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Paprika
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Update for Paprika 3 requires payment
The update to Paprika 3 requires a $5 payment even when you've bought the app a long time ago.
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Can import recipes from a wide variety of online sources
Covers most of the major websites, including Food & Wine, Food Network and The Girl Who Ate Everything and even a good amount of "unsupported" websites will work.
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No OCR support
No way to scan in or take a photo of a written or printed recipe.
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Simple, clean interface
A lot of time has been spent on making the interface feel as intuitive as possible. Navigation is easy, it's possible to highlight items with taps to track what steps have been taken or tap to cross-out ingredients that have been added as well as adjust the recipe easily without overwriting the original and make notes of changes and preferences.
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No way to create a shared collection of recipes
There's no way for you to collaborate on family recipes with your wife, parents, or sisters. Right now it seems only Umami supports this functionality.
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Syncs across devices
Paprika can be used across any of the supported devices - iOS, Android, OSX, web. If a recipe is imported in one device it will show up on all other devices as well.
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Has to be bought separately for each device
Each device requires a separate purchase of the app. (IOS is now a universal app, Windows is a separate purchase)
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Can generate a grocery list
Depending on meal plans, Paprika can create a grocery list with all required ingredients. In the grocery list it's possible to view ingredients grouped based on recipes or all together. It can even keep a list of items already available and skip those when creating a grocery list.
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Doesn't allow adding pictures for each cooking steps
Only a title picture is allowed.
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Manually importing recipes doesn't require typing
To manually transfer a recipe from a website, highlight a part of the recipe and then click the appropriate button - name, ingredient, direction, etc.
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Not worth what you pay for
Paprika is an extortionist recipe organizer that charges for apps separately, doesn't let you bookmark from your browser, and doesn't let you search by ingredient.
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Has tools that help in the cooking process
Paprika includes timers, converters and a tool for scaling ingredients. It makes the process of cooking easier to manage.
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Lacks own recipe database
Paprika can only import recipes from third-party sources. There's no built-in recipe database to browse or search through.
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Notes section allows you to add your own personal comments
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Can switch back and forth between recipes
Using the Pin tool allows you to quickly switch between recipes in progress without losing your place. Crossed-out ingredients stay crossed out, the step you're on remains highlighted.
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Customizable categories and sub-categories
It comes stocked with a handful of basic categories, but you can add your own, including sub-categories and order them any way you want.
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Easy import from previous recipe manager
Paprika readily accepts importing from the older application and syncing from Mac to iPad is amazing. 200+ recipes in seconds!
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Has tools for planning out meals weeks in advance
Paprika has a simple to use meal planner that allows adding recipes along with notes to a calendar. This information can later be used to automatically create a grocery list. Meal plans last forever. Want to know what you served for Christmas 3 years ago? It's there.
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spoonacular
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Recipe search engine to find new recipes
Search over 300,000 recipes from across the web to find recipes suitable for your diet, whether gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, Paleo, etc.
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Make meal plans with recipes and products
With just a few clicks, you can make a meal plan using recipes or store bought products, such as Greek yogurt, protein bars, etc. The daily nutritional information is added up for you as you plan.
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Get nutritional information for any recipe
Recipes you upload yourself, find via the search engine, or add to your recipe boxes using spoonacular's browser extensions will have the nutritional information calculated automatically
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Recipe Keeper
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Can export only to Recipe Keeper format
Alternatively, it's possible to print to PDF.
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Various import options
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Limited to 20 recipes
The free version only allows you to save 20 recipes.
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Resonable price
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Broad platform support
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Easy to import recipe on mobile
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Bulk recipe editing
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Frequent updates
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Scan
Can scan a recipe
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BigOven
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Household grocery list and menu planning sharing
Use a single grocery list and menu plan with multiple accounts.
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Charges for image scanning
BigOven lets users take pictures of handwritten or typed recipes and have them transcribed. The first 3 are free, and then it costs $20.00 per year for up to 25 additional scans.
