What is the best recipe discovery app for iPhone?

Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos, S tier, ranked #1 of 23, rated 4.9 by 432,892 people.

Which recipe discovery apps are free?

21 of 23 are free to download: Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos (S), NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals (S), Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes (S), Epicurious (S) and more. 6 of them sell in-app purchases. 4 report no in-app purchases.

Which recipe discovery app has the best App Store rating?

America's Test Kitchen at 4.9 from 18,202 ratings.

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Best Recipe Discovery Apps for iPhone (2026)

23 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos is the top-ranked of 23 recipe discovery apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.9/5 from 432,892 ratings.

1
Tasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 432,892 ratings · score 98
2
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 548,392 ratings · score 97
3
Kitchen Stories Easy RecipesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 22,785 ratings · score 95
4
EpicuriousS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 99,310 ratings · score 94
5
America's Test KitchenS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 18,202 ratings · score 91

What belongs in this list

Find recipes to cook that suit my tastes, diet, and time.

Not here: generating a new recipe with AI alone; a restaurant finder alone; saving or organizing recipes you already have alone; a food blog or video feed with no recipe steps alone; a calorie tracker 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 with no weights: 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. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. 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. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
Tasty: Recipes, Cooking VideosS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 432,892 ratings · score 98 · best in class
2
NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty MealsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 548,392 ratings · score 97 · best in class
3
Kitchen Stories Easy RecipesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 22,785 ratings · score 95 · best in class
4
EpicuriousS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 99,310 ratings · score 94 · best in class
5
America's Test KitchenS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 18,202 ratings · score 91 · best in class
6
Gronda: Recipes for ChefsA
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 7,593 ratings · score 90 · excellent
7
Mealime Meal Plans & RecipesA
Free · ★ 4.8 · 54,135 ratings · score 89 · excellent
8
Eatr: Tasty Cooking RecipesA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 11,324 ratings · score 89 · excellent
9
BigOven Recipes & Meal PlannerA
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,185 ratings · score 88 · excellent
10
Cookpad: Recipe & Meal PlannerA
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 7,329 ratings · score 87 · excellent
11
Instant Connect ™A
Free · ★ 4.6 · 11,443 ratings · score 84 · excellent
12
Samsung Food: Meal PlannerB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 6,407 ratings · score 80 · good
13
Hungryroot: Find Food You LoveB
Free · ★ 4.9 · 28,569 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional
14
FitMenCook - Healthy RecipesB
$3.99 + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 15,651 ratings · score 70 · good · provisional
15
SuperCook Recipe By IngredientC
Free · ★ 4.8 · 21,813 ratings · score 70 · situational
16
Cookpad RecipesC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,347 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
17
Oh She GlowsC
$2.99 + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 12,308 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
18
Keto Diet App & RecipesC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 29,362 ratings · score 62 · situational
19
Paleo PlateF
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,714 ratings · score 50 · avoid · provisional
20
Garden PlateF
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,508 ratings · score 49 · avoid · provisional
21
Healthy CrockPot RecipesF
Free download · ★ 4.0 · 3,012 ratings · score 48 · avoid
22
Keto Diet RecipesF
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,954 ratings · score 42 · avoid · provisional
23
OlliChef: AI Meal PlannerF
Free + IAP · ★ n/a · 0 ratings · score 25 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best recipe discovery app for iPhone?: Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos, S tier, ranked #1 of 23, rated 4.9 by 432,892 people.
Which recipe discovery apps are free?: 21 of 23 are free to download: Tasty: Recipes, Cooking Videos (S), NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals (S), Kitchen Stories Easy Recipes (S), Epicurious (S) and more. 6 of them sell in-app purchases. 4 report no in-app purchases.
Which recipe discovery app has the best App Store rating?: America's Test Kitchen at 4.9 from 18,202 ratings.
How many recipe discovery apps reach S or A tier?: 11 of 23. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. 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. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.