Not all recipe savers are created equal. Some are great for cookbook-style recipe websites. Others shine when you're pulling from Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook. Some charge a flat fee; others lock features behind a yearly subscription. I spent time with the most popular options and some new emerging ones so you don't have to.
| Feature | Paprika 3 | RecipeKeeper | ReciMe | RecipeBox | Whisk | Deglaze | Recimarry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & Access | |||||||
| Pricing | $4.99 lifetime (iOS/Android)Desktop version $29.99 lifetime, sold separately. | $19.99 lifetime | $39.99/year | $69.99/year | $39.99/year | $49.99/year | $29.99/year |
| Free Trial | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sync across devices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import | |||||||
| Recipe websites | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social media | ~Only if recipe is in caption; no one-tap share. | ~IG & TikTok: yes if recipe in caption. Pinterest: yes if recipe in link, no if recipe in image. | ✓ | ~Unreliable. Slow, often fails if recipe is in comments or image (e.g. Pinterest). | ✓ | ✓Can extract recipe from video without a caption. | ✓ |
| YouTube | ~Only if recipe is in caption; no one-tap share. | ~Only if recipe is in caption. | ~Yes if recipe in caption, transcript, or linked site. May extract wrong content from links. | ~Only if recipe is in caption. | ~Only if recipe is in caption. | ~Only if recipe is in caption. | ✓Caption, transcript, or video audio. |
| From photo / screenshot | ✗ | ✓ | ✓Up to 3 images. | ✗ | ~Supported but encountered hiccups in testing. | ✓Up to 6 images. | ✓Up to 3 images. |
| From other recipe apps | ✓Paprika format or HTML. | ✓Multiple formats supported. | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓From Paprika. | ✗ |
| Organization & Discovery | |||||||
| Built-in recipe database | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓2M+ recipes. | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Search by ingredient | ✓ | ✗ | ~Filter by ingredient icons, but inconsistent — "beef" won't surface steak; "rice" won't surface fried rice. | ✗ | ✗ | ✗Filter by dish type or course only. | ~Occasionally false positives — e.g. searching "fish" may also surface fish sauce recipes. |
| Search by tag | ✗ | ✗Search by category or collection only. | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓Multiple tags per recipe; multiple collections. |
| Meal Planner | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shopping List | ✓Grouped by aisle. | ✓ | ✓Instacart & Walmart integration coming. | ✓Instacart & Walmart integration. | ✓Grouped by aisle. | ✓Grouped by aisle. | ✓Grouped by aisle. |
| Cooking Features | |||||||
| Unit conversion | ✓US standard & metric. | ✓ | ✓Premium access. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scale servings | ✓Scale by multiplier. | ✓Scale by person count. | ✓Premium access. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nutrition info | ~Shown if present in the recipe. | ~Shown if recipe includes it; users can add manually. | ✓Premium access. | ~Available for built-in database only; not for imported recipes. | ✓ | ✗ | ✗Coming soon. |
| Cook time estimation | ~Shows time if present in the recipe. | ~Total time only; not available for all recipes. | ~Estimates total time only, not per step. | ~Shows time if present in the recipe. | ✓Estimates time per step. | ✗ | ~Shows time if present in the recipe. |
| Assisted cooking | ✓Siri. | ✓Alexa. | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓Cooking mode. | ✓Siri. |
| Recipe Management | |||||||
| Edit after import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓Reorder ingredients & steps; attach photos per step. | ✓ | ✓Nutrition info doesn't re-estimate after edits. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print recipe | ✓ | ✓PDF, printer, or recipe book. | ✓Premium access. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Export recipe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓Premium access. | ✗ | ✗ | ✓PDF. | ✗ |
| Rate recipes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pin for quick access | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Language | |||||||
| Translation | ✗ | ✗ | ✓Since 2026. | ✗ | ✓Translates to profile language. | ✗ | ✓Translates to profile language; can override per recipe at import time. |
↓ Read the full review of each app below
When it comes to collecting recipes, Paprika is the most well-known option — and for good reason. It costs a one-time fee of $4.99 for iOS/Android ($29.99 for the desktop version, sold separately) and handles recipe websites exceptionally well. It's packed with practical cooking features: unit conversion, scaling, Siri-assisted cooking, a meal planner, ingredient-based search, and a shopping list you can sort by aisle.
