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Cookpad Recipes

cookingfood & beveragenutrition

Food & Drink

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Distribution Intelligence

Niche: home cooking recipe discovery

Market Size

Medium Market

Top Competitor

99K ratings

Best ASO Gap

+18

💬 User Pain Points19 unmet · 0 resolved

Users are frustrated that syncing recipes to multiple devices requires a paid membership, limiting access for those who want to use the app for free.

if you want to sync your recipes to multiple devices and to the cloud... then you have to pay a membership

from
Recipe Keeper - Cook'n

Users are frustrated with the difficulty of entering new recipes, which hampers their ability to utilize the app effectively.

It’s almost impossible to input a new recipe.

from
RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes!

The removal of the meal planning calendar has left users without a way to organize their cooking schedule, making meal prep more cumbersome.

The meal plan calendar is gone; recipe and instructions are on separate pages.

from
RecipeBox - Save Your Recipes!

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🗺 Pain Point Coverage Matrix✓ addressed · ✗ problem · ? unclear
Pain pointRecipe KeeperRecipeBoxEpicuriousRecipe KeeperSamsung Food:
No way to sync recipes across devices without subscription
Inability to easily input new recipes?
Missing meal planning calendar feature?
Ads obstruct recipe visibility and usability?
Lost recipes after reinstalling app?
Inaccurate scanning function for recipes?
No notes section for personal recipe modifications?
Forced subscription renewal without notification??
App crashes when editing recipes??
Recipes disappear after import attempts??

Green ✓ = competitor has solved it · Red ✗ = gap you can exploit

📱 Top App Store Competitors
Recipe Keeper - Cook'n3,356 ratings
Epicurious99,191 ratings
Recipe Keeper27,633 ratings
🏁 Competitive LandscapeAI-inferred — verify before acting

What everyone does

  • One-tap recipe saving from various platforms
  • Organizes saved recipes for quick access
  • Allows users to create and customize their own recipe collections
  • Generates smart grocery lists based on planned meals
  • Meal planning features

Gaps nobody covers

  • Access to a large database of professionally tested recipes
  • Engaging video content for cooking guidance
  • Advanced search functions for filtering recipes by dietary preferences
  • OCR technology for scanning handwritten recipes

Interesting edges

  • Focus on community-driven recipe sharing and collaboration
  • Unique features for customizing recipe collections
  • Ad-free experience for uninterrupted usage
  • Integration with social media for recipe discovery
📊 Market Size MEDIUM MARKET
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top app has 99K iOS ratings · 823K monthly searches. Real market with meaningful audience. Apps exist but no single dominant winner.

99K
top app ratings
823K
monthly searches
41K
YT views
top charts
▶ YouTubeHARD
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~75K views across top videos (via Recipe Keeper - Cook'n reviews) · consider reaching out:

KM
Kowalski Mountain
Recipe Keeper App Review | Recipe Organizer for your Phone, Tablet or Computer” · 23K views · 3y ago
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CY
Cyber-Seniors
Recipe Keeper App” · 14K views · 3y ago
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L3
Local 3 News
What the Tech? App of the Day: Recipe Keeper” · 11K views · 4y ago
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TO
The Outpatient Dietitian
Recipe Keeper” · 8K views · 3y ago
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KM
Kowalski Mountain
Recipe Keeper App transformed my recipe organization system! Full review!” · 6K views · 3y ago
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💬 RedditHARD
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🔥 High Intentrecent · r/Cooking
r/Cooking on Reddit: I'm quarantined so I exhaustively researched the best recipe managing apps - Here's what I found!
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broken, hate, alternative
It's a new app so it's probably a bug - send them a note? ... Figured it out, I think. Seems it just doesn't like Firefox for whatever reason. Wo
🔥 High Intentrecent · r/cookingforbeginners
r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: Alternative Yummly recipe app?
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alternative, need
I get everything I need from the free app and tbf, if I'd known how good it was,id have happily paid anyway x ... I only used this app. I dont know what to
r/Cooking on Reddit: Yet another recipe app question (sorry) - recipe discovery
r/Cooking
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r/Cooking on Reddit: I'm quarantined so I exhaustively researched the best recipe managing apps - Here's what I found!
r/Cooking
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r/cookingforbeginners on Reddit: Alternative Yummly recipe app?
r/cookingforbeginners
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r/Cooking on Reddit: What Apps Are Everyone Using To Find Recipes?
r/Cooking
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r/Cooking on Reddit: Cooking/recipe apps!
r/Cooking
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r/Cookingr/cookingforbeginnersr/noscrapleftbehindr/selfhosted
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monthly searches823K
Google Ads CPC$0.03
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Top keyword: “share recipes

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