Recipe app comparison

Looking for a ReciMe alternative? Meet Mangerate.

ReciMe and Mangerate both help you collect recipes from the places you discover them and turn those recipes into a cookbook you can actually use. Mangerate brings a comprehensive set of recipe-management tools to iPhone, iPad, and Mac—with a one-time Pro purchase instead of a recurring subscription.

No subscription required to get started.

Start with the recipes you want to save

Great recipes come from everywhere: a food blog, an Instagram Reel, a TikTok video, a handwritten family recipe card, or a page in a cookbook. Mangerate is designed to bring them together in one place.

Social videos—with attention to what appears on screen

Mangerate examines visual information in Instagram and TikTok videos—not just captions and spoken narration. That matters when ingredients or quantities appear as text on the screen. It also imports the recipe in the language you're using in Mangerate, even when the original video is in another language.

Handwritten cards, cookbook pages, and recipe photos

Photograph a handwritten recipe card or printed cookbook page and turn it into an editable digital recipe. When a website recipe includes nutritional information, Mangerate preserves it during import. For certain scanned recipes without nutritional data, Mangerate can estimate nutrition from the ingredients.

Recipes from websites

Save recipes from recipe websites without keeping track of bookmarks and browser tabs. Your recipes become part of the same organized collection as your scanned and social-media imports.

More than a place to save links

Mangerate is a complete personal recipe manager. Organize recipes into collections, mark favorites, rate what you've cooked, scale ingredient quantities, convert units, build shopping lists, and plan meals. When it's time to cook, use the cooking interface—including hands-free operation on iPad.

Your recipes sync through iCloud across your Apple devices, including compatible Macs. You can also share recipe collections with other people and control their access, making it practical to maintain a shared family cookbook without giving up your own organization.

Recipes in seven languages

Mangerate is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese. You can also keep recipes in different languages within the same cookbook, regardless of the language you use for the app.

Mangerate vs. ReciMe: feature comparison

Both are capable recipe apps. The table below starts with the features Mangerate offers and identifies where ReciMe has comparable functionality. ReciMe also has advantages for people who need Android, browser access, or grocery-delivery integration.

*ReciMe’s published Instagram import instructions describe extracting from captions, audio, or the creator’s website; they do not describe analyzing video frames. “No” reflects that documented workflow, not independent testing of every app version. †Mangerate preserves nutrition information supplied by imported website recipes and can generate estimates for certain scanned recipes. Features can change.

Pay once, not every month

Keep your cookbook portable

Mangerate supports importing recipe collections from several other recipe apps, including Paprika, Mela, and Recipe Keeper, and provides its own export format. Portability matters: a recipe collection built over years should not be difficult to take with you.

Which app should you choose?

Choose Mangerate if you use iPhone, iPad, or Mac and want sophisticated recipe importing, a well-organized cookbook, shared collections, and cooking tools—with no ongoing subscription.

Choose ReciMe if you need Android, prefer a browser-based recipe manager, or rely on integrated grocery delivery.