# Cookpad: Recipe & Meal Planner

> Quick Dinners, Baking, No Ads

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id585332633](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id585332633)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id585332633`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** COOKPAD INC. (CA)
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (7,323 ratings)
- **Version:** 2026.38.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2012-12-14
- **Size:** 165 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cookpad-recipe-meal-planner/id585332633)
- **Website:** [https://cookpad.com/us](https://cookpad.com/us)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://cookpad.com/us/privacy](https://cookpad.com/us/privacy)

## Description

**Cookpad** is a recipe discovery, meal planning, and home cooking community app. Search millions of recipes by ingredient, dish, cuisine, diet, or cooking method, then save, import, organize, and share your favorites. Import recipes from websites or social media, digitize handwritten recipes with AI, and create your own recipes using the AI Recipe Assistant.

Build weekly menus and automatically generate shopping lists based on selected recipes, helping reduce food waste and save time. Follow home cooks, share dish photos and comments, join cooking challenges, and enjoy an ad-free experience. Optional Cookpad Premium adds unlimited recipe importing and creation, custom folders, and prioritized popular recipes.

## Rankings

- #21,919 — Overall
- #79 — menu

## Review summary

Users praise Cookpad for its ease of use, vast global recipe library, and social community, especially for beginners and free content. However, recurring complaints include login difficulties, search/navigation glitches, occasional crashes, content moderation concerns (account actions and recipe removals), accessibility issues with VoiceOver, and frustration with paid access to popular recipes. Overall, the app is valued for breadth and community, but stability, policy consistency, and accessibility improvements are common priorities.

### Pros

- Easy to use and user-friendly interface
- Huge, worldwide recipe catalog with diverse cuisines
- Strong social features (cooksnaps, messaging, sharing recipes)
- Great for beginners
- Extensive free content and global recipes

### Cons

- Login/sign-in issues
- Search and filtering problems
- App instability and crashes (especially with chat and accessibility features)
- Content moderation and account management concerns (e.g., deletions, removals)
- Paywall for popular recipes / subscription model

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id585332633)