good Food?

• Can save all your favorite recipes in one place.
• Easy search for latest and trending BBC Good Food recipes.
• Share your recipe collection with friends and family in few clicks.
• Can rate different recipes as you want.
• Create your own collection of food recipes all time.

Android | iOS

Oh She Glows

Oh She Glows is a very popular blog started by New York Times best-seller Angela Liddon on October 31, 2008. Oh She Glows is well-known for its super healthy recipes and marvelous photography of the dishes. Angela Liddon is very well-known for her best selling cookbooks which is an absolute collection of healthy recipes. The app offers over 150 plant based and 140 gluten-free recipes. The users can get bundle of recipes either free or with paid subscription. You can get all the hit recipes for your friends and family which are not only healthy but tasty as well with full of nutrients required for the body.

Why Oh She Glows?

• Can search for any recipe using recipe name or ingredients keyword.
• Filter recipes by allergy info, dish type, dietary info, season food, and more.
• Allows you to add your own notes to the recipe if you make changes in it.
• Gives detailed nutritional information for each recipe available on it.
• Cook without worrying of your device getting to sleep with their anti-lock feature.
• Browse your food recipe by categories and more.

Android | iOS

Sidechef

Sidechef is a cooking content and grocery delivery company based in San Jose, California, USA. It has over 16,000 recipes on its platform. Sidechef has achieved great ratings from its users. It recommends its users recipes based on their diets, allergies and other preferences. It also has its community where users can share their recipes, tips, do’s and dont’s, etc. It gives the facility of grocery delivery in specific locations right to your door as well. Using the app, you can save your time, money and cook smarter/ healthier for your friends and family. 

Why Sidechef?

• Allows you to organize your weekly meal plan by adding them to your meal planner.
• Can find huge database of food recipes that are delicious, healthy, simple to make and easy to follow.
• Sort the recipes by time, ingredients, recipe title and more.
• Step by step instructions with photos that guides you to cook amazing food.
• Can email and message your favorite recipes to your loved ones.
• Daily recommendations for recipes and meal planning ideas.

Android | iOS

Kitchen Stories

Kitchen Stories was founded by two business students – Mengting and Verena in 2014. It was the first video-based user-friendly application launch in Apple’s App Store. It has also been awarded as “Google Play’s best Design” title by Google. It has millions of active users who get inspired by thousands of recipes, instructional videos, and articles using the app. It is easy to use app with huge variety of amazing recipes that appeal the beginners and experts to get cooking.

Why Kitchen Stories?

• Get thousands of free food recipes, tips, articles and more.
• Helps in planning your grocery list with automatically generated shopping list.
• Can set up your own profile and save your favorite recipes in personalized cookbooks.
• Lets you rate and share your favorite food recipes.
• The user can upload the photos of their dishes and share their experience with others in comments section.

Android | iOS

Epicurious

Epicurious was launched by Conde Nast in 1995 as a part of writing for food on the Internet. It is part of the Food Innovation Group. Epicurious is accessible by Android, iOS and Windows devices such as phones, iPads, tablets, desktops as well as smart watches. Users can access its 35,000 tested recipes from publishers like Bon Appetit, Gourmet, HarperCollins, etc and also from various home cooks around the globe. Users can save their favorite recipes in a Recipe Box and can access from it in no-time. With Epicurious app, it is very easy to find world’s best recipes, incredible food videos that helps you in cooking delicious food.

Why Epicurious?

• New contents of recipes are added every day for the users so that they don’t miss any new video or recipe.
• Can save their favorite recipes in a Recipe box to watch them later in just one tap.
• Helps in easily creating shopping lists on the fly.
• User can know exactly how much time will it take to cook salmon, chicken or other dishes.
• Find out about what foods are fresh at farms near you.

iOS

 Hippie Lane

Hippie Lane features completely vegan and gluten-free recipes. This app is best for health-conscious people. Hippie Lane was founded by Taline Gabrielian. The app was released in 2015. It basically has a collection of sweet and baked delicaces for health-conscious people. So it is a best app for people who diet and don’t/can’t enjoy sweet treats. It is specialized in plant based recipes which are free of sugar, dairy, gluten, and to name a few. With having sleek interface to stunning photography, Hippie Lane has got you covered with everything you need.

Why Hippie Lane?

• Simple to make delicious, satisfying, healthy and tasty recipes.
• Recipes are gluten, wheat, redefined sugar, egg, etc. free.
• Detailed information along with estimated kitchen time for the users.
• Can share the recipes via email or social media with your friends and family.

Android | iOS

Food Network Kitchen

Food Network Kitchen is a big network of food having its magazine, app, website and TV shows on food and cooking. It has a great team of chefs, culinary professionals, recipe developers, etc. who creates delicious recipes and content for their network. It has more than 80,000 recipes for the users and many more cooking skills. There is no subscription required to access its features as it is free app which needs an account where you can save and access the world class recipes.

Why Food Network Kitchen?

• You can choose from 25+ Live classes every week by award winning chefs, cookbook authors and more.
• Allows to get every ingredient delivered to your door via Amazon Fresh.
• With their premium subscription, you can stream your favorite cooking shows that you won’t find anywhere else.
• It is free to download app with 3 months free premium trial available.
• Premium step by step detailed videos to make cooking easy.

