Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PurePlates – A Recipe Scraping iOS App
Hey Everyone! This is my first post on Hacker News, and I wanted to share my project with you! From a young age, I dreamed of becoming a chef, but life took me down the path of software engineering instead. Nevertheless, my passion for creating delicious meals has always remained close to my heart. This journey led me to seek out recipes to enhance my cooking skills, but I often found myself frustrated by the websites I encountered—ads everywhere, walls of text, and recipes that were difficult to follow. That’s where PurePlates comes in. PurePlates allows users to share a recipe through…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PurePlates – A Recipe Scraping iOS App launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Your AI-powered cookbook: Extract recipes in seconds
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 2OA
2022 · showcase.onlyrecipe.app · its alternatives →
- 3AA
2017 · choppingboard.recipes · its alternatives →
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Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards. Your personal recipe collection in the cloud.
Dec 2025 · onlyrecipeapp.com · its alternatives →
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Kitchenbowl▲92A social community for foodies to share & discover recipes
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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1) Summary = RecipeHunt(http://recipehunt.app) is a Recipe Search Engine that gives you the only 3 things that matter in my opinion: (a) Picture, (b) Ingredients, (c) Directions 2) Problem = Every recipe site is bloated(e.g. full of ads, long backstory). I just want to see 3 things: Picture, Ingredients, Directions. 3) Solution = Built a simple Recipe Search Engine that gives you only those 3 things. 4) Tech Stack = Vanilla HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL (some JQuery). Frameworks are too complicated for me, so I just wanted to build with what I know. 5) Design -Main Feed = Similar…
2022 · recipehunt.app · its alternatives →
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Skip clutter on recipe sites and get to the instructions
2022 · justtherecipe.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Happy to share the project I've been vibe-coding on for past few months. The Problem: Like many people, I often found myself staring at a fridge full of random ingredients (some about to expire) with no idea what to cook. I was tired of food waste and the repetitive cycle of making the same few meals. I wanted a way to creatively use what I already had. The Solution: So, I decided to build Chefiniti. It's an iOS app that acts as a personal AI chef. The core idea is to turn your available food into delicious, custom recipes. I know there are already tons of apps like it but this one is…
2025 · chefiniti.app · its alternatives →
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Hi hn! It has always annoyed me that recipe websites are so cluttered and have so much (in my opinion) useless fluff, so I made a little website to solve that problem! One good thing about SEO for once is that Google has pretty much forced the internet to adopt JSON-LD for recipes so many recipes are directly extractable and for others I have several fall back parsers including an indieweb parser :) If you do find a website that is broken feel free to click the flag button or share it as I would love to fix any edge cases
Apr 2026 · tangled.org · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone, I created a EasyCook app, this app will generate food recipes based on your ingredients. The idea is not to waste food, and if you have left some ingredients in the Kitchen, you can write it down in app and get a recipe based on these ingredients. The app is free to use, however have more features available for paid users. Would be thankful for feedback, so I can improve the app more!
2024 · easycook.app · its alternatives →
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I am happy to announce the updated release of my web app, 7courses. http://7courses.com/ 7courses makes it ridiculously easy to jot down and manage your collection of recipes. As someone who cooks, I often find recipes online or in cookbooks, but have no way to organize them. I have been looking for a digital "recipe box". After plenty of searching I just made my own. 7courses was built around the idea that you should be able to choose how you want to organize your recipes, and doing so should be easy and quick. The UI is responsive and intuitive, with a no frills design. Just jump right in…
2011 · 7courses.com · its alternatives →
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iOS app with 8000+ cooking recipes
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Culinary▲10A blockchain-secured cookbook with easily sharable recipes
2019 · culinary.cabinetapps.com · its alternatives →
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I initially created Umami for my family. We'd been using a giant google sheet of recipes that my wife made (one recipe per tab plus a table of contents at the front), but the UX of that left much to be desired, especially on mobile. We also tried a bunch of other recipe apps like Paprika, Whisk, Mela, etc., but most of them don't let you create a shared collection of recipes without using the same login credentials, which we didn't want to share with extended family members. Anyways, I've steadily been working on Umami as a solo side project for about 3 years. At first, just my family and a…
2023 · umami.recipes · its alternatives →
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This is a simple application for scraping and parsing food recipe data found on the web in hRecipe format, producing results in json - dpapathanasiou/recipebook
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21MF
I read "The Flavor Bible" and was inspired to make an app that adapted its ingredient recommendations as you built your recipe. The result is my app for android/iphone. The iphone link is below(made it free for today) and the android app is called "food flavor pairings"
2010 · its alternatives →
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Around the middle of this year I quit my decently paid, high stress SWE job so I could spend some downtime doing things that make me happy. I did some travelling, both interstate and abroad, spent time working on projects around the house, did some gardening and took up cooking as a hobby. While cooking, I found that most of the apps already out there that focused on meal planning and recipe/shopping list management didn't quite work out how I wanted them to. Some would only work on limited devices, or bombarded me with pointless social features, or they didn't allow importing external…
2023 · tastybites.app · its alternatives →
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A Free AI tool to extract & simplify any recipe
2025 · simplerecipetool.com · its alternatives →
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I created https://foundermeals.com as a weekend project, and as part of an internal competition we do at http://www.freshform.com I love the concept, and I'll be ecstatic if the project is funded and can move forward. But I'm curious if I'm focusing too much on my own insane hunt to find the simplest way to cook, or if that appeals to others. Most people I've told about this respond with, "You're kinda analytical, huh?" or "You think people would pay for that?" or even "...." The thing is, I'm not trying to sell recipes, I'm trying to sell convenience, and I'm not sure I've communicated that…
2012 · foundermeals.com · its alternatives →
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