Social media and YouTube imports are possible, but require a few extra steps — you'll need to open the link inside Paprika's built-in browser and expand the description for it to pick up the recipe, and it only works when the recipe text is in the caption. Non-English recipes didn't work in my testing. Translation support isn't available either, though that's understandable given the one-time price. For anyone who primarily saves from recipe websites, Paprika is hard to beat.
RecipeKeeper is an impressive, feature-comprehensive app. It supports imports from recipe websites and social media (if the post includes a recipe in the caption or a link). It can also import from images or screenshots. Despite a slightly outdated interface, its functionality is broad — including the ability to create custom cookbooks with different fonts and layouts. It offers Alexa-assisted cooking and costs $19.99 (one-time) with a free trial.
ReciMe dominates when it comes to social media imports. It handles both recipe websites and social media, and goes the extra mile to fetch recipe content from captions, descriptions, links, or transcripts. That said, it can sometimes misidentify links that aren't actually recipes. It also supports image imports. Its shopping cart integrates with Instacart and Walmart (coming soon). ReciMe offers a free trial, with premium features like unit conversion, scaling, and nutrition info behind a subscription.
It allows ingredient-based search, though it can be buggy — searching "beef" might not show steak, and "rice" may not surface fried rice recipes. As of 2026, it also supports translation.
RecipeBox operates in a different league. It features its own database of over 2 million recipes and also supports imports from recipe websites and social media. However, it's significantly more expensive at $69.99/year, and the import functionality didn't work reliably in my testing. I tried multiple social media posts (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) and waited a long time with no items extracted.
RecipeBox also lacks common features found in other apps — meal planner, unit conversion, scaling, assisted cooking — but it does integrate with Instacart and Walmart. I'd recommend it mainly for users looking to explore its built-in database, not for importing from social media.
Whisk (recently acquired by Samsung Food) is relatively young and impressive in its own right. It focuses on a minimalist design and seems aimed at a different type of user. It allows imports from recipe websites, social media, and images. Its most distinctive feature is estimating cooking time for each step and generating a total cooking time, so you can sort recipes by how long they take. Another highlight: shopping list items can be sorted by grocery store aisles. It also estimates nutrition info, though updating a recipe doesn't trigger a recalculation. Translation is supported as well.
Deglaze is a relatively young app that grabs your attention quickly with a strong set of features. It focuses on parsing recipes from social media, and one of its standout abilities is that it can actually watch the video. For TikTok and Instagram shorts where the recipe isn't in the caption or spoken transcript — just background music over someone cooking — Deglaze can still pull a recipe out. That trick doesn't extend to YouTube, which is longer and more compute-intensive, so YouTube imports only work when the recipe is in the caption.
Deglaze also imports recipes from Paprika, which is helpful given Paprika's large existing user base. Its Cooking Mode is genuinely useful — you can switch to inline ingredient amounts shown right in the instruction steps, and timers start with one tap. There's also a built-in recipe database you can browse and search by name or dish type, and you can publish your own recipes for other users to follow.
Recimarry is the newest entry in this lineup and takes a deliberately narrow angle: a personal recipe library, with no community feed and no built-in recipe database. It imports from TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, recipe websites, and photos — including handwritten cards and cookbook pages — and works across languages, translating recipes on import or keeping them in the original. Recipes are fully editable after import, can carry multiple tags, and live in multiple collections, and there's an ingredient-based search for finding what to cook from what you have. A built-in meal planner lets you schedule saved recipes across the week.
On YouTube, it's the only app in this lineup that attempts to read the video itself (via Gemini) when the caption and transcript come up short — results vary by video, and only videos up to 15 minutes are supported.
Pricing is a $29.99/year subscription with a free trial — the most affordable of the yearly plans here, coming in below Whisk and ReciMe ($39.99), Deglaze ($49.99), and RecipeBox ($69.99). Paprika and RecipeKeeper take a one-time lifetime approach instead, which can suit collectors who prefer to pay once.