# Epicurious

> Your ultimate recipe resource

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id312101965](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id312101965)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id312101965`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (99,291 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.3.23
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-26
- **First published:** 2009-04-24
- **Size:** 137 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epicurious/id312101965)
- **Website:** [https://www.epicurious.com/](https://www.epicurious.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy](https://www.condenast.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

**Epicurious** is a comprehensive recipe app featuring more than 50,000 professionally tested recipes from Epicurious, Bon Appétit, Gourmet, and more. Quickly find recipes by ingredient, cuisine, diet, cook time, or rating, then save favorites for easy access.

Get personalized recipe recommendations, step-by-step cooking videos, expert advice from Epicurious and Bon Appétit editors, kitchen product reviews, and cooking technique tutorials. The app is free to download, with unlimited recipe access available through a subscription or free trial. It requires iOS 14 or later.

## Rankings

- #3,743 — Overall
- #28 — Apps You Might’ve Missed
- #86 — resource

## Review summary

Users praise Epicurious for its large, magazine-backed recipe library and helpful recipe reviews, but repeatedly complain about paywalls, unstable performance, and weak search/organization features. Login/account issues and unreliable saved recipes further detract from usability. The core recipe content is valued, but access and app reliability problems dominate the feedback.

### Pros

- Large library of recipes from top cooking magazines (e.g., Bon Appétit).
- Helpful user reviews and modification notes for recipes.
- Subscribed users can unlock a broad set of recipes and content.
- Overall, high-quality recipe content that many users praise.

### Cons

- Paywall and subscription requirements lock most recipes behind a paid tier.
- Frequent stability and performance problems, including crashes, freezing, and apps that won’t load or open.
- Cumbersome search, limited filtering, and poor organization (no folders, no good saved-search options).
- Difficult account management and cancellation; login issues with Condé Nast/Bon Appétit integration.
- Saved recipes and favorites are unreliable or hard to manage (missing items, saved-by-date organization).

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