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Can scan in handwritten and printed recipes
Can convert images to text.
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You can't do very much with the FREE option - you pretty much have to pay the $20/year
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Allows ad-free use
With optional membership, lets you get rid of all ads and add unlimited recipes; great free trial model.
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Limited organizational options
Recipes can be saved to "Try", "Favorites" and "Folder" (creating folders requires a subscription). Additionally there are categories for recipes added and made.
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Breaks down ingredients into nutritional info
Users can see the nutritional information of any meal based on the contents of the ingredients.
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Good grocery list creator
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Great organizational options
Great use of Folders -- can set them up for occasions, people you cook for, and more. Also the separate "Favorite" and "Try" list let you keep track of things that you'd like to try apart from those that are truly your favorite.
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Can upload your own photos of your typed-in recipes
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Offers a big list of recipes to search through and an advanced search
Has over 350.000 recipes to search through and an advanced search that allows setting dietary restrictions, ingredients to be added or excluded and what categories to search through.
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Everything syncs with web and other devices
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Offers a free trial
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Good menu planner
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Reasonable site-clipping
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Copy Me That
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Clunky interface
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Recipes can be organized via tags
Each recipe can be categorized by tags in order to find the appropriate meal.
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iPad Interface unbecoming to some users
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Great web clipper
Copy Me That is a Great app for grabbing recipes from the web. After they are downloaded, they are automatically formatted for simplicity.
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Recipe detection limited to english
This app automatically reformats recipes for easy reading based on the contents of the text. If the text isn't in English, Copy Me That won't detect the recipe.
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Active community
Copy Me That has a community built around food. The community is for sharing and receiving recipes, and even providing feedback.
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Easy shopping list generator
This app will dissect the ingredients required and break them down into an organized shopping list.
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Excellent browser algorithm
The excellent browser algorithm can grab recipes from even the worst ad-garbled web pages, with no errors.
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Allows adjustments and notes
Any attribute of a recipe can be changed, and notes can be added as reminder for the future.
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Cookbook creator and Direct publish feature
You can design, create, and even publish and order your own cookbook from within the app.
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Functions as an add-on
The Copy Me That add-on can grab recipes from a browser and sync them with the iOS app.
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Drag and drop meal planner
Users can drag and drop meals from one day to another day using this app's built in calendar.
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Supports multiple users on different devices
A meal can be added by one user, and then the recipe can be viewed by another. This way, coordinating meals between multiple people can be very simple - especially for shopping purposes.
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Community ratings for recipes
The community rates shared recipes on a scale of 1-5.
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Intelligent item system
Intelligent item system allows you to edit items on your shopping list, combines items from multiple recipes, and organizes items by store location. Forget an item? Hit the “Add Item” button, type in oranges, item is immediately added to your list under the “Produce” section.
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Multiple platforms
IOS (iPhone & iPad), Android, and browser support.
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Pepperplate
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Not supported
No support or bug fixes..
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Reasonable organizactional methods
Recipes can be organized into menus and categories. Menus allow grouping recipes and operating with them together. For example, a whole menu can be added to a shopping list or added to the planner without having to add each recipe separately. Categories are essentially tags. They can be added to recipes and used to search through them in recipe list.
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Changing to a paid service model
As of the new year (2020), Pepperplate will change to a "paid service model". The "subscription" is now $2.99/month or $32.99/year.
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Has an online interface
Allows sharing recipes with others through a link on the website.
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Doesn't de-duplicate recipes
You can add the same recipe multiple times from the same url but the site won't merge them automatically.
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Grocery list
Recipes and menus can quickly be added to the grocery list from their appropriate views. Items in the grocery list can be sorted by aisle or recipe.
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Poor mobile web clipping experience
To save a recipe from the web into Pepperplate requires copying the URL, navigating to Pepperplate.com (that has no mobile version), either logging in or clicking view recipes, then navigating to import recipes and pasting the URL in the form field. There's no way to "share" a URL to Pepperplate.
