- Price$3.99
- CategoryLifestyle
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerCorpus Collusion
- Bundle IDcom.corpuscollusion.therecipebox
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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Report an issueImport recipes from the web (it's addictive!) Multitaskers will love viewing two recipes at once! Luscious merlot-flavored dark mode, caffé latte-flavored light mode!
Developed by foodies who love their iPad, this 21st-century cooking tool helps you get your recipes into a quickly-sorted, easily shared format that can’t be misplaced, covered in stains, or catch on fire. When recipes are easy to collect, easy to retrieve and easy to read, you can focus on the pleasures of preparing delicious food.
"The perfect tool for serious cooks" — @AppStore “Attention to small details makes The Recipe Box stand apart from its competition.” — PadGadget “The Recipe Box is easily the best cooking tool app on the market today.” — AppAdvice.com “For home cooks… a welcome addition to the iPad’s kitchen repertoire” — iPad 'n Gravy New and Noteworthy, Staff Favorite — iTunes App Store
EASY ENTRY • One-touch Instant Import from more than 100 catalogued recipe sites, plus innumerable uncatalogued sites • Capture data from any unsupported website quickly and easily • Transfer recipes from any email or text document with copy and paste • Fully flexible entry fields allow for imperial or metric units • Use The Recipe Box Keyboard to tap in shortcuts for cooking terms • Write notes while you cook without leaving the display screen • Add your own photo using your iPad camera, or choose from your photo album
POWERFUL MANAGEMENT • Swap and sync with other users or other devices with Recipe Link • Search for multiple ingredients simultaneously • Cross-reference recipes in multiple categories • Rate recipes • Email ingredients as a clickable shopping list • Email import/export and printing • Access your recipes without an Internet connection • Back up recipes with a locally stored file • Move through recipes with external keyboard arrow keys
BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS • Support for dark mode • View two recipes at once in split-view • Luscious typography and professional layout for iOS17 • Focus on ingredients and instructions with no-distractions cook layout • Switch easily between multiple recipes while tracking the current step • Highlight steps in the directions with a tap, or scroll with external keyboard. • Dim ingredients as you organize them • Recipe ingredients, instructions, and notes respond to Text Size in iPad Settings.
IN-APP SUPPORT • FAQ • Feature maps
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Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 7 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 15, 2011 | 1.0.1 | — | 12 | $6.99 |
| September 2, 2012 | — | — | 407 | $3.99 |
| September 6, 2013 | — | — | 1,103 | $3.99 |
| December 5, 2023 | 6.0.2 | ★ 4.0 | 802 | $3.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Version 7.0.5. Not a fan of the tile layout. Please bring back the list format. ------------ Updated review (iOS16 version): So excited all the broken features have been fixed. The capture feature for importing works better than ever! I love this app and have not been willing to abandon it. ------------ This is a great app, but it hasn’t been updated since iOS9. Surprised it works on iOS11 at all. Will keep using it, but like others posters, I’m going to have to back my recipes up to print/PDF in case it stops working with the next update. It’s not even worth trying to find another app to replace it. I don’t have to time to build recipe files from the ground up, only to have to start all over when the developer loses interest.
The Recipe Box was a convenient list easily searchable and easy to scroll to what I needed. This new update stinks so bad I thought I had something rotten in my fridge. Nope it’s the app. It’s so bad I’m willing to lose about 10 years of recipes to find something that isn’t so ridiculously convoluted.
I have not successfully downloaded a single recipe. And the recipes included dont appeal to me at all and there are very few.
Previous to this last update, recipes could be added from Safari browser. A browser extension would open a link between whatever web page you were on and would then import the recipe. Now the only way to import from the internet is by opening the Recipe Box app and navigating to the webpage through an embedded (Chrome?) browser or by downloading a chrome extension and using Chrome as your browser. I will not be exercising either of those options. Very disappointing as this really was a really good app. Maybe someone could figure out how to keep Google’s fingers out of everyone’s business and using/selling/profiting from our browsing histories
This used to be a really great app. They should have kept the older version. Now every time I open it I have to first reorganize the layout and the search is harder to navigate. Pretty much everyting is harder to navigate. Too bad. I will be looking for another app.
I have had this app for so many years I can’t even figure out how long. It is absolutely perfect. I take my iPad with me everywhere I go, so all my recipes are always with me. So helpful, like when my granddaughter asks: “grandma, can you teach me how you make that chicken piccata?” Of course I can. The recipe is in my suitcase.
I’ve used Recipe Box for years and like it a lot. Recipes are presented in a visually appealing way and love the ability to include a picture of the result. If only the ingredient section provided the ability to have SECTION headings. I’ve tried the techniques recommended for other apps (ending a line with a colon, double “-“ and “=“ to no avail.
I don’t know whose idea it was to change the app. It was perfect the way you had it, now It totally sucks. Obviously the person that made the changes doesn’t actually use the app.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.