Top cooking apps: Find, organise, cook and savour best meals

Cooking apps offer you features to find, organise, prepare and cook delicious meals of any culture and tradition
A representational image of a person using a cooking app on a mobile phone. — Freepik
A representational image of a person using a cooking app on a mobile phone. — Freepik

Whether cooking is a hobby or part of your daily routine, it surely is a skill not everyone can master. It’s neither easy nor difficult to remember the recipes of all the different dishes out there.

The number of recipes keeps rising with each passing day as people of different cultures around the world keep trying different techniques while combining various ingredients.

Plus, browsing the internet to grab the perfect recipe for a particular recipe can also be time-consuming and a bothersome hustle.

But we’ve brought a list of top cooking apps that simplify your cooking experience.

Whether you are a beginner home cook or a pro chef, these cooking apps offer you features to find, organise, prepare and cook delicious meals belonging to any culture or tradition with ease.

Best cooking and recipe apps

  1. Mealime
  2. Cookpad
  3. Whisk

Mealime

An undated image of Mealimes logo.—Mealime
An undated image of Mealime's logo.—Mealime

While being user-friendly and facilitating you to plan and schedule your everyday/weekly meals, this app also offers a wide range of easy-to-follow recipes suitable for different diets, such as vegetarian, vegan, paleo, gluten-free, and more.

You may need to buy the paid version of the app as the recipes offered with the free version are limited. Meanwhile, the app works on both platforms, Android and iOS.

Cookpad

The image displays the logo of Cookpad.—Cookpas
The image displays the logo of Cookpad.—Cookpas

Seeking an ad-free cooking app which also allows you to connect with the community of cooking specialists and pro chefs? If yes, then this should be your favourite app.

Like social networking apps, you can follow other random users to follow them and discover new recipes they share.

Within the “Inspiration” tab, you can see recipes that have been recently added to the app.

Whisk

The image illustrates the Whisk app open on a mobile screen.—Whisk
The image illustrates the Whisk app open on a mobile screen.—Whisk

Whisk accompanies unique features and allows you to make a set of different recipes you wish to try, so you no longer need to make notes of different recipes online.

The app also enables you to prepare groceries required for your planned meals and purchase ingredients directly from within the app, as it collaborates with e-commerce sites like Walmart, Amazon and more.