Just the Recipe: Cook smarter

• Free to download
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.9 3309 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Best app for recipes!

   I LOVE this app! I cook a meal from scratch 4-5 days per week and rely on numerous websites for recipe ideas. The frustration I have felt when trying to get through the ads, dozens of photos, personal histories and all the other crap before getting to an ingredient list is enough to make me want to scream. Often I have fresh ingredients on hand and just need to scan a few recipes to get ideas for a menu. This app allows me to cut and paste the url and, like magic, the recipe appears in a clear and legible format. I paid for the full app which allows me to save and print recipes, too. Many days I have two or three recipes that I’m following at the same time and it can be challenging trying to scroll on my phone while I’m cooking. The format for the printed recipes is beautiful, simple and clear! The only other app that is comparable to this perfect format is the New York Times cooking app which I have used and loved for years. I highly recommend this app and appreciate the upgrade which allows edits on recipes (something I constantly do while cooking) and look forward to updates that will allow me to categorize as I save.

   aaahhh...! i cant think of a name! · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5I love this app - it’s almost perfect

   I love this app. I cook a lot and I often find recipes online, but it’s easy to lose track of them and it’s annoying to have all the added advertisements and texts and junk. This app makes it easy to keep track of them and easy to read the recipes. I absolutely love it, I gave it four stars instead of five is because it doesn’t save the recipes that you add to it automatically. Sometimes I forget to click the save button after I’ve added the recipe. I add the recipe unless I wanted to save it, so I think this step should be automatic. sometimes I forget to click the button because by my logic I already added it so it should already be saved, but if I forget to tap save I’ve lost a recipe after I added it. it’s nitpicky, but five stars indicate something is perfect and in my opinion it’s not quite perfect. if they made the saving function automatic upon adding the recipe, I would give it five stars.

   Lbdoug · 31 Jul 2026

3. 4/5Makes cooking so much easier!

   I have been using this app for awhile now and love love it! After many recipes converted I just have a few notes that would make it more user friendly: - tap top of screen to return to top of recipe, as you can do in other apps and webpages on a smartphone. This would make it so much easier to reference ingredient amounts in long recipes! - ability to add sections to ingredients or instructions. I have noticed some import in “sections,” e.g. ingredients for base dish vs sauce, etc. but I haven’t been able to figure out how to add these manually if needed. - fix coding issue where sometime apostrophes show up as %!~\#^ (or something similar lol). It’s not a big deal to fix myself when I see them but would make it a bit more streamlined and require less time correcting text in recipes. All in all a fantastic app that takes away a lot of the clutter and difficulty with ads when cooking with online recipes! I will continue to use it and look forward to seeing updates in the future.

   Leebee_53 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Amazing App! A lifesaver in the kitchen!

   My one suggestion is that I would LOVE to see a feature that let you "add notes" on recipes you save! In terms of reviewing though, let me be honest: I'm autistic, and sometimes I get overwhelmed very easy. I use my phone in my kitchen because I don't have the counter space for my laptop or tablet. My phone hates recipe websites (it jumps around the page and crashes randomly, which makes me have to refresh and jumps me to the top of the page, and the ads are genuinely overwhelming), and my brain often hates layer after layer of text and filler and the ads. I used to screenshot recipes on my computer with a dozen layers of Adblock and mineblock on, and send that to my phone to avoid the nightmare that was recipe sites. After learning about this site and app, it's become a vital instrument to cooking and baking, and I'm so, so happy--I've cried over how overwhelmed I've gotten in the kitchen in the past! This saves me from that!

   starlightelixir · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Finally…a better recipe manager

   Finally...a better recipe manager Being a foodie and retired geek, I've tried every recipe manager/organizer/solution ever created (seriously), and I've never found anything better than the Paprika app, which has been my go-to since it first came out. But that just changed! Most all recipe manager apps attempt to do too many things, and they end up failing in their intended purpose of managing recipes. I've always wanted a simple, yet elegant recipe management solution with a beautiful UI and truly functional UX – and I just discovered it with this app! I don't want the unnecessary glitz of things like rating stars, etc. Every recipe I care enough about to save is obviously 5 stars. The iOS and iPadOS apps appear to be web-based apps, but in this case, that's a good thing, because the UI/UX familiarities are consistent between the apps and the website. I made a quick Safari web app of the web version, and it works flawlessly, leaving Safari free for other things. If you use Chrome, you can do the same thing. I honestly can't say enough good about this app and its future possibilities. It still needs a few features, but it has a very mature feel to it and but the developer seems very committed.

   Larry.McJ · 31 Jul 2026

Privacy

Accessibility

• Dark Interface — SUPPORTED Store published
• Differentiate Without Color Alone — SUPPORTED Store published
• Sufficient Contrast — SUPPORTED Store published