Allrecipes is a recipe discovery and community platform where home cooks share recipes, reviews, photos, and cooking tips.
Each app below addresses a specific gap in Allrecipes's offering. We picked them based on real user review patterns and feature differentiation.
NYT Cooking offers a curated library of thoroughly tested recipes from NYT food editors and contributors including Sam Sifton and Melissa Clark. Recipes include notes, videos, and a save-and-plan feature.
Explore NYT Cooking data →Food Network Kitchen combines a recipe library from Food Network's TV shows and chefs with live interactive cooking classes. Users can cook along with celebrity chefs in real time.
Explore Food Network Kitchen data →Yummly builds a taste profile and recommends recipes matched to dietary restrictions, allergies, and preferences. It includes guided cooking mode with step-by-step instructions synchronized to cooking steps.
Explore Yummly data →Epicurious draws from Bon Appétit, Gourmet, and Self Magazine archives for a curated, editorially selected recipe library. Recipes tend toward the intermediate-to-advanced home cook.
Explore Epicurious data →Tasty is famous for its overhead cooking videos and focuses on accessible, approachable recipes. The app includes a guided cooking mode and allows users to save and organize recipes.
Explore Tasty data →Whisk clips recipes from any website, builds smart grocery lists, and integrates with grocery delivery services. It focuses on the practical cooking workflow rather than recipe discovery and community.
Explore Whisk data →Allrecipes has been online since 1997 and has over 400 million visits per month, making it the most trafficked recipe site in the world.
Allrecipes recipes are submitted and reviewed by home cooks, not professional chefs. The community rates and reviews recipes, which helps surface reliable ones, but recipes vary in quality unlike professionally tested alternatives.
Yes, Allrecipes is free to use. It previously had a premium app tier but reverted to a free ad-supported model.
Allrecipes is community-driven with millions of user-submitted recipes at varying quality levels. NYT Cooking has a smaller but professionally tested and editorial-quality library behind a paywall.
App Vulture tracks recipe apps by editorial quality and update frequency. NYT Cooking and Serious Eats lead for tested recipes; see our full comparison for all options.
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