Cook'n Alternative: Only Recipes vs Cook'n
Ad-free recipe saver with hands-free cooking and meal planning. Here is how Only Recipes compares as a Cook'n alternative, including where Cook'n is the better choice.
Recipe manager for web, iPhone and Android
Premium $2.99/month or $24.99/year
The free plan saves up to 15 recipes from any website and is ad-free. Premium adds unlimited recipes, collections, grocery lists, ingredient scaling, video imports and a shared kitchen, with a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan.
- Web, iPhone and iPad, Android
Ad-free recipe saver with hands-free cooking and meal planning
Cook'n is free to try. The US App Store lists its optional subscriptions at $49.99 to $149.99 a year.
- iPhone and iPad, Apple Watch
What is Cook'n?
Cook'n pulls recipes off blogs and Pinterest pins, and saves them from Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, ad-free. It reads recipes step by step through Alexa or Apple Watch, saves recipes from a photo or by voice, plans meals, builds grocery lists by aisle, works offline and can create a printed cookbook.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Only Recipes | Cook'n |
|---|---|---|
| Save recipes from websites | Yes | Yes |
| Import recipes from videos (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) | Premium (10 min/month) | Facebook, TikTok and Instagram |
| Grocery list | Premium | Yes |
| Meal planning calendar | No | Yes |
| Print recipes | Yes | Printed cookbook |
| Scan recipes from a cookbook | No | Photo of a recipe card |
| iPhone and iPad app | Yes | Yes |
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Rows only appear where Cook'n's own website or app store listing states the feature.
Where Cook'n is the better choice
- You want hands-free cooking: Cook'n reads recipes aloud through Alexa or Apple Watch.
- You want meal planning with grocery lists by aisle.
- You want to save Grandma's recipe card from a photo, or dictate a recipe.
- You want a printed cookbook.
- Its subscriptions are listed at $49.99 to $149.99 a year, at least twice Only Recipes Premium at $24.99/year.
- Its listing says nutrition information is on desktop.
- We could not confirm an Android or web app from its App Store listing.
Who is Cook'n best for?
Cooks who want to cook hands-free with Alexa or an Apple Watch.
Cook'n is the pick for hands-free cooking and meal planning. Only Recipes is the lower-cost Cook'n alternative for clean, ad-free recipes on the web, iPhone and Android.
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Pricing and features checked on October 24, 2026. Prices are US prices and can change; check Cook'n's listing before you buy. Only Recipes pricing is from our pricing page.
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