Android | iOS

Forks Over Knives

Forks Over Knives has a collection of recipes from over 50 talented chefs. The app also has whole-food, plant-based and natural recipes for people suffering from heart or diabetic diseases. The app is active and new recipes keep on getting added. With Forks over Knives, you can get inspired for whole-food, plant-based lifestyle that could stave off and even reverse chronic ailments like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Why Forks Over Knives?

• More than 400 plant based recipes.
• New recipes for the users are added on weekly basis.
• Step-by-step instructions to prepare simple food.
• High resolution beautiful photos.
• Recipes and contributions from more than 50 professional chefs.
• Can make shopping list for your grocery items that you need to pick up.

Android | iOS

Drop Recipes

Drop is a recipes and kitchen appliances operating app. The company is based in Dublin, Ireland. Its other offices are in Zaragoza, Spain and in San Fransisco, USA. Using Drop app, you can operate your kitchen appliances from it. You just need to configure your app once and then you can control all your appliances from just one place. There are various bunch of recipes available on Drop. It has every variety of recipes from one-pot to absolute vegan recipes. It is a time saving app which will reignite your love for cooking with their hassle free delicious recipes. They have curated the best recipes from top blogs like Good Housekeeping, Food 52, Donal Skehan and so much more.

Why Drop Recipes?

• One pot, freezer friendly food recipes.
• Get slow cooker recipes that you can make in just 30 minutes.
• Can plan your daily, weekly and monthly meals using the app.
• Vegan meals with creative spinach recipes for the users.
• Food recipes sorted by gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, vegetarian, nut-free, low fat, low sugar, paleo and more.

Android

Tastemade

Tastemade is a food and travel network platform headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. It was founded by Larry Fitzgibbon, Steven Kydd, and Joe Perez in 2002. Tastemade is well-known for its unique idea of connecting users with cuisines from every part of the globe by videos sharing from other users as well as professionals. With Tastemade, you can get entertaining food shows, tasty recipes with videos and more by the most talented chefs available out there. They have got you covered with everything that you love.

Why Tastemade?

• Simple, healthy and tasty recipes for the users.
• Food guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth.
• Huge database of world class amazing food for everyone.
• Get breakfast, pasta, healthy, vegetarian and more recipes in one spot.
• Step by step video recipes for everyone to make cooking easy.

Android | iOS

NYT Cooking

NYT Cooking is a subscription service for cookbooks and guides. It is a part of The New York Times. You can find thousands of recipes here which are finely prepared by their expert guides. You can add all your recipe ingredients in the Recipe Box of your account. With NYT Cooking app, you can get more than 18,000 recipes from The New York Times with easy to follow instructions as well.

Why NYT Cooking?

• Get new recipes added each week.
• Save your favorite recipes all in your personal recipe box.
• Recipes recommendations for you.
• Organize your recipes into customizable collections.
• Learn cooking with instructional videos and photos.
• Rate recipes, leave notes and more for yourself when you cook again.

Android | iOS

Green Kitchen

Green Kitchen was started by Luise and David in 2009 with an idea to share their more green and healthy food recipes with the world. Their sole idea is to keep the recipes as simple and pure as possible. It is filled with lots of tasty and healthy vegetarian food straight from nature with bare minimum of glutens, sugar, dairy products, etc. It is a perfect companion for you regardless if you just want to have green and vegetarian food.

Why Green Kitchen?

• Get huge variety of main courses, healthy snacks, drinks and more.
• Save your favorite recipes so you can cook them later.
• More than 159 handpicked premium recipes along with 28 additional recipes available in-app purchases.
• Recipes are marked as vegan, raw, gluten free, whole grain, etc.
• Can share the recipes with your friends and family.

iOS

Paprika Recipe Manager

Paprika Recipe Manager manages all your monthly meal plans and recipes. It offers wide     variety of recipes which you can choose from. It is available only for iOS devices. You can add ingredients in your grocery shopping list. You can sync your account so that you can view your latest account updates on any device.

Why Paprika Recipe Manager?

• You can download recipes from your favorite websites.
• Can create grocery list which automatically combine the ingredients and sort them by aisle.
• Users can plan their daily, weekly or monthly meals using meal planner.
• Keep synced your grocery list, meal plans, recipes and more between all devices.
• Search your recipes by categories, sub categories, name, ingredients, title and more.

iOS | Android

Basil Smart Recipe Manager

Basil is a great app to have in your phone for getting healthy recipes. It offers great range of recipes. You can add your favorites in a list.  You can also add ingredients in a list for your grocery shopping. Basil can even suggest you healthy substitutes for your ingredients. This app is available only for iOS devices. It can be found on the App Store. With Basil, you can discover fresh and new recipes from all over the web, add your own recipe and more. It also helps in finding and organizing recipes for you to make cooking easier.

Why Basil Smart Recipe?

• Searches web’s best recipe all at once in just one tap.
• You can add your personal recipe too on the app.
• Recipes will be stored offline on your iPad.
• Filter recipes by meals, cuisines, sources, types and more.
• Add recipes to your grocery list and sort them by aisle. Also, it suggests healthy substitutes for certain ingredients.

iOS

Conclusion

Thus, these are some of the best recipe apps to have with you whether you are a beginner or trying to be an expert in cooking. Hope you have liked the article. If you think we have missed about any food recipe app then tell us in the comments section below, we’ll add them ASAP. You can also read about best food delivery apps.

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