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Best Ingredient-Based Recipe Apps for iPhone (2026)
Quick answer
Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner is the top-ranked of the 10 tiered ingredient-based recipe apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 106,504 ratings.
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Key takeaways
- Cookpad ranks #1 of the 10 tiered ingredient-based recipe apps, S tier with a score of 88 out of 100.
- The highest-ranked free app with no in-app purchases is SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient (#6).
- Cookpad Recipes has the most App Store ratings here: 689,145, averaging 4.6/5.
- 3 of the 10 tiered apps reach S or A tier.
What belongs in this list
Find recipes I can cook with the ingredients I already have at home.
Not here: Browsing recipes by dish name or cuisine alone; Scanning a product barcode or fridge photo without suggesting recipes alone; Ingredient safety or allergen checking alone; A recipe generator that ignores the ingredients you have alone; A general chatbot that could be asked for recipes alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Apps whose maker has verified ownership get a small score component, because an active maker is a sign the app is kept up to date. It never decides a tier on its own. Updated daily. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. Read the full method →
Compare every app
| # | App | Tier | Score | Rating | Ratings | Price | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cookpad: Recipe & Meal PlannerBest overall | S | 88.0 | 4.8 | 106,504 | Free + IAP | |
| 2 |  OnHand: Cook What You Haveprovisional | A | 84.2 | 5.0 | 5 | Free + IAP | |
| 3 |  PantryPal: Cook What You Haveprovisional | A | 82.0 | 5.0 | 7 | Free + IAP | |
| 4 | B | 79.0 | 5.0 | 13 | Free + IAP | ||
| 5 |  Cookpad RecipesMost ratedprovisional | B | 72.7 | 4.6 | 689,145 | Free + IAP | |
| 6 |  SuperCook Recipe By IngredientBest free | C | 69.8 | 4.8 | 30,682 | Free download | |
| 7 |  CookShelf: Search CookbooksMost recently updatedprovisional | C | 65.9 | 4.7 | 1,171 | Free + IAP | |
| 8 |  Reciplease: Cook What You Haveprovisional | C | 61.3 | 5.0 | 10 | Free + IAP | |
| 9 |  Lisa: AI Kitchen Assistantprovisional | C | 60.8 | 5.0 | 2 | Free + IAP | |
| 10 |  Mealkit - Cook What You Haveprovisional | C | 60.0 | 5.0 | 1 | Free + IAP |
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Questions people ask
What is the best ingredient-based recipe app for iPhone?
Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner, S tier, ranked #1 of 10, rated 4.8 by 106,504 people.
Which ingredient-based recipe apps are free?
10 of 10 are free to download: Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner (S), OnHand: Cook What You Have (A), PantryPal: Cook What You Have (A), ChefMe: Cook What You Have (B) and more. 9 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which ingredient-based recipe app has the best App Store rating?
SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient at 4.8 from 30,682 ratings.
How many ingredient-based recipe apps reach S or A tier?
3 of 10.