Cooking and recipe-app guides
Straight answers to the questions people ask most about saving recipes, planning meals and deciding what to cook.
- Best recipe app: Paprika, AnyList, ReciMe, Mela, Samsung Food and KissCooks comparedSix recipe apps compared on how you pay, how they save Instagram and TikTok recipes, and planning with shopping lists. Plus a 10-minute test to run on your own recipes.
- Copy Me That alternatives: how to switch without losing your recipesLooking for a Copy Me That alternative? What its free plan allows, how to export your recipes first, and which app matches what you use: Paprika, Mela, AnyList, ReciMe, Samsung Food or KissCooks.
- How to save recipes from Instagram and TikTokSave a recipe from an Instagram Reel, TikTok or YouTube video in three steps and get a clean recipe with ingredients and steps, without pausing the video.
- How to organize your recipes so you can find them againA simple system to keep every recipe in one place and find it again in seconds: one library, search by ingredient, and a way to mark what you actually cooked.
- Is there a free recipe app? What to check before you commitMost recipe apps are free to start and paid to go unlimited. What to check before you import your recipes, and how KissCooks is priced.
- One app for recipes, a weekly menu and the shopping listSave recipes, plan the week and get a shared shopping list in one app instead of copying between three. How the flow works in KissCooks.
- What should I cook tonight? A two-minute way to decideRun out of dinner ideas? Start from your constraints (time, budget, equipment, diet) and what is already in your fridge, then decide in two minutes.
Ready to cook?