ReciMe vs AnyList: capture or coordinate?

These two barely overlap, which is what makes the comparison useful. ReciMe is about getting recipes in, from wherever they came from. AnyList is about getting the right groceries into two people's hands at two different shops. Most households need both jobs done and end up picking whichever problem is louder that month.

We make a competing app and have written importers for both. Prices and features below were checked in August 2026.

The short version

What you pay

ReciMe is free with grocery lists, meal planning and cookbooks included, and it caps imports at roughly five a week. Premium is $39.99/year, which lifts the cap and adds the nutrition calculator, cookbook scanning, recipe export, the measurement converter and the step-by-step cooking mode.

That last pair is worth pausing on. Converting grams to cups, and seeing a recipe one step at a time while you cook it, are behind ReciMe's paywall. Those are the cheapest things in a recipe app to build and among the most necessary to use.

AnyList is free for the list, and AnyList Complete is $9.99/year for one person, $14.99/year for a household, the cheapest paid tier in the category. Complete unlocks recipe import from cooking sites, the meal-planning calendar, recipe scaling, photos, budget tracking, the web and Mac apps, and Apple Watch.

So AnyList is a quarter of ReciMe's price, and ReciMe's free tier does considerably more.

Where ReciMe wins

Capture, and breadth.

ReciMe saves recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube, plus screenshots and photographs of handwritten cards. It runs on iOS, Android, web, a Chrome extension and desktop, which is the widest platform spread of anything in this category. Grocery lists come out sorted by supermarket aisle.

It has also moved past pure capture. There is an "Ask ReciMe" assistant, and you can filter your cookbook by ingredients you already have.

If the shape of your problem is that recipes reach you as video and pictures and you want them in one searchable place, ReciMe does that job and AnyList does not attempt it.

Where AnyList wins

The shared list, and the price.

AnyList has spent a decade on one problem: two people, two shops, one list that has to be correct in both hands at the same time. Real-time sync, Siri input, automatic categorisation by aisle. ReciMe's sharing is a single login you pass around, which is a different thing entirely and falls apart the moment two people edit at once.

It is also the cheapest paid tier here by a wide margin, and the easiest to hand to someone who does not want a new app in their life.

Where both stop

ReciMe gets recipes in. AnyList gets groceries out. Neither does much with the middle.

ReciMe's ingredient filter is the closest either comes, and it puts the work on you: you go and filter. Nothing hands you a ranked answer to what you can cook tonight with what is already in the house. AnyList has no pantry at all.

The other gap is the stove. ReciMe's step-by-step mode is behind Premium, AnyList's Siri support is for lists rather than cooking, and neither reads steps aloud or takes a command while your hands are covered in flour.

The third option

Sugo was built to close the middle.

It imports from links, videos with spoken steps, screenshots and photos of book pages, in the same places ReciMe does. It then tracks what is in your pantry and ranks your saved recipes by what you can actually cook right now. It reads steps aloud, takes voice commands and supports wink gestures, so the cooking half is hands-free. Sharing has per-section permissions rather than a passed-around login, and a household can vote on dinner.

It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web, and imports from ReciMe, AnyList, Paprika and Crouton.

Every feature works on the free plan; the paid tiers raise monthly limits on imports, remixes and voice minutes. Sugo+ is $59.99/year, Famiglia $119.99/year.

The honest trade: we are the most expensive of the three, and AnyList's shared list is better than ours at the narrow job of coordinating two people mid-shop. ReciMe has been capturing social video longer than we have.

All three side by side

✅ works on the free tier · ⚠️ limited or partial · 💰 needs a paid plan · ❌ not available

So which one

Pick ReciMe if most of what you save is social video and screenshots, you want it on every platform including a browser at work, and you are happy to organise and cook the traditional way once the recipe is in.

Pick AnyList if the shopping list is the part that keeps going wrong, you shop with other people in real time, and $9.99 a year is the right amount to spend on this.

Try Sugo if you want the capture breadth of ReciMe and the household coordination of AnyList in one place, and you want the app to answer what is cookable tonight instead of leaving you to filter.

The five-app comparison adds Paprika and Crouton, and there are direct comparisons for Sugo and ReciMe and Sugo and AnyList.