Half Lemons: Recipe Generator
What is Half Lemons?
Recipe app that suggests meals from the ingredients you have at home, with a digital pantry and grocery lists.
Half Lemons is a recipe app for everyday cooking. You enter the ingredients you have at home into a digital pantry, and the app suggests recipes that use them, with options to filter by key ingredient, save recipes, and add missing items to a grocery list. The listing says recipes come from sources including NYT Cooking, Epicurious, Smitten Kitchen, and BBC Food.
Pricing. Half Lemons is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Deciding what to cook using ingredients already in the kitchen
- Using up a specific ingredient, such as leftover chicken thighs
- Building a grocery list for a recipe that needs a few missing items
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Why this app is in C tier
C tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Half Lemons scores 68 out of 100: rating 92, rating count 64, App Store search rank 64, update recency 53. The four parts are averaged and C tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
Half Lemons is a recipe app for everyday cooking that serves up recipes using the ingredients you have at home. Make deciding what’s for dinner a no brainer. Get hundreds of creative recipes using the ingredients you have on hand. No trips to the store necessary.
The App at a Glance
- Your digital pantry.
Enter the ingredients you have at home with an easy tap interface. We keep track of them from one meal to the next.
- Hundreds of recipes with no missing ingredients
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Recipes you can actually make with the things you have on hand. No missing ingredients. No funky substitutions needed. And definitely no trips to the store!
*Always on app-screen
When you follow a recipe, your phone will never go dark. No more chicken juice fingers trying to open your phone.
- Filter recipes by key ingredient
Want to use up the last chicken thighs? Or maybe your fresh cilantro is starting to look tired. No problem! Filter recipes using any ingredient in your kitchen.
*Grocery lists.
See a recipe you want to make? Missing a few ingredients? Automatically add them to a grocery list.
- Save recipes you want to make
If a recipe looks good save it for later. If you loved it and want to make it again save it. No limits!
- All recipes are hand-picked with at least 4 stars and up
- Thousands of recipes from the best sources & food bloggers
Recipes are sourced from favorites like: NYT Cooking, Half Baked Harvest, Epicurious, Smitten Kitchen, Skinny Taste, BBC food, Jamie Oliver and so many more great bloggers.
Our terms of use: https://www.halflemons.com/terms-of-use
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Questions about Half Lemons
Do I need to enter my ingredients before getting recipes?
You enter the ingredients you have at home using a tap interface, and the app keeps track of them from one meal to the next. It describes recipes that need no missing ingredients.
Can I find recipes that use one particular ingredient?
Yes. You can filter recipes by any ingredient in your kitchen, for example when you want to use up a specific item.
Does the app cost money?
The app is free to download. The App Store listing does not state any in-app purchases, so any additional costs are Not stated on the App Store.
Is Half Lemons free?
Half Lemons is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Is Half Lemons right for me?
Half Lemons is built for deciding what to cook using ingredients already in the kitchen, using up a specific ingredient, such as leftover chicken thighs, building a grocery list for a recipe that needs a few missing items. It sits in the recipe discovery list on AppTierList.
Is Half Lemons worth it?
Half Lemons is C tier, ranked #22 of 37 recipe discovery apps with a score of 68 out of 100, from a 4.6 App Store rating across 273 ratings. 21 apps rank above it in the same list.
How does Half Lemons compare to SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient?
Half Lemons is C tier at 68; SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient is C tier at 70. SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient ranks higher. Half Lemons is free to download, with in-app purchases, SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient is free, with no in-app purchases.
How often is Half Lemons updated?
Half Lemons was last updated on 2025-12-02, 347 days ago.
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All the facts
Ranking
- List
- Recipe Discovery (C tier, #22)
- Tier
- C (Situational)
- Score
- 68 / 100
- Rank in list
- #22 of 38
- Ranking certainty
- settled
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 4.6 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 273
App
- Price
- Free + IAP
- App Store category
- Food & Drink
- Current version
- (347 days ago)
- Size
- 64 MB
- Requires
- iOS 15.0 or later
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- 1
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad
Links
- Developer pages
- Website · Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · ranking