Copy Me That vs The CookBook App

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.

Free built in OCR support to take images of paper recipes and turn them into digital 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.

Automatically stores your recipe information within the cloud to enable access from the mobile applications and website

Syncs seamlessly between devices and platforms (iOS, Android and web!)

Usually respond within a matter of a day and keen to fix bugs and improve the app

Convert ingredients from the original measure type to your preferred US, Imperial and Metric measures.

They have made the app really personable by being able to add descriptions and upload an image to each step for your recipe.

Unlike a lot of other apps you only pay for the app once, there is no recurring subscription.

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.

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.

Will recalculate the amount of each ingredient needed based on the number of servings you choose.

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.

Create recipe timers automatically from detected instructions or enter a timer manually to alert you when you are needed in the kitchen

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.

The user interface of the app is great and easy to use.

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.

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.