# BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner

> The ultimate home cooking tool to get you inspired and organized in the kitchen.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.bigoven.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.bigoven.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.bigoven.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BigOven.com
- **Category:** FOOD\_AND\_DRINK
- **Downloads:** 3,619,763
- **Rating:** 4.62 / 5 (34,795 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.61
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-28
- **First published:** 2025-08-26
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 73 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigoven.android)
- **Website:** [https://www.bigoven.com](https://www.bigoven.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.bigoven.com/site/privacy](https://www.bigoven.com/site/privacy)

## Description

BigOven Recipes & Meal Planner is your all-in-one kitchen tool that simplifies cooking with over 1,000,000 recipes and smart organizational features. Easily plan meals, create grocery lists, and reduce food waste with tools like Use Up Leftovers. The app lets you save and share recipes, clip from the web, and upload handwritten ones with RecipeScan. Join a vibrant community of over 5 million home cooks for inspiration, reviews, and shared passion.

Upgrade to Pro for an ad-free experience, advanced nutrition insights, enhanced search filters, unlimited uploads, and multi-account meal sharing. Download BigOven for free today and turn your cooking into a joyful, efficient, and inspired experience!

## Rankings

- #30,443 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_CUSTOM_AUDIENCE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.bigoven.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.bigoven.android.permission.C2D_MESSAGE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

## Review summary

Users love the breadth of recipes, strong organization, and the meal-planning feature, often calling it a go-to cooking app. However, reviews repeatedly report crashes, slow performance, and issues with importing or editing recipes (OCR delays and formatting bugs). Meal-planner functionality can be unstable at times, and some data inaccuracies have been noted. The app remains feature-rich and widely used, but reliability is inconsistent.

### Pros

- Vast recipe library with easy search/find capability
- Strong organization tools to save and categorize recipes
- Meal planning feature is helpful and well-regarded
- Long-standing reliability and a go-to cooking app for years

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and slow performance, with the app often freezing or taking long to open
- Meal planner-related instability, especially crashes when adding items to the meal plan
- Import/OCR glitches and data issues, including delayed uploads and formatting/measurement errors

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.bigoven.android)