If you're new to cooking, preparing a gourmet meal can feel daunting.
But there are a ton of apps that can make that process easy, most of which are free.
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Business Insider rounded up the best recipe apps available right now. Check out the list below.
Paprika saves and organizes recipes, plans weekly menus, and creates shopping lists.
Paprika's staff of chefs come up with the recipes on the app, which you can log and organize based on your tastes. Once you find a few you like, Paprika will help you plan weekly menus and create shopping lists based on the dishes you plan to cook. You can also access everything when you're offline, which is helpful if you want to bring your tablet to the store, but don't have internet on it.
Price: $4.99 for phone and tablet; $14.99 for desktop.
Available on: iOS and Android
Yummly provides recipe recommendations based on your taste.
When you open Yummly, you can search for recipes through specific filters, like cuisine, taste, diet, allergy, and cook time. Most of the recipes on the app are aggregated from food blogs.
After you've been using it for a while, Yummly's algorithm will remember the kinds of meals you like and recommend new recipes.
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It also has an easy-to-navigate interface that's full of photos.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS and Android
Food Network In the Kitchen features meals by celebrity chefs.
This app offers recipes by Food Network stars like Rachel Ray and Bobby Flay. It has tens of thousands of recipes, and new ones are added every month.
When you find a recipe you love, you can catalog it so you can easily find it later. Unlike most recipe apps, this one also lets you add your own notes and substitutions into the recipes when you save them.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS and Android
Allrecipes Dinner Spinner features 50,000 recipes.
Allrecipes' app gives you a ton of recipes options, all of which are created, shared, and rated by users (Allrecipes' 19 sites boast a community of 50 million people). Most recipes include food photos, videos, user ratings, and reviews from people who've made the dish.
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Anyone can add their recipes to the database, though Allrecipes also employs experienced chefs to create dishes for the platform.
If you allow the app to access your location, you can also search for recipes with ingredients that are for sale at local grocery stores.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS and Android
Yes, Chef! helps you cook hands-free.
Yes, Chef! offers over 350,000 recipes that are aggregated from other food publications or submitted by users. The app reads the cooking instructions to you aloud so that you don't need to constantly check your phone. It's voice-activated, so you can tell it when you're ready to move onto the next step.
The app was invented by Chris Maury, an accessibility advocate who aims to use technology to improve the lives of the blind, as a way to aid home cooks with vision impairments.
Maury tells Business Insider that the "app has the potential to change the way blind people cook in the kitchen and frankly, [for] anyone who doesn't want the hassle of washing and drying their hands, unlocking their phone, and scrolling to the correct step."
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Price: Free
Available on: iOS
Appetites has step-by-step videos that teach you how to cook meals.
This iOS app has over 200 cooking videos, created by Appetites' in-house chef team, that teach you how make all kinds of dishes, from chicken sausage with greens and potatoes to shrimp scampi. They're narrated by a few of the app's chefs, including Becky Reams, the owner of the pop-up LA restaurant Bang Bang Brunch.
Shot from the perspective of a chef looking down at the ingredients, the videos are geared towards beginners. Appetites also gives you the option to buy recipe ingredients through the app and get them delivered to your home (but the third party fulfillment service is only offered in nine US cities, like New York, Chicago, and LA).
Price: $4.99
Available on: iOS
Epicurious' app features professionally-tested recipes from the glossy magazine.
Epicurious, the website and magazine known for culinary articles and guides, also has a popular recipe app.
The 30,0000 recipes are aggregated from a variety of reputable cooking magazines and publications. You can browse by skill level, ingredient and cuisine, and the app will automatically compile the ingredients from a given recipe into a grocery list. As you shop, you can check off the items.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS and Android
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