Is there a good app for save and organize recipes?
Prime Gap: 119 apps already serve this, and 159 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
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 save and organize recipes, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| recipes not saving | reliability | 2 | the app didn't save a single one |
| cant find saved recipes | ux | 2 | I've saved several recipes, but cannot for the life of my find how to access them |
| outdated recipe database | missing-feature | 2 | The app needs a whole lot more recipe for liquors now than ever |
| multiple photos per recipe | missing-feature | 2 | Die Funktion "Add Photo" ersetzt das bestehende Bild anstatt ein weiteres hinzuzufügen |
| no way to organize saved recipes | missing-feature | 1 | There's no way to organize saved recipes |
| meal planner / recipe storage | missing-feature | 1 | Competitors have meal planners, recipe storage, and save by store |
| no way to organize or sort saved recipes | missing-feature | 1 | No way to organize or sort saved recipes |
| recipe saving functionality | missing-feature | 1 | there's not an option to save recipes even when buying the meal boxes. There is one where we have to paste a link which is tedious |
| no way to organize saved recipes by category or view recents | missing-feature | 1 | No way to organize saved recipes by category or view “recents” |
| save recipes without adding to meal plan | missing-feature | 1 | We should really get an option to save recipes so we can go back to them later instead of defaulting to a meal plan |
| custom recipes storage | missing-feature | 1 | can't even add custom recipes and meals into the program. lost years of family recipes |
| save recipes for later days | missing-feature | 1 | the recipes are bad and cannot be stored for other days |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prepear | 4.4 | 501 | Free |
| RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes! | 4.7 | 13,860 | Free |
| Recipe Keeper | 4.8 | 29,413 | Free |
| My Recipe Planner | 0.0 | 0 | $3.99 |
| Recipe Keeper - OrganizEat | 4.8 | 8,181 | Free |
| Yoomla・Recipe Keeper & Planner | 4.6 | 295 | Free |
| Recipe Keeper: RecipeSnap | 4.8 | 528 | Free |
| Recipe Keeper & Saver - Recify | 4.8 | 763 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 99 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
7 attempts, 4 active but all under 16 stars; a fragmented, low-traction field with no dominant recipe organizer.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohith-Manjunath/MERN-Recipe-App | stale | 16 | JavaScript |
| mdrijoanmaruf/Book-Recipe-Client | active | 12 | JavaScript |
| Lucas-Erkana/Tasty-Bites | stale | 11 | Ruby |
| HexaDev-De/Recipe-Guide | active | 5 | CSS |
| PabloBona/recipe-app | stale | 5 | Ruby |
| kalutm/MyRecipeBox | active | 4 | Dart |
| sirisayshello/recipe-declutter | active | 4 | 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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