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Good web clipper
While the experience using the clipper on a mobile device might need some work, the clipper itself is reasonably advanced. It directly supports over 30 recipe sites. It imports images, prep time, ingredients and instructions from those sites.
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Can be used for meal planning
Recipes and menus can quickly be added to the planner from their appropriate views. Unfortunately, there's no way to add them from the planner itself.
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cookbook
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Shopping list that shows what you need and for which recipe
Say your buying sugar, it tells you that you need 300 g for cookies and 150 g for pancakes for example. So you how much you need to buy.
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Lack of a meal planner
Not a problem for me but could be for others. So keep that it mind
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Easily share as url,text, image, pdf
Has a great share feature and an import/export feature.
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Can't auto detect recipes using images or AI
Although you can add a link as a recipe, you wont be able to use all cookbook features until you manually add the required information.
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Cooking view
Has an integrated cooking view when cooking for easy instructions/ingredients viewing.
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The CookBook App
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OCR Support
Free built in OCR support to take images of paper recipes and turn them into digital recipes
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Inconsistent or fiddly importing
Importing recipes from websites is inconsistent, it will sometimes work perfectly and sometimes be missing almost all the major parts of the recipe. Even when using the sites listed as supported in the app there is no guarantee that it will work. You can also add recipes from OCR (which seems to work well), from a file (which is limited to certain filetypes), or by copy/pasting blocks of text. The latter gets good results but is fiddly and impractical, especially when adding a larger number of recipes.
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Allows importing recipes
CookBook can import recipes and has a long list of supported websites. The import feature isn't wonderful though, and even when using the supported sites there is no guarantee that the full recipe is imported.
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No sharing "extra items"
You can share an account with others and the shopping list will sync so everyone sees the same, except for "extra items". These are the everyday items you buy that don't go into a recipe, for example bread, milk, cereal, that sort of thing. These won't be synced, so if your partner is out shopping they won't see these on the list, which in my opinion is rather silly as these are the items we buy most often.
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Free Cloud Storage
Automatically stores your recipe information within the cloud to enable access from the mobile applications and website
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No recipe database
The app works solely as a place for you to add and save your own recipes rather than finding inspiration and recipes from others. There are 7 demo recipes when you download the app, but apart from these you'll have to add everything yourself.
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Syncs across devices
Syncs seamlessly between devices and platforms (iOS, Android and web!)
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Active support team
Usually respond within a matter of a day and keen to fix bugs and improve the app
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Automatic Measure Conversion
Convert ingredients from the original measure type to your preferred US, Imperial and Metric measures.
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Upload and show images per step
They have made the app really personable by being able to add descriptions and upload an image to each step for your recipe.
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No subscription costs
Unlike a lot of other apps you only pay for the app once, there is no recurring subscription.
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Cooking Mode
Built in Cooking mode that reads your recipe to you while you cook. It also lets you mark ingredients and steps as completed so you know where you are in the recipe.
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Has a website that everything syncs to
The app links to their website where you can log in to see, edit and import recipes. Personally I found importing through this site works better than using the app.
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Scaling
Will recalculate the amount of each ingredient needed based on the number of servings you choose.
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Can be used with a partner
Partners, roommates and so on can share an account and access the same recipes, shopping list and other functions of the app. The only exception is the "extra items" on shopping lists, which are items that are not a part of a recipe, like bread or milk.
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Timer detection
Create recipe timers automatically from detected instructions or enter a timer manually to alert you when you are needed in the kitchen
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Generate a grocery list and meal plan
Create a meal plan, print the planner or generate an interactive shopping list for your recipes. The grocery list also notes what recipe the ingredient is used in.
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Sleek and easy to use design
The user interface of the app is great and easy to use.
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Searching and filtering
Recipes can be searched for by ingredients, the recipe name or other keywords. You can also filter recipes by ingredients (either included or excluded), time, favourite status and tags, and sort by name or last updated. This is handy if you have a lot of recipes.
