Pepperplate vs Basil

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.

Allows sharing recipes with others through a link on the website.

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.

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.

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.

Basil uses a highlighting system that allows selecting each element of the recipe instead of having to type it in.

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.

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.

The app includes timers that can be activated from the directions section.

Grocery list creator is easy to use and it does small helpful things such as combine all quantities of ingredients and offers substitution suggestions.

The interface is very clean, clear, easy to understand and pleasant to use.