Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner
What is Cookpad?
Cookpad is a free recipe and meal planning app with recipes from a community of home cooks. Recommended recipes are backed by Cooksnap photos and comments from people who made them, and users can search by ingredient or dish. The app also imports recipes from websites, Instagram, TikTok and handwritten notes, builds weekly menus and shopping lists, and states that it is ad-free with automatic translation from Spanish, Italian and Japanese.
Pricing. Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner is free to download on the App Store.
Good for
- Deciding what to cook with ingredients already in the fridge
- Saving recipes from Instagram, TikTok or websites in one place
- Planning a weekly menu and building a shopping list from recipes
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Why this app is in A tier
Cookpad scores 87 out of 100: rating 80, rating count 80, App Store search rank 86, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged with no weights, and A tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Description
Not sure what to cook tonight? Cookpad recommends: search by ingredient or by dish across thousands of authentic recipes from a global community of home cooks - all verified by the people who have actually cooked them. WHAT SHOULD I COOK TONIGHT? Tell us what's in the fridge and we'll tell you what to make with it. Chicken, salmon, ground beef, half a box of lasagna noodles: every recipe we put in front of you has already been cooked by someone before you, who left a photo of how it turned out (Cooksnap) and wrote up how it went. It isn't a list of recipes to scroll - it's a recommendation for tonight's dinner, with the proof that it works. RECIPES VERIFIED BY THE COMMUNITY Trustworthy recipes, written by the people who cook them every day, not by an editorial team. Every Cooksnap is a photo from someone who made it before you, with comments on how it went: where it goes wrong, whether the measurements add up, how long it really takes. That's how we know what to recommend - no editor decides it, the person who cooked it proves it. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE, INCLUDING INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK Write your own recipes or import your favorites from any website, from Instagram, from TikTok, from
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| Measure | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier | A | A | A |
| Score | 87 / 100 | 88 / 100 | 84 / 100 |
| Rating | 4.4 ★ | 4.7 ★ | 4.6 ★ |
| Ratings | 7.3K | 14.2K | 11.4K |
| Latest ratings · 180d | 4.6 ★ · 20 reviews | — | — |
| Last update | 6d ago | 26d ago | 6d ago |
| Price | Free download | Free download | Free |
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Questions about Cookpad
Does it cost anything to use?
The app is free to download and the listing shows no in-app purchases. The listing also states there are no ads, including in the free version.
How are the recipes checked?
The listing says recipes are verified by community members who cooked them, using Cooksnap photos and comments on how each recipe turned out, rather than by an editorial team.
Can I add recipes from other sources?
Yes. You can import recipes from websites, Instagram, TikTok, books or handwritten notes, or write your own. The listing says a photo of a handwritten recipe or cookbook page is turned into a digital recipe by AI.
Is Cookpad free?
Cookpad is free to download.
What is Cookpad good for?
Cookpad is built for deciding what to cook with ingredients already in the fridge, saving recipes from instagram, tiktok or websites in one place, planning a weekly menu and building a shopping list from recipes. It sits in the recipe discovery list on AppTierList.
Is Cookpad worth it?
Cookpad is A tier, ranked #10 of 23 recipe discovery apps with a score of 87 out of 100, from a 4.4 App Store rating across 7,329 ratings. It is in the list's top tiers; 9 apps rank above it.
How does Cookpad compare to BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner?
Cookpad is A tier at 87; BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner is A tier at 88. BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner ranks higher. Cookpad is free to download, BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner is free to download.
How often is Cookpad updated?
Cookpad was updated 6 days ago, which counts in its favour.
All the facts
- List
- Recipe Discovery
- Tier
- A (Excellent)
- Score
- 87 / 100
- Rank in list
- #10 of 23
- Ranking certainty
- settled
- Price
- Free download
- App Store rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Number of ratings
- 7,329
- Recent reviews
- 4.6 from 20 in the last 180 days
- Current version
- (6 days ago)
- App Store data read
- App Store category
- Food & Drink
- Good for
- Deciding what to cook with ingredients already in the fridge, Saving recipes from Instagram, TikTok or websites in one place, Planning a weekly menu and building a shopping list from recipes
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Size
- 166 MB
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- 25
- Maker
- unclaimed
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
Ranking refreshed · how it is computed