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Surprise me
Has a surprise me feature which randomly selects a recipe for you. Note that this will show you any recipe, you can't sort it do only show dinners for example.
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ChefTap
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Importing
Ability to "clip" only works sporadically...
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Reasonable organizational methods
Recipes can be tagged.
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No grocery list or meal planner
Features are planned for future releases.
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Good web clipper and import options
Recipes can be added via bookmarks, share functionality or by copying and pasting a url. It's also good about importing existing bookmarks, text files and URLs from Pinterest.
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Price
The Pro version originally cost $11.99, but has since been bumped up to $19.99. With the lack of support and little in the way of improvement, it doesn't make a lot of sense to be paying more for the service.
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Easy to use recipe search tool
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Lack of support
Has gone downhill...
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Explains well how it should be used
The app has a good introductory tutorial that explains what's possible with the app and how it should be used. And there are also various explanations throughout the app that help along in using it. There's even a dedicated help section with videos.
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Has a free version
ChefTap has a free, ad-supported version that lacks manual entry and unlimited device syncing support.
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Basil
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No longer maintained
No bug fixed, waste of time
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Manual recipe clipping doesn't require typing
Basil uses a highlighting system that allows selecting each element of the recipe instead of having to type it in.
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iPad only
There's no iPhone version.
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Good web clipper
Recipes found on the web can be added to Basil by simply navigating to the recipe using the built-in web browser and clicking the plus icon. It will automatically import recipes from a variety of sources including epicurious.com, seriouseats.com and chow.com.
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No meal planner
There are no tools for planning out meals in advance.
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Flexible organizational methods
Recipes added to Basil get automatically tagged. Tags include ingredients as well as meal and cuisine types. It allows quickly finding what recipes can be made from available ingredients.
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Web clipper requires using the built-in browser
To import a recipe, Basil's built-in browser has to be used to navigate to the recipe. There's no way to "share" to Basil.
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Tools that help prepare meals
The app includes timers that can be activated from the directions section.
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Easy to use grocery list creator
Grocery list creator is easy to use and it does small helpful things such as combine all quantities of ingredients and offers substitution suggestions.
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Simple interface
The interface is very clean, clear, easy to understand and pleasant to use.
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The CookBook App
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Directions and ingredients are on separate screens - but you can pop out the ingredients screen when in the steps screen.
Directions and ingredients are on separate screens, makes it hard to cook when you need to flip back to the ingredients to see what the quantity is and then back to the instructions to see what to do with the ingredients.
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Allows importing recipes
Cookbook can import recipes and has a long list of supported websites.
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Sleek and easy to use design
The user interface of the app is great and easy to use.
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Automatic Measure Conversion
Convert ingredients from the original measure type to your preferred US, Imperial and Metric measures.
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Syncs across devices
Syncs seamlessly between devices and platforms (iOS, Android and web!)
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Generate a grocery list and meal plan
Create a meal plan, print the planner or generate an interactive shopping list for your recipes!
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Upload and show images per step
They have made the app really personable by being able to add descriptions and upload an image to each step for your recipe.
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Cooking Mode
Built in Cooking mode that reads your recipe to you while you cook!
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OCR Support
Free built in OCR support to take images of paper recipes and turn them into digital recipes
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Free Cloud Storage
Automatically stores your recipe information within the cloud to enable access from the mobile applications and website
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Timer detection
Create recipe timers automatically from detected instructions or enter a timer manually to alert you when you are needed in the kitchen
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iPhone X Compatible
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Active support team
Usually respond within a matter of a day and keen to fix bugs and improve the app
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Web
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SideChef
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Available for Android, iPhone and iPad
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Voice output and voice commands available
So you don't have to get your washed every time you want to look up something about the recipe.
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Step by step description of the recipes
Perfectly feasible for novices
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Features a lot of recipes by renowned chefs and allows to upload, rate and share recipes oneself
More than 1000 recipes and continues to grow
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