Allrecipes Dinner Spinner is one of the most popular and consistent cooking apps. It features a lot of the basics. You can sift through tons of recipes, save your favorites, and check out mobile-friendly cooking videos. It also comes with a spinner tool. It'll give you a prep time, a main ingredient, and the meal you're wanting to make. You give it a spin and it gives you random ideas. There is even a shopping list built-in. It's a little flashy and there are a few bugs here and there. Otherwise, it's an excellent app for recipes.
BigOven is among the most diverse recipe apps out there. It boasts a collection 350,000 recipes and growing. You can also upload your own if you want to. The app also includes a grocery list function, a clipper tool to save recipes from websites, and more. This one has an optional subscription service. It'll run you $1.99 per month. It allows you to upload unlimited numbers of recipes along with more features. It's one of the more expensive cooking apps. Their penchant for popping long time free features into the pro version seems to be the biggest gripe most have with the service these days.
ChefTap Recipes is a small, but growing recipe app. It has one of the better clipper tools. You simply share a webpage with the app and it'll automatically parse the recipe for you. It includes a bunch of recipes, a decent interface, and even support for outside sites like Pinterest. It's also usable offline. The free account lets you save up to 100 recipes along with most features. Going pro removes the restrictions on most features. It's a bit expensive, though.
Cookpad is one of the more social cooking apps. You and other people upload your recipes to the service. The service then shares them with everybody else. You can also save recipes for future use. It also lets you upload private recipes in case you don't want to give up that secret family recipe. The app leans a little more toward social media than it does for cooking in a lot of spots. It makes up for it by not having the same curated list of recipes over and over again.
Kitchen Stories is one of the better free cooking apps. It features a bunch of recipes, HD video guides, step-by-step photo instructions, and how-to videos for basic kitchen tips and tricks. The app can auto-generate shopping lists and convert measurements if needed. You can also bookmark your favorite recipes for easy recall. It's totally free so it's difficult to really complain about what few issues the app does have. It's clean and it should work well for most.
