“At least let me pay to remove ads — Constant ads, constant, pop-ups, full page hostage screens that prevent you from getting to your recipe. I already paid for this app and now it’s full of ads.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★13,968 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
324 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Cook with confidence and convenience. RecipeBox is the ultimate recipe organizer and meal planning companion for busy home chefs. Save all your favorite recipes from any website or app – from popular food blogs to Instagram and TikTok posts – and keep them organized in one place. Plan delicious meals for the week and automatically generate smart grocery lists so you can spend less time stressing and more time cooking. It’s like having a personal kitchen assistant, right in your pocket, inspiring you to eat better and save time each day.
KEY FEATURES: • Save Recipes from Anywhere: Import recipes from any website or social platform (yes, even Instagram and TikTok) with a tap. RecipeBox strips out the clutter and saves just the recipe, so you can focus on cooking. • Smart Grocery List & Shopping: Instantly turn recipes into a grocery list.…
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 4.2.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.2.5, updated 2026-08-07.
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 no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say 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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.4% 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Not great / Ads — The app is convenient. I’ll admit but I paid for a subscription just to get an ad for Walmart every single time I opened the app. I don’t understand that…. ?? I understand if I wasn’t paying for it, but since I am, I…”
“Too much advertisement — Used to be good but now has become annoying with to many advertisement!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.2.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.