Best Cooking and Recipe apps for Android and iOS smartphones

Smartphone apps have made our life easy. Shifting from beauty to grooming, travelling to food guides, health to medicines, everything is just one click away. Same goes for food as well. There are many cooking apps that bring you the menu of various restaurants around the world at your fingertips. Here are some of the amazing food apps you should know about.

1. Kitchen Stories:

This is another wonderful app for those who love to cook. In this app, you can upload new recipe videos and even view new recipes uploaded by others and try them. You can create your photo cookbook and add new recipes every week.

This app enables you to have complete food makeover along with wine suggestions. Kitchen stories constitute of complete how-to-cook videos along with step-by-step instructions. You can even have shopping lists available including essential ingredients for the dish.

Available: iOS | Android
Price: Free

2. Food Network in the Kitchen:

You can easily fetch thousands of recipes from your favorite chef’s and shows through this amazing app. You can get instant access to award-winning and top-rated recipes for free now. There are a plethora of recipes videos and photos uploaded to this app. It gives step by step procedure for preparing a particular dish that too in a fun loving way; thereby making cooking interesting.

It has a shopping list column wherein you can enlist the ingredients you require for preparing a particular dish. You can easily save your favourite recipes in the Recipe Box for a quicker review. You can even share your favorite videos with friends and family via Facebook, Twitter, etc. It is a cool and fun cooking app that you would love to install in your gadget.

Availability: Android | iOS
Price: Free

3. Yummly:

This is another mouth-watering app including relishing dishes with pictures. After viewing the beautiful pictures, you might not be able to resist yourself for not having it. You can filter recipes depending on the availability of ingredients in hand. You can create a shopping list by recipes shortlisted for next week.

Available: iOS | Android
Price: Free

4. Jamie Oliver’s Recipes:

Jamie Oliver, a pretty darn good chef, introducing known dishes through this app. This app has three main parts: Mouth-watering recipes, Jamie’s Tip and tricks, and last shopping made easy. His app has a plethora of recipes ranging from quick ten minutes meal to how to blend a perfect cocktail.

New recipes and tips are uploaded every week. Tips and tricks to cooking smart with limited ingredients is a vital part of the entire model. In the end, we have the shopping list including the list of ingredients and the quantity required for preparing a perfect relishing dish. The how-to video’s with step by step process is uploaded starring Jamie himself.

Available: iOS
Price: Free

5. foodgawker:

A solid food porn app which every foodie should have installed on their smartphone. You can download pictures of mouth-watering dishes and save their recipes. Just name the dish and you can find it here.

Now discover, browse and download your favourite recipes around the globe. This app even provides you an additional feature of adding notes to the dish you want to prepare later. Try on new recipes and make your loved ones happy by surprising them with some relishing dishes and desert.

Available: iOS
Price: $1.99

Cooking is an art. So modify your cooking by downloading these creative food apps which you might not be aware of.  You can make full use of these apps and surprise your loved ones with new innovative dishes. You will find plenty of healthy recipes designed for health conscious people. Try your hands on a variety of new recipes and explore international recipes.

About the author

Meenakshi Rawat

Having worked on Entertainment, Technology, and Business for four years, Meenakshi finds solace in technology, and more so in covering it. She loves to read novels, listen to music, and roam around places. You can reach Meenakshi at meenakshi@pc-tablet.com.