Yummly and Whisk were the standouts in this group by far, with well-laid out ingredients lists, nutritional information generated from those ingredients, scaled by the number of servings listed, and the ability to create useful grocery lists. Ingredients lists are much clearer and more enjoyable to read with these, since the quantities, units of measurement, ingredients, ingredient descriptors, method of preparation, and author notes can all be formatted differently. Yummly did a great job with the 9 that it was able to import, but only Whisk was able to correctly import and interpret all the recipes I tried. Big Oven made the most import mistakes (as well as underperformed across the board, really). PepperPlate was the least robust, and could import only 4 of the 12 recipes I tried. The Advanced Importers - Yummly, Big Oven, Whisk, and PepperPlateīecause these apps have to correctly interpret all the data in order to import it, there are a lot more opportunities for them to get stuff wrong and they get around this by simply refusing to import certain recipes. Both of these also had robust import/export options, so they’re good picks if you already have a digital recipe collection elsewhere. Recipe Keeper has a recipe scanner that worked well for me (if a bit time consuming to use) and was very comparable to Paprika in every other aspect, as well as cheaper with just a one-time payment of $6 to sync across all devices. But it also costs $5 for the mobile app and then another $15 for the desktop app, which you have to buy again for subsequent releases, which is steep compared to their competitors whose functionality I found to be the comparable. “let simmer for 5 minutes”) and can even set multiple timers concurrently (though they can’t be named differently, so I would still prefer a Siri timer that tells me what it’s for) as well pantry management and Siri integration. Paprika 3 has a bit of an edge among these as it a few extra features like being able to set timers based off detected time statements in the recipe (i.e.
These are still good options if you basically want a digital card catalog of your recipes and they all have decent interfaces for marking off completed steps and gathered ingredients. since all of that requires the data be correctly interpreted.
But they weren’t able to support more advanced features like consolidating shopping list items (at least not well), scaling recipes based on the number of servings, extracting nutrition data from ingredients, etc. These performed well across the board at importing recipes. The Basic Importers - Paprika 3, CopyMeThat, Recipe Keeper, and ChefTap I discovered the apps are generally of two camps:īasic Importers: that import recipes as essentially categorized textĪdvanced Importers: that attempt to interpret recipe information into useable data (ingredients from ingredient descriptors, units of measurement, cook times, serving sizes, etc.)
The results of which you can find here in this google sheets workbook. Not sandboxed - able to import recipes from any website on mobile (or create my own)Ĭould create useful, readable shopping list from ingredientsĪfter downloading several of the most recommended apps, I looked up a dozen recipes that I liked from the web and saw how well the different apps were able to manage them.
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Paprika 3 or Recipe Keeper are your best options if you want something simple, don’t need advanced features, and/or need to work offline Yummly offers the best feature set for most people right now, and is the only one with Apple Health integration, but has its problems and you can't create/add your own recipes Whisk performed the best at all the core chores of importing and parsing recipes, but it’s still quite new and lacks an iPad app TLDR: There is no single ‘best’ recipe managing app - they all have their drawbacks.