The 7 best recipe & cooking apps in 2026
Our pick: The best recipe and cooking app in 2026 is Crouton (9.0/10), followed by AnyList and Paprika Recipe Manager.
A good cooking app saves the recipe, plans the week and writes the shopping list for you. We rank recipe managers, meal planners and food apps on how well they work in a real kitchen, what they cost and what they ask for in return.
CroutonA tidy recipe box and meal planner for Apple devices
9.0
Best value
Too Good To Go8.3 overall
Runner-up
AnyList8.8 overall
Quick answers
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Crouton
Best free · Best for iPhone · Best for Mac · Most private
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AnyList
Best for Android
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Paprika Recipe Manager
Best for Windows
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Too Good To Go
Best value
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Crouton9.0
A tidy recipe box and meal planner for Apple devices 9.00 -
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AnyList8.8
Shared grocery lists, recipes and a weekly meal plan 8.80 -
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Paprika Recipe Manager8.7
Save recipes from any site, then plan meals and shop 8.70 -
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Plan to Eat8.4
Drag your recipes onto a calendar and the list builds itself 8.40 -
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Too Good To Go8.3
Rescue unsold food from nearby shops at a discount 8.30 -
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ReciMe8.3
Save recipes from TikTok, Instagram and more into one box 8.30 -
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NYT Cooking8.2
Tested recipes and cooking videos from the Times 8.20
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Head to head
Crouton
9.0
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AnyList
8.8
Crouton
9.0
vs
Paprika Recipe Manager
8.7
AnyList
8.8
vs
Paprika Recipe Manager
8.7
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Questions
What is the best recipe and cooking app in 2026?
Crouton is our top pick, with an overall score of 9.0 out of 10. Crouton is the recipe app that feels most at home on an iPhone. It pulls recipes from websites, PDFs and even a photo of a cookbook page, then turns them into a calm step-by-step view where tapping an ingredient shows its amount. Timers start from the steps, meal plans fill in from your own dinners, and everything syncs through iCloud. It's Apple-only, and the newest AI tricks sit behind a cheap Discover subscription.
What is the best free recipe and cooking app?
Crouton is also the best option you can use for free. Yes, the core app is free to download and use. An optional Crouton Discover subscription, listed at $1.99 a month or $14.99 a year in the App Store, adds extras like ingredient substitutions.
What is the best recipe and cooking app for Android?
AnyList is the highest-ranked recipe and cooking app that runs on Android, scoring 8.8 out of 10.
Which recipe and cooking app is best for privacy?
Crouton has the highest privacy score in this category at 8.8 out of 10.