“Not free. Bait and switch — Its free to create an account but to see any recipe you must pay. Lol. Terrible business practice”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★99,290 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
144 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Cook smarter with 50,000+ tested recipes from Epicurious, Bon Appétit, and more. Find easy dinners, healthy meals, and expert cooking guidance - all in one app.
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Recipes that actually work Explore 50,000+ professionally tested recipes from Epicurious, Bon Appétit, Gourmet and more.
Find exactly what you want to cook Search by ingredient, diet, cuisine, cook time, or rating to discover the perfect recipe - fast.
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 7.3.23 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.3.23, updated 2026-08-26.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 500 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Subscription required — Just the download is free, everything else needs a subscription. Nothing wrong with that, but say that in the description rather than bait and switch”
“Bait and switch liars — They sell you a digital subscription claiming “full access”, then when you force them to the truth you find out that the app will only work if you have a print subscription. Save your money and find recipes…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.3.23.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown2
Lowest$4.99
Highest$39.99
Epicurious$4.99
Epicurious$39.99