7 recipe apps that will help you become a master cook
Paprika saves and organizes recipes, plans weekly menus, and creates shopping lists.
Yummly provides recipe recommendations based on your taste.
When you open Yummly, you can search for recipes through specific filters, like cuisine, taste, diet, allergy, and cook time. Most of the recipes on the app are aggregated from food blogs.
After you've been using it for a while, Yummly's algorithm will remember the kinds of meals you like and recommend new recipes.
It also has an easy-to-navigate interface that's full of photos.
Price: Free
Food Network In the Kitchen features meals by celebrity chefs.
This app offers recipes by Food Network stars like Rachel Ray and Bobby Flay. It has tens of thousands of recipes, and new ones are added every month.
When you find a recipe you love, you can catalog it so you can easily find it later. Unlike most recipe apps, this one also lets you add your own notes and substitutions into the recipes when you save them.
Price: Free
Allrecipes Dinner Spinner features 50,000 recipes.
Allrecipes' app gives you a ton of recipes options, all of which are created, shared, and rated by users (Allrecipes' 19 sites boast a community of 50 million people). Most recipes include food photos, videos, user ratings, and reviews from people who've made the dish.
Anyone can add their recipes to the database, though Allrecipes also employs experienced chefs to create dishes for the platform.
If you allow the app to access your location, you can also search for recipes with ingredients that are for sale at local grocery stores.
Price: Free
Appetites has step-by-step videos that teach you how to cook meals.
This iOS app has over 200 cooking videos, created by Appetites' in-house chef team, that teach you how make all kinds of dishes, from chicken sausage with greens and potatoes to shrimp scampi. They're narrated by a few of the app's chefs, including Becky Reams, the owner of the pop-up LA restaurant Bang Bang Brunch.
Shot from the perspective of a chef looking down at the ingredients, the videos are geared towards beginners. Appetites also gives you the option to buy recipe ingredients through the app and get them delivered to your home (but the third party fulfillment service is only offered in nine US cities, like New York, Chicago, and LA).
Price: $4.99
Available on: iOS
Epicurious' app features professionally-tested recipes from the glossy magazine.
Epicurious, the website and magazine known for culinary articles and guides, also has a popular recipe app.
The 30,0000 recipes are aggregated from a variety of reputable cooking magazines and publications. You can browse by skill level, ingredient and cuisine, and the app will automatically compile the ingredients from a given recipe into a grocery list. As you shop, you can check off the items.
Price: Free
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