ReciMe vs Recipe Keeper: a yearly plan or a one-time price?
ReciMe saves recipes from TikTok and Instagram for $39.99 a year. Recipe Keeper scans photos and PDFs for $19.99 once. What each one does well.
ReciMe and Recipe Keeper both keep your recipes in one place, and both can pull a recipe out of an Instagram or TikTok post. Where they part is the price and what happens after the recipe is saved. ReciMe is a subscription built around saving from social media. Recipe Keeper is an app you buy once, with versions for Windows and Mac and a scanner for printed and handwritten recipes.
We make a competing app, so read the positioning with that in mind. Prices and features were checked in October 2026 on each app's site and App Store listing.
The short version
ReciMe
Saves from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest and screenshots. Free for about five imports a week, then $39.99 a year. Runs on iPhone, Android, the web and as a Chrome extension.
Recipe Keeper
Saves from recipe websites, Instagram and TikTok, and scans photos and PDFs. Free for your first 20 recipes, then a $19.99 Pro upgrade on the App Store, bought once per platform. Runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac.
What you pay
ReciMe is free to start. The free tier includes grocery lists, meal planning and cookbooks, and allows about five imports a week. ReciMe Plus is $39.99 a year. It removes the cap and adds the nutrition calculator, cookbook scanning, recipe export, the measurement converter and the step-by-step cooking mode.
Recipe Keeper is free until you have 20 recipes. After that you need Pro, a one-time upgrade listed at $19.99 on the App Store. The upgrade is bought separately on each platform, so a phone and a Windows laptop mean two purchases. Recipe Keeper does not publish prices on its own site, so check the store listing on each device before you buy.
Over three years, ReciMe Plus costs about $120. Recipe Keeper on one device costs $19.99 and never renews.
Where ReciMe wins
ReciMe is better at video. It reads Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube, plus screenshots and photos of handwritten cards. Recipe Keeper takes Instagram and TikTok posts too, but its site does not mention YouTube.
It also works anywhere you have a browser. There is a web app and a Chrome extension that saves the recipe on the page you are reading. Recipe Keeper lists an app for each platform and no web version.
The free tier goes further. At five imports a week you reach 20 recipes in about a month and keep going, while Recipe Keeper's free version stops at 20 in total. ReciMe also has "Ask ReciMe", an assistant that answers questions about your saved recipes, and a filter that shows which recipes use the ingredients you pick.
Where Recipe Keeper wins
Recipe Keeper costs less if you keep an app for years. $19.99 once is cheaper than $39.99 a year from the first renewal on.
It is the stronger choice for paper. It scans recipes with the phone camera, or from photos and PDF files you already have, and turns the text into a recipe, handwritten family recipes included. ReciMe reads photos of handwritten cards as well, but its cookbook scanning is a ReciMe Plus feature.
It has real apps for Windows and Mac, and keeps recipes, shopping lists and meal plans in sync between your phone and your computer. On a computer, ReciMe runs in a browser.
The planning tools are thorough. Plans run by the week or the month, one tap moves a plan's ingredients onto the shopping list, the list groups items by aisle, and you can keep a separate list for each store. Ingredient amounts scale with the number of servings, and a set of recipes can become a PDF cookbook for printing. On the App Store it has 4.8 stars from about 31,000 ratings.
Where both stop
Neither app knows what is in your kitchen. ReciMe's ingredient filter needs you to pick the ingredients each time, and Recipe Keeper's site describes no pantry at all. At seven in the evening, neither tells you which of your saved recipes you can make tonight without shopping.
The stove is the other gap. ReciMe's step-by-step mode is on ReciMe Plus. Recipe Keeper's hands-free option is a skill for Amazon Alexa that reads the steps aloud, in English only.
The third option
Sugo was built for that part of the job.
It imports from links, videos with spoken steps, screenshots and photos of book pages. It tracks your pantry and ranks your saved recipes by what you can cook right now. It reads steps aloud, takes voice commands and supports wink gestures, so the cooking half is hands-free. It works out 14 nutrition values per serving from the ingredients. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web, and it imports a ReciMe library directly.
The free plan includes cook mode, the pantry, a meal plan and the shopping list, with 25 link imports and 5 photo or video imports a month. Paid plans have no import limit: Sugo+ is $59.99 a year and Famiglia $79.99 a year.
Where Recipe Keeper has the edge: you pay once, and it has a Windows app (Sugo runs in a browser on Windows). Sugo also has no Recipe Keeper importer yet.
All three side by side
| ReciMe | Recipe Keeper | Sugo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model | Free (5/wk) + $39.99/yr | Free to 20 recipes + $19.99 once, per platform | Free with monthly limits + $59.99/yr |
| Import from a link | ⚠️ 5/wk, then 💰 | ✅ | ✅ |
| Instagram and TikTok | ⚠️ 5/wk, then 💰 | ✅ | ✅ Spoken steps too |
| YouTube | ⚠️ 5/wk, then 💰 | ❌ Not listed | ✅ |
| Scan a photo or page | ⚠️ Photos 5/wk, cookbooks 💰 | ✅ Photos and PDFs | ✅ Photos and screenshots |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, web, Chrome extension | iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, web |
| Aisle-sorted shopping list | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Meal planning | ✅ | ✅ Week or month | ✅ |
| Scaling servings | 💰 ReciMe Plus | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pantry | ⚠️ Ingredient filter | ❌ | ✅ And it ranks your recipes |
| Cooking mode | 💰 Step-by-step, ReciMe Plus | ⚠️ Alexa skill, English only | ✅ Hands-free, voice and winks |
| Nutrition per serving | 💰 ReciMe Plus | ❌ Not listed | ✅ 14 values |
✅ works on the free tier · ⚠️ limited or partial · 💰 needs a paid plan · ❌ not available. Recipe Keeper's free version holds 20 recipes in total.
Questions people ask
Is Recipe Keeper free?
For your first 20 recipes. After that, saving more needs the Pro upgrade, which is a one-time purchase on each platform you use.
How much is Recipe Keeper Pro?
$19.99 on the App Store, paid once. Each platform is a separate purchase, so check the price in the Google Play, Microsoft Store or Mac App Store listing for the device you use.
Can Recipe Keeper save recipes from TikTok and Instagram?
Yes. Its site says you can find recipes on Instagram and TikTok and add them to your collection, alongside hundreds of recipe websites. YouTube is not on its list.
Is ReciMe worth it over Recipe Keeper?
If most of your recipes come from social video and you save more than a few a week, ReciMe Plus at $39.99 a year is the better fit. If you mostly save from websites and paper, and you would rather pay once, Recipe Keeper is cheaper over time.
Can I move my recipes from ReciMe to Recipe Keeper?
Recipe Keeper's site says it imports from other recipe apps without naming them, so check its help pages for ReciMe before you rely on it. Sugo imports a ReciMe library directly, with the ingredients and steps intact.
So which one
Pick ReciMe if most of what you save is social video and screenshots, you use more than one computer, and $39.99 a year feels fair for unlimited imports.
Pick Recipe Keeper if your recipes live on websites, in cookbooks and on handwritten cards, you cook from a Windows or Mac computer, and you want to pay once.
Pick Sugo if you want ReciMe's range of capture and an app that tells you what you can cook tonight from what is already in your kitchen.
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