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Best Recipe Generation Apps for iPhone (2026)
Quick answer
MyPantry: Generate Recipes is the top-ranked of the 9 tiered recipe generation apps on iPhone, at B tier with 4.7/5 from 84 ratings.
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Key takeaways
- MyPantry ranks #1 of the 9 tiered recipe generation apps, B tier with a score of 79 out of 100.
- MyPantry has the most App Store ratings here: 84, averaging 4.7/5.
- No app reaches S or A tier yet; the best is B tier.
What belongs in this list
Create a new recipe from ingredients or a photo I have on hand.
Not here: searching a fixed recipe library alone; saving or organizing recipes alone; sharing recipes with other users alone; a general chatbot that could be asked for recipes alone; a calorie scanner 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 |  MyPantry: Generate RecipesBest overall | B | 78.7 | 4.7 | 84 | Free + IAP | |
| 2 | B | 77.7 | 4.0 | 30 | Free + IAP | ||
| 3 |  OnHand: Cook What You HaveMost recently updatedprovisional | C | 69.8 | 5.0 | 5 | Free + IAP | |
| 4 |  Replate - Recipe Discoveryprovisional | C | 67.2 | 5.0 | 4 | Free + IAP | |
| 5 |  Reciplease: Cook What You Haveprovisional | C | 61.3 | 5.0 | 10 | Free + IAP | |
| 6 |  Lisa: AI Kitchen Assistantprovisional | C | 60.8 | 5.0 | 2 | Free + IAP | |
| 7 |  Recipe Generator From Photoprovisional | F | 47.6 | n/a | 0 | Free + IAP | |
| 8 |  Recipe Finder & Calorie AIprovisional | F | 35.0 | 5.0 | 1 | Free + IAP | |
| 9 |  AI Cookbook - Smart Recipesprovisional | F | 17.7 | n/a | 0 | Free + IAP |
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Questions people ask
What is the best recipe generation app for iPhone?
MyPantry: Generate Recipes, B tier, ranked #1 of 9, rated 4.7 by 84 people.
Which recipe generation apps are free?
9 of 9 are free to download: MyPantry: Generate Recipes (B), AI Chef : Food Recipe Creator (B), OnHand: Cook What You Have (C), Replate - Recipe Discovery (C) and more. 9 of them sell in-app purchases.
How many recipe generation apps reach S or A tier?
0 of 9.