MyRecipes announced its new app on September 23, bringing together more than 100,000 recipes from People Inc. brands including Allrecipes, EatingWell and Serious Eats. It also offers a way to collect recipes found elsewhere on the internet.
There’s one detail worth knowing before you start moving your favorites: saving recipes from Instagram and TikTok requires the paid MyRecipes+ membership. The current App Store listing says saving from thousands of food websites is included for free.
For a household with recipe links scattered across messages, bookmarks and saved posts, having one place to look could be useful. The question is which kind of clutter you actually have.
Maybe your recipes already come from a few websites you trust. Maybe half your dinner ideas are videos you can never find again. Those are different jobs for an app, and the subscription choice should follow what you need.
Your Tuesday move: check your last five saves
Open the last five recipes you saved. Beside each, jot down where it lives and whether you’ve cooked it.
Then look for the pattern:
Mostly recipe websites? Try the free saving features first and see whether they cover what you need.
Mostly Instagram or TikTok? Check the paid terms before choosing the importer. Make sure you can get back to the creator’s original instructions.
Mostly dishes you’ve never made? Pick the one you still genuinely want to cook. Let the others wait.
Five is plenty. A quick check is enough to see what you’ll actually use.
This gives you something concrete to judge a new app against. Can you retrieve the recipe you actually use? Can you find the ingredients and complete directions? Would you reach for it when dinner is approaching?
At Foodoodle, the recipe book can be shared by the household, and recipes placed on the week feed into the grocery list. If that fits how your home cooks, explore Foodoodle’s household recipe book.