Is there a good app for rate and review recipes?
Too Expensive: 5 apps already serve this, and 30 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier.
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 rate and review recipes, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| duplicate recipe results | other | 4 | it gave me 1 recipe repeated 100 times...chips made outta cheese. |
| recipe star rating | missing-feature | 2 | No recipe star rating |
| recipe quality | other | 2 | Bad recipes |
| recipe-count paywall | price | 2 | have to pay a monthly subscritpion to have the privilege to save more than 40 recipes |
| recipe reviews/ratings from users | missing-feature | 1 | I'd love to see recipe reviews! |
| recipe ratings visible before cooking | missing-feature | 1 | Man sieht erst wie viel % der Nutzer es nochmal kochen würden, wenn man es gekocht hat |
| recipe star ratings | missing-feature | 1 | I would also like to see a star rating, that way we could rate our favorites too |
| sort recipes by rating | missing-feature | 1 | You can't even sort by rating |
| recipes have few ratings | other | 1 | The recipes have few ratings |
| unreliable recipe ratings / quality | other | 1 | Every recipe on this app has "5" stars... I've made over a dozen of these "five star" recipes and maybe one or two are keepers |
| recipe notes/comments section | missing-feature | 1 | please add a comment section to recipes so i can keep track of modifications |
| personal notes on recipes | missing-feature | 1 | I need to be able to save personal notes for less than $25/yr |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook to Taste - Tasty Recipes & Cooking Videos | 4.7 | 1,667 | Free |
| My Little Food Critic | 4.4 | 171 | Free |
| Paleo Recipe Pro | 3.5 | 14 | $2.99 |
| Ratio | 4.3 | 16 | $4.99 |
| NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals | 4.9 | 540,374 | Free |
Should you build it?
The job is solved but priced beyond a segment. Undercut with a cheaper tier. Opportunity here scores 54 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
Only 3 attempts, 2 active but all under 4 stars; a near-empty field with no meaningful traction.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessemwangi/TasteIT | active | 3 | JavaScript |
| AllenRDev/taste-raters | stale | 2 | PHP |
| 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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