Is there a good app for share recipes with friends?
Lacks Features: 45 apps already serve this, and 26 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 share recipes with friends, 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 |
| recipe sharing broken after update | bug | 2 | I have not been able to share, even though it says I have unlimited shares... no options for sharing work at all |
| copied recipe content | other | 2 | le tue ricette sono un copia e incolla dila altri siti |
| multiple photos per recipe | missing-feature | 2 | Die Funktion "Add Photo" ersetzt das bestehende Bild anstatt ein weiteres hinzuzufügen |
| social-media recipe sharing | missing-feature | 1 | Be able to share recipes on social media |
| recipe sharing between app users | ux | 1 | Only thing I would like is for it to be easier to share recipes with other cookbook users |
| recipe sharing flow on Android | ux | 1 | sharing recipes on android is overly complicated |
| SNS recipe-link sharing | missing-feature | 1 | 내 레시피를 링크연결로 sns에 올리고싶은데 안돼요 |
| recipe sharing with non-users | ux | 1 | It's not easy to share recipes with other non-CB users |
| recipe sharing limits | missing-feature | 1 | I am limited in my ability to share a number of these recipes with others |
| save recipes for later days | missing-feature | 1 | the recipes are bad and cannot be stored for other days |
| recipe share function broken | bug | 1 | Share function stopped working. |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just the Recipe: Cook smarter | 4.9 | 3,266 | Free |
| Inspo - Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.8 | 498 | Free |
| Flavorish | Save Any Recipe | 4.8 | 1,566 | Free |
| Recipe Notes - My Cookbook | 4.7 | 325 | Free |
| ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner | 4.8 | 260,760 | Free |
| myrecipes ™ | 2.2 | 13 | Free |
| Recipe One: Recipe Keeper | 4.6 | 106 | Free |
| Recipe Catcher | 5.0 | 4 | $2.99 |
Should you build it?
Apps exist but miss features users keep asking for. Enter with the missing feature. Opportunity here scores 60 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, 5 stale and none above 6 stars — a crowded graveyard of abandoned student-grade apps with zero traction.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyril-Arinze/aprycote-food-app | stale | 6 | JavaScript |
| AD-Archer/PlatePedia-recipeapp | active | 4 | EJS |
| DennohKim/Tastebite-Recipe-App | stale | 4 | JavaScript |
| Dmytro1991ua/react-food-recipe-app | stale | 4 | JavaScript |
| bentiriaya/Cookummy-app | stale | 3 | Dart |
| niuyuzhou/MyRecipe | stale | 2 | Objective-C |
| XavierClavel/Cooknco | active | 2 | Kotlin |
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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