Allrecipes' Dinner Spinner vs Copy Me That

A few recipes have an accompanying video that explains how to prepare and cook the meal. Tapping on directions below the video skips it to the part that explains the step.

The app can display how many calories each serving has what percentage of daily recommended intake each nutrient has.

The recipe database search allows specifying if certain ingredients should be present or not, if there are any dietary needs and how long should cooking the meal take.

With Allrecipes Pro, users can access all 44,000 recipes in the database. Without paying for the pro version, users are only allowed to access a few thousand.

Each recipe has prep and cook time listed, so it's possible to take into account how long the process will take. All ingredients can be divided into required servings.

Items to the shopping list can be added from the recipe view by clicking on the ingredients or manually from the shopping list itself. Items are organized in categories such as produce or beverages and there's a reminder at the bottom for what meals are the ingredients for. Bought items can be ticked off by tapping on them or deleted from the list with a long-tap.

It's possible to rate and review recipes.

Each recipe can be categorized by tags in order to find the appropriate meal.

Copy Me That is a Great app for grabbing recipes from the web. After they are downloaded, they are automatically formatted for simplicity.

Copy Me That has a community built around food. The community is for sharing and receiving recipes, and even providing feedback.

This app will dissect the ingredients required and break them down into an organized shopping list.

The excellent browser algorithm can grab recipes from even the worst ad-garbled web pages, with no errors.

Any attribute of a recipe can be changed, and notes can be added as reminder for the future.

You can design, create, and even publish and order your own cookbook from within the app.

The Copy Me That add-on can grab recipes from a browser and sync them with the iOS app.

Users can drag and drop meals from one day to another day using this app's built in calendar.

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.

The community rates shared recipes on a scale of 1-5.

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.

IOS (iPhone & iPad), Android, and browser support.