Is there a good app for discover new recipe ideas?
Lacks Features: 38 apps already serve this, and 23 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to discover new recipe ideas, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| more recipes | missing-feature | 3 | I just wish there were more recipes |
| wants more recipes | missing-feature | 2 | Please expand and gather more recipes to showcase here |
| recipe variety and creativity | other | 1 | The recipes seem to have stopped being very creative |
| recipe suggestions from available food | missing-feature | 1 | it should give u a recipe for the for what u have so u can make a quick meal with it but it doesn't |
| more ways to cook / more ingredients | missing-feature | 1 | more like ways to make the food and more ingredients |
| more recipe options | missing-feature | 1 | it also needs more recipe options |
| recipe categories beyond tags | missing-feature | 1 | Was mir fehlt: Kategorien (Hauptgerichte, Beilagen, Nachspeisen |
| custom recipes | missing-feature | 1 | How can I add my own receipts? |
| recipes from newer TV shows | missing-feature | 1 | Vorrei che metteste più ricette anche da trasmissioni nuove |
| recipe discovery without known ingredients | ux | 1 | You have to input what's in a recipe your looking for....if I knew...wouldn't need a recipe ! |
| wants bigger recipe selection | missing-feature | 1 | I do wish it had a bigger selection of recipes |
| more foods to make | missing-feature | 1 | There’s not a lot of foods you can make and I want to be able to make more foods |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals | 4.9 | 540,374 | Free |
| myrecipes ™ | 2.2 | 13 | Free |
| Cook to Taste - Tasty Recipes & Cooking Videos | 4.7 | 1,667 | Free |
| Provecho | 4.7 | 32 | Free |
| The Recipe Box To Go | 4.5 | 1,083 | $0.99 |
| AllRecipe app | 3.0 | 116 | Free |
| Inspo - Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.8 | 498 | Free |
| Recipes Mania | 5.0 | 3,514 | Free |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 59 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
5 attempts, 2 active, led by a 35-star finder; small ongoing interest but no breakout traction.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmr2323/Recipe-Finder | active | 35 | |
| adit50/Food-Social-Network-PHP | stale | 14 | JavaScript |
| Manikantkr-1004/RecipeSwap | stale | 9 | JavaScript |
| arkikky/mealapp | active | 4 | JavaScript |
| Guten-Morgen1302/Recipe-Sharing-Platform | active | 2 | TypeScript |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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